Fyrst of all / the God . holy Byble wryten Deut. vi . i. Timo. ii . Gene. xvii Exod i. xv . Genesis . i. Psal. iii. Exodi . iii. Jeremi . ix . Roma . ix . i. Cori. xii . Roma . ix . Esaie . xiv . Jere. xviii . techeth vs / that there is but one God almyghty / for all alone sufficyent / hauynge nether begynnynge nor endynge / which of his owne mercyable goodnes with his worde created all thynges / of whome all thynges procede / withoute whom there is no thyng / he is iuste and mercyfull / it is he that worketh all thinges in euery thynge accordynge vnto hys godly wyll : vnto whom it is not laufull to saye / wherfore doist thou thus or thus ?

¶ Furthermore / The cre●cion of ●an . it is to be knowen and constantly to be beleued / Genesis . i. this same our God almyghty to haue had created Adam the fyrst man according vnto the ymage and symylitude conceyued in his mynde / and to haue had constytute hym the lorde ouer all the creatures in the erth . Sapien. ii Roma . v. The whiche Adam thorow the enuy of the deuyll / Synue dysobaying the precept of his maker / became fyrst of all men synner / & brought in synne into thys worlde / yea & such one and so greuouse a synne / that we all / which haue ben brought forth and begoten of hym after the flesshe / be subiectes & bond men to synne / to deth & damnacyon / redacte and captyued euen vnder the tyrannouse yoke of the deuyll . Ephesi . ii .

It is also to be perfitly knowen and stedfastly to be beleued / that of God the father / oure sauyour Jesus Chryste hys sonne was promysed vnto the sayd Adam / vnto Abraham Isaac / Jacob / Dauyd / and vnto the other fathers to delyuer them from synne and from the tyrannye of the deuyll / & not only them but vs also / & as many as lyke them with a perfayte and lyuely fayth truste and cleaue vnto thys promyse and vnto this same Jesu Chryst / whyche hope & beleue to obtayne this delyueraunce / is of hym and thorow hym only . Chryst was promysed vnto vs . Thys promyse is often tymes repeted Genesis . iii xii . xxvi . v xxviii and reherced in the bokes of Habre . ii . the olde Testament : ye & euen that same olde Testament is the very self couenaunt and promis : The old & newe Testament . none otherwise then this called the new testament techeth vs the same promys now to be fulfylled .

¶ But yet whyle this helth & deliueraunce then promised was wayted & loked for of the fathers / the law the lawe wherby synne myght be knowen was geuen . For verely / such is the nature & dysposycyon of man that not onely he cannot / but also he wyll not acknowledge & confesse hym self to be a synner / & namely that same synner whyche hath nede of this so holy & holsom a promyse . Exo. xi● . ●●● Rom. iii. v. The lawe therfore was geuen of God wherby men myght knowe what thyng synne is : ye & that then selues to be very synners : seyng them selues with glad & redy will / whiche God requyreth to do nothyng that the lawe commaundeth / but rather with an euyll wyll without loue / but constrayned there vnto by fere of hell & payne which the lawe threteneth / saying : Deu. xxvii Cursed be he that is not permanent whole & fast cleuyng vnto the commaundementes of the lawe to performe them in very dede . Galat. iii. Thys law therfore ( I saye ) was geuen / that therby synne and the malyce of mannes hert once knowen / men shuld the more feruently thyrste for the commyng of Christ / which shuld redeme them from theyr synnes : as it was fygured vnto the Jewes by dyuerse ceremonyes / oblacyons / & sacrifyces prescribed & set forth of God before theyr eyes : not that these thinges shuld take away theyr synnes / but that they shuld admonysshe and teche them to be taken away in tyme to come by fayth / Hebr. ● & by that sauyng helth promysed in Chryst : which ceremonyes / oblacyons . &c. are now abolysshed & gone by the commyng of Christ / Mat. xvii . Joan. i . which is the very sacrifyce & oblacyon only that apeaced the fathers wrath & toke awaye all synne .

¶ At the last / Chryst our sauiour is come . we are taught by the bokes of the new Testament which are the second part of the Bible : Luce. ii . Galat. iiii . Ephesy . i. Roman. v ▪ Tit● . iii. Ephesi . ii . Roma . v. that Christ then promised & figured in the olde Testament was sent vs of the father at the tyme determyned & appoynted with hym self / Joan. i. Esai . liii . i. Joan. ii . ii . Petri. ●i . Luc. i. Hebreo . ii . that is to wete euen when all iniquyte and synne most abounded & flowed ouer all . He was not sent for that any man by hys owne good dedys had deserued his commyng ( for all were synners ) but because he beyng so trew of hys promyse wolde geue vs the plentuouse ryches of his grace & fauour which he had promysed vs . In the new testament therfore it is playnly entreted & wryten / that Jesus Christ the very lambe veryly offred vp is come / The lamb sacrifyed vp for vs . to reconcyle vs vnto our father / paying vpon the crosse the paynes dewe for our synnes / to delyuer vs oute of the bondage of the deuyll ( whom we serued in synne ) & to get vs to be the chyldern of God / Our peace geuyng vs the very peace & tranquyllyte of mynd / Roma . v. Joan . iii. vi . that hence forthe we fere no more hell / whiche fere is put awaye by fayth / Fayth . confydence / & ferme adsured trust whiche out father geueth vnto vs allewryng & drawyng vs vnto his sonne . For fayth is the gyft of God / whereby we beleue Chryst to haue had comen in to thys world to saue the synners / i. Timot. i. i. Joan. iii. which fayth is of such power & of so grete effycacy that who so haue it / they wyll couer & desyre to do & performe accordyng to the ensample of Christ all the offyces and dedys of charyte . ii . Cori. i. ● For fayth once receyued / God geueth hys holy spirit / The holy gost . by whom he cōseygneth and marketh all that beleue / whiche spirit is the pledge & ( as ye wold say ) the ernest peny certifying vs to possede that lyfe eternall / ye and he testifyeth vnto our herte & spirit / graffyng ther into suche a fayth that we are sure and certyfyed that we be the chyldern of God / the spirit powrynge therwith into our inward man that same charite Charite & loue which Paule descrybeth & setteth forth vnto the Corynthians . i. Cori. xiii . For thys faythis sake & confydence in Christ / which is effectuouse by charite / shewyng herselfe clerely in the wor●●s of loue / excytyng and mouyng man vnto them . For this same fayth is sake ( I saye ) are we iustyfyed : that is to saye / the father of Christ ( which also is become out father thorow Christ our brother ) rekeneth vs for ryghtuouse & for hys owne chyldern of hys owne mere mercy and graciouse fauour not imputyng vnto vs our synnes . Justificacyō or ryghtwysmakynge . Hebreo . ● ii . Corin. v

¶ And to conclude with fewe wordes ye shall knowe that Christ is now come to th entent that we thorow hym pourged & puryfyed from our synnes / that is to saye consecrated into the vse of the father to serue hym in good workis the workes of our fleshe vtterly Tit. i renounced / mought serue Good workes our sanctificacyon hym frely in ryghtwysnes & holynes all our lyfe long by good workes / which God hath prepared that we shuld walke in them / declaryng our selues certaynly to be called vnto thys fauour / whyche workes who so haue them not he sheweth him selfe to haue no fayth in Christ . 〈…〉 Ephe. ●●●

¶ Unto whom we muste drawenye / and with a glad mynde folowe hym : Math. x●●●● . xxiii . Chryst 〈◊〉 oure master . that he myght teche vs / for he is our master bothe myld & homble in herte . Joan. xviii Ephes. v 〈…〉 It is he that is our ensample / of whom we ought to lerne the forme & rule to lyue well . i. Petri. ii . Hebr. iiii . 〈…〉 He is also our hyghest preste and bishop / that is to saye our herdman / dilygently waytyng and lokyng vpon vs / vysytyng vs to fed● faythfully & louyngly with hys worde / he is our onely medyatour / which now sitteth at the ryght hand of God the father / praying incessauntly for vs / which doutelesse will obtayne what so euer we aske of the father by hym or in hys name / so longe as we thus askynge beleue that he wyll graunt it vs / for so hath he promised . 〈…〉 Medyatour alone . Hebr. xii . i. Joan. ii . Roma . vi . Joan. xiiii . Hebr. iiii . Joan . xiiii . v Mat. xxi . c. Mar. xi . c. Let vs not therfore doute / all be it at any tyme we be synners / to steppe forthe and come nyghe vnto hym with confidence & trust with a lyuely & constant fayth & beleue to obtayne mercy & grace . i. Timot. i. For doubtlesse therfore is he come / euen to saue synners / nether doth he ask any thyng els of vs / than that we shulde boldely go vnto hym . Mat. x●● The iugement

¶ This same verely is christ Jesus / whiche after that he hath with the breath of hys mouth slayne the synfull man / he shall sit into hys gloryouse maiestye to iudge all men / & to rewarde euery man accordyng as he hath here lyued in hys owne body / whether it be good or euyll / saying vnto them that shall stande at hys ryght hand : ii . Thes. ii . ii . Corin. v Mat. xxv . Lyfe euerlastynge . Come ye blessed chyldren of my father & possede you thys kyngdom prepared for you from the begynnyng of the worlde . But vnto them which shal be at his left hand / shall he say : auoyde fro me ye cursed / & go into that fyre euerlastynge whiche is prepared for the deuyll & hys aungels . Then shall there be an ende of thys worlde / & he shall delyuer the kyngdom vnto God the father / ( the kyngdom is here taken for the hole nomber of the elect ) i. Corin. xv

¶ To th entente we myght knowe thys thyng / the holy scripture in the Byble / by the goodnes of God thorow hys holy spirit is left & geuen vs : ii . Petri. i. that we mought know / I saye / & beleue / that ther is but one God for all alone suffycyent / & Jesus Christ whom he hath sent vs : Joan. xvi● & . xx . so that we thus beleuynge mought haue in the name & for the glorye of hym lyfe euerlastyng .

¶ Besydys this grounde & foundacion of all Christen relygyon / i. Corin. ii● . there maye noman laye any other : ye and saynt Paul desyreth hym to be accursed & separated from God that wyll preche any other fayth & saluacion then thorow Jesus Christ only : Galat. i. all be it he were an aungell out of heuen .

¶ For of hym / & by hym / & in hym are all thynges : Roma . ii . vnto whom with the father & holy gost be honour & glorye for euer & euer . Amen .

¶ Come vnto me all you that labour & are oppressed with the heuy burden of synne / & I shall ease & refreshe you . Matth. xi .