And as they synne not / so they erre not. And on the
other syde
as they synne / so they erre: but never vn to deeth
and damnacion. For they never synne of purpose ner holde any
erroure maliciously / synnynge agenst the holygoste / but of
weakenesse and infirmitie. As good obedient childern / though
they loue their fathers commaundementes / yet breake them oft /
by the reason of their wekenesse . And as they can not yelde them
selves bond vn to synne / to serue it: even so they can not
erre in any thynge that shuld be agenst the promises which are
in christe. And in other thynges their erroures
be not vn to damnacion / though they be neuer so
greate / because
they hold them not maliciously. As now / if some when
they reade in
the new testament of Christes brethern / wold thynke
that they were oure ladies childern aftir the birth of christe
/ because they know not the vse of speakynge of the scripture
or of the hebrues / how that nye kinsmen becalled brethern / or
happly they might be Iosephes childern / by some first wife /
neyther can haue any to teach him for tiranny that is so greate
/ yet coude it not hurte him / though he died therin / because
it hurteth not the redempcion that is in christes bloude. For
though she had none but christ / I am therfore neuer the moare
saued / neyther yet the lesse / though she had had. And in soch
like an hundred that plucke not a mans faith from Christ / they might erre / and yet beneuer the lesse saued no though the contrary
were written in the gospel. For as in other synnes /
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