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redde agayne please bothe the reder, and the hearer also. By
the meanes wherof [fol. 4".] the lordes and ruelers of the
realme, shall perceave and fynde, those to be bothe meke and
mylde, and to the temporall power obedient, whom before as
fearce lyons they feared. God no doute hathe his electe
amonge eure people also. For the worde of God can not be
ydle, whose frute is greate, and a sure perswasion of the
kyndnes of God towardes hit, havynge in it sylfe aboundant
charite, wherewith above all wother thynges, the commen well
is knytt togedder. For asmoche therefore as of all soche
thynges the right enforraacion commeth by commeninge, this
treatous is made in maner of a dyaloge bitween twayne,
whiche speake together. Tliat is to saye a good Christen man
and his sonne, whom he goeth aboute to enforme in the—
knowledge 1 of Christ. Werfore he tliat entendeth to socke
here out eni swetnes, first must conceave in hymsilfe the
flammes of a Christen herte, whiche of their owne nature
lighten and inflam there 2 neghbour. Tliat when by redynge he
is made ryche, he shall also be gladde and able to healpe and
sucker wother. Howe can a man warme a nother, when he him
silfe is frosen for colde? Ye knowe I suppose tliat one blynde
shuld not leade the wother, least they faule bothe into the pytt.
[fol. 4h] But seynge that we can do nothynge of oure selves I
beseche you all, der bretheren, to praye vnto the lorde for me,
that I maye liave both mynde and strenghte wother soche
bokes to translate, and the whole olde testament, wlierby ye
of englonde, maye also knowe and heare the voyce of youre
true shepherde, walke in his waye, folowe the thruetli :l , and
fynally obteyne everlastynge lyfe. Amen.
Written in the eite of Argentyn the last daye of
August the yere of oure lorde a thousande
fyve honderd,
and seven and
twenty-
the knowledge.
2) their. 3 ) truth.
