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…

PHILEMON. IT is not long ago sins I made a certain of my neighbours a Christmas Banquet, which so far as I can perceive, they have right well digested, whereof I am not a little glad. For since that time they have not ⟨image 7⟩only garnished their houses with the most sacred scriptures after that man ner of this my poor mansion, but they are also become new men in their conversation. They have utterly put of old Adam, & put on the new man Jesus Christ. They have cast away ¹the works of the flesh, & put on the armours of light, yea they have joy fully amplexed the fruits of the impi rite. For they walk now no more in darkness, but as y• children of light in all goodness, justice & verity. To ²the poor people they are become very merciful & tender, to their neigh bours gentle & loving, to their enemies patient & long suffering, not ³rendering evil for evil but ready at all times not only to forgive them but also to do them good to the uttermost of their power. Moreover to our most sovereign Lord & excellent King they show them selves unfeignedly obedient both in word ⟨image 8⟩and deed with all submission & humility. The other magistrates of the public weal they also have in great reverence. And also for the spiritual ministers of God's word they entirely love, reverently fear, & have them in no less honour, than true & faithful children have their natural parents. Yea they esteem them ⁴as the servants of God, & dispensators of the divine mysteries, and therefore do they give them double honour, according to the admonition of the Apostle. To conclude, they so behave them selves, that they are it reprehensible & faultless in the sight of all men. They shine as great ⁵lights among their neighbours. They ⁶