The .xix. Sermon, which is the fourth vppon the third Chapter.
13. VVherfore I beseech yee faynt not for my trubbles, vvhich I endure for your sake, which is your glory.
14. For the vvhich thing I bovv my knees too the father of our Lord Iesus Christ:
15. (Of vvhom all kinred is named in heauen and in earth.)
15. That according too the riches of his glory, he graunt you too bee strengthened vvith povver by his spirit in the invvarde man.
IT is a woonderfull thing that men hauing so many meanes too come vntoo God, la∣bour too go from him as much as is pos∣sible, and euery strawe makes them too turne head: and yit notwithstanding think themselues too haue a very reasonable ex∣cuce, if they can say, I was letted by this and that (which shalbee nothing at all,) but the least occasion that can bee, wyll serue, bycause their seeking alreadye is too shrinke away from God. And this is too common now adayes. For they that are desyrous too iustifye themselues, bycause they reiect the doctrine of the Gospell, will alwayes fynde fault with the causes of offences. O say thy, this trubbleth mee, this maketh mee too mislyke the doctrine of the Gos∣pell, this maketh mee too forsake it vtterly. All that euer they can al∣ledge shalbee but tryfles, but yit had wee neede too labour so much the more, too ouercome all the lettes and stoppes which the diuell indeuo∣reth too cast in our way, so as wee may still keepe on our trade and course. And that is the thing whereat S. Paule ameth heere, exhor∣ting the Ephesians not too bee thrust out of the way, but too holde on still truely and constantly in the fayth of the Gospell, notwithstanding