irs also lost it by him and in him.
So now this example proveth, that by our father Adam we had once in him
the very inheritance of everlasting joy; and by him, and in him, again we
lost the same.

The heirs of the captain of Calais could not by any manner of claim ask
of the king the right and title of their father in the thousand pounds of
possessions, by reason the king might answer and say unto them, that
although their father deserved not of himself to enjoy so great
possessions, yet he deserved by himself to lose them, and greater,
committing so high treason, as he did, against his prince's commandments;
whereby he had no wrong to lose his title, but was unworthy to have the
same, and had therein true justice. Let not you think, which be his
heirs, that if he had justice to lose his possessions, you have wrong to
lose the same. In the same manner it may be answered unto all men and
women now being, that if our father Adam had true justice to be excluded
from his possession of everlasting glory in paradise, let us not think
the contrary that be his heirs, but that we have no wrong in losing also
the same; yea, we have true justice and right. Then in what miserable
estate we be, that of the right and just title of our own deserts have
lost the everlasting joy, and claim of ourselves to be true inheritors of
hell! For he that committeth deadly sin willingly, bindeth himself to be
inheritor of everlasting pain: and so did our forefather Adam willingly
eat of the apple forbidden. Wherefore he was cast out of the everlasting
joy in paradise into this corrupt world, amongst all vileness, whereby of
himself he was not worthy to do any thing laudable or pleasant to God,
evermore bound to corrupt affections and beastly appetites, transformed
into the most uncleanest and variablest nature that was made under
heaven; of whose seed and disposition all the world is lineally
descended, insomuch that this evil nature is so fused and shed from one
into another, that at this day there is no man nor woman living that can
of themselves wash away this abominable vileness: and so we must needs
grant of ourselves to be in like displeasure unto God, as our forefather
Adam was. By reason hereof as I said, we be of ourselves the very
children of the indignation and vengeance of God, the true inheritors of
hell, and working all towards hell: which is the answer to this question,
made to every man and woman, by themselves, "Who art thou