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156. What is riches. 



Every man 

 may teach. 



1 Pet. iv. 10. 



other places, and times sette and ordeyned for the 

 same. And it belongeth to theym that be ordeyned 

 there-vnto, and haue iurisdiction and auctorytie, and to 

 8 none other. But euery man may lawefully enforme and 

 teache his brother, or any other, at euery tyme and place 

 behouable, if it seme expedient to hym, for that is an 

 almes-dede, to the whiche euery man is holden & 



12 bounde to do, accordyng to the sayenge of saynt 

 Peter, Vnusquisqne, stent accepit gratiam, in alterutrum 

 illam administrare debet. That is to saye, as euery man 

 hath taken or receyued grace, he oughte to mynyster 

 Chrysostom. 1 6 and shewc it forthe to other. For as Chrisostome saythe, 

 great merite is to hym, and a great reward he shall haue 

 in tyme to come, the which writeth or causeth to be 

 writen, holy doctrine, for that entent, that he may se in 



20 it, howe he may lyue holylye, and that other may haue 

 it, that they maye be edyfyed or sanctyfyed by the same ; 

 for he saythe surely, knowe thou, that howe many soules 

 be saued by the, soo many rewardes thou shalte haue for 



24 eyther. For saynt Gregory saythe, Nullum sacrificium. ita 

 placet deo, sicut zelus animarum. : There is no sacrifyce 

 that pleaseth god so moche, as the loue of soules. And 

 also he saythe, Ille apud deum maior est in amore, qui ad 



28 eius amorem plurivios trahit : He is greateste in fauour 

 with god, that draweth moste men to the loue of god. 

 Wherfore me semeth, it is cowuenient to enforme and 

 shewe them, how they maye gette heuenly possessions, 



32 as well as I haue shewed them to get worldly possessions. 

 Than to my purpose, and to the poynt where I lefte, 

 ' nowe thou art ryche.' 



[Fol. 7o3.] 

 Gregory. 



Gregory. 



What is 

 riches. 



156. ^ What is rychesse. 



It is to be vnderstande what is rychesse ; and as me 

 semeth, rychesse is that thynge, that is of goodnes, and 

 can-not be taken awaye from the owner, neyther in his 



