PHIL. Eyes verily. After the have repented you of your wickedness, ye must than amend your life, & bring forth fruits worthy of Penance, as the 1scripture commandeth. Ye must practise in your living all godliness & innocency. Fasting, prayer and alms must diligently be exercised of you in your daily conversation. 2Ye must go from virtue to virtue, & from faith to faith. As ye have walked before in darkness, so must ye walk now in light. Your whole life must now be nothing else, than a perfect meditation of purity and innocency. Except ye labour to do this, surely ye have no part of Christ, neither is the death of Christ a satisfaction for your sins, but y• 3wrath of God abideth still upon you. God hath blessed you in christ Jesus, that every one of you should turn away from his wickednesses ⟨image 41⟩as the scripture saith. God hath 4not called us, saith S. Paul, unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification and holiness.
These things once done, than remaineth 5there a true & perfect satisfaction to our neighbour, whom we have offended or hurt either in word or deed. For a satisfaction or amends must needs be made to our neighbour, or else we walk not after the order of Charity, nor according 6to the law of nature, which commandeth every man to do to another, as he would other should do to him. Therefore God in the old law commanded that if any m• did steal from his neighbour an ox or a sheep, he should restore and give him again five oxen for an 7ox, & four sheep for one sheep. We read also in the Gospel of Luke, y• Zacheus said unto Christ: behold 8LORD I give half my goods to ⟨image 42⟩the poor people, & if I have deceived any man of any thing, I give him four times as much again for it. These things declare manifest lye, that we are bound to make satisfaction to our neighbour, in what soever things we have hurt them.
PHIL. Yies verelye. After ye haue repented you of your wickednes, ye must thā amend your lyfe, & bryng forth fruytes worthy of Penaūce, as the 1scripture commaundeth. Ye muste practyse in your lyuyng all godlynesse & innocency. Factynge, prayer and almes must dilygently be exer cysed of you in your dayly conuersaciō. 2Ye must go frō vertue to ver tue, & frō faith to faith. As ye haue walked before in darknes, so must ye walke now in light. Your whole lyfe must nowe be nothing els, thā a perfecte meditaciō of purite and innocencye. Excepte ye laboure to do this, surelye ye haue no parte of Christ, neyther is ye death of Christ a satisfacciō for your sinnes, but y• 3wrath of God abydethe styll vpon you. God hath blessed you in christ Iesus, that euery one of you shuld turne away from his wickednesses ⟨image 41⟩as the scripture sayth. God hathe 4not called vs, sayth S. Paule, vnto vncleannes, but vnto sanctificacion and holines.
These thinges once done, than remayneth 5there a true & pepfecte satisfacciō to our neighbour, whome we haue offended or hurte either in worde or dede. For a satisfaccion or amēdes must nedes be made to our neyghbour, or els we walke not after the order of Charite, nor accordynge 6to the lawe of nature, which commaundeth euery man to do to another, as he would other should do to him. Therfore God in the old lawe commaunded that yf any m• dyd steale from his neyghboure an oxe or a shepe, he should restore and gyue hym agayne fyue oXes for an 7oxe, & foure shepe for one shepe. We read also in the Gospell of Luke, y• Zacheus sayd vnto Christ: behold 8LORDE I gyue halfe my goodes to ⟨image 42⟩
- 1Mat. iii.
- 2Psa. l•xxiii Rom. i. Ephe. v.
- 3Joan. iii.Ioan. iii.
- 4Act. iii. i. Thes. iiii.
- 5A satisfaction to our neighbour.A satisfaccion to our neyghbour.
- 6Mat. vii. Luke. […].Mat. vii. Luke. 〈…〉.
- 7Exo. x•
- 8Luke. xix•
