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CHAP. XXVII. (Book 27)
Hereunto appertayneth that Tentation.
That because,
1 VVE sinne in the best wee doe, Stherefore we will doe no good at all, least we should sinne.
To which we may answere,
1 That it is a sinne to omit wel-doing, as well as to doe euill.
2 That sinne which accompanies well-doing shall not be imputed, if there be a willing minde.
3 Our persons are accepted in Christ, and therefore our faylings are couered with his righteousnesse.
4 This life is not a time of perfection, but of growing and hastening thereto, and therefore though we be not perfect without sinne, yet if we doe it truly with∣out hypocrisie, it shall be accepted.
5 The sinne which accompanies wel-doing is not ours, and therefore we shall not answere for it.