❧ A ❧ ☞ Sarmon, ☜ of John Oecolampadius, to young men, and maidens. ❧   

To his hearty friend Master segraue john Fox the translator, whyshyth grace and light of the holy spirit.  
sithen the time I first perceived in you, your desire to the word of God and his holy institution, I have not ceased to be sollycytus' in mind and prayers for you, desiring the father and sender of our Captain Chryst to increase that thing in you which he hath begun. And that inwardly you might be replenished with plenteous spirit and knowledge of the great glory and riches, which is given us in Christ to th'intent you might be altered in the sense of your mind to a new man, And professly forsak the vain fruition of this earthly world, and to embrace the glorious vocation which we called to in christ. The which I think is hard for you and us all to do. The sense of our flesh is so strong. The tempting spyrytt is so ready. Nevertheless insomuch yet it is our parts with mutual conferring one to exhort an other. And also for the brotherly affection I bear to you ward, I cannot nor aught not I suppose, but some thing I say as concerning your spiritual eadyfycation. And because you shall not take my exhortations which be but of feeble weight, for you to styk unto, here I have translated and sent to you a fruitful adhortation of a famous christian I, Oecolampadius, desiring you to accept well in worth this labour bestowed, and also to give diligent reading to his preceptis whose institutions if you will attently mark and peruse, I doubt nothing, but you shall receive no small fruit thereatt, being sufficiently instructed in all things you shall desire. The living grace of christ be with you. So be it.   

This thing which I shall speak here to young mean which must be feed first with milk and such tender meat, I would likewise you that be elders and more ancient in Christ's doctrine, to practise the same diligently, every man in his own house at home, for little it shall avail thus openly to preach unto you, unlsse ye use the same in your households, the which private and domestical instructyone I think so profitable and necessary in Christ's church, that without it our open sermons though they be never so good and learned shall little sink or remane in young men's hearts, by reason their minds and senses be so wandering and set upon tryffles ratheyr than to mark any good thing, such things as be wholesome and for their soul's health few of theme reygarde unless they be brought up from their youth in the fear of god. To you now there fore young men, I speak that be christened. Your parents whether they be alive or dead, brought you of a good and a chrystene mind to be chrystenede, that ye might be dead from this world and sin. Remember wherefore god did call you to that life not that you should live here and heap up riches in this world, but that you should inherit the kingdom of heaven. The which kingdom shallbe given only to them that fear god, & work rightuesnes, if we live wickedly and continue in sins, so as the fashion of young men and maids is to do, perpetual damnatione and fire everlasting shall folwe, for god is a just judge. Agaynne if we will walk in the commandments of the Lord we shall find joy and life everlasting, in heaven with the Angels and all godly saints. But if you will not cease from your sins & wickedness but still remain and wallow in your noughttynes, look for nothing else but everlasting fire with the devil. You young persons you be bound to be obedient to your Parents in all things save only such as perteynes to god and your soul ward, in all other matters if you live not obedient to them, ye have no excuse before god the first and principal honour must be to god, the next after to our parents what profit is it, if thy parents do tender the never so much, make the there heir of all they have, and pamper the up with all manner of delicates. And thou to lose the favour of God, with out the which, there is no health no quietness, even as though a man for one little peace of land full of wides and briars, should for sake all the whole riches and treasure of the world. And at length the lord shall also find these out when he shall judge the world. All yought for the most part follow the comen sort of people having no dyfferenc betwixt good and bad, and other not knowing things spiritual, or else not regarding them, first look ye be obedient to the word of God, and hearken to it daily and diligently. And if your parents do grug therewith or be offended, do you rather fear and regard your heavenly father which hath both power of body & soul, than your fleshli parents which have no power over you but onli inwardli things which is rather than to be esteymed, God which is almighty & which hath promised heaven, or your parents here which give you but earthly things and such as be transsitory & casual to every blast of fortune, Truly god I know undoubted some parents which do all they can that there children, should not hear the word of God, O fowls and perverse people, unworthy to be named christian men. Man must needs here in this world have some god to serve, otheyr the god of heaven or else the devil the great adversary of mankind, it must needs follow, for so saith christ that no man can serve two lords at once. They which will not serve god, do serve the devil, & be all the ministers of the devil which do not lead a christians life, And for this cause chrystenmens' children when they be christened be told to abrenounce all the works of the devil, and so they promise here after if the live, to lead a christien life to follow what so ever Christ commandeth to eschew what so ever god forbiddeth. And this vove pleaseth god right well. Perjured and for sworune you be if ye break your vove, say not now. I made no promise at my baptism. Thy parents & thy god fathers promised in thy be half, whom also here I charge and warn, that this vove be performed and discharged. It hath been taken for an high matter of godliness if a young man had vowed himself into some monesteri there to remain in service of God & perpetual poverty. but unlese they had been enticed in with promises and fayere flattery words, they would never have concented to that wicked madness, to bind themselves in abbeys, where as was nothing lose than the service of god exercised. Now for the most part of youth they neither know what god, what the devil, what good, or what evil means. Nether is god nor the devil ani such thing as the painters make them. If you know how merciful god is how good, how meek. how gentle, how suffering, how patient and just he is? than you know god, for by thes properties we learn what god is. contrariwise, the devil is nothing else but unmercifulness, hattred, envy, murder, lying, mocking of our neighbour, and all thing that is nought, furthermore they be the children of god which follow god in virtue in innocency, mercy, petty, and unfeigned charity. Again they be the children of the devil, which be lying, cruel, unmerciful, disobedient to their parents, perjured. They which be obedient to god, do all such as please god. They that serve the devil, do that please him. Wilt thou now serve god, then set thine eyes of thy mind and mark christ, be just, gentle, meek true, faithful. Thou hast abrenounced all the works of the devil in thy baptism, now what be the works of the devil, I shall briefly declare. To bakbyte and speak ill of men, to moke, to despise, to scoff at widews and aged men, to give no reverence to thy parents, and chiefly to neglect the word of god, and to blaspheme his name, worldly men love to go pompusly arrayed, with their hosse jagged the play & make merry as although they should evermore live, & never perish, they riot and revel they use most impudent dansces, they go up and down from one street to an other all the night long with their crying & routting they take away from aged men and infirm people their natural rest and quietness. They little regard there parents commandments, what so ever they speak unto them, they make ●yght an a moke at it, yea & that is worse the greater fort of them can not say the lords prayer right, and if they can say the words, the strynght and spirit thereof they have not. They babble up their prayers as the nouns were wont to do their psalter. But such young men as serve and add yet themselves to christ be not polluted with such manner of wickedness. Then such lewd and wicked persons which lead there time so abominably, let them nothing hinder you in your virtuous doings, weather they be preestis or lay men or what so ever they be, for the pomp and pride of this world, yet never pleased God. nor never shall. And yet it is plain such things do greatly delight and stir up young men such as have not yet learned to follow reason nor concyder the end and death of man. It is nothing else all this but vanity, to pastime, to sport, to drink, to fight, to set idle, to solace. O Lord how petifully is our youth brought up, even from there child age. wherefore when they come to be men afterward their fruits appear thereafter. In like as our first parents in paradise a place of all pleasure, were forbid from thaple, that above all thing they should be ware and be circumspectid therein. But after that through the devils instigation they had committed in taking of thaple, they fell into all manner of miseries, where with we be all now oppressed to this day. Even so likewise, it is now amongst youth which supposeth the Glory of this world to be nothing else but all pleasure and delight and all together honei, when in deed it is bitter poison, and verili everlasting damnation. I do not here speak against honest mirth and such manner of exercise of the body as be comely. But because I perceive the devil thus to go about with such delights and baits to snare young men and maids, and so to seduce them from all goodness if they will consent unto him that at length he maketh them clean desperate, both with out all fear of god and all shamfastenes. which is the only ornament of all young age in so much that neither they regard god, neither truth, nor justice, goodness nor honesty nor no other virtue whereof also proceideth there greater destruction that they will not hearken to the word of god, nor be not brought unto it by their parents. O you parents little do you know what a charge lieth upon your backs. And you children, when will you remember and consider what it is, you promised to god in your baptism? It is not to be neglected, I tell you, that you vove & promise unto god? he requireth our faith, & such unfaithful false covenant brekeres he will punish and that most sharply. The lord setyth before us tow ways, the one, to life, the other to dystrucsyon. Mark now well ye children of the lord. The one is sharp thorny & full of briars, which few men do walk, but after that it be entered ones, it is very plain and pleasant & bringeth to everlaisting life. The other seemeth first delectable, as though it should conduct us to all manner of goodness, but at leyngeh and last end, it casteth us head loung down to hell, where the devil and all his angels be kept fast abiding the day and judgement of god. Therefore saith Christ. Matthew seven. Enter in be the straeyt wicket, for broad is the way that leadeth to perdition, and large is the door and many enter in there at. And again strayet is the door and the way narrow which leadeth into heaven, and few there be that find it. The life of all true christians followeth this strayet way, in the which way they be daily exercised and turmoiled in perturbatyones of this world, And they never cease nor rest, to they have fineshed there course and come where they would be. Say some. Then shall I not keep company with my fellows and acquaintance, shall I not make merry with my gosseptes and solace with them once or twice a wick?  
I am no monk nor friar. what man is able to keep so strait a rule, you must consider we be men, what would you we should do? here my consel, good son, what thou shalt do, for I know what the world is wont to abject and say, here, I say, and obey the word of god. And undoubted thou shall soon perceive this straight way now to thy seaving, shortly to be easy and pleasant. And I do not doubt but at length thou shall give me great thanks for my counsel, which have kept the frmoe such destruction and jeopardy. I would wish to all you young men and children, the eyes of your mind open that ye might see the end that such men come to, One is slain being drunk and mad, an other hath his arm or leg stroke of, an other goeth a robbing & fight wrongfully for other men's money and so strooken done and slain like a best, An other is hangged for a small trifle. And who can recite up all the kinds of death and disttruction, that such disobedient persons as these come unto? what need we any example to be brought when daily experience declareth what end & mischief these wretches come to. And the same I speak also to young women and maids. They be wanton and incontinent they have and draw to such fellows after their owone sort more lecherous than any goat, they scoff & moke every young mane that cometh by them, they delight. most in baudi songs. Some labore and bringeth forth privily, and so they turn other to be common stews or eyes be driven to extreme poverty, and so live in contempt and miseri all their life long. What honest young man would be coupled or content to be joined in marriage with such a beast? Then what cost of apparel have they the most base & beggerli women which have right nought yet how sumptuously they must go arrayed, Amongst the very gentiles a man shall not find more excess and pride in vesture, wherefore learn be time you christian younglings to fear the lord god. And with hole heart & mind hearken to the word of him every morning the first thing ye do, and every sunday. And let it nothing perturb you, though ye be gruged or contemned therefore for the service of god, for this it is that pleaseth god most heighli, it is no matter whether we live or die to the lord, that is enough for us, what should pass for more? And think this rather and study how you may follow him. And care not for this vain sort of men this rascal rabble of ruffeynns which can nothing else but eat and play & 〈◊〉 the streyts to be seen of other. And the same I speak to young maids likewise, if god send us long life here, and we spend it in wantonness, in the world to cum we shall be cast into perpetual fire. Hyere my in his lamentationes iii saith, it is good for a man if he bear his yoke in his youth. And good it is for a man if he teach his soul in his youth to bear the yoke of god's commandments, if we will be content to serve god, then shall the see & tempest of our temptations soon suage, for the lord will never forsake us. They which be elder men, and have received light of god in his gospel, know what I say, & greatly complain their misery and ingnorance in which they have been brought up and led. Oh (say they) if we had hard such knowledge in the scripture which now we here, thanks be to god, we would never have runned in the anger of god as we have. Young age may be well compared to tender grafts or buds apt to be bended which way you will, if ye take them in time and while they be tender, but if they be once groven and passed in bigness, it is but lost labour what so ever ye do, break them you shall sooner than bend them, after they be come to there nature. The same thing we see likewise in brute beasts. Take me a lion and bring him up amongst men, he will be tame. And like it is with children, ill education and bringing up maketh much in marring a man. filth words and bawdy talk is a greate token of a corrupt heart. You must take better heed than ye have done yet, what company your children keep, what communication they use, & this shall make you christian people. children be as much consecrated to god, as though they were a anointed priests, or shaven into any order of religion. Consider groundly with thyself and tremble, if thou be in the anger of god, canst thou sleep quietly or take any rest? It will vex an honest man if his neighbour bear him displeasure. And a gentle child if he see his father sore angered with him, he can not tell what to do to a void his displeasure with flattering, with weeping he assayeth all ways he can to be reconciled a gain unto his father. Then how much more ought we to prove all means we may, to be reconciled to our heavenly father, whom we have offended so oft every howe'er, which hath both given us our body and soul. They be but trifles that our fathers bestow upon us in comparison to them that we receive of god. The lord our father once plagued the world with the flood of waters, only reserving eight persons, whom he preseruede from the waters through his mere grace only. Sodom and Gomore with many cities more he destroyed with fire, besides what an infinite numbered of men have been slain in battle? who will not fear this lord? he is slow to anger, he grant tithe us time to repent years sufficient. He sendeth his prophets before to admonish us of his anger to come. Then if we take no hied by his admonishments, his vengeance will strike when we least think of it. We know no end of our life, death creepeth every day while we be most in our ruff, and daily in our pastimes. No man hath a commission of his life how long to live. Then why obey we not the precepts of god, and cease from our sins which slay the soul. Many deceive themselves when they sin secretly, supposing that god doth not behold them, if thou shuldyste walk in a desert or in the most darkest wode where no man could come to the nor see thee, yet god would see thy works. Take hide of his vengeance which is so sharp, for we be ready to offences dyveres, where with we greatly provoke the anger of god. Work ye the deeds that please god for these two go always together, to cease from sin and to work charity. If we cease not from sin, we can not work no goodness that pleaseth god. Let us demand our children thus, what faith profesest thou, dost thou profese that faith which the apostolic church hath left? Tell me the articles of thy faith. I believe in god the father almighty maker of heaven and earth. etc. Let young men be learned this creed perfectly, and let them say it not with mouth. But have it in there hearts, that they may set all there trust a 'pon God their maker, that both he will and also is able to defend them. This it meaneth, almighty God is the maker of all things of heaven of earth of things visible and things in visible. All things that be, have there being of god, for with out him nothing is made.  
Corn, wine, oil, wool, and all things else, yea the Angels of heaven. All come of god, here we must consider that all these things were created for us.  
Oh what a merciful father is this, which hath ordained such things for us so unworthy wretches?  
what will not he grant us hereafter, what will he deny now to his children? unto elder men and such as be more grown in their faith the mystery of the trinity must be declared, so much as man's weakness may comprehend. There is one god which made all things, both that are in heaven & that are in earth. If thou dost trust in god, thou mayst be sure the devil can not hurt thee, much lose no mortal creature. To believe in god, is to have a constant trust in god, and to drive all thine hope in him, all other things and creatures set a part, and that shall cause us to love god truly, other else it is but a feigned & hypocritical love. It followeth in the Crede. And in jesus christ his only son. All mankind was damned utterly for their great and many fold offences, but christ hath borne upon his Back all our sins satisfying his father for us, and delivering us from everlasting death, that now we should live to our master christ, who soever doth inwardly believe this, will conform his life honestly according to the commandments of god, eschewing all manner of vice, so much as in him lieth.  
There is nothing more abhorred amongst true christen men than sign. almighty god first made Adam & Eve our first genytoures, and put them in paradise, giving them an eisy commandment, which they transgressed, deceived through the sottyltie of the devil, whereof we all take our offspring. Ye know what they did, and what happened to them the same infection now is gendered in us. What man doth not see this and prove it daily in himself, but chiefly in children as we may see, this more appeareth by little & little. For they begin to lie, to steel, to be light, to stand chekmeat with their parents nothing regarding god, what so ever is spoken, if we see any such vices spring up in them, we must reform them in time with roads & stripes, lest the evil in vale & get the head, so that the hole man shall be poisoned with the venom thereof. And so they procure to themselves everlasting damnation, unlese they redrese themselves by time & withstand such infections while they be fresh & gryne. There is no young man such a babe how young so ever he be, but he can understand what is good and what is evil. For this is the law of nature written in all men's hearts, do to other as thou would be down to thyself, let us intermit nothing in them which become to a more perfect reason & understanding, that they give not themselves to the devil. Here I admonish all children that if you see your parents slack in hearing the word of god, follow not their steps nor be not lyk them. All persons shall render a count to the lord, & every man shall answer for himself. Desire to go and hear sermons often, And the lord shall give you plentiful grace to know him, and shall open you a way to all virtues. The lord shall preserve you from all them that contemn his holy word. Wherefore did christ die? to deliver us from everlasting death. The exceeding great charity of god, did not spare his only begotten son, but for us all did bestow him unto the most cruel death, that who so ever doth believe in him shall not perish, but have everlasting life.  
Therefore let us love him again, and accordingly honour him for such benefits, as he most ryghtuosly doth deserve.  
What greater love can their be my dear beloved childrn? If thou shouldest fall in a deep pete of water, & a stranger coming by draweth the out, Or If thou shouldest lie sore sick at the point of death, that no mane should see any recovery in thee, there cometh a physician and restoreth the to health, thou couldest not show no like kindness again correspondent to such pleasures done to the. Much greater pleasures have we received of christ, which hath plucked us out of the mouth of the devil, delivering us from hell, and promised everlasting life and joy with the Angels. O dear child, say thus in thy mind, I will never sign more, saying that sign is such a fowl and abominable thing. Yea and if I were constrained to sin with a thousand deaths, yet will not I consent thereto. Christ was the son of god, before heaven and earth was mad, which at the time appointed of the father was made man with out any infection of sin, and lived with us in earth, And at last suffered for the sins of all the world. Learn my children patience: Chryst did bear his cross a 'pon his own back, was knocked and scoffed, was scourged, and was crowned with thorns. Mortify your membres in time, lest the evil grow inward and at length break forth to your great peril and danger, it followeth in the crede. The third day he rose a gain from death, ascended up. et. c. bear this (you children & elders also) I do not mumble up these words with out intelligence. They be golden words and worthy to be written in all men's hearts with the finger of god. Chryst is risen again from death, and so shall we: dost thou doubt that thy body shall rise again? Chryst saith it which can not lie, he syttyth on the right hand of the father, from thence he shall come to revenge the wicked, and to reward the godly with heaven. All things are given him in his hand of the father. And though we yet here remain in earth weak & brickle vessels, yet do we tari & look fore joys to come, promised us by christ. And to whom did he promise this? To such as once knowing the truth, be content to lead a virtuous & an honest life, as do suffer in this present world much adversity, for who so ever intent to live godly in christ jesus must needs suffer persecution. In so much the lord hath so premonished us, let us be content what so ever hap, what so ever adversity we suffer for the glorifying of his name. And if thou were in service with some mighty lord or prince, it could not be chosen, but thou shouldest a bide many pereiss, take much pains, sustain great cold, for the optaining and increasing of thy living. Than rather sustain you the service of thy lord god, and doubt not of thy reward, for he himself hath promised to reward that in his endless kingdom. I believe in the holy ghost. etc. which did teach and now doth teach all the faithful the truth that Christ preached unto us. The operation of him is to make us despise the world with all his concupisbence. younglings, here I admonish you, when so ever any ill thoughts tari long in your minds, be you certain it is the devil that hath stirred up the fire. Cast him out through prayer and almose deed. The good sprite doth engender in us the remembrans of eternal things and that be good, And let not the thing that is good, dwell in a corrupt place. If we be slack & negligent now when we be called of our merciful father to his heavenly feast, he doth but well and worthily, if he call back a gain his grace so gentilly of his mere tenderness offered unto us. Truly we be well worthy of many scourgings and betings, if we return again to our old vices, after we have received and known the grace. Your going is much unseeable, your jagged & cut apparel so dashing a bout you, do declare a mad and a foolish mind, you be proud and puffed up, you give no reverence to your elders. The holy ghost did not teach you this, why do you neglect his inspiration? fight against sathan with all his pomp and that with continual prayers. resist the vices which grow in you. Good children, learn to pray gladly our lords prayer, so shall you prove to good men, and shall be both worship to the commenwealth and an ornament to chrstyes religion. Flee from such company whose mind is all set to do mischief, These be wicked persons, which go about all they can toppres the verity, by their manners, their counsels, and life: how be it, they be not able to evert, although they somewhat obscure it, but onli in there own hearts, which delight in lies. God is merciful and very gentle, therefore call upon him in Christ's name. And despise not the grace of god, after the fashion of sum young men to foolish and light, which ill proved for themselves both hear & in the world to come. But these flowers and life of theirs will soon vade, & than shall they perceive & forthink in their minds, what they have down. I believe that catholic church et. c. There is but one faith of all that ever have been, both prophets and apostles, And this universal church is not contained in one place here, but in all places of the world Christ's church is dysꝑsed. be you not deceived so to think Christ's church only to be, which is governed under the wicked pope. The lord hath his people in every place. The true church is that which hath the word of god, the old and new testament, which hath here sacraments, baptism, and the lords bread. If any thing be taught the a against the right doctrine of the gospel by any man how holy so ever he be, be it to the accursed. If the papists do teach the true honour, worship, and dignity of christ. follow and embrace that doctrine. But else if they teach any other thing, that is their own dreams and traditions, a void it quickly, lest you be defiled with the leaven thereof. And be not quick in believing them that say. Our forefatheres, the bishops with all the general counsels, gathered together in the holy ghost, have appointed this (though it be directly against the word of god) therefore you must believe it under pain of eternal damnation Let them avaunt with their baggage and fantasies, wherewith they have infectted and deluded all the world so long. Let the youth learn the word of god exactly, so shall they easily judge of the faith and word of god, and shall not lightly serve from gods right doctrine. The sheep of Chryst hear and perceive his voice and follow him whither so ever he goeth.  
The forgiveness of sins. etc. Some herytyckes there have been which have denied forgiveness of sins, and have invented I can not tell what pestilent doctrine out of their own heads. Also let these a glorified with there errors. Christ calleth sinners to him daily, A men dement of life is preached to all men for them to obtain forgiveness of their sins. Trouble not yourselves a bout auricular confession. To the lord confess your sins every day and hour, the which he only forgiveth himself.  
you fathers have respect and regard of your servants & maids, that they run not all the year long in their filthiness with out fear of god. And so doing you shall be lightly allowed of god. let them learn sermons early out of the word of god, where by they shall learn to know god, which is the beginning of an honest life: forgive you all envy and all harered. And your father in heaven shall forgive your offences. We have remission of sins, where? In the cross, when as christ suffered for all our sins, that is, the sins of all the world. Think ye not there sins to be pardoned, which live in all wickedness and filthiness. God forbidden that we should say such mean believe in christ that have their hearts full of filthenes and replenished with all mischief. And let no man think it much, though he suffer here sum kind of cross in this world for the justice & glory of god, we have a promise, of raising of our flesh, whereof the faithful man nothing doubteth, but is sure, (in nothing more) that there is an other life after this much better and iyofull. This is our faith which is taught us from our youth and which all christian men do profess. Nether do we teach any other what so ever papists babble of us. if this faith be lively in us, it will bring forth fruits accordingly, What doth baptism make, it cleanseth us in this manner from sins. And like as the water purgeth the body, so doth the word of god purge the soul. Let us abhor & renounce our filthy and sinful life, if we be christian men in deed as we profess. Howbeit yet the appetite, & proneness to sin, remaineth in us still, the which if we trust in the lord, is pardoned and taken a way through grace. Our prayer with all desire, that the glory of our Lord may go forward, and that his kingdom daily may be enlarged unto all the ends of the earth, will they nill they these wicked papists. Let our supplication and prayer be to god after his will & pleasure, which standeth ever, & profitable to us ward: Say, O most holy father help our infirmities, forgive our manifold offences. give us right faith, that we may be applyaunt to all good works which your will requireth. Deliver us from evil, that is, from the devil that he have no power nor empery upon us. Exercise yourselves much in the lords prayer, Put a way the books of your wicked prayers whereof, all the world is full. And be not like the hypocrites which have a great pleasure to brag their prayers before other men, which also stand in every corner of the streets that they may be seen of all men, but these have their reward already, let them look for none of god. Mat. vi, It is time I think now to draw to a conclusion, seeing the hour is full up. I beseech and desire you fathers by our Lord jesus christ, that you give good chrstianes example in your houses to your children and servants. Prove you exammynie well your hearts coming to receive the sacraments. If you find this in yourselves that ye can be content to lead a christian life here after, ye may boldly come, if not, a way lest ye be gyllty of the body & blood of the lord. Or if you do purpose as you be wont to do after the feast of easter to run from town to town, like mad men, to fall again to your old conditions, banqueting with your hores, and with your harlots, I do you to wit, you receive it to your damnation. Thou that art a father instantly call upon thy son or thy servant that he come not hither to dishonest the board of the lord, or to receive to him his own judgement, as paul speaketh. It is not one days business, all our life time we ought to emplois this matter. We will not, after the papists manner, our gests come to this christian feast Let the papistis go with their erores. It is no light thing to receive the body and blood of our lord, here lieth the weight of all the matter, that we should hereafter lead a new life, forsaking our old sinful nature. Let all things spring of a faith unfeigned, so all shallbe well both here and in the world to come, we shall both please men and all the Angels above, for they do greattli embrace such as these adhore god sincereli, if we would follow this rule of charity, that we would love our neighbour, as ourselves & pray for all our enemies, than would god have great delight in us.  
Nether let us think the christian life consists in words only, but in works and deeds, other else do we nothing but slander the name of christ among infidels. The lord lighten all our minds with his grace, that we may do all things to his glory. And to the edifying of his Catholic church. So be it  
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