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e / with all thy soule / and with all they mighte: lykewise of the same other commaundemente. [[Exod. 20.]] Thou shalte not luste / Ther is none among mortall men / that dyd euer fulfill those commaundementes. For the prophet saythe: [[Esa. 64.]] that our rightuousnesses / are as the clothe stayned withe the floures of a woman. And Christe wolde haue vs all / yea euen the blessed virgin / and the Apostles themselues to praye / [[Mat. 6.]] forgyue vs our trespasses. [[Iacob. 3.]] Iames addeth / in many thinges we all do synne. [[Ioan. 1.]] Iohn saythe. And if we saie we haue no synne / we do deceyue our selues. [[2]] This do we learne in the holie scripture / of our continuall synnynge: they teache not then that we can do any thing more then we sholde. But here the papistes do seke startinge hooles / and saie that they which liue a sole life / they which do preach the gospell frelie / do more then the law commaundeth / as I sayde: But this is not true / for they which haue the powre to liue a sole and chaste lyfe / and do know that in this kinde of lyfe they shall more paynfully and profitably labor in the preachinge of the gospell of Christe then otherwise. They are bownde to take it on them and to lyue in it. For if they do yt not / it is certeyne that they loue not God with all their harte / bycause they sholde then leaue vndone somewhat that they mighte do / to the glorie of his name / and wolde not. Like is to be saide of them / which mighte preache the gospell frelye / and do se that it shalbe for the increase of the kingdom of Godd / and do it not. Wherfore seinge the papistes do bothe thincke and teache otherwise in this matier then the holie scripture dothe teache / and do defend their errour with an obstinate mynde they are heretikes. [[3]] They do chose vnto them selues also an other doctrine / which is / that they which be regenerat / muste alwaies doubte of their saluation. But Christ / the Apostles / and the whole scripture / do teache cleane contrarie / [[Ioan. 6.]] he that beleuithe in me (saith Christe) hathe euerlasting life. If he hath it / howe can he doubte of yt then? [[Act. 10.]] And it is writen in the Actes. To him giue all the Prophetes witnesse / that all they which beleue throughe his name / shall receyue remission of synnes. [[Rom. 8.]] And to the Romains / whom he hath called / them also be iustified / whom he iustif
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