A13203:1269
[The Pentateuch]
printed by Hans Luft i.e. Johan Hoochstraten, 1530
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Wilt thou vow to offer unto y• poor people? that is pleasant in y• sight of god / for they be left here to do our alms upon in christs stead & they be y• right heirs of all our abundance & overplus. Moreover we must have a school to teach God's word in (though it needed not to be so costly) & therefore it is law full to vow unto the building or maintenance thereof & unto helping of all good works. And we ought to vow to paye custome / tolle / rent & all manner duties and what soever we owe: for that is gods commandment
Wilt thou vowe to offre vnto y• poore people? that is pleasaunte in y• sight of god / for they be lefte here to do oure almes apō in christes stead & they be y• right heyres of all oure abundaūce & ouerplus. Moreouer we must haue a scole to teach goddes worde ī (though it neded not to be so costely) & therfore it is law full to vowe vnto the buyldinge or mayntenaūce therof & vnto helpinge of all good werkes. And we ought to vowe to paye custome / tolle / rent & all maner dutyes and what soeuer we owe: for that is gods commaundmēt
If thou wilt vow pilgrimage / thou must put salt thereto in like manner if it shall be accepted / if thou vow to go and visit the poor or to here gods word or what soever edifieth thy soul unto love & good work after knowledge or what soever god commandeth / it is well done and a sacrifice that savoureth well ye will haply say / that ye will go to this or y• place because god hath chosen one place more then another and will hear your petition more in one place then another. As for your prayer it must be according to God's word. Ye may not desire god to take vengeance on him whom God's word •eacheth you to pity & to pray for. And as for y• other gloss / y god will hear you more in one place than in another / I suppose it sal infatutm / salt unsavoury / for if it were wisdom how could