The second tome of homilies of such matters as were promised, and entitled in…The second tome of homilees of such matters as were promised, and intituled in…

So now like obedient children, thus purified by faith, give your selves to walk that way which God moveth you to, that ye may receive the end of your faith, the salvation of your souls. And as ye have given ¹your bodies to unrighteousness, to sin after sin: so now give your self to righteousness, to be sanctified therein. If ye delight in this article of your faith, that Christ is risen again from death ²to life: then follow you the example of his resurrection, as Saint Paul exhorteth us, saying: As we be buried with Christ by our baptism into death, so let us daily dye to sin, mortifying ³and killing the evil desires and motions thereof. And as Christ was raised up from death by the glory of the father, so let us rise to a new life, and walk continually therein, that we may likewise as natural children live a conversation to move men to glorify our father which is in heaven. If we then be risen with Christ by our faith to the hope of everlasting life: let us rise also ⁴with Christ, after his example, to a new life, and leave our old. We shall then be truly risen, if we seek for things that be heavenly, if we have our affection on things that be above, and not on things that be on the earth. If ye desire to know what these earthly things be which ye should put of, and what be the heavenly things above, that ye should seek and ensue: saint Paul in the Epistle to the Colossians declareth, when he exhorteth us thus: Mortify your ⁵earthly members and old affections of sin, as fornication, uncleanness, unnatural lust, evil ⟨p. 394⟩concupiscence, and covetousness, which is worshipping of idols, for the which things, the wrath of god is wont to fall on the children of unbelief, in which things once ye walked, when ye lived in them. But now put ye also away from you wrath, fierceness, maliciousness, cursed speaking, filthy speaking out of your mouths. Lie not one to another, that the old man with his works be put of, and the new be put on. These be the earthly things which. S. Paul moveth you to caste from you, and to pluck your hearts from them: For in following these, ye declare your selves earthly and worldly. These be the fruits of the earthly Adam. These should you daily kill, by good diligence, in withstanding the desires of them, that ye might rise to righteousness.