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O Jesus the saviour of the world, and the true Physician both of the body and of the soul,¹ we are not altogether ignorant how detestable a thing sin is in thy sight and how greatly thou abhorrest them that commit i•• quitye and shake of the yoke of thy law,² giving their minds to the filthy lusts of the flesh, and the vain pleasures of the world, Some that thus ungodly behave them selves, thou sufferest to go forth still in their be as•like manners without correction or punishment to live in pleasure and wantonness upon the earth,³ to nourish their hearts as in a day of ⟨p. xlvii⟩slaughter, to serve their belly as their God, and voluptuously to spend their days without all fear of thee, that at the last, they being altogether nuzzled in voluptuousness and dying without repentance (for the sorrows,⁴ plagues and punishments of the wicked begin at their death) may with that rich and beastlike glutton be tormented for ever in the flames of hell fire. For convenient it is that they which in this world live, all in pleasure,⁵ do in another world receive their pains, even as thou haste promised in thy holy Gospel saying. Woe be to you that are full, for ye shall hunger, Woe be to you y• now laugh, for ye shall wail and weep. Again some that walk inordinately▪ ⁶and contrary to the rules of thy holy law, thou tendering their salvation visitest them with sickness their ⟨image 63⟩& punishest their bodies with the loving rod of thy correction ▪ that they may no longer be proud, cruel and fierce against the spirit, whose servant and bond slave the body of right ought to be, but rather be obedient and service able, that it may from henceforth not so much as once lust against the spirit, and by this means thou mercifully callest them (which as wandering shpe,