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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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In the thrid chapter and in the chapter folowynge / he
vttereth how fleshly minded he is / and how beestly he
imageneth of God /
as Paule saith .1. corin. 2. the naturall man
can not vnderstond the thinges of the spirite of God. He
thinketh of God / as he doeth of
his cardenall / that he is a monstre / pleased
when men flater him /
and if of whatsoeuer frailte it be / men breake
his commaundementes / he is then raginge mad as the pope is
and seketh to be venged. Naye / God is euer fatherly minded
toward the electe membres of his church. He loued them yer
the world beganne / in Christ.
Ephe. 1. He loueth them / while they be yet
evell and his enimies in their hertes / yer they be come vn
to the knowlege of his sone christe / and yer his law be
written in their hertes: as a father loueth his younge sonne
/ whyle he is yet euell and yer it know the fathers law to
consent therto.
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1. Corin. 2. [1531]
The naturall & carnall man sauoreth not the things that
be of God.[1573]
Roman. 5. [1531]
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And aftir they be once actually of his church and the law
of God
and faith of christ written in their hertes /
their hertes neuer synne
any moare / though as Paule saith .Roman. vij.
the flesh doeth in them that the spirite wold not. And when
they synne of frailte / God ceaseth not to loue them styll
/ though he be angrie / to put a crosse of tribulacions
vppon their backes / to purge them and to subdue
the flesh vn to the spirite or to al to breake
their consciences with threateninge of the lawe and to
feare them with hell. As a father when his sonne offendeth
him feareth him with the rod / but hateth him not.
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God is fatherly to his elect members.[1573]
Roma. 7. [1531]
If we sinne of frailtie God is mercifull & ready to
forgeue.[1573]
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