Neither have we any other mediator and intercessor, by whom we may have access to God the Father, than Jesus Christ, in whose only Name all things are obtained at His Father’s hand.  But it is a shameful part, and full of infidelity, that we see every whore used in the churches of our adversaries, not only in that they will have innumerable sorts of mediators, and that utterly without the authority of God’s word (so that, as Jeremy saith, “The saints be now as many in number, or rather above the number of the cities;” and poor men cannot tell to which saint it were best to turn them first; and though there be so many as they cannot be told, yet every one of them hath his peculiar duty and office assigned unto him of these folks, what thing they ought to ask, what to give, and what to bring to pass):  but besides this also, in that they do not only wickedly, but also shamefully, call upon the Blessed Virgin, Christ’s mother, to have her remember that she is the mother, and to command her Son, and to use a mother’s authority over Him.

We say also, that every person is born in sin, and leadeth his life in sin:  that nobody is able truly to say his heart is clean:  that the most righteous person is but an unprofitable servant:  that the law of God is perfect, and requireth of us perfect and full obedience:  that we are able by no means to fulfil that law in this worldly life:  that there is no one mortal creature which can be justified by his own deserts in God’s sight:  and therefore that our only succour and refuge is to fly to the mercy of our Father by Jesu Christ, and assuredly to persuade our minds that He is the obtainer of forgiveness for our sins; and that by His blood all our spots of sin be washed clean:  that He hath pacified and set at one, all things by the blood of His Cross:  that He by the same one only Sacrifice, which He once offered upon the Cross, hath brought to effect and fulfilled all things, and that for that cause He said, when He gave up the ghost, “It is finished,” as though He would signify, that the price and ransom was now full paid for the sin of all mankind.  If there be any, then, that think this Sacrifice not sufficient, let them go, in God’s Name, and seek another that is better.  We, verily, because we know this to be the only Sacrifice, are well content with it alone and look for none other:  and, forasmuch as it was to be offered but once, we command it not to be renewed again:  and because it was full and perfect in all points and parts, we do not ordain in place thereof any continual succession of offerings.

Besides, though we say, we have no meed at all by our own works and deeds, but appoint all the means of our salvation to be in Christ alone, yet say we not, that for this cause men ought to live loosely and dissolutely:  nor that it is enough for a Christian to be baptised only and to believe:  as though there were nothing else required at his hand.  For true faith is lively, and can in no wise be idle.