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14 and holeome documents, I mean not onely by hearing of the incere veritie: neither yet by much talkyng of the ame to heare, and not to bear awaye is altogether friuolous: To babble and prate much of Chrit and hys gopell (as though we would be counted ghotly gopellers) and to wante the chefet thing, I meane the frutes of well-governed converacion, and to be cleane voyde of integritie, and cleanee of lyfe, in my judgement and as the acred Scripture verifieth, is nothynge but folly: (example) A tree that is altogether barren and at the required time detytute of fruyte hauing a trim hewe of leaves, deerueth to be hewed downe and made meet for the fier: o we wantinge fruites required, but hauing plenty of leaues be of lyke effect, and for all the outwarde hewe that we haue, we hall in like cae be cut