and holy church.

M. He teacheth that fayth sufficeth vn to saluacion with out good werkes. T. the scripture sayth / that assone as a man repenteth of evel and beleueth in Christes bloude / he obteyneth mercye imediatly / because he shuld loue god and of that loue doo good werkes / & that he tarieth not in synne styll tyll he haue done good werkes / & then is first forgeuen for his werkessake / as the pope beareth his in hande / excludynge the vertue of christes bloude. For a man must be first reconsyled vn to god by Christ and in gods fauoure / yer his werkes can be good & pleasaunt in the sight of god. But we saye not as some damnablye lye on vs / that we shuld doo euell to be iustified by fayth / as thou maist se in the third of the romanes how they said of the appostles for like preachinge.

M. He calleth it sacrilege to please god with good werkes. T. to refer the werke vn to the person of god to by out thy synne therwith / is to make an Idole of god or a creature. But if thou referre thy werke vn to thy neyboures profitt or tamynge of thine awne flesh / then thou pleasest god therwith.

M. Item that a man can doo no good werke. T. it is false. But he sayth a man can doo no good werke tyll he beleue that his synnes be forgeuen him in Christe and tyll he loue gods law and haue obtayned grace to worke with. And then saith he that we can not doo oure werkes so perfectely / by the reason of our corrupte flesh but that there is some imperfectenesse therin / as in the werkes of them that be not their craftes master. Whych is yet not rekened / because they doo their good willes and be scolars and