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KEY Commentary Side Textual Bibliographic Scriptural
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But the power of the will and of the dede is off god and
euery will and deed are good in the nature of the dede and
the euelnesse is a lacke that there is / as the eye /
though it be blinde is good in nature in that it is soch a
member created for soch a good vse: but it is called euell
for lacke of sighte. And so are oure dedes euell because we
lacke knowlege and loue to referre them vn to the glorie of God.
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Which lacke cometh of the deuell that blyndeth vs with
lustes and occasions that we can not se the goodnesse and
rightwysnesse of the law of god and the meanes how to
fulfill it. For coud we se it and the waye to doo it we
shuld loue it naturally as a chyld doeth a fayre
apple. For as a child when a man sheweth him a
fayre apple and wyll not geue it hym wepeth / so shuld we
naturaly morne when the members wold not come forwarde to
fulfyll the law acordynge to
the desyre of oure hertes. For paule saith .ij.
Cor. iiij. if our gospell be hid / it is hyd vnto them that
perish / amonge which the God of this world hath blinded
the wittes of the vnbeleuers / that the light of the
glorious gospell of christ shuld not shyne to them. And christ saith that the briddes eate vpp the seed sowen vppon the
waye and interpreteth by the seed the worde / and by the
foules / the deuell. So that the deuel blindeth vs with
falshed and lies which ys our worldly wisdome / and
therwith stoppethout the true light of gods wisdome / which
blindnes is the euellnesse of all our dedes.
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And so . . .
fulfill it. Cf. 34/6–11n.
if. . to
them. 2 Cor. 4.3–4.
briddes . . .
the deuell. Cf. Matt. 13.4, 19, Mark 4.4, Mark 4.15,
Luke 8.5, 12.
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And on the other syde / that a nother man loueth the lawes
of God
and vseth the power that he hath of God well /
and referreth his wyll
and hys dedes vn to the honoure off God / cometh off the
mercy off God which hath oppened hys
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