The. x. chapyter

BUt than goth Crist ferther, and she weth them yt they lacke thys meat though it stand before thē.

And she weth thē also by what mene they may gete it. Lothus he sayd vn to them. But I haue tolde you yt both you haue sene me and you haue not byleued / as though he wold say, you haue sene me done myracles, and yet it hath not made you byleue.

He bode thē before yt they sholde wurke to gete the lyuely meate / and he told them after yt the wurke which they shold wurke to gete it with was fayth & bylief. And he wrought […] cles whiche they saw, to make them byleue. And now he she weth thē yt for all this they haue not ye bylief yet, but yet muste wurke & labour to haue it.

Than myghte they haue asked hym, whych way may we come to it? But bycause they asked hym not / he of his hygh goodnesse tolde them the meane vnasked and sayd, All that my father gyueth me shall come to me. As though he wold saye, Though my father haue sent me downe to caae you to me, and though I preche to you and tell you the trouth at your eare, & worke myracles before you that you may se thē at your eyen, ye and fede you by myracles, & putte them euyn in your bely: yet can you neuer come to me by fayth, but yf my father brynge you. Neuer can you be myne by fayth, but yf my father gyue you me. Now yf ye knowe of any good guyde that could brynge you to the place whyther ye wold fayne go, where you sholde fynde the thynge that ye wolde fayne haue: what wold you do / wold you not labour to hym / wolde you not pray and entreat hym to go with you & guyde you thyther? Now haue I told you who cā bryng you to me by fayth, that is to wytte god my father / and therfore labour to hym to guyde you to me, pray hym to geue you to me, wythout whose helpe ye can neuer come to me. It is I tell you no smale thynge to byleue in me. For but yf the grace of my father fyrst preuent you, ye can neuer begynne to thynke thereon. But he hath now preuented you by sendynge me to call vppon you. Now be it yet for all that, but yf he go forth wyth you and helpe to lede you forwarde, you maye faynte & fall and […] stylle by the waye, & come no ferther forth toward me. But now he helpeth you forwarde by myne outwarde myracles whyche hym selfe worketh with me. But yet except he wurke wyth you inwardly / with his inward helpe to draw you, you cā for al this […] come at me. Call well vpō hym ther fore, & pray hym to draw you & bryng you & geue you to me. which if you do & endeuour your selfe for your own parte, as I bode you before to wurke and walke wyth hym toward me, be shall surely brynge you in to faith, and by fayth in to hope and in to cheryte bothe, and so gyue you gracyousely to me. And than shall I geue you the lyuely meat that I spake of, yf ye wyll abyde with me. For hym that commeth to me wyll I not caste out. Let hym loke that he caste not hym selfe out / For surely I wyll not yf hym selfe wyll abyde. For it is my fathers wyll that I sholde not, and I am descended from heuyn, not to do my wyll but to do the wyll of hym that hath sent me. And thys ys veryly the wyll of the father that sent me, that all that he hath gyuen me I sholde lese nothynge therof, but that I sholde reyse vppe that agayne in the laste daye.