Dauid / to faull vppon him and to carie him cleane out of the
waye. Was he not readye
for a churlysshe answere to haue slayn naball and
all the males of his housse / so moch as the chyld in the
cradell? how be it God with helde hym and kepte him backe from
that evell / thorow the wisdome of Abegall. How longe slomberd
he / or rather how hard in slepe was he in the adulterye of
Bathseba. And in the murther of her husbond Vriah / But at both
tymes assone as he was rebuked and his faulte told him / he
repented immedyatly & turned agayne
mekely. Now in all that longe tyme / from the
adulterye of Bathsabe vntyll the prophete Nathan rebuked him he
had not lost his faith nor
yet his loue vnto the lawes of god / no moare then a
man loseth hys wittes when he ys a slepe. He had forgott hym
selfe only and had not malycyously cast of the yocke of gods
commaundementes from off his necke. There is no man so good /
but that there cometh a tyme vppon hym / when he fealeth in hym
selfe no moare faith or loue vnto god / then a sycke man
oftymes feleth the tast of his meate which he eateth.
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