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fliould fuftain ye ; forafmuch as yc have no 

 reverence either for man, or for the God 

 which created ye. Go, therefore, about your 

 bufmefs, and appear no more within thefe 

 walls;" upon which they, being difturbed, 

 departed thence much wroth. And behold, 

 Saint Francis returning home with bread 

 and a fmall veffel of wine which he and 

 his Companions had begged, and the Supe- 

 rior, narrating to him how he had driven 

 thofe men thence. Saint Francis blamed 

 him much, faying that he had borne him- 

 felf barbaroufly ; inafmuch as fmners were 

 more readily led back to God by mildnefs 

 than by fierce reproof : hence our Mafter 

 Jefus Chrift, whofe Gofpel we have prom- 

 ifed to obferve, faid that He came not to 

 heal thofe who were whole, but the Tick ; 

 and that He came not to call the juft but 

 fmners to repent : wherefore many times 

 He brake bread with them. Seeing, there- 

 fore, that you have finned againft charity and 

 againft the holy Gofpel of Chrift, I charge you 

 by your vows of obedience that ftraightway 

 you do take this Scrip with Bread, and this 

 Veffel of Wine, and haften after them, over 

 mountains and through valleys, until you 

 fliall find them, and prefent them with 

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