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what good towardnesse can he haue and endeuoure that is all
to gether blynde and caried awaye at the wyll of the deuell
/ tyll the deuell be cast out? Ar we not robbed of all
towardnesse in Adam and be by nature made the childern of
synne / so that we synne naturally and to synne is our nature? So that as now / though we wold doo well / the flesh yet
synneth naturally nether ceaseth to synne / but so ferforth
as it is kepte vnder with violence: euen so once our hertes
synned as naturally wyth full lust and consent vn to the
flesh / the deuel possessynge our hertes and kepynge out
the light of grace. What good towardnesse and endeuoure can
we haue to hate synne / as longe as we loue it? what good
towardnesse can we haue vnto the wyll of god / whyle we hate it and be ignoraunte therof. Can the wyll desyre that the witte seith
not? Can the will longe for and sigh for that the wytt
knoweth not of? Can a man take thought for that losse that
he wotteth not of? what good endeuoure can the turkes childern / the
Iewes childern and the popis infantes haue / when they be
taught all falshed only wyth lyke persuasions of worldly
reason / to be all iustified with
werkes? It is not therfore as Paul sayth / of
the runnynge or willynge but of the mercye of god / that a
man is called and chosen to grace.
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