for he was sensible that they had delivered him up out of meer envy.

and if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is empty talk, and your faith even meer amusement.

and if Christ was not raised, your faith is meer illusion, your sins are not yet forgiven.

for he has discover'd to us the secret of his will, that out of his meer good pleasure, he had purposed in himself,

and his whole exterior showing nothing more than a meer man, he abased himself, and carried his submission so far as to die, even the death of the cross.

beware lest any one seduce you by the vain illusions of philosophy, founded upon human traditions, and meer shadows, and not upon Christ:

he saved us not in consideration of any virtuous actions which we had done, but out of his meer mercy, by the baptism of regeneration, he form'd us anew, by the plentiful effusion of the holy spirit,

only in matters relating to meats and drinks, and divers baptisms, meer external rites which were to subsist only till the time of reformation.

If a person of an ungovernable tongue pretends to religion, he abuses himself: for his religion is meer illusion.

as the body then without the soul is a meer carcase, so faith without its effects is lifeless.