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The strong in Christ, look thou make ancient. To conclude, if thou be a true Bishop, a faithful overseer, a diligent Curate, a trusty shepherd, rather give thy life, & spend all the blood in thy body, than that one of the least of Christs flock should perish through thy fault. So mayst thou be sure,¹ when that Prince of shepherds shall appear to receive the immarcessible crown of glory, if thou dost not these things, which hitherto I have rehearsed, than look thou for none other, but with that unprofitable servant to be cast into utter darkness, where weeping & gnashing of teth shall be. Art thou a rich man?² So hath God set the in a perilous state, except ⟨image 90⟩thou be ware. To avoid there fore all danger, look that with thy possessions & riches, thou helpest them that have need. For unto this end hath God endued the with y• goods of this world. Be not proud for thy riches sake,³ nor put not thy trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God. Be rich in good works. Be ready to minister unto the necessity of other, that want For God loveth a cheerful giver. Break thy bread to the hungry,⁴ & lead in the needy & poor wayfaring into thy house, wham thou seest a naked man, cover him, & thou shalt not despise thy flesh.⁵ Give to every one that asketh, & from him, that will borrow, turn not away thy face,⁶ but lend him thy money, yea & that without any usury. Join not house to house, nor land to land Covet not to reign alone in a town. Suffer other men to live by ⟨image 90⟩thee, yea & that of their own. Help them to make provision for their family, that they may keep the better hospitality & be the more able to help the comfortless. Let not out thy lands & houses on such price, that the farmers shall never be able to pay thee, or else to do no good upon them So let them higher thy farms, that they may not be impoverished, as they are now a days for the most part, but rather enriched, that they may be the more able virtuously to bring up their children in good arts & godly sciences, to help their poor neighbours, to keep hospitality, & to bear the charges of the common weal for their portion, when time requireth. For this shall make a flourishing & wealthy Realm, abundant in all things.