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Against Covetousness.

Against Couetousnes.

If the devil and the world move thee not to be content with that is sufficient and enough, but inordinately add unmeasurably to scrat together the goods of the world, to oppress the pore▪ to join house to house, land to land, lordship to lordship, &c. to take great incomes, to raise the rents, and to get that may be gotten by right or by wrong, defend thy self against them with these holy scriptures that follow ever remembering that thou art but a stranger and a pilgrim in this world, and that thou must go hence, either unto glory or unto pain, yea and that▪ how soon thou knowest not.

If the deuil and the worlde moue thee not to bee content with that is sufficient and enough, but inordinatly add vnmeasurably to scrat together the goods of the world, to oppresse the pore▪ to ioine house to house, land to land, lordship to lordship, &c. to take great incommes, to raise the rentes, and to get that maye be gotten by right or by wrong, defend thy selfe against them with these holye scriptures that folow euer remembring that thou arte but a straunger and a pilgrime in this worlde, and that thou must go hence, eyther vnto glory or vnto paine, yea and that▪ how sone thou knowest not.