The former treatise I made, O Theophilus, concerning all that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?

My little children, of whom I am again in travail until Christ be formed in you--

that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

For Adam was first formed, then Eve;

But call to remembrance the former days, in which, after ye were enlightened, ye endured a great conflict of sufferings;

as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance: