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

Againe you have heard that it was sayd to them of old, * Thou shalt not committe perjurie: but thou shalt performe thy othes to our Lord. But I say to you ″ not to sweare at al: neither by heaven, 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 over & above these, is of evil.

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

You have heard that it was sayd, * Thou shalt love thy neighbour, & hate thine enemie. But I say to you, love 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 heaven, who maketh his sunne to rise upon good & bad, and rayneth upon just and unjust. For if you love them that love you, what reward shal you have, 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 heavenly Father is perfect.

ANNOTATIONS . V.

10. For justice.) Heretickes and other malefactours sometime suffer willingly and stoutly: but they are not blessed, because they suffer not for justice. For (sayth S. Aug.) they can not suffer for justice, that have devided the Church, and, where sound faith or charitie is not, there cannot be justice. 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 upon a candlesticke, signifie the Clergie, and the whole Church, so built upon Christ the mountayne, that it must needes be visible, and cannot be hid Rh