Divers Fruitful Gatherings of Scripture and Declaring of Faith and Works of the Law

He that loveth god and his neygboure keepeth all the commaundemētes of god.

Love thy Lord god with all thine heart / with all thy soul / and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. The seconde is like unto this: that is love thy neyghboure as thy sele. In these two commandments hange all the law and the prophets.

He that loveth god / loveth his neyghboure.

If a man say / I love god / and yet hateth his brother / he is a liar.

He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen / how can he love god whō hath not seen.

He that loveth his neyghboure as him self kepth all the commandments of god.

what so ever ye would that men should do to you / even so do to them.

For this is the laws and the prophets. He that loveth his neyghboure fulfylleth the law. Thou shalt no • commytte aduoutry. Thou shalt no • kill. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shall • not hear false witness. Thou shall • not desire / and so forth if there be any other commandment / all are comprehended in this saying: love thy neyghboure as thyself. All the law is fulfilled in one word / that is / love thy neyghboure as thyself.

He that loveth god keepeth all the commandments.

He that loveth his neygboure keepeth all the commandments of god Ro. xiii. gala .v. and he that loveth god loveth his neygboure .i. John iiii. ergo he that loveth god keepeth all his commandments.

He that hath the faith loveth god.

My father loveth you / because ye love me and believe that I come of god.

He that hath the faith keepeth all the commandments of god.

He that hath the faith / loveth god / and he that loveth god keepeth all his commandments ergo he that hath the faith keepeth all the commandments of god.

He that kepyth one commandment of god keepeth them all.

For without faith it is impossible to keep any of the commaundemētes of god / and he that hath the faith keepeth all the commandments of god ergo he that keepeth one commandment of god keepeth them all.

He that keepeth not all the commaundemētes of god keepeth not one of them

He that kepethe one commandment of god / he keepeth all / ergo he that kepethe not all the commandments of god keepeth not one of them.

It is not in our power to keep any of the commandments of god.

Uvith out grace / it is impossible to keep any of the commandments of god / and grace is not in our power: ergo it is not ī our power to keep any of the commandments of god even so may you reason concerning the holy ghost and faith.

The law was given to show us our sin.

By the law cōeth the knowledge of sin.

I knew not what sin ment but thorough the law.

I had nat known what lust had ment except the law had said thou shalt not lust.

without the law sin was deed / that is it moved me not neither wyst I that it was sin / which not with stondinge was sin and forbyden by the law.

The law biddeth us do that thing which is impossible for us.

For it biddeth us keep the commandments of god / and yet is it not in our power to keep any of them / ergo it biddeth us do that is impossible for us. Thou wilt say where to doeth god bid us do that is impossible for us? I answer / to make the know that thou art but evil / and that there is no remedy to save the in thine own hand / and that thou mayst seek remedy at sum othere for the law doeth naught but command the.

Of the gospel.

THe gospel is as much to say ī our tongue / as good tiding like as one of these are.

Christ is the savior of the world

Christ is our savior.

Christ died for us.

Christ died for our sins.

Christ bought us with his blood.

Christ wish us with his blood.

Christ offered him self for us.

Christ bare our sins on his back. Esa. 5.

Christ came in to this world to save sinners.

Christ came in to this world to take away our sins.

Christ was the price that was given for us and our sin.

Christ was maid debtor for us.

Christ hath paid our debt / for he died for us.

Christ hath made satysfaccyon for us and our sin.

Christ is our rygthwysenes.

Christ is our satisfaccion.

Christ is our redemptyon.

Christ is our goodness.

Christ hath pacefied the father of heuē

Christ is ours and all his.

Christ hath delivered us frō the law from the devil and from hell.

The father of heaven hath forgiven us our sines for Christ's sake. Or any such as declare unto us the mercy of god.

The nature of the law and the gospel.

The law showeth us our sin.

The gospel show us remedy for it

The law showeth us our condempnacyon,

The gospel showeth us our redempciō

The law is the word of Ire.

The gospel is the word of grace.

The law is the word of despair.

The gospel is the word of comfort

Tht law is the word of unrest.

The gospel is the word of peace.

A dysputacion between the law and the gospel.

The law saith pay thy dett.

The gospel saith Christ hath paid it

The law saith thou art a sinner. despair and thou shalt he dampened.

The gospel saith / thy sins are forgiven the be of good comfort thou shalt be saved.

The law saith / make amends for thy sin.

The gospel saith / Christ hath made it for the,

The law saith / the father of heaven is wrothe with the.

The gospel saith / Christ hath pacefyed him with his blood

The law saith where is thy right-wysene / goodness and satisfaccion▪

The gospel saith / Christ is thy right wysenes thy goodness and satisfaccyō. The law sayeh thou art bound and obliged to me / to the devil and to hell. The gospel saith / Christ hath delivered the from them all.

Of faith.

FAyth is to believe gdd: like as Abraham believed god & it was imputed unto him for rythtwysenes.

He that believeth god / believeth his word.

To believe one is to believe his word and to recounte it true that he saith.

He that believeth not gods word / believeth not god him self.

He that believeth not gods word he counteth him false and a lyare / and believeth not that he may and will fulfyl his word: and so he denieth both the might of god and god him self.

Faith is the gift of god.

Every good thing is the gift of god faith is good ergo faith is the gift of god.

Faith is not in our power,

The gift of god is not in our power faith is the gift of god ergo faith is not in our power.

without faith it is impossible to please god.

All that cometh not of faith is syn / for without faith can no man please god. Besides that he that lacketh faith he trusteth not god / he that trusteth not god trusteth not his word / he that trusteth not his word holdeth him false and a liar / he that holdeth him false & a liar he believeth not that he may do that he promised / & so denieth he that he is god. And how can a man being of this facyon please him? No manner of way / ye suppose he did all the deeds that ever did man or angel.

All that is done in faith pleaseth God.

Ryght is the word of god and all his works in faith. Lord thine eyen loke to faith / that is as much to say as lord thou delyghtest in faith.

God loveth him that believeth in him / how can they then displease him.

He that hath the faith is just & good / and a good tree bereth good fruit: ergo all that is done in faith pleased god. More over / he that hath the faith believeth god: he that believeth god / believeth his word: he that believeth his word / woteth well that he is true and faithful & may not lie. But knoweth that he both may and will fulfill his word how can he then displease him? for thou canst not do any greater honor to god / then to count him true Thou wilt then say that theft / murder / aduoutry and all vices please god. Nay verily for they cannot be done in faith: for a good tree bereth good fruit.

He that hath the faith wotteth well that he pleaseth god?

For all that is done in faith pleaseth god.

Faith is a surenes.

Faith is a sure confidence of things which are hoped for / and a certainty of things which are not seen.

The same spirit certeneth our spirit that we are the children of god.

More over he that hath the faith wotteth well that god will fulfyl his word: ergo faith is a surenes.

A man is iustyfyed by faith.

Abrahā beleuyd god and it was imputed unto him for ryghtwysenes. we supposse therefore that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of / he law.

He that worketh not but believeth on him that justified the ungodly / his faith is counted to him for ryghtwysenes.

The just mam lyuethe by his faith. Abacuc. 2. Ro. 1. we know that a man is not justified by the deeds of the law but by the faith of Jesus Christ. And we believe in Jesus Christ / that we may be justified by the faith of Christ and not by the deeds of the law.

Of the faith of Christ.

The faith of christ / is to believe ī him that is to believe his word and to believe that he will help the in all thy need & deliver the from all evil / thou wilt ask me what word? I answer / the gospel.

He that believeth in Christ shall be saved.

He that believeth the sone hath everlasting life / verily verily I say unto you / he that believeth in me hath everlasting.

This I wryt unto you that believe on the name of the son of god that ye may know how that ye have eternal life Them as because thou hast free me / therefore hast thou believed / happy are they that have not seen / and yet have believed in me.

All the prophets to him bear witness / that who so ever believeth in him shall have remyssyon of their sins. what must I do that I may be saved the apostles answered believe ī the lord Jesus Criste and thou shalt he saved. If thou knowledge with thy mouth that Jesus is the lord. And believe with thine heart that god raised him up from dethe thou shalt be saved.

He that believeth not in Christ shall be comdempned.

He that believeth not shall be dampened He that believeth not the son shall never se the life but the ire of god bydeth upon him.

The holy ghost shall reprove the world of sin / because they believe not in me

They that believe in Jesus Christ are the sons of god.

Ye are all the sons of god because ye believe in Jesus Christ:

He that believeth that Christ is the son of god is saved.

Peter said / thou art Christ the son of the living god, Jesus answered and said unto him, happy art thou Simon the son of Jonah for flesh & blood hath not opened to the that / but my father that is in heaven.

we have believed and know that thou art Christ the son of the living god. I believe that thou art Christ the son of god which should come ī to the world These things are writē that ye might believe that Jesus is Christ the son of god / and that ye in believing might have life.

I believe that Jesus is the son of god.

He that believeth god believeth the gospel.

He that believeth god believeth his word and the gospel is his word / therefore he that believeth god believeth the gospel, As (Christ is the savior of the world. Christ is our savior Christ bought us with his blood.

Christ wish us with his blood.

Christ offered him self for us.

Christ bare our sins on his own back. &c̄.

He that believeth not the gospel believeth not god.

He that believeth not gods word / believeth not him self / and the gospel is gods word / ergo he that believeth not the gospel believeth not God him self / and consequently they that believe not the above vryten and such other / believe not god.

He that believeth the gospel shall be saved.

Go ye in to all the world and p̄ache the gospel unto every creature / he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be comdempned.

A comparison between faith and vnfaythfulnesse or incredulite.

Faith is the rote of all good.

Incredulyte is the root of all evil.

Faith maketh god & mā good friends

Incredulyte maketh them foes.

Faith bringeth god and mā together.

Incredulyte sundereth them.

All that faith doth pleaseth god.

Al that icredulyte doth displeaseth god

Faith only maketh a man good and ryghtwyse.

Incredulyte only maketh him iniust and evil.

Faith maketh a mā a menbre of Christ

Incredulyte maketh him a member of the devil.

Faith maketh a man the inherytoure of heaven.

Incredulyte maketh him enherytoure of hell.

Faythe maketh a man the servant of god.

Incredulyte maketh him the seruante of the devil.

Faith showeth us god to be a sweet father.

Incredulyte showeth him a terrible judge.

Faith holdeth stiff by the word of god

Incredulyte wauereth here and there

Faith counterhe and holdethe god to be true.

Incredulyte holdeth him false & a lyare

Faith knoweth god.

Incredulyte knoweth him not.

Faith loveth both god and her neyghboure.

Incredulyte loveth nether nother.

Faith only saveth us.

Incredulyte only condempneth us

Faith extolleth god and his deades

Incredulyte extolleth her self and her own deeds.

Of hope

HOpe is a trusty looking after the thing that is {pro}mysed us to come as we hope after everlasting joy which Christ hath promised unto all that believe in him.

we should put our hope and trust in god alonly and in no nother thing.

It is good to trust in god & not in mā He that trusteth in his own heart is a fole.

It is good to trust in god and not in princes.

They shall be like unto the images they make and all that trust in them.

He that trusteth ī his own thoughts doth ungodly.

Cursed be he that trusteth ī man. Byd the rich men of this world that they trust not in their unstable riches / but that they trust in the living god. It is hard for them that trust in money to entre in to the kingdom of heaven.

More over we should trust ī him only that may help us / god only may hell •• us / ergo we should trust in him onl • well is them that trust in god and woe is them that trust not in him.

well is the man that trusteth ī god for god shall be his trust.

He that trustethe in him shall vnderstonde the verity. They shall all rejoice that trust in the / they shall ever be glade and thou wilt defend them.

Of charyte.

Charyte is the love of thy neyghboure. The rule of charity is this Do as thou wouldest be done to.

For charyte holdeth all a like the rich and the poor / the friend and the fo / foo / the thankful and unthankful the kynseman and stranger.

A comparyson between faith / hope and charyte.

Faith cometh of the word of god / hope cometh of faith / & charyte spryngeth of them both.

Faith believeth the word: hope trusteth after it that is {pro}mysed by the word charyte doth good unto her neygboure thorough the love that it hath to god and gladness that is with in her sefe. Faith lokethe to god and his word / hope looketh unto his gift & reward / charyte looketh on her neyghboures profit. Faith receiveth god / hope receueth his reward / Charyte loveth her neygboure with a glad heart, and that witout any respect of reward Faith pertaineth to god only / hope to his reward / and charyte to her neyghboure.

Of works.

NO manner of works make us ryghtwyse / we believe that a man shall be iustyfyed without works. No man is iustyfyed by the deeds of the law / but by the faith of Jesus Christ / and we believe in Jesus Christ that we may be iustyfyed be the faith of Christ and not by the deeds of the law. If ryghtwysenes cam by the law then died Christ in vain. That no man is iustyfied by the law it is manifest / for a ryghtwyse man lyuethe by his faith / but the law is not of faith.

Moreover / scythe Christ the maker of heaven and erth and all that is therein / behooved to die for us we ar compelled to grant that we were so ferre drouned and sunken in sin that nether our deeds nor all the treasures that evē god made or might make / might have helped us out of them / ergo no deeds nor works may make us ryghtwyse. No works make us vnryghtwyse. For if any works made us vnryghtwyse then the contrary works should make us ryghtwyse. But it is {pro}ued y ^t no works can make us ryghtwyse / ergo no works make us vnrightwise

works make us neygther good nor evil.

It is proved that no works neither make us ryghtwyse nor vnryghtwyse ergo no works make us neither good nor evil. For ryghtwyse and good ar one thing and vnryghtwyse and evil likewise one.

Good works make not a good mā nor evil works an evil man / but a good man maketh good works and an evil man evil works,

Good fruit maketh not the tree good nor evil fruit the evil tree / but a good tree bereth good fruit and an evil tree evil fruit.

A good man cannot do evil works nor an evil man good works / for a good tree cannot bere evil fruit nor an evil tree good fruit.

A man is good ere he do good works and evil ere he do evil works / for the tree is good ere he bere good fruit / and evil ere it here evil fruit.

Every man is either good or evil.

Every tree is either good or evil either make ye the tree good & the fruit good also / or else make the tree evil and the fruit of it lykwyse evil.

Every man's works are either good or evil.

For all fruit trees are either good or evil. Either make ye the tree good and the fruit good also / or else make the tree evil and the fruit of it likewise evil. A good man is known by his works for a good man doth good works and an evil evil works / ye shall know thē by their fruit / for a good tree bereth good fruit / and an evil tree evil fruit.

A man is lykened to the tree and his works to the fruit of the tree.

Beware of the false {pro}phetes which come to you in shepes clothing / but inwardly they are reuenyng wolves. ye shall know them by their fruits.

None of our works nether save us nor condemn us.

It is proved that no works make us nether ryghtwyse nor vnryghtwyse / good nor evil / but first we are good •• we do good works and evil 〈◊◊◊〉 evil works / ergo no works neither save us nor condēpne us. Thou wilt say / thē maketh it no mater what we to. I answer / yes. For if thou do evil / it is a sure argument that thou art evil / and wantest the faith. If thou do good it is an argument that thou art good & hast the faith / for a good tree bereth good fruit and an evil tree evil fruit / yet good fruit maketh not the tree good / nor evil fruit the tree evil so the man is good ere he do good deeds & evil ere he do evil deeds. The man is the tree / his works ar the fruit. Faith maketh the good tree & incredulyte the evil tree / such a tree such fruit / such a mā such works. For all that is done in faith pleaseth god and are good works. And all that is done without faith dyspleaseth god and are evil works.

who so ever believeth or thinketh to be saved his works denyethe that Christ is his savior / that Christ died for him and all thing that pertaineth to Christ.

For how is he thy savior / if thou mightest save thyself by thy works? or whereto should he die for the if any works might have saved the? what is this to say / Christ died for the? verily that is / thou shuldest have died perpetualy / and christ to deliver the fro that death / died for the & changed thy perpetual death ī to his own death For thou madest the faute / & he suffered the pain, and that for the love he had to the ere ever thou wast borne when thou haddest done nether good nor evil. Now since he hath paid thy det thou nedest not: no thou canst not / but shuldest be dāpned if his blood were not. But since he was punished for the thou shalt not be punished. Finally / he hath delivered the from thy condēpnacyon and all evil / & desireth naught else of the but that thou wilt aknowlege what he hath done for the and bear it in mind / and that thou wouldest help other for his sake both in word and deed / even as he hath holpen the for naught and without reward.

O now ready would we be to help other / if we knew his goodness 〈…〉 ent leues towards us. He is a good and a gentle lord for he doth all for nou • ht Lette us I beseech you follow hy • •••• steppes whom all the world ought to praise and worship. Amen.

He that thinketh to be save • 〈…〉 works calleth him self Christ.

For he calleth him self his sauyoure which pertaineth to Christ only what is a savior but he that saveth / and he saith I save myself / which • is as much to say as I am Christ for Christ only is the savior of the world.

we should do no good works for the intent to get the inherytaunce of heaven or remyssion of syn.

For who so ever believeth to get the ••• eritaunce of heaven or remyssion of sin thorough works / he believeth not to get that for Christ's sake. And they that believe not that their sins are forgivē thē & that they shall be saved for Christ's sake they believe not the gospel. For the gospel saith / you shall be saved for Christ's sake / youre sins are forgivē for Christ's sake. He that believeth not ye gospel believeth not god So it followeth that they which believe to be saved by their works or to get remyssyon of their sins by their own deeds believe not god: but recoūte him as a liar and so utterly deny him to be god. Thou wilt say / shall we thē do no good deeds? I say not so but I say we should do no good works for • he entēt to get the inherytaunce of heaven or remyssyon of syn. For if we believe to get the inherytaunce of heaven thorough good works, then we believe not to get it thorough the {pro}myse of god: if we think to get remyssyō of our syn then we believe not that they are forgiven us / and so we count god a liar. For god saith / you shalt have the enherytaunce of heaven for my sons sake / thy sins ar • forgivē the for my sons sake & you say it is not so / but I will wynne it thorough my works So I condēpne not good deeds / But I condēpne the false trust in any works / for all the works that a man putteth confydence in are therewith poisoned & become evil. Therfor do you good works but beware yow do thē not to get any good thorough that / for if thou do / thou receuest the good not as the gift of god but as der to the & makest thyself fellow with god because thou wilt take nothing of him for naught what neadeth he ony thing of theyres which giveth all thing & is not the pourer? Therefore do no thing to him but take of him / for he is a gentle lord / & with a glader will-giveth us all that we need / thē we take it of him / therefore if we wat ought let us wyte our selves Preasse not thē to the enherytaunte of heaven thorough presumption of thy good works for if thou do / thou countest thyself holy & egal to h • m because thou wilt take nothing 〈◊〉 him for naught: & so shalt thou 〈◊〉 lucifer felle for his pride.