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He rather desired himself to be deprived of eternal salvation, than that so many should be conject & cast into everlasting damnation. O true Apostle O spectacle most worthy to be looked on of all Prelates, Bishops & Curates. Here see we, how fervent our desire should be toward the saving health of our christen brothers. Verily we ought not to seek all means possible for to bring them unto consummate, absolute & perfect knowledge of Christs most wholesome doctrine, but also even to give our lives to bring them unto Christ, as S. John saith.¹ By this we have known love, because he hath given his life for us, & we are bound again to give our lives for the brothers. Therefore neighbours according to the commandment ⟨image 16⟩of that most noble man, which said,² labour until I come, for the right hearty zeal that I bare toward your souls, I think it my bounden duty, so long as we dwell together to talk with you of the word of life,³ which is able to save your souls. ⁴Ye know that at Christmas last paste, I made you a Banquet, where in I proponed & set before you four dishes. The first contained, into what great misery we were cast by Adam. The second, how we ware freely saved by the mercy of God the Father through Jesus Christ. In your third dish, I declared how we might obtain & come by this unmeasurable bounty & great goodness of god. In the fourth I showed you, what is your duty, after we have received these inestimable benefits of God the father through Christ Jesus,⁵ verily to put of our ⟨image 16⟩conversation, to become new men,⁶ to be plenteous in good works, to dye unto sin, to live unto righteousness, & daily more and more to wax grande & ancient in Christ, that at the last we may attain & come unto the very perfection of christianity. These things ye have not forgotten, I am sure neighbours.