Phi. Nay, not so neighbour. I• is rather an evident token of his singular love & hearty good will toward you, which lovingly correcteth you in this world, that ye ma• repent, knowledge your fault, amend ⟨p. 55⟩your life, call for mercy and so live worthy your profession, again that through this temporal pain, ye may be free from everlasting plagues,1 & never come into that lake, that burneth with fire and brimstone.2 This witnesseth s. Paul, saying: While we are punished, we are corrected of the lord that we should not with this world be condemned.3 When God suffereth the wicked in this world to flourish like a bay tree, and licentiously to sin without any punishment, as he suffered the rich glutton, of whom ye read in the Gospel of blessed Luke,4 it is an evident argument, that such one is reserved unto the pains of the world to come,5 which never shall have end, where weeping and gnashing of teethe shall be, as ye see it chanced to the afore said rich glutton, unto whom God ⟨p. 56⟩said: son, remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy pleasure,6 and contrariwise, Lazarus received pain. But now is he comforted, and thou art punished: so doth our saviour Christ threaten the ungodly,7 saying: Woe be to you that are full, for ye shall hunger, Woe be unto you that now laugh, for ye shall wail and weep. The holy Apostle also sayeth: What son is he,8 whom the father chasteneth not? If ye be not under correction (whereof all are partakers) then are ye bastards & not sons. A terrible end therefore abideth them, which in this world licentiously and without punishment do sin. For all such be bastards and no sons, therefore have they no part of the heavenly inheritance.
Phi. Nay, not so neighbor. I• is rather an euident token of his singular loue & hartie good wil to•ward you, which louingly correcteth you in this world, that ye ma• repent, knowledge your fault, a•mend ⟨p. 55⟩your life, call for mercy and so liue worthy your profession, again that through this temporall paine, ye may be fre from euerlasting plagues,1 & neuer come into that lake, that burneth with fire and brimstone.2 This witnesseth s. Paul, saying: Whyle we are punished, we ar corrected of the lord that we should not wt this world be condempned.3 Whan God suffereth the wicked in this world to florish like a bay tree, and licenciously to sinne without any punishement, as he suffred the ritche glotton, of whome ye reade in the Gospell of blessed Luke,4 it is an euident argument, that suche one is reserued vnto the paines of the world to come,5 whiche neuer shall haue end, wher weping and gnashynge of teethe shall be, as ye see it chaunced to the afore saide ritche glotton, vnto whome God ⟨p. 56⟩said: sonne, remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy pleasure,6 and contrariwyse, Lazarus receiued pain. But nowe is he cō forted, and thou art punished: so doth our sauiour Christ threaten the vngodli,7 saying: Wo be to you that are full, for ye shall hunger, Wo be vnto you that now laugh, for ye shall wayle and wepe. The holie Apostle also saieth: What sonne is he,8 whom the father chasteneth not? If ye be not vnder correction (wherof all are partakers) then are ye bastardes & not sonnes. A terrible end therfore abideth them, which in this world licenciously and without punishment do sinne. For all such be bastardes and no sonnes, therfore haue they no part of the heauenly enheritaunce.
- 1Apoc. xxi.
- 2i. Cor. xi.
- 3Psal. xxxvii.
- 4Luk. xvi,
- 5Mat. x•••
- 6Luke. xvi.
- 7Luke. vi.
- 8Hebr. xii.
