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ND rising up thence, he commeth into the coasts of Jewrie beyond Jordan: and the multitudes assemble againe unto him. And as he was accustomed, againe he taught them. And the Pharisees comming neere, asked him: Is it lawful for a man to dimisse his wife? tempting him. But he answering, said to them: What did Moyses command you? Who said: * Moyses ″ permitted to write a bil of divorce, and to dimisse her. To whom answering, said: For the hardnes of your hart he wrote you this precept. But from the beginning of the creation * God made them male & femal. For this cause, * man shal leave his father & mother; and shal cleave to his wife. And they two shal be in one flesh. Therfore now they are not two, but one flesh. That therfore which God hath joyned togeather, let no man separate.

And * in the house againe his Disciples asked him of the same thing. And he saith to them: Whosoever dimisseth his wife and ″ marrieth another: committeth advoutrie upon her. And if the wife dimisse her husband, and mary another, she committeth advoutrie.

And *$a$ they offered to him yong children, that he might touch them. And the Disciples threatned those that offered them. Whom when saw, he took it il, and said to them: Suffer the litle children to come unto me, and prohibit them not. For the Kingdom of God is for such. Amen I say to you, whosoever receaveth not the Kingdom of God as a litle child, shal not enter into it. And embracing them, and imposing his hands upon them, he blessed them. And when he was gone forth in the way, a certaine man running forth & kneeling before him asked him, * Good Maister, what shal I doe that I may receave life everlasting? And said to him, why callest thou me good? ″ None is good but one, God. Thou knowest the commandements, * Commit not advoutrie, Kil not, Steale not, Beare not false witnesse, doe not fraud, Honour thy father and mother. But he answering, said to him: Maister al these things I have observed from my youth. And beholding him, loved him, and said to him: One thing is wanting unto thee: goe, sel whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poore, and thou shalt have treasure in Heaven; and come, folow me. Who being stroken sad at the word, went away sorowful for he had many possessions. And looking about, saith to his Disciples: How hardly shal they that have G iiij