432 Wolf. 



Bnt ' a gode Christen man sliuld nothynge be g-reved to obey 

 vnto soche ordinacions, and lawes, as their heddes and ruelars 

 institute, and make for the commen well. Ye rath- [fol. 10''.] 

 ther ho shulde soffre bo[t]he bodi and g-oodes to perysshe, then 

 R... xiij. onee to withstonde theym, remembrynge in hym sylfe 

 Tit. iij. that he whyche is rebelleous vnto the temporall power, 

 resistith agaynst the ordinacion of Grod. So. Howe yf a man 

 make a vowe, never to eate of this or of that meate, or never 

 to mary, is he bounde evermore to kepe it? Fa. A Christen 

 mannes worde shulde be ye ye, naye naye. and loke what he 

 promeseth, yf it be to his neg'hborus^ fordeil. -^ that ought he 

 to kepe and fulfill. But yf it be agaynst the commaundmentes 

 of God, in vowynge it, he synneth, and when he goeth aboute 

 to fulfill it, then synneth he doble. So. What sayest thou? 

 Fa. What soever he be that byndeth hym sylfe to eny exteriall 

 bondage, wherby his soule is captive, he evidently doeth 

 agaynst Paulis learnynge. For he sayeth in the first chaprer^ 

 vnto the galathians. Stond fast in the liberte wherwith Christ 

 hath made vs fre, and wrappe not youre selves agayne in the 

 yoke of bondage. In soche case a Christen man hath nether 

 power, over body nor soule, but is altogether by baptem 

 Ro. vj. offered vp into God, that he myght become lyke vnto the 

 viij. Image of his sonne. And a man lyveth not for hym sylfe, 

 bout^ to the lorde, as [fol. 11".] scripture sayeth, wheare as it 

 declareth that we only are made free. And though all thinges 

 are vnder vs, and we their lordes. yet charite constrayneth vs 

 to be servauntes vnto all men. So that it is nott lawfull in no 

 wyse, for a Christen man to withdrawe hym sylfe from the 

 due Service that he oweth to his neghboure, and to submytt 

 hym sylfe to I wote neare '^ what maner of supersticious in- 

 vencions of the enemy. Wer he nott worsse then madde, 

 whyche wolde beleve that he ought to robbe and steale, that 

 he myght have wherwith to do almes dedes? No more is it 

 laufuU for a man to withdrawe hym sylfe from the workes of 



' hut. - neigbhonrs ^ = advantage. Siehe Halliwell, ,T. O. A 



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 F. H. A Dict. of the old Engl, language compiled from writings of the XIII., 

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