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Philemon. There wanteth not at this present time, which not only them selves are but little studious, vigilant and laborious for the prosperous propagation & setting forth of divine literature & godly knowledge, whereby the faithful are inserted, planted & engrafted in our LORD & Saviour Christ Jesus, but they also vituperate & discommend the serious & painful endeavours of other, which with all main labour to dilate & enlarge the kingdom of God, & the glory there of, yea and that not without great danger of their health, as I may add nothing hereto. With what ⟨image 14⟩spirit such persons be inflated & puffed up, I will not here define. But certes they very much aberre dissent & are estranged from my shem tense, judgement & persuasion. For I desire & wish with all my heart, that all men living were in the bowels of Christ,¹ & that the word of Christ might opulently, richly & abundantly dwell in them with all wisdom, & knowledge, be they Turks, Jews, Saracens,² or any other, seeing that there is one LORD of all, sufficiently rich for so many as call on him in spirit & verity: We read that Moses desired •o greatly the health & salvation even of the gross Idolaters the Jews, that he esteemed his own wealth & favour of no price without their health & prosperity,³ yea he wished to be blotted out of the book of life, if the people of Israel were not also saved with him. O fervent charity ⟨image 15⟩& burning love. Howe many ways sought our most gentle saviour• Christ also to bring his enemies to repentance? Would not he have gathered them together,⁴ as a hen doth her chickens, & yet they would not? Did not he deplore & lament even with profuse & most large tears their obstinate blindness and blind obstinacy,⁵ wham he tofore saw the perils imminent & that were ready to fall upon them? Did not he pray for them,