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erery' place, be it never so secret, thinke that God beholdeth 

 vs, moche the better shall we ordre and determyn oure lyfe, 

 and not be geven to tho^ thynges whyche are not agreable to 

 a Christen man. So. wherby knowest thou the almyghtynes of 

 God? Fa. I ymagen it to be present in my herte, and perceave 

 by dayly experience all thynges to be vayne and transitory, 

 and that many thynges happen dayly, the causes where of are 

 vnknowne vnto vs, scriptiire bearynge witnes therunto. As in 

 the fyrst chapter of Genesis Moses sayde, In the begynnynge 

 God shupe heven and erth. And (Fol. 7=^.) in the fyrst chapter 

 of ehe 3 gospell of Saynct Ihon, In the begynnyng was that 

 werde, and that werde was with God. and God was that werde, 

 the same was in the begynnynge with God. all thynges were 

 made by it. etc. So. Why speakest thou of thy sylfe onli, 

 when thou sayest, I beleve? as though thou diddest nothynge 

 regarde the fayth of wother men. and yet we shulde beleve, 

 that they also beleve. Fa. Doutles because I nether beleve in 

 wother creature, nor yett sett my hope in wother man, beynge 

 wele asuered that the rightous man liveth by faythe. And when 

 I remember this, I cannot but saye with all my herte, I beleve. 

 So. Go to then, yf the rightous live by fayth, and therby is 

 made rightous, thou arte then saved and hast no nede of Christ, 

 nor of his merites? For be thy sayinge, it is sufficient to beleve 

 in God the father almyghty, maker of heven and of erth. 

 Fa. He is to me very necessary. For yf I lacke hym, no remedy, 

 I must also lacke God. even as it is written of the hethen in 

 the seconde chapter vnto the ephesians. No man can beleve in 

 God, savynge thorowe one Jesus Christ. S. Shewe me by what 

 reason. Fa. Because God can not be knowne with oute Christ, 

 as a ten- (Fol. 7^.) der and mercyfull father, but rather for a 

 cruell and strayght iudge, and as one that litell regardeth and 

 setteth nothynge by thynges mortall. So. Declare I praye the 

 these thynges somwhat playnlyer to me. For as yet I perceave 

 not thy meanynge. Fa. I knowe well that God is to be loved 

 above all thynges, and my neghbour even as my sylfe. as 

 apereth in the xxij. c. of mathew. for love that procedeth oute 

 ij. Ti. j. of a pure herte, a gode conscience, and a stedfast belefe. 



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