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Herof ye se what faith it is that iustifyeth vs.
The faith in christes bloude of a repentinge herte towarde
the lawe doeth iustifie vs onli and not all maner faythes.
Ye must vnderstond therfore / that ye maye se to come out
of Mores blinde mase / how that there be many faithes and
that all faythes be not one fayth / though they be all called with on generall name. There is a story fayth with out felynge in the
herte / where with I maye beleue the hole story of the
byble and yet not sett myne herte ernestly therto / takynge
yt for the fode of my soule / too lerne to beleue and trust
God / to loue him / dreade him and feare him by the
doctrine and ensamples therof / but to seme lerned and to
know the story / to dispute and make marchaundice /
after as we haue ensamples ynowe. And the faith
wherwith a man doeth miracles / is a nother gyft then the
fayth of a repentinge herte to be saued thorow christes
bloude / and the one no kynne too the other though Master More wold haue
them so appere. Nether is the
deuels fayth and popis faith (where wyth they beleue that
there ys a god and that chryst ys and all the story off the
byble and maye yet stonde wyth all wekednesse and full
consent too euell) kynne vnto the fayth of them that hate
evell and repent off their mysdedes and knowlege their
synnes and be fled with ful hope and truste off mercye vn to
the bloude off Christ.
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