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Certain prayers and godly meditations very needful for every ChristenCerteine prayers and godly meditacyons very nedefull for euery Christen
Emprented at Malborow i.e. Antwerp : The year of our Lorde et M.CCCCC.XXXviii. per me Joannem Philoponon i.e. H. Peetersen van Mideelburch?, 1538Emprented at Malborow i.e. Antwerp : The yeare of our Lorde et M.CCCCC.XXXviii. per me Joannem Philoponon i.e. H. Peetersen van Mideelburch?, 1538
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¶Thou shalt not steal.
¶Thou shalt not steale.
IN the fifth we are taught how to order our self concerning the name & good fame of our neighbour / never to slander him but to help and defend him as much as lieth in us. These are the words of it.
IN the fifte we are taught howe to ordre oure sylfe cōcernynge the name & good fame of oure neyghboure / neuer to sclaunder hym but to helpe and defend him as moche as lieth in vs. These are the wordes of it.
¶Thou shalt bear no false witness ⟨image 23⟩against thy neighbour.
¶Thou shalt bere no false witnesse ⟨image 23⟩ageynst thy neyboure.
Therefore it is forbidden us to hurt any kind of our neighbours goods / but contrary wife commanded that we should increase them. Now if we look on the law of nature / we shall soon perceive how marvellous / equal / good and righteous these precepts are. For there is nothing commanded in all these that pertain either to god or to our neigh boure / but that every man would that it should be performed toward him self if he were in the stead of god or of his neighbour,