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18 few there are that find it!

Take ye great heed of false Prophets, which come to you in the ″ clothing of sheep, but inwardly are ravening wolves. ″ By their * fruits you shal know them. Do men gather grapes of thornes, or figs of thistels? Even so every good tree yealdeth good fruits, and the evil tree yealdeth evil fruits. A good tree can not yeald evil fruits, neither an evil tree yeald good fruits. Every tree that yealdeth not good fruit, shal be cut downe, and shal be cast into fire. Therfore by their fruits you shal know them.

Not every one that sayth to me, ″ Lord, Lord, shal enter into the Kingdom of Heaven: but he that doth the wil of my Father which is in Heaven, he shal enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. ✠ Many shal say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have not we prophecied in thy name, and in thy name cast out Divels, and in thy name wrought many miracles? And then I wil confesse unto them, That I never knew you: depart from me you that worke iniquitie. Every * one therfore that heareth these my words, and doth them, shal be likned to a wise man that built his house upon a rock, and the rayne fel, and the fluddes came, and the windes blew, and they beat agaynst that house, and it fel not, for it was founded upon a rock. And every one that heareth these my words, and doth them not, shal be like a foolish man that built his house upon the sand, and the rayne fel, and the fluddes came, and the windes blew, and they beat against that house, and it fel, & the fal therof was great.

And it came to passe, when had fully ended these wordes, the multitude were in * admiration upon his doctrine. For he was teaching them as having power, and not as their Scribes and Pharisees.

ANNOTATIONS . VII.

1. Judge not.) It is not Christian part to judge il of mens actes, which be in themselves good, and may proceed of good meaning, or of mans inward meanings, and intentions, which we can not see; of which fault they must beware, that are too suspicious, and given to deeme alwayes the worst of other men. But to say, that Judas, or an Heretike evidently known to die obstinatly in heresie, is damned, and in al other playne and manifest cases, to judge, is not forbidden.

6. Holy to dogs.) No holy Sacrament, and specially that of our Saviours Blessed Body, must be given wittingly to the unworthie, that is, to them that have not by confession of al mortal sinnes examined and proved themselves. See the Annot. 1. Cor. 11, 27. 28. 29.

8. Every one that asketh.) Al things that we aske necessarie to salvation with humilitie, attention, continuance, and other due circumstances, God wil undoubtedly grant when it is best for us.

15. Clothing of sheep.) Extraordinarie apparance of zeale and holines, is the sheeps cote, in some Heretikes: but these of this time weare not that garment much, being men of unsatiable sinne. This is rather their garment, common to them with al other Heretikes, to crak much of the word of the Lord, and by pretensed allegations & * sweet Rh