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But singularly before God is it called unrighteous mammon / because it is not bestowed and ministered unto our neighbours need For if my neighbour need and I give him nor / nether depart liberally with him / of that which I have: than withhold I from him unrighteously that which is his own. For as much as I am bound to help him by the law of nature / which is / what so ever thou wouldest that another did to the that do thou ⟨p. xx⟩also to him. And Christ Mathei. v. Give to every man that desireth thee. And John in his first pystle / if a man have this worlds good and see his brother need / how is the love of God in him? And this unrighteousness in our mammon see very few men. Because it is spiritual / and in those goods which are gotten most truly and justly / which beguile men. For they suppose they do no man wrong in keeping them / in that they got them not with stealing / Robbing / oppression / and usury / nether hurt any man now with them.

But singularly before God is it callled vnrighteous mammon / because it is not bestowed and mynistred vnto oure neibours neade For if my neybour nede and I geve hym nor / nether depart lyberally with hym / of that which I have: than wythhold I frō hym vnrighteously that which is hys awne. For as moch as I am bownden to helpe hym by the lawe of nature / which is / what so ever thou woldest that a nother dyd to the that do thou ⟨p. xx⟩also to hym. And Christ Mathei. v. Geve to every man that desireth the. And John in hys first pystle / yf a man have this worldes good and se hys brother neade / how is the love of God in hym? And thys vnrighteousnes in oure mammon se very fewe men. Because it is sprituall / and in those goodes which argoren most truly and iustlye / which begyle men. For they suppose they do no man wronge in kepinge them / in that they gott them not wyth stelinge / Robbinge / oppressiō / and vsury / nether hurt any man now wyth them.

Thirdly many have busied them selves in studying what or who this unrighteous steward is / because that Christ so praiseth him. But shortly and plainly this is the answer. That Christ praiseth not the unrighteous steward / nether setteth him forth to us to counterfeit / because of his unrighteousness but because of his wisdom only in that he with unright so wisely provided for hi self As I if I would provoke another to pray or study say. The the ves watch all night to rob & steal: why canst not thou watch to pray & to study? Here praise not I the these and murderer for there evil doing / but for there wisdom / that they so wisely and diligently wait on there unrighteousness. Like wise when I say miss women tyre them selves with gold and silk to please