ng the mynds of his disciples against the thretts and
terrors of this wicked world / among other thinges /

[[Matth. 10.]]

Are not (sayth he) two lytle sparowes solde for a farthinge. And
one of them shall not lyghte on the grownd withe out your
father: yea euen all the heares of your heade are nombred. feare
ye not therfor: ye are if more value then many sparowes. Euery
one therfor that shall knowledge me before men hym wyll I
knowledge also before my father which is in heauen. But
whosoeuer shall denye me before men / hym wyll I also denye
before my father which is in heauen: the same lord in the
gospell of Marcke /

[[Marc. 8.]]

Whosoeuer (saythe he) shall lose hys lyfe for my sake and the
gospell He same shall saue it. For what shall it profyte a man /
if he wynne al the worlde and lose his owne soule? or what shall
a man gyue to redeme hys soule wythall agayn? Whosoeuer therfor
shalbe ashamed of me and of my wordes / in this aduowtrus and
synfull generation: of hym also shall the sonne of man be ashamed
when he commith in the glorie of his father withe the holy
angels. Theis wordes of the lorde are playne / and spoken without
ony darcknes. The lord requirith of eiche one of vs that symple
and open confession which we make before men / and that such men
as are synnars and adulterars / the emenies / I saye / of Godd /
and of all true religion. for such men do the prophets also call
fornicatours and adulterars. He requirith / I saye / that we
shuld confes hym and his worde / That is / that we shuld simply
confes that he is Christ / and that we shuld not denye ony thing
of his worde either by out wordes or deedes.

[[Examples of true confession, Mat. 16.]]

We read that Peter did confes Christ the lorde sincerely and
with a true confession when he answered vnto the lorde / which
asked and sayed. But whom saye ye that I am / he answered. Thow
art Christe the sonne of the lyuinge Godd.

[[Ioan. 6.]]

Agayn when many did fall from the lorde for that sermon in which
he declared in the Synagoge of the Capernaites / that he only
was the foade of lyfe / and for that cause the lorde saide to
his disciples: Wyll ye also go awaye? Peter answered / and
confessing the lorde with a notable confession he said / lorde to
whom shall we go? Thow hast the wordes of eternal lyfe / And we
beleue and are sure / that thow art Christe the sonne of the
lyuinge Godd. Such like confession absolute and true doth the
bless