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32 48. Who is my mother.) The dutiful affection toward our parents and kinsfolke is not blamed, but the inordinate love of them, to the hinderance of our service & duty toward God. Upon this place some old Heretikes denied Christ to have any mother. Aug. li. de Fid. & Symb. c. 4. Neither ever, was there any heresie so absurd, but it would seeme to have Scripture for it.

C. XIII.

HE same day going out of the house, sate by the seaside. And * great multitudes were gathered togeather unto him, in so much that he went up into a boat & sate: and al the multitude stood in the shore; and he spake to them many things in parables, saying:

Behold the Sower went forth to sow. And whiles he soweth, some fel by the way side, and the foules of the aire did come and eate it. Other some also fel upon rockie places, where they had not much earth: and they shot up incontinent, because they had not deepnes of earth, and after the sunne was up, they parched: and because they had not roote, they withered. And other fel among thornes: and the thornes grew and choked them. And other some fel upon good ground: and they yealded fruit, the ″ one an hundredfold, the other threescore, and an other thirtie. He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

And his Disciples came and said to him: Why speakest thou to them in parables? Who answered and said unto them: Because ″ to you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven: but to them it is not given. For he that hath, to him shal be given, and he shal abound: but he that hath not, from him shal be taken away that also which he hath. Therfore in parables I speake to them: because seeing they see not, and hearing they heare not, neither do they understand: and the prophecie of Esay is fulfilled in them, which saith, ''With hearing shal you heare, and you shal not understand: and seeing shal you see, and you shal not see. For the hart of this people is waxed grosse, and with their eares they have heavily heard, and their eyes ″ they have shut: lest at any time they may see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and understand with their hart and be converted, and I may heale them''. But blessed are your eyes because they doe see, and Rh