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Rh 16. Fast.) He forbiddeth not open and publike fasts, which in the * Scriptures were commanded and proclamed to the people of God; and the Ninivites by such fasting appeased Gods wrath: but to fast for vaine glorie and praise of men, and to be desirous by the very face and look to be taken for a faster, that is forbidden, & that is hypocrisie.

20. Treasures in Heaven.) Treasures layd up in Heaven, must needs signifie, not faith only, but plentiful almes, and deeds of mercie and other good workes, which God keeping, as in a booke, wil reward them accordingly: as of the contrarie the Apostle saith: He that soweth sparingly, shal reape sparingly. 2. Cor. 9.

24. Two Masters.) Two religions, God and Baal, Christ and Calvin, Masse and Communion, the Catholike Church and Heretical Conventicles. Let them marke this lesson of our Saviour, that thinke they may serve al masters, al times, al religions. Agayne, these two masters do signifie, God and the world, the flesh and the spirit, justice and sinne.

25. Careful.) Prudent provision is not prohibited, but too much doubtfulnes and feare of Gods provision for us: to whom we ought with patience to commit the rest, when we have done sufficiently for our part.

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″ not, that you be not judged. For * in what judgment you judge, you shal be judged: and in what measure you mete, it shal be measured to you againe. And why seest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye: and the beame that is in thine owne eye thou seest not? Or how sayest thou to thy brother: Let me cast out the mote of thine eye; and behold a beame is in thine owne eye? Hypocrite, cast out first the beame out of thyne owne eye; and then shalt thou see to cast out the mote out of thy brothers eye.

Give not that which is ″ holy to dogs: neither cast ye your pearles before swine, lest perhaps they treade them with their feete, & turning, al to teare you.

Aske, * and it shal be given you: seek, and you shal find, knock, & it shal be opened to you. For ″ every one that asketh, receiveth: and that seeketh, findeth: and to him that knocketh, it shal be opened. Or what man is there of you, whom if his childe shal aske bread, wil he reach him a stone? Or if he shal aske him fish, wil he reach him a serpent? If you then being naught, know how to give good guifts to your children: how much more wil your Father which is in Heaven, give good things to them that aske him?

Al * things therfore whatsoever you wil that men doe to you, doe you also to them. For this is the Law and the Prophets.

Enter * ye by the narrow gate: because brode is the gate, and large is the way that leadeth to perdition, and many there be that enter by it. How narrow is the gate, and straight is the way that leadeth to life: & Rh