Sidenote: * Prayer is to cleave vnto the promyses of god with a stroge fayth and to besech god with a fervent desyre that he will fulfyll them for his mercye & truth onlye.
Iacob robbed Laban his vncle: Moses robbed the Egiptians: And Abraha is aboute to slee and burne his awne sonne: And all are holye workes/ because they were wrought infayth at goddes commaundement.
Fayth is the belevinge of goddes promesses & a sure trust in the goodnesse and truth of god.
Make knowne that fayth vnkindnes could not moue; Compare my worth with others base desert: Let vertue be the tuch-stone of my loue, So may the heauens reade wonders in my hart.
By Roister Doisters fayth I will speake but in borde.
Nay fayth ye shall promise that he shall no harme have, Else I will not set him.
On myfayth I thynke the moone be at the full, 605 For frantyke fansyes be then most plentefull.
But in fayth Custance if ever ye come in hell, 75 Maister Roister Doister shall serve you as well.
In fayth to tell the, betwene the and me, She is as wyse a woman as any may be; I know it well; for I have had the charge B i 335 Of her soule, and serchyd her conscyens at large.
And lyke as thefayth and fidelity of the vndefiled Bed hath in all times worthely ben commended and rewarded: euen so he that polluteth it by Infamy, beareth the penaunce of the same.
For my parte I onelye praye you to reade the Contentes, and accordynglye to gyue mee Aunswere: for my Fayth is no further bounde, but trustelye to report to hym the thinge whereuppon you shall bee resolued.
Like as the purest gold in fieri flames is tried, Euen so is fayth of fryends in hard estate descried.
Tell him also, that I prayse God, in good time I haue taken heede to the little fayth and trust that is in him for a countergarde, lightly neuer hereafter to bee deceiued.
Beholde an Earle well serued, and dressed by enioying so false a Woman, which had already falsified the fayth betrouthed to hir husband, who was more honest, milde, and vertuous than she deserued.
I know madame what it is to graunt to so wanton a dame as my Wyfe is, hir will, and how farre I ought to slip the rayne: iealous I am not vpon the fayth I beare vnto God, but I feare what may chaunce vnto me.
Whose fond regard of beautie's grace, contemned hath the force Of my true loue full fixt in hir: hir heart voide of remorse, Esteemed it selfe right foolishly and me abused still, Vsurping my good honest fayth and credite at hir will.
And therfore sayth the philosopher/ he that leseth his fayth and beleue/ may lose no gretter ne more thynge.
And fayth is a fouerayn good and cometh of the good wyll of the herte and of his mynde And for no necessite wyll deceyue no man/ And is not corrupt for no mede.
Mithridanes then paused a while before he would make him answere: and in the ende purposyng to put his trust in him, required with great circumstance of wordes his fayth and after that his counsell and ayde.
And so (O life most deere) I shall performe the effecte to kepe the fayth whych last of all before thy face I did confirme.
But in fayth Custance if euer ye come in hell, Maister Roister Doister shall serue you as well.
Nay faythye shall promise that he shall no harme haue, Else I will not fet him.
Charles by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Fayth &c.
But, on the contrarie, we hold that beleeue and fayth must be in particuler, and then such a person is become a legatary certaine in Christs testament, and capable of the disposicion of the promise.
He named fayth to be the gift of God, because Abraham is said to be called.
Fayth is the evidence of things not seene; as wee hold our temporall inheritance by our writinges, which we call our evidence, soe wee clayme our eternall inheritaunce in the heavens by fayth, which is our evidence.
Parry entreated of hir, that shee beleeved that fayth which shee hath caused to be professed, and looked faythfully to be saved by Christes merits and mercy only, and noe other meanes.
Upon what ground, that is, his fayth and repentaunce.
Thay say your fayth it is sa stark, Your cord and lowsie coit and sark, Ye lippin, may bring yow to salvatioun, And quyte excludes Christ his passioun.
There are at least three early editions, with this title, "Dyvers frutefull gatherynges of Scripture: And declaryng of fayth and workes.
But yf that any thing procead frome fayth, it man have the word of God for the assurance; for ye ar nott ignorant, 'That fayth cumis by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
For without faythit is impossible to keap any of the commandimentis of God.
For I doe promise you and sweare by the fayth that I do owe you Madame, come whatsoeuer shall vnto me, I will deuise in practising your rest to beginne mine owne sorow.
Ye doe preferre fayth in warres before certaine victorie, and we, induced by that faith, haue of our owne accord, presented victorie unto you.
Some say that our fayth must needes stagger, if it be not grounded vpon the aucthoritie of the scripture.
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