The Obedience of a Christian Man

Now must the body be tame only / and that with the remedies that God hath ordained / and not killed. Thou must not forswear the natural remedy which God hath ordained and bring thy self in to such case that thou shouldest ether break Gods commandment or kill thy self or burn night & day without rest so that thou canst not ones think a Godly thought: nether is it lawful to forsake thy neighbour and to withdraw thy self from serving him and to get the in to a den and live idly profitable to no man but robbing all men / first of faith and then of goods and land and of all he hath with making him believe in the hypocrisy of thy superstitious prayers and Pope holy deeds The prayer of faith and the deeds there of that spring of love are accepted before God ⟨p. Cx⟩The prayer is good according to the proportion of faith and the dead according to the measure of love. Now he that bideth in the world / as monks call it / hath more faith then the cloisterer. For he hangeth on God in all things. He must trust God to send him good speed / good luck / favour help / a good master / a good neighbour / a good servant / a good wife / a good chapman merchant to send his merchandise safe to land and a thousand like. He loveth also more / which appeareth in that he doeth service all ways unto his neighbour. To pray one for another are we equally bound and to pray is a thing that we may all ways do / what so ever we have in hand and that to do may no man hire another Christs blood hath hired us all ready. Thus in the dead delighteth God as far forth as we do it ether to serve our neighbour with all / as I have said / or to tame the flesh / that we may fulfil the commandment from the bottom of the heart.

Now must the body be tame only / and that with the remeadies that God hath ordened / and not kylled. Thou must not forswere the naturall reamedy which God hath ordened and brīge thy selfe in to soch case that thou shuldest ether breake Gods commaundment or kyll thy selfe or burne nyght & daye without rest so that thou cāst not ones thinke a Godly thoughte: nether is it lawfull to forsake thy neyboure and to withdraw thy selfe from servinge hym and to get the in to a denne and lyve ydely profitable to no man but robbinge all men / first of fayth and thē of goodes and lāde and of all he hath with makynge hym beleve in the ypocresy of thy superstitious prayers ād Pope holy deades The prayer of fayth and the deades ther of that sprīge of love are accepted before God ⟨p. Cx⟩