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We are all baptized in one water, whereby we should have in remembrance, that we should in love live as one together. These, and such other are, or may be, sufficient to bring us in remembrance of Brotherly love, of faithful amity, and unfeigned concord, if we of our selves were not too forgetful. O how oft said Christ to his Disciples,¹ Pacem meam do vobis, pacem meam relinquo vobis, I give you my peace, my peace I leave unto you. ²By this cognisance and none other shall men know you to be my Disciples saith Christ, if ye love together, if ye have love one to an other. He saith also, A new commandment give I you, that you love together, as I have loved you. What a zealous fire, what an earnest love had Christ when he prayed and said, O Father, ³cause that these be one, as thou and I are one, that like as thou Father art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us. Because ye be few, said Christ to his Disciples, and in the middest of your enemies, live you in concord and peace one with an other, one bear ⟨image 60⟩with another, and all you hold together. S. Paul saith,⁴ That he which loveth his Brother, hath fulfilled the whole law. Let not the Sun go down on thy wrath, ⁵saith Paul. And again,⁶ Revenge not, but give place unto displeasure; wreak not your selves, but give room to the wrath of God. David, when he was in most extreme persecution, & his enemies laid daily wait for his life, seeking his destruction, even then fell he to most earnest prayer, he sought not to be revenged, but he made his prayer unto God, and said,⁷ O Lord, they speak evil of me, they revile me, they call me Traitor, they call me all that naught is, but I have none other help, but to pray unto thee, my only succour is to fly unto thee. Thus did that holy prophet David, and so did the Christians in the beginning of Christs Church. For Tertullian, an old and holy father, saith, Fratres see appellabant & more voluerunt pro muicem, They called them selves Brethren, saith he, and one would not stick to dye for an other. O what a charity, what a love, what a Brotherly affection was this among