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Wherfore deare chylde, this power belongeth to uo manne, 

 savynge only to oure temporal lordes and rulers. Never tlie 

 lesse take thou goode hede, that these faulce goddes have no 

 place in thyne herte, whiche is the [fol. 15*.] temple j. co. üj. 

 and dwellynge place of god allmyghty, therin to be j. Co. vj. 

 honoured and worshipped. But in outwarde meknes ij. co. vj. 

 and myldnes of herte and Avorke laboure one to go ko. xij. 

 before another in all dedes of charite and due seruyce (with 

 honoure and obedience ther vnto required) toward ko. xüj, 

 youre heddes and lordes temporall, fathers, uiothers, j. tim. vj. 

 and all youre eiders. Before Stockes and stakes, stones Mat. xv. 

 and pillars se that ye once putt no honde to youre cappe, nor 

 yet bowe ye youre kne, butt morne in youre hert, for mar. vij. 

 the blyndnes of theym which thus abuse the honoure j. Pet. ij. 

 due vnto god. and with fervent prayer for theym , conimitt 

 all power and vengeaunce vnto god and to the ministers Ecd.» xxvj. 

 of liis power, whose duety is every where to promoute ro. vüj. 

 his honoure, to defende the confessours of his name, and to 

 eschewe all occasions of evill amonge their even Christen. For 

 wo vnto theym which are called vnto this power, and yett be 

 of so weake a courage, and fehle an herte, that rather they 

 wolde forsake god and denye his wholy commaundement, then 

 once to sofFre a filippe or to heare an evill worde for his sake. 

 Ye alas for the more parte are hayle felowes with his enemies, 

 and flatter theym dayly, and geve, theym soche auda- [fol. 15''.] 

 cite, that every where his glorius name is evill spoken Rom. ij. 

 of, and continually blasphemed. Where as they openly Mat. x. 

 shulde confesse Christ. And at all seasons be redy rather to 

 soffre death, then willyngly to withstond hym in one iote. 

 Oure duty therfore is fervently in all oure oracions (which 

 through the sacrilice of a pure hert we offer vnto the lorde) 

 to desyre for theym soche a sprete, and godly mynde as 

 becommeth theym to have for the accomplisshment of tho '^ 

 thynges which to his godly will and honoure are most plesaunt 

 and agreable. So. Howe thynkest thou, maye I not pray to 

 wholy S. Toncombre, ■' Sir Jhon shorne, ' or to wother soche 



1 EzechieJ, 26. 2 ^/jg, 3 Siehe Auui. am Eude. * Siehe Anm. 



am Ende. 



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