What fruite had ye then in those thinges, wherof ye are now ashamed? For the end of those thinges is death. But now are ye deliuered from sinne, and made the seruaū∣tes of God, and haue your fruit to be sanctified, and the ende euerlastyng life. For the rewarde of synne is death, but eternall life is the gifte of God, through Iesus Christ our Lorde.
Cal to your remembraunce, what tyme ye were seruauntes vnto sinne, and as vile bonde slaues folowed wanton desyres, what rewarde (I pray you) had ye at the laste? Euen the synnes selfe haue theyr punishement ioyned vnto them, because the same foorthwith all to defile and corrupt the whole man, so vilanously and reprochefully defacyng him, that since the tyme ye are amēded, and as men awaked out of the dronkenes of syn, ye are ashamed of your selfes, so that your mindes abhorre to thinke vpō your olde noughtie pleasures. And though this wages (as ye see) be not to be desyred, yet besyde the last stipend & hyre, whiche the deuil payeth to suche as do him seruice, is death euerlastyng. Howbeit in very dede the life whiche in the meane leason is after this sorte ledde, is a most shame∣ful death in dede, and not a life.
Nowe consider what a happye chaunge ye haue made, whiche beyng deliuered from the tyranny of the deuil, are now becomen the seruaūtes of God. By this ye see (I am sure) how vnlike the maisters are.