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Parable of the Wicked Mammon (1528), fo. xxxiii, r., xxxv, v., text modernized; in Works, vol. 1, page 88. Later he cites John 3:6: “That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit: as who should say, He that hath the Spirit through faith, and is born again and made anew in Christ, understands the things of the Spirit, and what he that is spiritual means. But he that is flesh, and as Paul says, a natural man (1Co 2), and led of his blind reason only, can never ascend to the capacity of the Spirit” (fo. li, r.; in Works, vol. 1, p. 111.)