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The order of love or charity which some dream / y• Gospel of Christ knoweth not of / that a man should begin at him self & serve him self first & then descend I wot not by what steppes. Love seeketh not her own proffer .ij. Cor. xij. but maketh a man to forget him self / & to turn his profit to an other man / as Christ sought not him self or his own profit but ours. This term my self is not in y• Gospel / nether yet father / mother sister / brother / kinsman / that one should be preferred in love above an other. But Christ is all in all things. Every christen man to an other is Christ him self / and thy neighbours need hath as good right in thy goods as hath christ him ⟨image 47⟩self which is heir and lord over all. And look what thou owest to Christ that thou owest to thy neighbours need. To thy neighbour owest thou thine heart / thy self and all that thou hast & canst do. The love that springeth out of Christ excludeth •o man nether putteth difference between one and an other. In Christ we are all of one degree without respect of persons. Not withstanding though a Christen mans heart be open to all men / and receiveth all men. Yet be cause that his ability of goods extendeth not so far / this provision is made / that every man shall care for his own household / as father & mother and thine elders that have holpen the / wife children and servants. If thou shouldest not care and provide for thine household / then were thou an infidel / seeing thou hast taken on the so to do / and for as much as that is thy part committed to the of the congregation. When thou hast done thy duty to thine household / and yet hast further abundance of the blessing of God / that owest thou to the pore that can not labour / or would labour and can get no work / and are destitute of friends / to the pore I mean which thou knowest / to them of thine own parish. For that provision ought to be had in the congregation / that every parish ca•e for there pore. If thy neighbours which thou knowest be served / and thou yet have superfluity / ⟨p. xlij⟩and hearest▪ necessity to be among the brethren a thousand mile of / to them art thou debtor. Ye to the very infidels we be debtors / if they need / as far forth as we maintain them not against Christ or to blaspheme Christ. Thus is every man that needeth thy help / thy father / mother / sister / and brother in Christ: