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…

PHIL. This manner of fa sting teacheth the holy scripture, how so ever men use it. Therefore if ye will fast aright after the mind of S. John Chrysostom, ye must first anoint your head, that is to say, comfort the poor people with such goods as God, hath committed to you. For the riches ¹the ye have, be not yours only but they be Gods also, as he saith by ⟨image 52⟩y• Prophet, gold is mine, silver is ²mine. God hath put them in your han des, ye ye should distribute part of them to the poor people. Ye are the Ste ³wards of God, & the dispensators of his treasures that you living of them, should also comfort the poor members of Christ. If ye spend them otherwise than God hath appointed you in his word, ye shall render an accounts for it. Ye have nothing at all, but that ye shall be called to an accounts for it even to the uttermost farthing. If ye be not fos•d to have used your talent well, & unto the profit of other, ye shall with that unprofitable servant of the Gospel be cast into outward darkness, where weeping & gnashing of teeth shall be. If ye be proved unmerciful & negligent in the distribution of the worldly goods, surely, surely ye shall be carried away with the rich man, of whom S. ⟨image 53⟩Luke speaketh in the Gospel, unto ⁴hell; & there burn in such cruel & bitter flames, as the fire whereof shall never be quenched, neither shall the worm of them, that shall be there, dye at any time, as the Pro phette saith. Thus see you that ye ⁵have no great cause to boast & glory of worldly goods, nor yet to advance your selves above other men for your possessions sake, no more than a great mans servant hath to whom his LORD and master hath committed his goods for a certain space to keep, the servant looking at every hour when his master will require them again. He is a very these & robber, say the Basilius Magnus, which maketh