And you whiche were sometyme farre of and enemies, because your myndes were set in euil workes, hath he now yet reconciled in the body of his fleshe, through death in make you holy & vnblameable, & without fault in his owne sight, if ye continue groū∣ded and stablished in the fayth, and be not moued awaye from the hoope of the gospel, wherof ye haue heard, how that it is preached among all creatures whiche are vnder heauen, wherof I Paule am made a minister,
Of this numbre so reconciled are ye now becomen, ye, (I saye) whiche in yeres past were in suche sorte straungers to God, that in steede of him ye worshipped images of deuils, not only wilfully dissentyng from him, but also vsing your selfes as his cruel aduersaries, whom he hath yet to him selfe reconciled beyng suche as neither loked for so much at his hād, and muche lesse deserued it, and made of you his enemies, his frendes & sonnes, not by the ministery of Aungels but by the bodily death of his onely begotten sonne, whom for that purpose his pleasure was, that he shuld take our mortal fleshe vpon him.
And because there can be betwixte God and synners no peace, it hath pleased him frely to forgeue al the offences of our former li••e, to thentent he would in his sight make you holy, vnblameable, and faultles. Who I pray you can lay your olde debtes to your charge, if he be once cōtented? And surely cōtented wyl he be, if once vpō his fre receiuyng of you vnto the fayth of the gospel, ye continually abide in your profession, & leanyng vpon this sure and sounde foundacion she we your selfes so stedfast and stable, that neither man nor angel be able to moue you frō Christ, of whō ye must hope to receiue all suche giftes as the gospel promiseth, whet vn¦to ye gaue credence, whiche hath not onely been preached vnto you, but also to all nacions contained vnder heauen.
Unstedfastnes it is to fal away frō that, whiche ye haue once allowed, an impudent and a shameles point to reken and coumpte that thing for vaine, in belief wherof al the worlde agreeth, and finally to flit from that whose preacher and minister I Paule am, whiche would not leaue and forgoe inf••••e owne countreys law, & chaunge it with the gospel of Christ; were I not fully persuaded, that this geare is heauenly and commeth frō God.