A potacio[n] or dry[n]king for this holy time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…A potacio[n] or dri[n]kynge for this holi time of le[n]t very co[m]fortable for all…

CHRI. This is a great abusion.

PHIL. Ye say trueth. Therefore were ¹it convenient, ye they, which should be appointed to be Curates & over sears of the Christen people, into whose hands the whose life & care of Christs flock is committed, should be of such sort, as S. Paul descry ²beth in his Epistles to Timothy & Titus, that is to say, irreprehensi ble, faultless, sober, discrete, righteous, holy, temperate, apt to teach, & such one as cleaveth unto y• true word of doctrine, that he may be able to exhort with wholesome ⟨image 35⟩learning, and to improve them that speak against it. For this cause ³did God command in the old Testament that they should not be chosen to be priests for to minister to him, which had any blemish on them whither they were, blind, lame, with an evil favoured nose, with any misshapen member, or that have a broken foot or hand, crook backed, or any blemish in their eyes. &c. What meant God by this perfection of the priests ⁴members, but only to show that he which should serve him, & give attendance on his flock, should be whole & sound in all kind of virtue & godliness, not corrupt nor de formed with any iniquity, & uncleanness A priest ought to have no blemish on him, that is to say, he ought to be pure both in his doctrine & conversation.

PHIL. Ye say trueth. Therfore were ¹it conuenient, ye they, which should be appoynted to be Curates & ouer sears of the Christen people, into whose handes the whose lyfe & care of Christes flocke is cōmitted, shuld be of such sorte, as S. Paule descri