Here after ensueth a proper treatise of good worksHere after ensueth a propre treatyse of good workes

And again upon the other side, the father and the mother do not sooner deserve hell / than in their own children at home, wham they lack to them not teaching them these things which be spoken of before. For what doth it profit them, if they dye with fasting, praying, going pilgrimage, & doing all other good works. In as much god ⟨image 112⟩will not ask us of such things / neither at the time of death, nor at the last judgement? but will ask a compte of our children commit to our custody? This proveth the saying of christ, the .2.3. chapter of Luke. Ye women of Jerusalem weep not for me, but for your selves, & for your children for lo the time shall come, when they shall say.¹ Happy be the barren, and the wombs, which have not borne children, and the breasts which have not given suck. Why should they so complain / but that all their damnation cometh to them for their sons / which if they had lacked, peradventure they should have ben blessed. Truly these words should open the eyes of the Fathers and mothers to look spiritually upon their children lest ⟨image 113⟩the wretched children, should be deceived by the false carnal love of their father and mother, wham they be not angry with them because they obey them after the common nature of the people / by the which things, their free will is stablished and waxeth strong / and yet the commandment of God therefore commandeth us to honour our Father & our mother, that that children may be made low, demure, & meek / their free will broken & destroyed. Therefore as it is said in the other commandments, that the works must be so observed, that they proceed out of the first work, even so here / let no man think that the ordering and bringing up of his children is sufficient of it self / but if it be done in the grace & favour of god / so ⟨image 113⟩that a man doubteth nothing of it / but that he pleaseth god in all such works. Therefore let these works be nothing else to a man but signs and exercysynges of faith to trust in God / & to have a sureness in his grace, and liberal will. For without this faith no work other liveth / or is good and pleasant to god.

ANd agayne vpon the other syde, the father and the mother do not soner deserue hell / than in theyr owne chyldren at home, whā they lacke to them not teachynge thē these thynges which be spoken of before. For what doth it profyte them, yf they dye with fastyng, prayenge, goynge pylgrymage, & doynge all other good workes. In as moche god