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goodnes of God is knowne, greace, hoape, and stedfast trust in 

 God dayly nioare and moare floweth into mannes conscience. 

 ye I am sure, and have no doute, bat tliat Chiüst is my 

 redempcion and also satisfaccion. Wherfore I saye moreover, 

 and in Jesus Christ liis only begotten sonne. These wordes 

 hange and are knytt (by this lytell worde, and) vnto the fore 

 rehearsed sentence, even as many members in one boddy, and 

 therfore ought they nott to be devyded one from another. but 

 in one fayth we shulde beleve theym togedder. So. Well sayde. 

 Belefe then iustifyeth a man, and thou belevest in Christ, nowe 

 art thou ryghtous, and nedest to do no moo goode woi'kes. 

 Fa. Howe and after what maner 1 nede the commanndmentes of 

 God, is before rehearsed, and it semeth me playne ynough, that 

 he vnto whom the gyfte of belefe is geven, receaveth also ther- 

 Avith, a very prompte sprete, whyche contynually furthereth the 

 honoure and glory of good ' tawar [Fol. 9'"^.] dis every mam. '^ 

 Whyche glory, then encreaseth, and is furthered, when I am 

 to my neghbour as God is to me. That is, kynde, mylde, and 

 mercifull. whyche thynges are the very ymage of God in vs. 

 And for this cause I ought to do my neghbour goode. Yett 

 have I no nede of hym, as of one, by whome I shulde or 

 myght obtayne mercy. For I hadde it or ever I coulde with 

 my herte do hym eny goode. And that thorowe Christ only. 

 So. Why, are not syngynge and redynge in the churche goode 

 workes? Fa. No trueiy, for all soche thynges are done withoute 

 fayth. Morover God with bis holy worde never ordened soche 

 maner of redynge nor synginge. Ye he hateth it. Forwhere 

 as all outwarde workes shulde be to the conforte of oure 

 neghboure, this healpeth no man, but rather hurteth and 

 hyndreth all men. For God wylbe honored and worshipped in 

 the sprete only. So. Me semeth (yf I well vnderstonde the) 

 that thou wylt saye, that goode workes serve but for a mannis 

 neghbour only. Fa. 1 saye forthermore that oute of this grounde, 

 confessions, pardons, pilgremage, makynge of difFerence bi- 

 twene dayes and meates, Hearynge and redynge of masse, ye 

 shortly to conclude, all [Fol. 9^.] thynges that the outwarde 

 churche hitherto hath brought vp, and kepte, are vayne and of 



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