fitte
for our purpose / of light namely and darcknes. Certaynly when
one is in darcknes / the more he dothe departe and go out of it
and drawith nighe vnto light / he begynnith the better to see
sumwhat / and so though that yet he be compassed with darcknes /
yet is he sumwhat partaker of the lighte. But he that wull knowe
more of this matier / let hym reade that Epistle of Augustyne:
Wher he prouith playnly / that all synnes ar not like / as the
Stoicks did thincke: Now to return to our place / which we did
rehearce. He that offendith in one / is giltie of all. Ther is
no obseruacion of Godds Lawe to be receued with an exception /
as thoughe we might chose one parte of it to obserue / and
separate or sett asyde the other parte at our will and pleasure
to neglecte it. The commaundementes of the lawe ar conioyned of
the lorde and knitt together / and so gyuen vnto vs: We must not
now disseuer / and separate them as we lust / but without
exception we must obserue the whole lawe. We must consider and
loke vppon the Auctoritie of the lawe gyuer / which is Godd / It
is of force aswel in one commaundement / as in the rest. This
doth Iames seame to meane / when he saith:

[[Iacob. 2.]]

He that hath sayde / Thow shalt not committ adulterie / the same
hath sayde / Thow shalt not kill. As if he shuld saye / he is no
les contraried in any one of theise commaundementes / then in an
other. And therfor (to adde this by the waye) let them wel
consider what they do which do profes to receyue the gospell /
and yet they do refuse ecclesiasticall disciplyne: Wheras the
lorde / which hath reuealede and opened the gospell vnto vs by
Christe / doth appoint discipline to be a parte therof. Theise
men do synne against the whole lawe. The papistes do also synne
herin / which do preache their parted righteousnes / as
meritorius of congruitie. But to returne / this is also
manifest / that he that synnith in one / is therfore giltie in
all / for that as now by lust and tentacion / he is caried into
sum one transgression / and so dothe synne / euen in like manier
shuld he offend in an other euill / if he wer assaulted in the
same sorte / and whith that same violence of tentacion. And
Augustine in the place before alledged. doth saye. That therfore
he is made giltie of all / bicause he synneth against charitie /
vppon which the obseruacion of the whole lawe is grownded. To be
short therfor / when we do thus fall into synne / we must not
lig