Thys thing which I shall speake here to young mene whiche must be fede fyrst wyth mylke and such tender meat, I wold lyke­wyse yow that be elders and more auncyente in chrystes doctryne, to practyse the same dylygently, eue­ry man in hys owne house at home, for lytyll yt shal avayle thus open­ly to preache vnto you, vnlsse ye vse the same in your housholdes, the whyche pryuat and domesty­call instructyone I thynke so pro­fytable and necessarye in chrystes churche, that wythout yt our open sermones though they be neuer so good and learneyd shall lytell synke or remane in younge men­nes hartes, by reasone theyr myn­des and senses be so wanderynge and set vpon tryffles ratheyr than to marke anye good thynge, suche thynges as be holsome and for ther [Page] soules healthe fewe of theme rey­garde vnlesse they be broughte vp frome theyre youth in the feare of god. To you now there fore young men, I speake that be chry­stened. Your parentes whethere they be alyue or deade, brought you of a good and a chrystene mynde to be chrystenede, that ye myght be dead frome thys world and synne. Remembre wherfore god dyd call you to that lyfe not that you shuld liue here and hepe vp riches in this world, but that you should inheryte the kyngdome of heauen. The whi­che kyngdome shalbe geuen only to them that feare god, & worke righ­tuesnes, yf we lyue wyckedly and cōtynue in synnes, so as the fashion of yonge menne and maides is to doo, perpetuall damnatione and fyer euerlastynge shall folwe, for god is a iust iudge. Agaynne yf we [Page] wyll walke in the commaundemen­tes of the Lorde we shall fynde ioy and lyffe euerlastynge, in heauen withe the Aungelles and all godly saynctes. But yf you wyll not ceasse from your sinnes & wickednes but still remayne and wallowe in your noughttynes, loke for nothynge els but euerlastynge fyer withe the de­uil. You yong persons you be bound to be obedyent to your Parentes in all thynges saue onely such as per­teynes to god and your soule ward, in all other matters yf you lyue not obedyent to them, ye haue no excuse before god the fyrste and pryncypal honor muste be to god, the next af­ter to our parentes what profyt is it, yf thy parentes do tender the ne­uer so much, make the ther heire of all they haue, and pamper the vp w ^t all maner of delycates. And thow to lose the fauore of God, with out [Page] the which, there is no health no quietnes, euen as though a man for one lyttell peace of lande full of wi­des and bryers, shuld for sake all y ^e whole ryches and treasure of the world. And at lenght the lord shall also fynde these out whan he shall iudge the worlde. All yought for y ^e most part folow the commen sort of people hauing no dyfferenc betwixt good and badde, and other not kno­wyng thynges sprytuall, or els not regardynge them, fyrste loke ye be obedyent to the word of God, and harken to yt dayly and dylygently. And if your parētes do grug their­with or be offended, do you rather feare and regard your heauenli fa­ther which hath both power of bodi & soule, thā your fleshli parēts whiche haue no pouer ouer you but onli inwardli thinges whiche is rather then to be esteymed, God whyche is [Page] almyghty & whyche hath promysed heuē, or your parētes here whyche geue you but earthly thynges and suche as be transsitory & casual to euery blaste of fortūe, Truly god I knowe vndoubted some parēts whyche do all they can that there chyl­dren, shuld not heare the worde of God, O foules and peruerse people, vnworthe to be named chrysten mē. Mā must nedes here in this world haue some god to serue, otheyr the god of heauen or els the deuyll the great aduersary of mākynd, it must nedes folow, for so sayth chryst y ^t no mā cā serue two lordes at ons. Thei whyche wyll not serue god, do serue the deuyl, & be all the minysters of y ^e deuil which do not lede a chrystiane lyfe, And for thys cause chrysten­mens chyldren whā they be christe­ned be told to abrenounce al y ^e wor­kes of y ^e deuil, and so they promyse [Page] here after if y ^e liue, to lead a christiē life to folow what so euer Christ cō ­maundeith to eschue what so euer god forbideth. And this voue plea­seth god right well. Periured and for sworune you be yf ye break your voue, say not now. I made no pro­myse at my baptyme. Thy parents & thy god fatheres promysed in thy be halfe, whome also here I charge and warne, that thys voue be per­formede and dyscharged. It hath bene taken for an heygh matter of godlynes yf a yong man had voued him selfe into some monesteri there to remayne in seruice of God & per­petuall pouerti. but vnlese they had bene entyced in with promysys and fayere flattery wordes, they wold neuer haue concented to that wyc­ked madnes, to bynd them selues in abbayes, where as was nothyng lese thā the seruice of god excercised. [Page] Now for y ^e most part of yought they nether knowe what god, what the deuell, what good, or what euell meanes. Nether is god nor the de­uill ani such thyng as the painters make them. Yf you know how mer­cyfull god is how good, how meke. how gentyll, how sufferynge, howe pacyent and iuste he is? than you know god, for by thes propertes we lerne what god is. Contrarywyse, the deuyll is nothyng els but vn­mercyfulnes, hattred, enuy, mur­der, lying, mockyng of our neygh­bour, and al thyng that is nought, forthermore they be the chyldren of god whyche folow god in vertu in innocency, mercy, pety, and vnfey­ned charite. Againe thei be the chil­dren of the deuyll, whyche be lying, cruell, vnmercyfull, dysobedyent to their parentes, periured. Thei whi­che be obedyent to god, doo all such [Page] as please god. They that serue the deuyll, doo that please hym. Wylt thou now serue god, then sett thyne eys of thy mind and marke chryste, be iust, gentyl, meke true, faythfull. Thow hast abrenounced all y ^e wor­kes of the deuyll in thy baptysme, now what be the workes of the de­uyl, I shal bryuely declare. To bak­byte and speak yll of men, to moke, to dyspyse, to scoffe at widews and aged mē, to geue no reuerēce to thy parentes, and chefly to neglect the worde of god, and to blasphem hys name, wordly men loue to go pom­pusly arayde, wyth ther hosse Iag­ged y ^e play & make mery as thowgh they shuld euermore lyue, & neuer perysh, they ryot and reuell they vse most impudent dansces, they go vp and doune from one streat to an o­ther all the nyght long wyth theyr crying & routtyng they take away [Page] from aged mē and infyrme persōs their naturall reste and quietnes. They lytell regard there parentes cōmaūdemētes, what so euer they speke vnto them, they make [...]yght an a moke at yt, yea & that is worsse the greatter forte of them can not say the Lordes praier right, and yf they can say the wordes, y ^e strynght and sprit therof thei haue not. They bable vp ther praiers as the nounes were wount to do theyr psalter. But such yong men as serue and add yet themselues to chryst be not polluted w ^t such manner of wickednes. Then such lewed and wicked persons wh­ych leade there tyme so abhomina­bly, let them nothing hynder you in your vertuous doyngs, wether thei be preestis or lay mē or what so euer they be, for the pompe and pryde of thys world, yet neuer pleased God. nor neuer shall. And yet it is plaine [Page] such thynges do greatly delyte and sturre vp yong mē such as haue not yet learned to folow reason nor cō ­cyder the ende and death of man. Yt is nothyng els all thys but vanyte, to pastyme, to sport, to dryncke, to feight, to set idle, to solace. O Lord how petifully is our youth brought vp, euen from there chyld age. wh­erfore when they cum to be men af­terwarde ther fruites appere ther­after. In like as our first parentes in paradyce a place of all pleasure, were forbid from thaple, that aboue all thinge thei shuld be ware and be circūspectid therin. But after that through the deueles instigatiō they had committid in takyng of thaple, they fell into all maner of myserys, where with we be all now oppressed to thys day. Euen so lykewyse, it is now amongest youth which suppo­seth the Glory of thys worlde to be nothinge elles but all [Page] pleasure and delite and all together honei, whan in dede it is bitter poi­son, and verili euerlasting dānatiō. I do not here speke agaynst honeste myrth and such maner of excersyce of the body as be cumly. But bica­use I perceaue the deuell thus to go about with such delytes and baytes to snare yong mē and maides, and so to seduce them frome all goodnes yf they wyll consent vnto hym that at leynght he makyth them cleane desperat, bothe with out all feare of god and all shamfastenes. which is the onely ornament of all yong age in so much that nether they regard god, nether truthe, nor iustice, goodnes nor honesty nor no other vertu wherof also proceideth there grea­ter dystruction that they wyll not harken to the word of god, nor be not brought vnto yt by ther parēts. O you parentes litell do you know [Page] what a charg lieth apō your backes. And you chyldren, whan wyll you remembre and consyder what yt is, you promysed to god in your bap­tysme? Yt is not to be neglected, I tell you, that you voue & promysse vnto god? he requireth our fayth, & suche vnfaithfull false couenāt bre­keres he wyll punysh and that most sharpely. The lorde setyth before vs tow wayes, the one, to lyfe, the other to dystrucsyon. Marke nowe well ye chyldren of the lorde. The one is sharp thornie & full of briers, which few men do walke, but after that yt be entred ones, yt ys very playne and pleasant & bryngeth to euerlaisting life. The other semeth fyrste delectable, as though it shuld cōducte vs to all maner of goodnes, but at leyngeh and last ende, yt castith vs head loung doune to hell, where y ^e deuill and all his aūgelles [Page] be kepte faste abydyng the daye and iudgment of god. Therfore saythe Christ. Mathew vii. Enter in be y ^e straeyt wycket, for brode is the way that leadeth to perditiō, and large is the dore and many enter in ther at. And agayne strayet is the dore and the way narrow which leadeth into heauen, and fewe there be that fynde it. The lyfe of all true christi­ans foloweth thys strayet waye, in the which waye they be daily excer­cised and tourmoyled in perturba­tyones of thys worlde, And they neuer cease nor rest, to they haue fine­shed there course and come where thei wold be. Say some. Then shall I not kepe company with my fel­lowes and aquaintance, shall I not make mery with my gosseptes and solace w ^t thē ones or twise a wicke?

I am no mounke nor fryer. what man is able to kepe so straite a rule, [Page] you must consyder we be men, what wold you we shuld do? here my con­sel, good sonne, what thou shalt do, for I know what the world is woūt to abiect and saye, here, I say, and obaye the word of god. And vndoubted thou shall sone perceyue thys strayte waye now to thy seauynge, shortely to be easy and pleasāt. And I do not doubt but at leynght thou shall gyue me great thankes for my counsell, whiche haue kepte y ^e frmoe suche dystruction and ieoperdy. I wold wysh to all you yong men and children, the eyes of your mind opē that ye myght see the ende that such men come to, One is slane beynge droncke and madde, an other hath his arme or legg stroke of, an other goyth a robbynge & feyght wrong­fully for other mens money and so strokē dōne and slayne lyke a beste, An other is hangged for a smalle [Page] tryfle. And who can recyte vp all y ^e kyndes of death and disttructiō, that such dysobedyent persons as these come vnto? what nede we any example to be brought whan dayly experyence declareth what ende & mischef these wretches com to. And the same I speke also to yong wemē and maydes. They be wanton and incontynent they haue and drawe to such felowes after their owone sort more lecherous than any gote, they scoffe & moke euery yong mane that cometh by them, they delyte. most in baudi songes. Some labore and bryngeth forth pryuely, and so they turne other to be common ste­wes or eles be dryuen to extreme pouertie, and so liue in contempte and miseri all their life long. What honest yong man wold be copled or content to be ioyned in maryage w ^t such a beaste? Then what coste of [Page] aparel haue thei y ^e most basse & beg­gerli wemē which haue right nou­ght yet how sūptuously they muste go arayed, Amongst y ^e very gentyls a mā shal not find more excesse and pryde in vesture, wherfore learne be tyme you Chrysten yonglynges to feare y ^e lorde god. And with hole harte & mynde harken to y ^e worde of hym euery mornyng y ^e fyrste thīg ye do, and euery sonday. And let it no­thyng perturbe you, though ye be gruged or cōtemned therfore for the seruyce of god, for thys it ys y ^t plea­seth god most heighli, it is no mater whether we lyue or dye to the lorde, that is ynoughe for vs, what shuld passe for more? And thinke this ra­ther and study how you may folow hym. And care not for thys vayne sort of men thys rascall rable of ruffeynns whiche can nothyng els but eate and playe & [...] the streyts [Page] to be sene of other. And the same I speke to yong maydes lykewyse, yf god send vs long lyfe here, and we spend it ī wātones, in y ^e world to cū we shall be cast into perpetuall fier. Hyere my in hys lamentationes .iii. sayth, it is good for a man if he bere his yoke ī his youth. And good it is for a man yf he teach hys soule in hys youth to beare the yocke of god­des commaundementes, if we wyll be contente to serue god, then shall the see & tempest of our tentations soone swage, for y ^e lorde wyll neuer forsake vs. Thei which be elder mē, and haue receued light of god ī his gospell, know what I sai, & greatly complayne ther mysery and ingno­rance in which they haue bene brought vp and led. Oh (saye they) yf we hadde harde such knowledge in the scripture which now we here, than­kes be to god, we wold neuer haue [Page] runned in the anger of god as we haue. Yong age maie be wel cōpared to tendre graftes or buddes apte to be bended which waye you wyll, yf ye take them in time and while thei be tendre, but yf they be ons grouen and paste in bignes, it is but loste labor what so euer ye do, breake thē you shal sonner than bend them, af­ter they be come to there nature. The same thīg we see likwise ī brute beastes. Take me a lyon and bring hym vp amongest men, he wyll be tame. And lyke yt ys with children, yll education and bryngyng vp ma­keth much in marring a man. filthe wordes and baudy talke is agreate token of a corrupte harte. You must take better hede than ye haue done yet, what company your chyldren kepe, what cōmunycation they vse, & this shal make you christē people. children be as much consecrated to [Page] god, as though they were a nointed preestes, or shauen into any order of relygyon. Consyder groundly w ^t thy selfe and tremble, yf thou be in the anger of god, canste thou slepe quyetly or take any reste? Yt wyll vexe an honest man yf hys neybour beare hym dyspleasure. And a gen­tyll chyld yf he see hys father sore angred with hym, he can not tell what to do to a voide his displeasur with flatteryng, with wepyng he assayeth all wayes he can to be recō syled a gayne vnto his father. Then how much more owght we to proue all meanes we maye, to be recōciled to our heauenly father, whome we haue offended so oft euery howere, whiche hath bothe geuen vs oure body and soule. They be but tryfles that our fatheres bestowe apon vs in comparyson to them y ^t we receue of god. The lorde our father ones [Page] plaged the world with the floode of waters, onely reseruynge eyght personnes, whome he preseruede from the waters through hys mere grace only. Sodome and Gomore with many cyties moo he dystroyed with fyer, besydes what an infinite numbre of men haue bene slayne in battayle? who wyll not feare thys lord? he is slow to anger, he graunt tyth vs tyme to repente yeares suf­fycient. He sendith hys prophets before to admonish vs of his anger to come. Then yf we take no hyed by hys admonishments, hys vengance wyll strycke when we leaste thynke of yt. We know no ende of our lyffe, death crepeth euery day whyle we be moste in our ruffe, and daylye in our pastymes. No man hath a com­myssyon of hys lyfe how longe to lyue. Then why obaye we not the preceptes of god, and cease frō oure [Page] sinnes which slaye the soule. Many deceyue thēselues when they sinne secretly, supposyng that god dothe not beholde them, yf thou shuldyste walke in a deserte or in the most darkeste wode where no man could cū to the nor see the, yet god wolde see thy workes. Take hyde of hys ven­gaunce whiche is so sharpe, for we be redy to offences dyueres, wher w ^t we greatly prouoke the āger of god. Worke ye the dedes that please god for these two go alwayes together, to cease frome sinne and to worke charyte. If we cease not from sinne, we can not worke no goodnes that pleaseth god. Let vs demaunde our chyldrē thus, what fayth profesest thou, doste thou profese that faythe whiche the apostolyke church hath left? Tel me y ^e artycles of thy faith. I beleue ī god the father almyghty maker of heauen and earthe. etc. [Page] Let yong men be learned this crede perfectly, and let them saye yt not with mouthe. But haue yt in there hartes, y ^t they may set all there trust a pon God theire maker, that bothe he wyll and also is able to defende them. Thys it meanyth, almyghty God is the maker of all thynges of heauen of earth of thynges vysyble and thynges in visible. All thynges that be, haue there beyng of god, for with out hym nothynge is made.

Corne, wyne, oyle, wolle, and all thynges els, yea the Aungelles of heauen. All come of god, here we muste cōsider that all these thinges were created for vs.

Oh what a mercifull father is this, whyche hath ordened such thynges for vs so vnworthe wretches?

what wyll not he graunt vs here­after, what wyll he denye now to hys chylderen? vnto elder men [Page] and such as be more growne in ther fayth the mystery of the Trynyte must be declared, so much as mans weknes may comprehend. There is one god whiche made all thinges, bothe that are in heauen & that are in earth. If thou doste trust in god, thou mayst be sure the deuill cā not hurte y ^e, much lese no mortall crea­ture. To beleue in god, is to haue a constaunte truste in god, and to driue al thine hope in him, al other thynges and creatures set a parte, and that shall cause vs to loue god truly, other els it ys but a feyned & hypocrytycall loue. It foloueth in y ^e Crede. And in Iesus chryst hys on­ly sonne. All mankynde was dam­ned vtterly for their greate and many folde offences, but chryste hath borne vpō his Backe all our sinnes satysfyenge hys father for vs, and deliuerīg vs from euerlastīg death, [Page] y ^t now we should lyue to our master chryste, who soeuer doth inwardly beleue this, wyll conforme hys lyfe honestly according to the comman­demēts of god, eschuyng all maner of vice, so muche as in hym lyeth.

There is nothyng more abhorrede amongst true chrystē men thā syne. Almyghty god fyrst made Adam & Eue our fyrst genytoures, and put them in paradyse, geuyng them an eisy commādimēt, which they transgressed, deceyued through the sot­tyltie of y ^e deuyl, wherof we al take our ofsprynge. Ye know what they did, and what happened to them y ^e same infection now is gendered in vs. What mā doth not see thys and proue it daly in hym self, but chefly in childrē as we may se, this more apereth by lytil & lytil. For they be­gyn to lie, to stele, to be light, to stād chekmeat with their parēts nothīg [Page] regarding god, what so euer is spo­ken, yf we se any such vices spryng vp in them, we must reforme them in tyme w ^t rodes & strypes, lest y ^e e­uil in vale & get the head, so y ^t y ^e hole man shal be poysened w ^t the venime therof. And so they procure to them selfes euerlasting dānation, vnlese they redrese them selues by tyme & w ^tstand such infections while they be fresh & gryne. There is no yonge mā such a babe how yong so euer he be, but he can vnderstand what is good and what is euyll. For this is y ^e law of nature writen in all mens hartes, doo to other as thou would be doune to thy self, let vs intermyt nothing in them which become to a more perfect reasone & vnderstan­dynge, that they geue not thēselues to the deuyll. Here I admonysh all childrē y ^t yf you se your parēts slack in hearyng the word of god, folow [Page] not their steps nor be not lyk them. Al persons shal render a count to y ^e lorde, & euery man shal answere for hym self. Desire to go and heare sermons often, And the lord shal geue you plentifull grace to know hym, and shal open you a way to all ver­tues. The lorde shall preserue you frome all them that contemne hys holy word. Wherfore dyd chryste dye? to delyuer vs from euerlasting death. The excedyng great charite of god, dyd not spare his only begotten sone, but for vs all dyd bestow hym vnto the most cruel death, that who so euer dooth beleue in hym shall not perysh, but haue euerlast­yng lyfe.

Therfore let vs loue hym agayne, and accordynglye honour hym for such benefytes, as he most ryghtuosly doth deserue.

What gretter loue can theyr be my [Page] dere beloued childrn? If thou shuldest fall in a depe pete of water, & a stranger comynge by draweth the out, Or If thou shuldyst ly sore syke at the poynt of death, that no mane shulde se any recouery in the, there cometh a physicion and restoreth y ^e to health, thou culdeste not shew no lyke kyndnes agayne correspondēt to such pleasures done to the. Much greatter pleasures haue we recey­ued of christ, which hath plucked vs out of the mouth of the deuyll, dely­ueryng vs from hell, and promysed euerlastynge lyfe and Ioy with the Angelles. O dere chyld, say thus in thy mynde, I wyll neuer syne more, seynge that syne is such a fowll and abhominable thynge. Yea and yf I were cōstrayned to synne w ^t a thou­sand deathes, yet wyll not I cōsent therto. Christe was the sone of god, before heauen and earth was mad, [Page] whyche at the time appointed of the father was made mā with out any infectyon of synne, and liued with vs ī earthe, And at last suffered for the synnes of al the worlde. Learne my chyldren pacyence: Chryst dyd beare hys crosse a pon hys owne backe, was knocked and scoffed, was scourged, and was crouned w ^t thornes. Mortify your membres in tyme, leste y ^e euill growe inward and at length breake forthe to your greate peryll and daunger, yt folo­wyth in the crede. The thyrde day he rose a gaine from death, ascēded vp. et. c. beare thys (you chyldren & elders also) I do not mumble vp these wordes with out intellygēce. They be goldē wordes and worthy to be wrytten in all mens hartes w ^t the fyngar of god. Chryst ys risen agayn from death, and so shall we: doest thou doubt that thy body shall [Page] ryse agayne? Chryst sayth it which can not lye, he syttyth on the righte hande of the father, from thence he shall come to reuenge the wycked, and to reward y ^e godli with heauen. All thynges are geuen hym in hys hand of the father. And though we yet here remayne in earth weyke & brickle vessels, yet do we tari & loke fore ioyes to come, promysed vs by christ. And to whom did he promyse this? To such as once knowyng the trueth, be cōtent to lede a vertuous & an honest lyfe, as do suffer in thys present worlde much aduersyte, for who so euer intend to lyue godly in chryst Iesu must nedes suffer perse­cution. In so much the lord hath so premonyshed vs, let vs be content what so euer happē, what so euer aduersyte we suffer for the gloryfyeng of hys name. And yf thou were in seruyce with some myghtie lord or [Page] prynce, it could not be chosen, but thou shuldyst a byde many pereis, take much paynes, susteine greate cold, for the optainyng and encrea­syng of thy lyuyng. Than rather susteyne you the seruyce of thy lorde god, and doubt not of thy rewarde, for he hym selfe hathe promysed to rewarde y ^t in his endlesse kingdom. I beleue in the holy ghost. &c. which dyd teach and now dothe teach all the faythfull the truyth that Christ preached vnto vs. The operatyon of hym is to make vs dyspyse the world with all hys concupyscence. Yonglynges, here I admonysh you, whan so euer ani yll thoughtes tari long in your mindes, be you certain it ys the deuyll that hath styrred vp the fyer. Caste hym out throughe prayer and almose dede. The good spryte dothe ingender in vs the re­membrans of eternall thinges and [Page] that be good, And let not the thyng that is good, dwell in a corrupte place. If we be slacke & neglygente now whan we be called of our mer­cyfull father to hys heauenly feast, he dothe but well and worthily, yf he call backe a gayne hys grace so gētilly of his mere tēdernes offered vnto vs. Truly we be well worthy of many scorgynges and betynges, if we return again to our old vices, after we haue receiued and knowen the grace. Your goyng is much vn­seable, your iagged & cut apparell so dasshyng a bout you, do declare a mad and a foolysh mynde, you be proude and puffed vp, you gyue no reuerence to your elders. The holy gost dyd not teache you thys, why do you neglecte hys inspyratyon? feyght agaynst sathan with all his pompe and that with contynuall prayers. Resyst the vyces whiche [Page] growe in you. Good chyldren, lerne to pray gladly our lordes prayer, so shall you proue to good men, and shall be bothe worshyp to the cōmenwealth and an ornamēt to chrstyes relygion. Flee from such company whose mynde is all set to doo mys­cheyfe, These be wycked persones, which go about al they can toppres the veryte, by their maneres, their counsels, and lyfe: how be it, they be not able to euerte, although thei sumwhat obscure it, but onli in ther owne hartes, which delyte in lyes. God is mercifull and very gentill, therfore call apon hym in chrystes name. And dyspise not the grace of god, after the fasshyon of sum yong men to foolyshe and lyghte, whiche yll prouyd for them selues both heare & in the world to come. But these flowers and life of theirs will sone vade, & thā shall they perceiue [Page] & forthynke in their myndes, what thei haue doune. I beleue y ^t catholik churche et. c. There is but one faith of all that euer haue ben, bothe pro­phetes and Apostelles, And thys vniuersall churche is not conteined in one place here, but in all places of the world chrystes church is dys­ꝑsed. be you not deceiued so to think christes church only to be, whych is gouerned vnder the wycked pope. The lorde hath hys people in euery place. The true church is y ^t whiche hath the worde of god, the olde and new testament, whiche hathe here sacramētes, baptyme, and y ^e lords bread. Yf any thynge be taught the a gaynste the ryght doctryne of the gospell by any man how holi so euer he be, be it to the accursed. Yf the papystes do teach the true honor, worshyp, and dygnyte of chryste. folow and embrace that doctryne. [Page] But elles yf they teach any other thynge, that is their owne dremes and traditions, a voyde yt quickly, leste you bee defyled with the leuen therof. And be not quick ī beleuing them that say. Our forefatheres, y ^e byshops with all the generall coun­selles, gathered to gether in the holi ghost, haue appoynted this (though yt be dyrectly agaynste the worde of god) therfore you must beleue it vnder payne of eternall damnation Let them auaunte with their bag­gage and phantasyes, wherewith they haue infectted and deluded all the world so long. Let the youth learne the worde of god exactly, so shall they easely iudge of the faythe and worde of god, and shall not lyghtly swarue from goddes ryght doctrine. The shepe of Chryst heare and perceyue hys voyce and folowe hym whyther so euer he goyth.

[Page]The forgiuenes of sinnes. &c. Som herytyckes there haue bene whiche haue denyed forgyuenes of synnes, and haue inuented I can not tell what pestylent doctryne out of ther owne heades. Also let these a voyed with there errors. Christ cal­lyth synners to hym dayly, A men dement of lyfe is preached to all men for them to obtaine forgiuenes of theyre synnes. Troble not your selues a bout aurycular confessyon. To the lorde confesse your synnes euery day and hower, the whyche he only forgeueth hym selfe.

you fathers haue respecte and re­garde of your seruantes & maides, that they run not all the yeare long in theyre fylthines with out feare of god. And so doynge you shall be lightly alowed of god. let thē learne sermones early out of the worde of god, wher by they shall learne to [Page] know god, which is the begynning of an honest lyfe: forgyue you all enuye and all harered. And your father in heauen shall forgiue your offences. We haue remissiō of syns, where? In the crosse, whā as christ suffered for all our synnes, that is, the synnes of al y ^e world. Thynke ye not there synnes to be pardoned, which lyue in all wyckednes and fylthynes. God forbid that we shuld saye such mene beleue in christ that haue theyre hartes full of filthenes and replenyshed with all mischeffe. And let no man thynke yt muche, thoughe he suffer here sum kynde of crosse in thys world for y ^e iustyce & glory of god, we haue a promyse, of reysyng of our flesh, wherof the faythfull mā nothyng doubteth, but is suer, (in nothyng more) y ^t there is an other lyfe after thys much better and iyofull. Thys is oure fayth [Page] which is taught vs from our youth and which all christen men do pro­fesse. Nether do we teach any other what so euer papistes bable of vs. yf this fayth be lyuely in vs, it wyll brynge forth fruytes accordyngly, What doth baptisme make, it clen­seth vs in this maner from synnes. And lyke as the water purgeth the body, so doth the word of god purge the soule. Let vs abhorre & renoūce our fylthy and synfull lyfe, yf we be christen men in dede as we professe. Howbeit yet the appetite, & pronesse to synne, remayneth in vs styll, the which yf we trust in the lorde, is pardoned and takē a way throughe grace. Our prayer with all desier, that the glory of our Lorde may go forward, and y ^t his kyngdom daily may be enlarged vnto all the endes of the earth, wyl they nyll they these wicked papistes. Let our supplica­tion [Page] and prayer be to god after hys wyll & pleasure, which standyth e­uer, & profitable to vs warde: Say, O most holy father helpe our infir­mytees, forgyue our manifold offē ­ces. Gyue vs right faith, y ^t we may be applyaunt to all good workes which your wyll requireth. Deliuer vs from euill, that is, from y ^e deuill that he haue no power nor impery vpon vs. Exercise your selues much in the lordes prayer, Put a waye y ^e bokes of your wicked praiers wherof, all the world is full. And be not like the hypocrytes whiche haue a greate pleasure to bragge theyre prayers before other men, whyche also stand ī euery corner of y ^e stretes that they may be sene of all mē, but these haue theyr rewarde alredy, let them loke for none of god. Mat. vi, It is tyme I think now to draw to a conclusyon, seyng the hower is [Page] full vp. I beseche and desire you fa­thers by our Lorde Iesus chryst, y ^t you gyue good chrstiane example in your houses to your chyldren and seruantes. Proue you exammynie wel your hartes cōmyng to receiue the sacramentes. If you fynd thys in your selues that ye can be cōtente to leade a chrysten lyfe here after, ye may bouldly com, yf not, a way leste ye be gyllty of the bodi & bloode of the lorde. Or yf you do pourpose as you be wont to do after the feast of easter to ronne from towne to towne, lyke madde men, to fall agayne to your olde cōditions, ban­ketynge with your hores, and w ^t your harlots, I do you to wytte, you receyue yt to your damnatyon. Thou that arte a father instantly call vpon thy sonne or thy seruant y ^t he come not hither to dyshonest the borde of y ^e lord, or to receyue to him [Page] his owne iudgment, as paule spea­keth. It is not one dayes busynes, all our life time we ought to emploi thys matter. We wyll not, after y ^e papystes maner, our gestes come to thys christē feaste Let the papistis goe w ^t their erores. It is no lyght thyng to receyue the body and blood of our lorde, here lyeth the weyght of all y ^e matter, y ^t we shuld hereafter lede a new lyfe, forsakyng our olde sīfull nature. Let all things spring of a faith vnfained, so al shalbe well both here and in the world to come, we shall bothe please men and all the Aungelles aboue, for they doo greattli embrace such as theise ad­hore god sincereli, if we wold folow thys rule of charite, that we wolde loue our neighbour, as our selues & pray for all our enemyes, thā wold god haue greate delyte in vs.

Nether let vs thynke y ^e chrysten [Page] lyfe cōsisteth in wordes only, but in workes and dedes, other els do we nothyng but sclaunder the name of chryst amonge infydeles. The lord lyghten all our myndes with hys grace, that we may do all thynges to his glory. And to the edyfyenge of hys Catholike church. So be yt