Of Fayth.
What fayth is.
FAith is a sure perswasi∣on and an vndoubted beliefe of ye hart, in the mercifull promises of God made to all fayth∣full penitent sinners in Christes bloud, and frely performed of God the father for Christes sake.
What benefites we receaue of God through fayth.
By fayth,* 1.1 we which afore by nature were the children of wrath, are made the sonnes and children of God.
☜Probations out of the holy Scriptures.
As many as receaued hym,* 1.2 to thē gaue he power to be made y• sōnes of God, euen thē y• beleued on hys name, which were borne, not of bloud, nor of the will of y• flesh, nor yet of the will of mā, but of God.