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with liis death and passion. Insomoche tbat we once knowynge
hym a mercifull father, shuld not (after the maner of evill
doars) dreade hym as a tyrannt, but bence fortlie feare hym,
as a rigthous lorde, and so love hym with a chyldly love, that
both mynde and worke al wa- [fol. 19 b .] yes and every where
manifestly declare in oure livynge tbat we are of his electe
and chosen, clensed from the olde Adam, and renewed witli
the newe man which is acceptable vnto god by the merittes
of Christis bloude. For his seconde connnynge suerly shalbe
to iudge bothe quicke and ded. That is manifestly to geve
iudgement accordynge as every manne hath by his worke
deckfred the imperfection of the rote of his belefe. Which
j. Cor. iij. after the goodnes or badnes of it silfe bringeth forth
other goode or bad frute. wherby the whole tre (that is to
saye the whole manne) is first knowne of men in this lyfe,
and at the commynge of the sonne of manne in the last daye,
openly shalbe iudged. Where as we are all from the begyn-
nynge roserved, by his eternall preordinacion and godly wisdom,
other to death everlastynge, or eis predestinate vnto life
eternall. Which godly secret shall fyrst be declared in the
mat. xxv. last daye af 1 iudgement ordened alonly forto reprove
openly the vessels of iniquite, vtterly apointed vnto the per-
petuall fyre of hell (beynge even deade, thougth 2 they seine to
leve). And also for to approve the lively, and quicke vessels
of mercy, which live in Christ Jesu, manifestly admittynge
theym vnto joye. Which man [fol. 20 a .J was never able, nether
j. cor. y. to se, to heare, nor yet to ymmagion. So. Seynge thou
sayst that he shall descende openly as he ascended, to geve
this iudgement, thou belevest not that he is here with vs
continualli? and yett he hym silfe sayeth, wheare two or thre
ma._xviij. ult. are gaddered together in my name, theare am I
in the middes of theym. Fa. Through his sprete he is with
vs vnto the ende of the worlde. but for as moche as it is
spretually, man yett beynge wrapped in this mortall flesshe,
entangled with so manyfolde myseries, and saverynge all wayes
erthely, can never come to the knowledge therof, vntill the
tyme that he thorowe a stedfast belefe in god, and sure hope
of. 2 though.