Part 38 (2/2)

Patience, meekness, kindness, peacefulness, s sweet and kindly, without hatred, anger or bitterness toward any s about patience, meekness, peace and concord

_Of the Sixth_

Chastity, purity and hts;that furthers chastity

Here belong all the teachings about chastity, fasting, sobriety,by which chastity is preserved

_Of the Seventh_

[Sidenote: The Seventh Coness to lend and give of one's possessions, and a life free fros about avarice, unrighteous wealth, usury, guile, deceit, injury and hindrance of one's neighbor in teht Coue, that injures no one and profits every one, that reconciles those that are at enizes for those that are slandered and takes their part; in short, truthfulness and sis about talking and keeping silent in hts, his cause and his salvation

_Of the Last Two_

[Sidenote: The Ninth and Tenth Co of temporal desire and possessions, which are perfectly attained only in the life to co else than the love of others--that is, of God and of one's neighbor--which seeketh not its own, but what is God's and its neighbor's [1 Cor 13:5], and surrendereth itself freely to every one to be his, to serve him and to do his will

Thus you see that the Ten Commandments contain, in a very brief and orderlythat is needful for ood works or every hour of his life, and has no need to choose him other works, to run hither and thither, and do what is not commanded[12]

All this is evident fro about what a man shall do or not do or himself, or what he shall ask of others, but only what he shall do and not do for others--God and man From this we are to learn that their fulfilment consists in love toward others, not toward ourselves; for in his own behalf man already seeks and does and leaves undone too ht this, but to be kept from it Therefore he lives best who lives in no wise for himself, and he who lives for himself, lives worst; for so the Ten Coood lives; nay, asthis, we ood lives and to keep the Commandments[13]

THE CREED

[Sidenote: Division of the Creed]

The Creed is divided into three parts[14], according to the Creed three Persons of the holy and divine Trinity who are therein s to the Father, the second to the Son, the third to the Holy Ghost; for the Trinity is the chief thing in the Creed, on which everything else depends

[Sidenote: Two Ways of Believing]

We should note that there are tays of believing One way is to believe about God, as I do when I believe that what is said of God is true; just as I do when I believe what is said about the Turk, the devil or hell This faith is knowledge or observation rather than faith The other way is to believe in God, as I do when I not only believe that what is said about Him is true, but put my trust in Him, surrenderwithout doubt that He will be to me and do to me just what is said of Him I could not thus believe in the Turk or in anyFor I can readily believe that a ood, but I do not venture on that account to build my faith on him

[Sidenote: True Faith]

This faith, which in He or death dares to believe that God is what He is said to be, is the only faith that makes a man a Christian and obtains from God whatever it will This faith no false and evil heart can have, for it is a living faith; and this faith is commanded in the First Commandment, which says, ”I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt have no other Gods” Wherefore the word _in_ is rightly used; and it is diligently to be noted that we may not say, ”I believe God the Father,” or ”about the Father,” but ”_in_ God the Father, _in_ Jesus Christ, _in_ the Holy Ghost” This faith we should render to no one but to God Therefore we confess the divinity of Jesus Christ and of the Holy Ghost, e believe in them even as we believe in the Father; and just as our faith in all three Persons is one and the same faith, so the three Persons are one and the same God

The First Part of the Creed

[Sidenote: The First Article]