What maketh the personne vi∣ciouse?
¶Infydelity, to doubte of God, to lacke feare and truste in God. For althoughe Pomponius and Cicero where excellente men, I put the case that they had a cer∣tain
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¶Infydelity, to doubte of God, to lacke feare and truste in God. For althoughe Pomponius and Cicero where excellente men, I put the case that they had a cer∣tain
knowledg of the law that is to say, that God is rightuouse & good. &c. Yet they do not know & Gospell that God remytteth syn wythout oure deseruinges. And therefore in greate aduersytyes & troubles they iudge their selfe to be reiected of God. Wherefore seynge they haue euell effections inwardelye, theire external ac∣tes be so polluted, accordynge vnto thys of Paulle, what so euer is not of fayeth it is synne. Romaynes .xiiii. The stoutnes of mynde in Achilles was an excel∣lēt vertue and the verye gyfte of God but it is by chaūce viciouse, that is to saye, by the personne whyche is euel whyche doubteth whether God haue respect of men or no. Also he lacketh the feare & trust of God.