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156 offenses. Now how wel the Protestants like this doctrine so evidently set forth in Scripture, let the indifferent judge, and how wel it agreeth with their only faith.

46. Woe to you Lawyers.) These were Doctours of Moyses Law, otherwise called Scribes. Shal we therfore crie out against al Lawyers now, or ought the name of Lawyer be odious with us, because of these naughty Lawyers among the Jewes? much lesse ought the name of Priests to be odious (as Heretikes would have it) because of the Jewes Priests that were so busy against our Saviour.

XII.

ND when great multitudes stood about him, so that they trode one another, he began to say to his Disciples: Take good heede of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisie. * For nothing is hid, that shal not be revealed: nor secret, that shal not be knowen. For the things that you have said in darknesse, shal be said in the light; and that which you have spoken into the eare in the chambers, shal be preached in the house-tops. And I say to you my freindes, Be not afraid of them that kil the body, and after this have no more to doe. But I wil shew you whom ye shal feare: feare him who after he hath killed, hath power to cast into Hel. Yea I say to you, feare him. Are not five sparowes sold for two farthings, and one of them is not forgotten before God? Yea the haires also of your head are al numbred. Feare not therfore: you are more worth then many sparowes. * And I say to you, ″ Every one that confesseth me before men, the Sonne of man also wil confesse him before the Angels of God.✠ But he that denieth me before men, shal be denied before the Angels of God. * And every one that speaketh a word against the Sonne of man it shal be forgiven him: but he that shal blaspheme against the Holy Ghost, to him it shal not be forgiven. * And when they shal bring you in to the Synagogues and to Magistrates and Potestates, ″ be not careful in what manner, and what you shal answer, or what you shal say. For the Holy Ghost shal teach you in the very houre what you must say.

And one of the multitude said to him: Maister, speake to my brother that he devide the inheritance with me. But he said to him: Man, ″ who hath appointed me judge or devider over you? And he said to them: See and beware of al avarice: for not in any mans aboundance doth his life consist, of those things which he possesseth. And Rh