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Rh 24. JESUS committed not himself.) S. Augustine applieth this their first faith and beleefe in Christ, sodenly raised upon the admiration of his wonders, but yet not fully formed or established in them, unto the faith of Novices or Catechumens in the Church and Christ not committing his Person to them as yet, to the Churches like warinesse and wisedom, in not opening nor giving to them our Lord in the B. Sacrament, because al were not to be trusted with that high point without ful trial of their faith.

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ND there was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a prince of the Jewes. This man came to by night, and said to him: Rabbi, we know that thou art come from God a Maister; for no man can doe these signes which thou doest, unles God be with him. answered, and said to him: Amen, Amen I say to thee, unles a man be borne againe, he can not see the Kingdom of God. Nicodemus said to him: How can a man be borne, when he is old? can he enter into his mothers wombe againe and be borne? answered: Amen, Amen I say to thee, unles a man be ″ borne againe of water and the Spirit, he can not enter into the Kingdom of God. That which is borne of the flesh, is flesh; and that which is borne of the Spirit, is spirit. Marvel not, that I said to thee, You must be borne againe. The Spirit breatheth where he wil; and thou hearest his voice, but thou knowest not whence he commeth and whither he goeth; so is every one that is borne of the Spirit. Nicodemus answered, and said to him: How can these things be done? answered, and said to him: Thou art a Maister in Israel, and art thou ignorant of these things? Amen, Amen I say to thee, that we speeke that which we know, and that which we have seen we testifie, and our testimonie you receive not. If I have spoken to you earthly things, and you beleeve not; how if I shal speake to you heavenly things, wil you beleeve? And no man hath ascended into Heaven, but he that descended from Heaven, the Sonne of man which is in Heaven. And as * Moyses exalted the serpent in the desert, so must the Sonne of man be exalted; that every one which beleeveth in him, perish not, but may have life everlasting. For so God loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Sonne; that every one that beleeveth in him, perish not, but may have life everlasting.✠ For God sent not his Sonne into the world, to judge the world, but that the world may be saved by him. He that beleeveth in him, is not judged. But he that doth not beleeve, ″ is already judged; because he hath not beleeved in the name of the only-begotten Sonne of Rh