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<heading:edcomment:LETTER_XI>

<font> To his right worshipful mother bee this delivered with speed .
</font> (RPLUMPT-E1-P1,233.3)

Right worshipfull mother , I humbly recomende me unto you , desiringe
Jesus longe to continewe your healthe to the pleasure of God .
(RPLUMPT-E1-P1,233.4)

Worshipfull mother , I am bounde to write to you , yea and you were not
my mother , because it hathe pleased God of his inestimable goodnes to
sende me some understandinge in the Scriptures ; (RPLUMPT-E1-P1,233.5)

for everie man or woman that it shall please God to sende knowledge in
the Scriptures is bounde to instructe theire brethren in the lovinge of
the Gospell . Wherefore , it is my dutie to instructe you , most
principalle of all other , which hathe shewed to me so muche kindenes ,
besides all motherly kindenes . Wherefore , I desire you , moste deare
mother , that ye will take heede to the teachinge of the Gospell ,
(RPLUMPT-E1-P1,233.6)

for it is the thinge that all wee muste live by ; (RPLUMPT-E1-P1,233.7)

for Christe lefte it that we shoulde altogether rule our livinge
thereby , (RPLUMPT-E1-P1,233.8)

or els we $can $not {TEXT:cannot} be in favour with God . Wherefore , I
woulde desire you for the love of God , that you woulde reade the Newe
Testament , which is the trewe Gospell of God , spoken by the Holy
Ghoste . Wherefore , doubte not of it , dearly beloved mother in the
Lorde , (RPLUMPT-E1-P1,233.9)

I write not this to bringe you into anie heresies , but to teache you
the cleare light of Goddes doctrine . Wherefore , I will never write
nothinge to you , nor saye nothinge to you , concerninge the Scriptures
, but will dye in the quarrell . (RPLUMPT-E1-P1,233.10)

Mother , you have muche to thanke God that it woulde please him to geve
you licence to live untill this time , (RPLUMPT-E1-P1,233.11)

for the gospell of Christe was never so trewly preached as it is nowe .
<P_234> Wherfore , I praye to God that he will geve you grace to have
knowledge of his Scriptures . (RPLUMPT-E1-P1,234.12)

Ye shall heare perceive what the profession of our Baptisme is , which
profession we muste have written in our hartes . Which profession
standeth in twoe thinges ; (RPLUMPT-E1-P1,234.13)

the one is the knowledge of the lawe of God , understandinge it
spiritually as Christe expoundeth it , Math. v. vi. and vii. chapters ;
so that the roote and life of all lawes is this , Love thy Lorde God
with all thy harte , all thy soule , all thy mighte , and all thy power
, and thy neighboure as thy selfe for Christes sake .
(RPLUMPT-E1-P1,234.14)

And love onely is the fulfillinge of the lawe , as saithe S. Paule ,
(RPLUMPT-E1-P1,234.15)

and that whatsoever we doe and not of that love , that same fullfilleth
not the lawe in the sighte of God . (RPLUMPT-E1-P1,234.16)

And what the lawe doth meane ye shall finde in the prologue to the Rom:
in my fathers booke , called the Newe Testament .
(RPLUMPT-E1-P1,234.17)

I write unto you because that I knowe you have a fervent ...
(RPLUMPT-E1-P1,234.18)

and his lawes ... (RPLUMPT-E1-P1,234.19)

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