that I came in Would not presume my head or mouth to kisse But my feete lamenting in hir heart for hir syn My head you did not anoynt with oyle so swete As men of this countrey do their guestes vse But with most precious balme she anointed my fete No cost about that oyntment she doth refuse Blessed are they as the Prophete doth say Whose sinnes are forgiuen couered by Gods mercy Not by the dedes of the lawe as you thinke this day But of Gods good will fauour and grace freely At this womans synne you do greatly grutche As though your selues were iust holy and pure But many sinnes are forgiuen hir bicause she loued muche And of the mercy of God she is sure He to whom but a little is remitted in dede Loueth but a little we se by experience All haue sinned and of Gods glory haue nede Therfore humble your selues with penitence I say to thee woman thy synnes are forgeuen all God for my sake will not them to thee impute For strength to continue to hym do thou call And see that thankes thou do to hym attribute Mary The mercy of God is aboue all his workes truely What is it that God is not able to bryng to passe I thanke thee Lord Iesu for thy great mercy Thou art the sonne of the liuyng God our Messias Malicioê° iudge Now say you by this here is a greater matter yet He forgiueth synnes as one with God equall Infidelitie And he may perceiue truely that hath any wit That he is but a man wretched and mortall Christ. Woman I say thy faith hath saued thee go in peace Now art thou pacified in thy conscience Through thy faithe I doe all thy sinnes releace Assuryng thee to haue mercy for thy negligence Mary O ioyfull tydynges O message most comfortable Let no sinner be he neuer in so great dispaire Though he were synfull and abhominable Let him come and he will make hym faire Blessed be the Lord of such compassion and pitie Praise we his name with glorie and honor I shall declare his mercy in towne and citie Thankes be to thee my Lord now and euermore Symon I see the wordes whiche I haue heard proued true Men say that you are new fangled and friuolous Goyng about the law and our rulers to subdue Introducyng sectes perillous and sedicious Malicioê° iudge I can no longer containe but must say my mynde In dede it is so for by his diuelishe erudition Which he soweth among the people of our kynde At length they will make a tumult and sedition Such blasphemy since the beginning was not heard That a man shal call him self Gods naturall sonne To condemne the law of God he is not afeard Despisyng all things that our fathers haue done Infidelitie Pleaseth it you reuerend father to geue me licence To say my mynde to this blasphemerand thiefe In fewe wordes you shall haue my sentence Of all heretikes I iudge hym to be the chiefe Perceiue you not how he doth begyn He commeth to none of the princes and gouerners But a sort of synners he goeth about to wyn As publicans whores harlots and vniust occupiers Them he preferreth before such men as you be Saying that they before you shall be saued An honest man in his company you shall not see But euen them which haue them selues yll behaued Much good doe it you here is sause for your meate Maister Simon looke vpon this felow in season For in continuance he will worke such a feate That you shall not release with all your reason Christ. O Symon put away that Malicious iudgement Which in your heart you do stubbornly contayne You shall not perceyue Gods commandement As long as he in your conscience doth remayne Malicioê° iugemeÌ„t Lo syr now that God he hath blasphemed Now his law he doth contemne and despise The Iustice therof of hym is nothyng estemed To destroy the same vtterly he doth deuise Symon Thinke you vs ignorant of gods law and will Which vpon our garments do them weare Who but we doe the law of God fulfill For his precepts with vs in all places we beare Christ. To fulfill the law requireth Gods spirite For the law is holy iust and spirituall Of loue to be obserued it is requisite And not of these obseruances externall As long as you haue this malicious iudgement Accompanied with Infidelitie I say you can not kepe Gods commaundement Though you shew an outward sanctitie Infidelitie Lo syr here he calleth me Infidelitie And you know that I am called Legal Iustification You heare that it was spoken by Gods maiestie That a man shall liue by the lawes obseruation An honest guest come out dogge yea mary Good maners thus to taunt a man at his table But with fooles it is follie to vary His wordes be taken but as a tale or a fable Symon Away with this geare how long shall we syt here At once We haue somewhat els to do I thinke Christ. Thankes be to thee O Father for this chere Thankes be to thee for our repast of meate drinke Now sir you shall licence me to depart And the heauenly Father might illumine your mynd Expellyng this infidelitie from your hart Which with Malicious iudgemeÌ„t kepeth you blynd Symon Fare ye well for me you shall no countes render All shall be layd vnder the feete that is here spoken Infide Though you forget it yet we purpose to remember Exit You know the way go I pray you the doore is open Malicioê° iudge For Gods sake syr you and such as you be Looke vpon this felow by myne aduise For what he goth about all you may see Yea you haue had warnyng of hym twise or thrise Infidelitie All the multitude beginneth after him to ronne You see hym and know his doctrine and opinion If you suffer hym till more people he hath wonne Strangers shall come and take our dominion Haue you not heard his open blasphemie The sonne of God he presumeth him self to name The Iustice of the lawe he condemneth vtterly To suffer him to lyue will turne to your shame Symon It shall behoue you to dog him from place to place Note whether openly he teache suche doctrine If he doe accuse hym before his face For I will cause the byshops hym to examine And where as he willeth you vs to expell Infidelitie Callyng vs wicked nicknames at his pleasure He goeth about to make you to rebell Against God his lawes as he doth without mesure Malicioê° iugemeÌ„t For my part I wil watche hym so narowly That a word shall not scape me that doth sounde Agaynst you the fathers that liue so holyly But to accuse hym for it a way shalbe found Symon Well the tyme of our euenyng seruice is at hand We must depart the sacrifice to prepare Infideli Exeunt If you depart we may not here ydle stande For to wayte vpon you at all tymes ready we are At my beyng here euen now of late It pleased my
mercy for my sake With the sinnes of the world be at debate and strife And vnto grace my heauenly father will you take All they whom the law condemneth for synne By faith in me I saue and iustifie I am come sinners by repentance to winne Christe speaketh to Mary Like as the Prophet before did prophecie Thou woman with mercy I do thee preuent If thou canst in the Sonne of God beleue And for thy former lyfe be sory and repent All thy sinnes and offences I doe forgeue Infidelitie Who is the sonne of God sir of whom do ye talke Which hath this power wherof you do boast It is best for you out of this countrey to walke And neuer more be sene after in this coast The sonne of God quod he This is a pride in dede Trowest thou that the father can suffer this They come of Abrahams stocke and holy sede And thou saiest that they beleue all amisse Christ. Auoide out of this woman thou Infidelitie With the .vii. diuels which haue hir possessed I banish you hence by the power of my diuinitie For to saluation I haue hir dressed Infidelitie runneth away Mary falleth flat downe Cry all thus without the doore and roare terribly Diuels O Iesus the Sonne of God euer liuing Why comest thou before the tyme vs to torment In no person for thee we can haue any abidyng Out vpon thee the sonne of God omnipotent Christ. Arise woman and thanke the father of heauen Which with his mercy hath thee preuented By his power I haue reiâ—cted from the spirits seuen Which with vnbelief haue thy soule tormented Mary Blessed be thy name O father celestiall Honor and glory be giuen to thee world without end O Lord doest thou regard thus a womaÌ„ terrestriall To thee what tong is able worthy thanks to repend O what a synfull wretche Lord haue I bene Haue mercy on me Lord for thy names sake So greuous a sinner before this day was neuer sene Uouchsafe therfore compassion on me to take Iesus Christ. Canst thou beleue in God the maker of all thing And in his onely sonne whom he hath sent Mary I beleue in one God Lord and heauenly kyng And in thee his onely sonne with hearty intent Good Lord I confesse that thou art omnipotent Helpe my slender beliefe and infirmitie My faith Lord is waueryng and insufficient StreÌ„gth it I pray the with the power of thy maiesty No man can come to me that is in me beleue Christ â–ª Faith repeÌ„taÌ„ce entreth Except my father draw hym by his spirite Behold Faith and Repentance to thee here I geue With all other vertues to thy health requisite Note well the power of Gods omnipotencie Faith That soule which of late was a place of deuils He hath made a place for him self by his clemencie Purgyng from thence the multitude of euils Repentance The mercy of Christ thought it not sufficient To forgeue hir synnes and deuils to pourge But geueth hir grace to be penitent That is hir soule euer after this day to scourge The vertue of Repentance I do represent Which is a true turnyng of the whole lyfe and state Unto the will of the lord God omnipotent Sorowing for the sinnes past with displesure hate That is to say all the inward thoughts of the hart And all the imaginations of the mynde Which were occupied euill by Sathans arte Must hence forth be turned after an other kynd Dauid my father on his synnes did alway thinke Howe horrible they were in God almighties sight Teares were his sustenance yea both meat drinke His hole meditation was in heauen both day night So that Repentance is described in Scripture To be a returnyng from syn with all the soule hart And all the life tyme in repentyng to endure Declaring the same with the senes in euery part As thus like as the eyes haue ben vaynly spent Upon worldly and carnall delectations So henceforth to wepyng and teares must be bent And wholly giuen to godly contemplations Likewise as the eares haue ben open alway To here the blasphemyng of Gods holy name And fylthy talkyng euermore night and day Nowe they must be turned away from the same And glad to heare the Gospell of saluation How God hath mercy on them that doe call And how he is full of pitie and miseration Raisyng vp suche agayne as by synne dyd fall The tong which blasphemie hath spoken Yea and filthily to the hurt of soule and body Wherby the precepts of God haue ben broken Must hence forth praise God for his mercy daily Thus like as all the members in tymes past Haue ben seruantes of vnrighteousnesse and synne Now Repentance doth that seruice away cast And to mortifie all his lustes doth begynne True repentance neuer turneth backe agayn For he y t laieth his haÌ„d on the plough loketh away Is not apt in the kingdom of heauen to raigne Nor to be saued with my sainctes at the last day Mary O Lorde without thy grace I do here confesse That I am able to do nothyng at all Where it pleaseth thee my miserie to redresse Strength me now that hence forth I do not fall Graunt me Lord suche a perfect repentance And that I looke no more back but go forward still Put my miserie euermore into my remembrance That I may forthinke my life that hath ben so yll Fayth The holy vertue of Faith I do represent Ioyned continually with repentance For where as the person for synne is penitent There I ascertain him of helth and deliuerance Wherfore I am a certaine and sure confidence That God is mercifull for Christ Iesus sake And where as is a turnyng or penitence To mercy he will the penitent take Faith therfore is the gyft of God most excellent For it is a sure knowledge and cognition Of the good will of God omnipotent Grounded in the word of Christes erudition This faith is founded on Gods promission And most clerely to the mynde of man reuealed So that of Gods will he hath an intuition Which by the holy ghost to his heart is sealed Repentance This Faith with the word hath such propinquitie That proprely the one is not without the other Faith must be tried with the word of veritie As the chyld is by the father and mother Iesus Christ. Yea truly if this faith do from Gods word decline It is no faith but a certayn incredulitie Which causeth the mynd to waÌ„der in strange doctrine And so to fall at length into impietie Faith The word to a glasse compare we may For as it were therin Faith God doth behold Whom as in a cloude we loke vpon alway As hereafter more plainly it shal be told Mary My heart doth beleue and my mouth doth publish That my lord Iesus is the sonne of God eternall I beleue that my soule shall neuer perysh But raigne with him in his kyngdom supernall Repentance The operation of Faith is not to enquire What God is as touchyng his
Simon to day Who commanded to prepare the table in all hast Helpe to make all ready and the cloth to lay For surely here he purposeth to take his repast Infidelitie By God he shall haue soure sause it may hap Do thy parte and surely I purpose to watche It shal be hard but we will take hym in a trap He shall fynde hym here that will hym matche Malicioê° iudge Go and fetche trenchers spoones salt and bread See whether the cookes be ready also I pray thee They will come to dynner I dare lay my head Before that all things prepared well shall be Infidelitie A straw all this geare wyll quickly be doone The cookes be ready also I am sure Let me see byr lady it is almost noone I maruell that they can so long fastyng endure Malicioê° iudge Yonder they come turne thy face out of sight Thou must make curtesy downe to the ground Infidelitie I would he were hanged by God and by this light For neuer before this day was I thus bound Symon Sir now are you welcome I pray you come nere Fetche in meate syrs I pray you quickly I promise you I byd you for no good chere But such as it is you ar welcome hartily Infidelitie Pleaseth it you to washe syr here is water Let not yonder beggerly felow wash with you Symon Can you not a while dissemble the matter It is no tyme to talke of suche geare now Will you sit sir bryng hither a cushion and a stoole Set it down I say there there at the tables ende Infideli Here is a businesse with a beggerly foole It greueth me the tyme about him to spende Go to you are welcome hitherto my maister Simon Thinke your self at home in your owne place Christ. I thanke you sir I will syt downe euen anone But first we will prayse God and say our grace Blessed art thou heauenly father which of thy mercy Hast made man to thyne owne image and similitude Which through Sathans wicked malice and enuie Was spoiled of thy grace and of ghostly fortitude But at this tyme of thy mercy appointed Thou hast looked on man of thy compassion And sent thyne owne sonne with thy spirit anoynted Which for his synne shall make satisfaction Let all creatures praise thee for their creation Glory to thy name for their preseruation Laude and honour to thee for their restauration All thankes to thee for eternall saluation Simon I pray you sitte downe I pray you heartily You are welcom I pray you eate such as is here Go to I would not haue you to make any curtesy I am sory that for you I haue no better chere Infidelitie It is simple chere as you say in dede It is to good for him by the Masse Haie is good ynough for hym theron to feede Or for any such foolishe asse Malicioê° iudge Marke you not what in his grace he dyd say Thou hast seÌ„t thy sonne anointed with the holy ghost By these words euidently vnderstand we may That to be the son of God of him selfe he doth boast Simon Wherof doe you .ii. talk what is the matter Is there any thing that doth grutch your conscience Malicioê° iugemeÌ„t This is the truth of our talke yea I wil not flatter Your gest said a word wherof I wold haue iÌ„telligeÌ„ce He thanked God at this tyme nowe appointed That on mens synnes he had pitie and compassion And hath sent his sonne with his spirite anointed Which for his sinne should make satisfaction Hath God into this world sent his owne sonne Or who is the sonne of God I wold be glad to know Like as now he speaketh so oft tymes he hath done The tyme and place I am able to showe Symon I pray you my guest his mynde do you satisfie It is said that the sonne of God you do your self call Christ. I am come into this world the truth to testifie Wherof the scripture and the Prophets do witnes all If I of my self should beare testimonie My witnesse of you should not be taken as true But there is an other that witnesseth of me verily And I know that his testimonie is true Of man truely no testimonie do I take But I speake these wordes that saued you myght be The sonne of God is sent hither for your sake Whom in the glorie of his maiestie you shall se. The workes which to me the father doth geue That I may doe them those workes to you I say Beare witnesse if you haue the grace to beleue That the father hath sent me into the world this day Besides these workes the father that hath me sent Hath by many scriptures of me testified By the whiche the matter is euident That my wordes spoken before are verified But the father you haue neuer heard speaking And what he is by faith you haue neuer sene His word you haue not in you remayning Therfore to him whom he hath seÌ„t faithful you haue not beÌ„ Serch y t scriptures for you thiÌ„k in your mind That in them you shall obtaine life eternall Them to beare witnesse of me you shall fynde How I am the sonne of the liuyng God immortall Symon Wel sir you ar welcom I wold not haue you to thiÌ„k That I did byd you hither to tempt or to proue But that I would haue you both to eate and drinke Euen as my entier friend and for very loue Wherfore any thing that is here done or sayd Shalbe layd vnder foote and go no further For surely if your wordes should be betrayd As a blasphemer the people would you murder Christ. You know that there is .xi. houres in the day And night commeth not till the .xii. houres be expired It is not in mans power my life to take away Till the houre commeth of my father required Infidelitie Under the foote quod hee if I kepe counsell I would I were hanged vp by the very necke Fye on hym horeson traitour and very rebell Hear you not how god him self he beginneth to check Malicioê° iudge Though maister Symon doth but few wordes say Yet I warrant you he beareth this geare in mynde Doubt thou not but he will fynde suche way That he shal be ryd and as many as be of his kynde Simon Go to I pray you alacke you eate no meate You see that at this tyme we haue but plaine fare Christ When we haue sufficient before vs to eate Let vs thanke God and put away all care Mary Magdalen sadly apparelled The more that I accustom my self with repentance The more I see myne owne synne and iniquitie The more knowledge therof the more greuance To a soule that is conuerted from hir impietie To all the worlde an example I may be In whom the mercy of Christ is declared O Lord what goodnesse dydst thou in me see That thus mercifully thou hast me spared What goodnesse nay rather what a rable of euils Full of wickednesse like one past all grace Replenished with a multitude of deuils Which
as in hell in my soule had their place These were the merites and dedes that I had Onely thy vnspeakable mercy did me preuent And though that my life hath bene so bad Yet thou wilt no more but that I should repent O who shall geue me a fountayne of teares That I may shed abundantly for my synne This voice of the Lord alwais souÌ„deth in myn eares Repent repent and thou shalt be sure heauen to wyn He saith also do the fruictes of Repentance O Lord who is able those worthy fruictes to do I am not able to doe sufficient penance Except thy grace good Lord do helpe me therto But like as the parts of my body in tymes past I haue made seruants to all kynd of iniquitie The same iniquitie away for euer I do cast And will make my body seruant to the veritie This haire of my head which I haue abused I repute vile and vnworthie to wipe my lordes fete No obsequie therwith of me shalbe refused To do my Lord Iesus seruice as it is most mete These fleshly eies which with their wanton lookes Many persons to synne and vice haue procured They haue ben the diuels volumes and bookes Which from the seruice of God haue other allured Nowe you synfull eyes shed out teares and water Wash the Lords fete with theÌ„ whoÌ„ you haue offended To shew such obsequie to hym it is a small matter Which by his grace hath my synfull life amended O wretched eies can you wepe for a thing temporall As for the losse of worldly goodes and parents And can you not wepe for the lorde celestiall Which losse incomparably passeth all detrimentes With this oyntment most pure and precious I was wont to make this carkas pleasant and swete Wherby it was made more wicked and vicious And to all vnthriftynesse very apt and mete Now would I gladly this oyntment bestowe About the innocent feete of my sauiour That by these penitent fruictes my lord may know That I am right sory for my sinfull behauiour All my worldly substance abused before And through vnbelief of synne made instruments Now will I bestow them onely to his honor In helpyng hym and for his sake other innocents I shall not ceasse to seeke till my lord I haue found He is in the house of Symon I heard say The house standeth on yonder same ground It was told me that he dyneth there to day I was not ashamed to synne before the Lordes sight And shal I be ashamed before maÌ„ the same to coÌ„fesse To my Lord Iesus now forth will I go right Acknowledgyng to him my penitent heart doubtlesse Let Marie creepe vnder the table abydyng there a certayne space behynd and doe as it is specified in the Gospell Then Malicious Iudgement speaketh these wordes to Infidelitie Malicioê° iugemeÌ„t Lo syr what a felow this is it doth appere If he were suche a prophet as of him self he doth say He would know what maner of woman this same is here A sinner she is he can not say nay Infidelitie A sinner quod he yea she is a wicked sinner in dede This is she from whom he did me expell Behold how boldly after hym she doth procede A harlot she is truly I may tell you in counsell Malicioê° iudge Yea and yet to touche hym he doth her permit Which is agaynst the law for persons defiled Ought not among the iust to intromit But from their company should be exiled Malicioê° iudge I pray you see how busy about hym she is She washeth his feet with teares of hir eyes Heigh mary yonder is like to be nothyng amisse Behold she anoynteth him to driue away flies Trow you y e maister Symon thinketh not somwhat Yes I hold you a groate though he say nothing Malicioê° iudge He is not content I warant you that Which thyng you may see by his lookyng Symon Syrs take away here we will no more now This fyrst Are you in such things to be tought What meane you wherabout do you looke I maruell wherabout you do occupy your thought Iesus Christ. Simon the truth is so I haue a thing in my mynd Which vnto you I must nedes expresse and say Simon Maister say what you will wordes are but wynde I will heare you truely as paciently as I may Christ There were two detters whom I dyd well know Whiche were in debt to a lender that was thriftie The one fiue hundred pence truely did owe And the other ought not aboue fiftie Neither of these debters had wherwith to pay Wherfore the lender forgaue both as it dyd behoue Nowe according to your iudgement I pray you say Which of these detters ought the lender most loue â–ª Symon Mary he to whom most was forgiuen I suppose In few wordes truly you haue heard my sentence Christ. You haue rightly iudged and to the purpose Absoluyng my question like a man of science See you this woman I know that in your hertes You condemne her as a synner very vnmete To enter among you and to touche any partes Of my body yea either head or feete Saying among your selues if this were a Prophet He would know what maner a woman this is Which thus commeth in while we be at meate A sinner she is and hath done greatly amisse I say vnto you that into this world â–ª I am come To call suche great detters vnto repentance The iust which in their coÌ„ceits owe but a small suÌ„me Haue no nede of their creditours deliuerance Infidelitie What a thief is this he iudgeth our masters thoght If we destroy hym not he will surely marre all Malicioê° iudge I euer sayd that he was worse than nought But among vs puruey for him we shall Symon Sir you take vpon you very presumptuously I haue bydden you vnto my house here of good will And you reason of matters here contemptuously But take your pleasure it shall not greatly skill Christ. I say vnto you that for this cause was I borne To beare witnesse vnto the veritie I see who be hypocrites full of dissemblyng scorne And who be persons of faith and simplicitie Where as you thinke you haue done me pleasure In bidding me to eate and drinke with you here Your intent was to shew your richesse and treasure And that your holynesse might to me appeare But this woman hath shewed to me a little obsequie For these gestures whiche she sheweth to me Procede from a true meanyng heart verily As by her humilite plainly you may see When I came into your house the truth to say You gaue me no water to washe my feete withall This woman hath washed them here this day With the teares of her eies which on them did fall With the haire of hir head she hath wiped the same Thinking all other clothes therto ouer vile Horrible in hir fight is hir synne and blame Thinkyng hir self worthy of eternall exile You gaue me no kisse as the maner of the countrey is But this woman since the tyme
Lord Iesus of his great mercy Mary entreth with Iustificatiō To speake sentences here in my presence Of the which I haue no perfect intelligence The fyrst is Many sinnes are forgiuen hir sayd he Because she hath loued much meanyng me I pray you most holy Iustification Of this sentence to make a declaration Iustificaion A question right necessary to be moued For therby many errors shall be reproued It were a great errour for any man to beleue That your loue dyd deserue that Christ shold forgeue Your synnes or trespasses or any synne at all For so to beleue is an errour sanaticall And how can your loue desyre forgiuenesse of your yl Seing that the law it is not able to fulfill The law thus commaundeth as touchyng loue Thou shalt loue thy Lord God as it doth behoue With al thy hert with al thy soule w t al thy strēgth And thy neighbor as thy self He saith also at length There was neuer man borne yet that was able To performe these preceptes iust holy and stable Saue onely Iesus Christ that lambe most innocent Which fulfilleth the law for suche as are penitent But loue foloweth forgiuenesse of synnes euermore As a fruict of faith and goth not before In that parable which vnto you he recited Wherin he declared your sinnes to be acquited He called you a detter not able to pay Then your loue paid not your dets perceiue you may The forgiuenesse of your sinnes you must referre Only to Christes grace then you shall not erre Of this thing playn knowledge you may haue In these wordes go in peace thy fayth doth thee saue So by faith in Christ you haue Iustification Frely of his grace and beyond mans operation The which Iustification here I do represent Which remayn with all suche as be penitent Here commeth loue a speciall fruicte of Faith As touchyng this heare mekely what he saith Mary O how much am I vnto Iesus Christ bound In whom so great mercy goodnesse I haue found Not onely my synfull lyfe he hath renued But also with many graces he hathe me endued Loue entreth I am named loue from true faith procedyng Where I am there is no vertue nedyng Loue commyng of a conscience immaculate And of a faith not fained nor simulate Is the end of the law as Scripture doth say And vnto eternall felicitie the very path way This loue grounded in Faith as it is sayd Hath caused many euyls in men to be layd For where as the loue of God in any is perfite There in all good workes is his whole delite This true loue with Mary was present verily When to Christ she shewed that obsequie But this loue dyd procede from beleue When Christ of his mercy dyd hir sinnes forgeue Loue deserued not forgeuenesse of sinnes in dede But as a fruite therof truely it did succede Iustification Of this matter we might tary very long But then we should do our audience wrong Which gently hath heard vs here a long space Wherfore we will make an end nowe by Gods grace Praying God that all we example may take Of Mary our synfull lyues to forsake And no more to looke backe but to go forward still Folowyng Christ as she did and his holy will Loue. Such persons we introduce into presence To declare the conuersion of hir offence Fyrst the lawe made a playne declaration That she was a chylde of eternall damnation By hearyng of the law came knowledge of synne Then for to lament truely she dyd begynne Nothyng but desperation dyd in hir remayne Lokyng for none other comfort but for hell payne But Christ whose nature is mercy to haue Came into this world synners to saue Which preached repentance synnes to forgeue To as many as in hym faithfully dyd beleue By the word came faith Faith brought penitence But bothe the gyft of Gods magnificence Thus by Faith onely Marie was iustified Like as before it is playnly verified From thens came loue as a testification Of Gods mercy and her iustification Mary Now God graunt that we may go the same way That with ioy we may ryse at the last day To the saluation of soule and body euermore Through Christ our Lord to whom be all honor FINIS