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Rh her a bil of diuorcemēt. But I say to you, whosoeuer shal dismisse his wife, ″ excepting the cause of fornication, maketh her to committe aduoutrie: And he that shal marie her that is dismissed, ″ committeth aduoutrie.

Againe you haue heard that it was sayd to them of old, Thou shalt not committe periurie: but thou shalt performe thy othes to our Lord. But I say to you ″ not to sweare at al: neither by heauen, because it is the throne of God: neither by the earth, because it is the foote-stole of his feete: neither by Hierusalem, because it is the citie of the great King. Neither shalt thou sweare by thy head, because thou canst not make one heare white or blacke. Let your talke be, yea, yea: no, no: and that which is ouer & aboue these, is of euil.

You haue heard that it was sayd, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. But I say to you ″ not to resist euil: but if one strike thee on thy right cheeke, turne to him also the other: and to him that wil contend with thee in iudgment, and take away thy coate, let goe thy cloke also vnto him, and whosoeuer wil force thee one mile, goe with him other twayne. He that asketh of thee, giue to him: and to him that would borow of thee, turne not away.

You haue heard that it was sayd, Thou shalt loue thy neighbour, & ∷ hate thine enemie. But I say to you, loue your enemies, doe good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and abuse you: that you may be the children of your father which is in heauen, who maketh his sunne to rise vpon good & bad, and rayneth vpon iust and ∷ vniust. For if you loue them that loue you, what reward shal you haue, do not also the Publicans this? And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more, do not also the heathen this? Be you perfect therfore, as also your heauenly Father is perfect.

ANNOTATIONS . V.

10. For iustice.) Heretickes and other malefactours sometime suffer willingly and stoutly: but they are not blessed, because they suffer not for iustice. For (sayth S. Aug.) they can not suffer for iustice, that haue deuided the Church, and, where sound faith or charitie is not, there cannot be iustice. Cont. ep. Parm. li. 1. c. 9. Ep. 50. Psal. 34. Conc. 2. And so by this scripture are excluded al false Martyrs, as S. Augustine often declareth, and S. Cypr. de Unit. Eccl. nu. 8.

12. Reward.) In Latin and Greeke the word signifieth very wages, and hire due for workes, and so presupposeth a meritorious deede.

15. The light.) This light of the world, and citie on a mountayne, and candle vpon a candlesticke, signifie the Clergie, and the whole Church, so built vpon Christ the mountayne, that it must needes be visible, and cannot be hid nor