of my selfe God did not se only that the thefe that was saued at christes deeth / shuld come thither / but god chose him to shew his mercie vn to vs that shuld aftir beleue / and prouided actually and wrought for the bringynge of him thither that daye / to make him se and to receaue the mercie that was layed vpp for him in store / before the world was made.

In the .xij. in chafinge him selfe to hepe lye vppon lye / he vttereth his feleable blindnesse. For he haxeth this question wherefore serueth exhortacions vn to fayth / if the hearers haue not libertye of their frewyll / by which to gether with gods grace a man may laboure to submitte the rebellion of reason vn to the obedience of faith and credence of the worde of God. Whereof ye se / that besydes his graunt that reason rebelleth agenst faith / contrary to the doctrine of his first boke / he will that the will shall compell the witte to beleue.

Which is as moch to saye that the carte must draw the horses and the sonne begett the father / and the auctorite of the church is greater then gods worde. For the will can not teach the witt ner leade hir / but foloweth naturally: so that what soeuer the witt iudgeth good or euell / that the wyll loueth or hateth. If the witte se and leade streight / the will foloweth. If the witt be blinde and lead amisse / the will foloweth cleane out of the waye. I can not loue gods worde before I beleue it / ner hate it / before I iudge it false and vanite.

He might haue wiselier spoken on this maner / where fore serueth the preachynge of faith / if the witt haue no power to draw the will to loue that which the witte iudgeth true and good. If