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The Papists have found out many salvations, they have found out a salvation by Saints, a salvation by Angels, a salvation by Masses, a salvation by merits, a salvation by Idols, as though Christ had least to do in his own office, for they have other salvations to fly unto. They will have it, but they will buy it, and what will they give for it? why they will fast so many days, go so far on pilgrimages, hire priests to say so many Masses, build so many Abbeys, and give so many sums of money to the Monks and Friars. Therefore this scripture goeth against them, & doth dishonour their shamelessness, who like Nimrod heaping stone upon stone, ¹would have built up to heaven: so they heap sin upon sin, and every hour ⟨image 21⟩some one heresy or superstition groweth up from this filthy root, for what Papist dare say that Simeon thought on any of these or put confidence in any other Saviour but only in him whom he embraced in his arms? for salvation is by the promise of God, and all promises are in Christ. And though Jacob ²wanted bread, Joseph wanted not money, ³therefore he gave them back again their money, & likewise he gave them that corn that they would have bought with it: so I would wish them to say as Josephs brethren, that they have their corn for nothing, and had their money too, so let them be content to say, that they have mercy for nothing & their works too. For god careth not for their works, because they profit not him but them selves. For there is no water can wash Naaman ⁴but Jordan, no water can wash the leprosy of sin, but the blood of the Lamb. By this the Israelites were saved when the ⁵destroyer passed by. By this the Lord knoweth us to be his people, and by this the devil knoweth us to be none of his. As it is proper unto God to be called goodness, so is it proper unto Jesus Christ to be called salvation He is called the way, the truth and ⁶