The Obedience of a Christian Man

vj.) servants obey unto your carnal or fleshly masters with fear and trembling / in singleness of your hearts as unto Christ? not with eye service as men pleasers: but as the servants of Christ: doing the will of God from the heart: even as though ye served the lord and not men. And remember that what so ever good thing any man doeth / that shall he receive again of the lord / whether he be bond or free. Christ thus is all in all things & cause of all to a Christen man. And Math. xxv saith Christ: in as much as ye have done it to any of the lest of thes my brethren / ye have done it to me. And in as much as ye have not done it unto one of the lest of these / ye have not done it to me. Here seest thou that we are Christs brethren and even Christ him self / and what so ever we do one to another that do we to Christ. If we be in Christ we work for no worldly purpose / but of love. As Paul saith .ij. Corint. v. The love of Christ compelled us (as who should say we work not of a fleshly purpose) For (saith he) we know henceforth no man fleshly: no though we once knew christ fleshly we do so now no more. We are other wise minded / then when Peter drew his sword to fight for ⟨p. cxxv⟩Christ. we are now ready to suffer with Christ and to loose life and all for our very enemies to bring them to Christ. If we be in Christ we are minded like unto Christ / ¹which knew no thing fleshly or after the will of the flesh / as thou seest Matth. xij. when one said to him. Lo thy mother and thy brethren stand without desiring to speak with thee. He answered / who is my mother and who are my brethren? And stretched his hand over his disciples saying: see my mother and my brethren. For who so ever doeth the will of my father which is in heaven / the same is my brother my sister & my mother. He knew not his mother in that she bare him / but in that she did the will of his father in heaven. So now as God the fathers will and commandment is all to Christ even so Christ is all to a Christen man.

vj.) servaūtes obeye vnto youre carnall or fleshly masters with feare and tremblinge / in singlenes of youre hertes as vnto Christe? not with eye service as men pleasers: but as the servātes of Christe: doinge the will of God from the herte: even as though ye served the lorde and not men. And remēbre that what so ever good thinge any man doeth / that shall he receave agayne of the lorde / whether he be bonde or fre. Christe thus is all in all thinges & cause of all to a Christen man. And Math. xxv sayth Christe: in as moch as ye have done it to any of ye lest of thes my bretherne / ye have done it to me. And ī as moch as ye have not done it vnto one of the lest of these / ye have not done it to me. Here seist thou yt we are Christes brethern and even Christe hym selfe / and what so ever we do one to a nother that doo we to Christe. Yf we be in Christe we worke for no wordly purpose / but of love. As Paul sayth .ij. Corint. v. The love of Christ compelled vs (as who shuld saye we worke not of a flesly purpose) For (saith he) we knowe hensforth no mā flesly: no though we once knew christ fleshly we doo so now no moare. We are other wise mynded / then when Peter drewe his swerde to fyght for