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Marry my daughter and be baptised, and so forth, or else. &c. Fear them not. Remember the sparrows. And this rule should all estates and degrees of men follow, where as now they fear men and not god. If there be a judgement between a great man and a poor man: Then must there be a corruption of justice for fear. Oh he is a great man, I dare not displease him. &c. Fi• upon thee, art thou a judge and wilt be a frayed to give right judgment? fear him not be he never so great a man, but uprightly do true justice. Likewise sone pastures go from their cure, they are afraid of y• plague, they dare not come nigh any ⟨image 37⟩sick body: but higher other, and they go away themselves. Out upon thee. The wolf cometh upon thy stock to devour them, and when they have most need of thee, thou runnest awa• from them. The soldier also that should go on warfare, he will draw back as much as he can. Oh I shall be ••ain. Oh such and such went and never came home again: Such men went the last year into Norfolk, and were slain there. Thus they are afraid to go. They will labour to tarry at home. If the king command the to go, thou art bound to go, & serving the king, thou servest god. If thou serve God, he will not shorten thy days to thine hurt. Well saith some, if they had not gone they had lived unto this day. How knowest thou that? who made the so privy of gods counsel? follow thou thy vacation, & serve y• king, when he calleth thee. In serving him thou shalt serve god. And till thy time come, thou shalt not die. ⟨image 38⟩It was marvel that Jonah escaped in such a city, what then? Yet God preserved him, so that he could not perish. Take therefore an example of Jonah, and every man follow his vocation not fearing men, but fearing God. And other seed that Christ was sowing in that sermon was this: Qui confessus me fuerit hominibus, confitebor et ego illum coram pair meo. He that confesseth me before men, I shall also confess him before my father. We must confess him with mouth. It was of a bishop not long a goo asked as touching this, laws (sayeth he) must be obeyed and civil ordinance, I will follow outwardly, but my hart in religion is free to think as I will, So said Friar Forest half a papist, yea worse then a hole papist. Well an other seed was: he that sinneth against the holy ghost, it shall not be forgiven him neither in this world, nor in the world to come.