and sayth that it behoueth vs to praye vn to saintes and that god will else not heare vs / for oure presumptuouse malapertenesse. So it is now presumptuous malapertenesse to trust in gods worde and to beleue that god is true. Paul teacheth vs to bebolde to goo vn to god and sheweth vs good cause in Christe / whi we so maye and that god wold so haue vs. Nether is there any cause to kepe vs backe / saue that we loue him not ner trust him. Yf a man saye / oure synne shuld kepe vs backe. I saye if we repent & beleue in Christ / Christ hath taken them awaye and therfore thorow him we maye be bolde. And Christ saide at his last soper Ihon .xvj. I saye not that I will praye for you vnto my father / for my father loueth you. As who shulde saye / be not afrayed ner stonde with out the dores as a dastard: but be bold and goo in to my father youre selues in my name / and shew youre complayntes / for he now loueth you / because ye loue my doctrine. And Paul sayth Ephe. ij. we haue al an open waye in thorow him / and are now no more forennars or straungers but of the howshold of god. Of god therfore we be bold as of a most louinge and mercifull father / aboue all the mercy of fathers. And of our sauioure Iesus we be bold / as of a thynge that is oure awne and moare oure awne then oure awne skynnes / and a thynge that is so soft and gentle / that lade we him neuer so moch with oure synnes / he can not be angre ner cast them from off his backe / so we repent and wyll mend. But Master More hath a nother doctrine to driue vs from god and to make vs tremble and be afferde of him.

He likeneth god to worldly tirantes / at who