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" And here for a tyme : Of rnoch more congruence, 



" Advantage myght fprynge, by the ferche of caufes heavenlye, 



" As thofe matters are, that the gofpcll fpecyfye. 



" Without whofe knowledge no man to the truthe can come,. 



" Nor ever atteyne to the lyfe perpetuall." 



" For he that knoweth not the lyvynge God eternall,. 

 " The Father, the Sonne, and alfo the Holye Ghoft, 

 " And what Chrift fuffered for redempcyon of us all, 

 ** What he commaunded, and taught in every cooft, 

 " And what he forbode. That man muft nedes be loft,. 

 " And cleane fecluded, from the faythfull chofen forte, 

 " In the heavens above, to hys moft hygh dyfconforte." 



" You therfor (good fryndes) I lovyngely exhort,. 

 " To waye foche matters, as wyll be uttered here, 

 *' Of whom ye maye loke to have no tryfeling fporte 

 " In fantafyes fayned, not foche lykc gaudyfh gerc, 

 " But the thyngs that fliall your inwarde ftomake chear,, 

 " To rejoycc in God for your juftyfycacyon, 

 " And alone in Chrift to hope for your falvacyon. 



" Yea, firft ye fhall have the eternal generacyon 

 » Of Chrift, like as Johan in hys firft chaptre wryght,. 

 " And confequently of man the firft creacyon, 

 " The abufe and fall, through hys firft overfyght,. 

 " And the rayfe agayne, through God's hygh grace and myght:: 



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