cions of any terme / but runneth forth confusedly in vnknowen wordes and general termes. And were one worde hath many significacions he maketh a man some time beleue that manye thinges are but one thynge / and some time he leadeth from one significacion vn to a nother and mocketh a mans wittes. As he iugleth with thys terme church / makynge vs in the begynnynge vnderstonde all that beleue and in the conclusyon the prestes only. He telleth not the office of the lawe / he describeth not his penaunce ner the vertue therof or vse / he declareth no sacrament / ner what they meane ner the vse ner wherin the frute off confession stondeth / ner whence the power of the absolucion cometh / ner wherein it resteth / ner what iustifienge meaneth / ner the ordir ner sheweth any diuersite of faithes / as though all faithes were one faith and one thinge.

Marke therfore / the waye towarde iustifienge or forgeuenesse of sinne / is the lawe. God causeth the lawe to be preached vn to vs and wryteth yt in oure hertes and maketh vs by good reasons fele that the lawe is good and ought to be kept and that they which kepe it not are worthy to be damned. And on the other syde I fele that there ys no power in me / to kepe the lawe where vppon it wold shortly folow that I shud dyspeare / if I were not shortly holpe.

But God which hath begon to cure me and hath layde that corosy vn to my sores / goeth forth in hys cure / and setteth hys sonne Iesus before me and all hys passyons and deeth / and saith to me: thys is my dere sonne / and he hath prayed for the and hath sofred all thys for the / and for hys sake I wil forgeue the al that thou hast done agenst thys good lawe / and I wyll heale