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churche, whetlicr they be goode or ev[i]ie vntill the tyme of
harvest come. After the same manner they are parte takers of
devils which eate of thynges otfered vnto ydols, and j. cor. x.
yett eate they no devils. Therfore dere sonne se thou strengthe
thy faythe with a continuall remembraunce of Christis passion.
And stryve with no manne disputynge of eny soche matters.
For the congregacion of Christen men are not wont j. co. xj.
to vse soche vayne disputacions. Bnt vnto theym, whome thou
seest diligently enquyre for the knoweledge, of the trueth, geve
a swete and lovely answer of thy belefe. And loke j. Pet. üj.
that thou diligently evermore laboure to seke Christ, wheare
as he sitteth on the ryglit honde of godde his father. raa. xxvj.
That is in a spretuall, and in an incomprehensi- tue. xxij.
[fol. 26“.] ble beynge and power of god the father. Which
through his sprete continually is in vs, workinge in oure hert
hate agaynst evill, and desyre and love towardes goodenes.
Sonne. Gode geve me grace so forto do. and accordynge to
thy doctryne, I will vse bothe sacrementes and also their
sacrementall tokens. For nowe am I well assuered, that there
is non exteriall thynge of eny effecte where as the sprete
inwardly worketh nott in the hert. I require the furthermore,
what thynkest thou, when thou remembrest that Christ sliall
come to geve iudgement? Fath. Truly that at that daye angels,
men and devles, muste apere before the trone of the maieste
of the sonne of God JESVS Christ, vnto whom is reserved
all power and iudgement wherwith in that howre he shall (in
the twyncklynge of an eye) condempne bothe bodyes Mat. xxviij.
and also soulles' of theym whiche here in this lyfe Luc. xxj.
have not had a trewe belefe, and frutes there vnto agreable,
to fyre everlastynge, and contrary wyse admitt the joan. v.
children of belefe to ioye eternall. Wherfor in the meane whyle
I ought to praye withoute ceasynge vnto my lorde Christ,
that it maye please his bounteous goodnes to admitt mat. xxv.
me vnto the nombre of his chosen, [fol. 26 b .] and to present me
vnto his father, perfect and withouten spott, praye for me,
and to renewe me in the sprete accordynge to the Ephe. üj.
newe manne which after a godly wyse is shapen, in rightousnes
and trewe holines. For with oute his ayde, I lose Ma. xxv.
bothe oyle and laboure. and for this cause I crye vnto god
