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Phile. I rejoice very much at it. Moreover since that time, ye know that not many weeks paste I made you a Potation for Lent, wherein I set before you many godly things most worthy to be known concerning that time of lent. Of the holy Sacrament of Penance & the parts thereof I talked much with you ⟨image 17⟩I taught you also how ye should •aste according to the will of God. I also opened unto you the mysteries & significations of certain Ceremonies used in the Temples for the time of Lent. Last of all I declared unto you, how ye should prepare your selves worthily to receive at the time of Easter the most blessed sacrament of the Altar. Al these things have I taught you, yea & that not in vain, as your quotid• an fruits do manifestly show. For ye seem unto me daily more & more to express manners worthy your profession, so that I perceive the word of God is not sent to you in vain,¹ but that it bringeth for the much fruit in you unto the glory of God, the comfort of the faithful & the salvation of your own souls If all men unto their uttermost possibility would likewise endeavour them selves to bring forth fruits ⟨image 17⟩according to their knowledge, verily it should be an occasion that the Gospel of Christ should excite and store up marvellous loves, so that it should have in short space mo friends & fewer enemies; yea and they that study to have Christs doctrine both truly known & earnestly followed, should also no more be blasphemed, detracted, railed upon and ill spoken of, but rather animated & encouraged to proceed in their most godly and virtuous enterprises. Now neighbours seeing that hither to ye have ben no forgetful hearers, but obsequious followers and diligent doers of the things taught you, I thought it not unfitting to call you once again unto me, and according to the time of the year to give you a Nosegay full of most redolent & odoriferous flowers,² which may both expel all ⟨image 18⟩pernicious & hurtful savours, & also conserve & keep your incolum te & valiance both of body & mind.