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. I pray God give us all grace to do our duty. Now have ye heard, what it is to anoint your head. I will also speak somewhat of washing your face, although I may seem abundantly to have spoken of the very effect of it in y• definition of fasting. If we will fast aright, we are not only commanded to anoint our head, that is to say, to show mercy to the poor people, but also to wash our face, that is, to make our hearts clean from all sin, y• we may have a pure conscience. For it is not enough to be benefici all to other, except we also be beneficial to our selves. This shall come to pass, if we labour with all main to have a mind pure & clean from ⟨image 55⟩all carnal affects, & a body void of wicked deeds. What was the cause that God did cast away the fasts & solemn feasts which the Jews celebrated & kept holy in his name, but only that they washed not their face, that is, they went not about to put of their old conversation, & to become new men? I hate & abhor, ¹saith God, your sacrifices, your solemn feasts, your fasts, why so? For your hands, saith he are full of blood. Your hearts are full of vengeance, your consciences are spotted and defiled withal kind of sins, ye have no fear of God before your eyes. What is than to be done? Be ye washed, saith he be ye clean, take away the evil of your thoughts from mine eyes Cease to do evil, learn to do well, seek judgement, help the poor oppressed, be favourable to the comfortless, defend the widow. &c. GOD ⟨image 55⟩hateth those prayers, those fasts, those good deeds, as they call them, which come from a defiled body, a corrupt heart, a filthy mind, a blou dy conscience, a spotted and pocky soul, as a certain man saith. It ²profit a man nothing at all to fast & pray & to do other good things of devotion, except the mind be refrained from ungodliness, and the tongue from backbitings. For God hath ever a principal respect to the heart of the doer of y• work. If the heart be pure, clean & faith full, than doth God apron that work. But if it be spotted with sin, God casteth it away, appear it never so glistering & excellent in the sight of y world. Offer not, saith