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Certeynly we are graffed in Christe by baptisme and the profession of faith, but in such wise, that we may thorow our owne defaut fall from him again: neyther shall we otherwise come vnto the enheritaunce of mortalitie promi∣sed vs, excepte we kepe sure, and constauntely vnto the ende the beginnyng and foundation of that felicitie, whiche was layed in vs by the gospell, still goyng forewarde in that was begoonne, monyshed thereto by thys saying whiche is continually spoken vnto vs: To day if ye wil heare his voice har∣den not your heartes, as in the prouokyng. For some when they hearde the Lordes voyce, did then by dysobeying the same moue hym, prouokyng hys wrathe; and indignacion agaynst them. Howbeit al dyd not so whiche came out of Egipt vnder y^• conducte of Moses. And vnto these that were not dis∣obediente it was geuen to come vnto the lande flowing with milke and ho∣ny: With whome was he dyspleased fourtie yeres? Was it not with them that had offended? howbeit these entred not into rest, but their carkases were ouerthrowen in wildernesse: with whome elles was he so muche dyspleased that he sware they should neuer entre into the reste promised them, but with those whiche obeyed not the voyce of god? we see then that god was on both sydes trewe, who bothe perfourmed to the obedyent what he promissed thē, and to the disobedient that he manaced them with all. The obediente came thereunto by their pacience: the other coulde not entre in because of theyr vnbelyfe and incredulitie.