The Parable of the Wicked Mammon

Christ sayeth in. xvii. of Mat. Elijah shall first come, that is shall come before Christ and restore all things meaning of Jo. bap. Jo. bap. did restore the law and the scripture unto the right sense and understanding, which the pharisees part li had darkened and made of none effect, through their own traditions Math. xv. where Christ rebuketh them saying: why transgress ye the commandments of God through your traditions: and partly had corrupt it with glosses & false interpretations, that no man could under stand it. Wherefore Christ rebuketh them Math xxiii. saying: woo •e to you pharisees hypocrites which shut up the kingdom of heaven before men: ye enter not your selves, nether suffer them that come, to enter in: and partly did beguile the people and blind there eyes in disguising them selves, as thou redest in that same. xxiii. Cha. how they made broad & large phylacteries, and dead all there works to be ⟨image 52⟩seen of men, that the people should won der at there disguisings and visoring of them selves other wise then God had made them: and partly mocked them with hypocrisy of false holiness in fasting, pra ing and alms giving Mat. vi. and this did they for lucre to be in authority, to sit in the consciences of the people and to be counted as God him self, that the people should trust in there holiness and not in God, as thou redest in the place above rehearsed Mat. xxiii. woe be to you pharisees hypocrites which devour widows houses under a colour of long prayer. Counterfeit therefore nothing without the word of God when thou understandest that, it shall teach the all things how to apply outward things, and where unto refer them. Beware of thy good enten•, good¹ mind, good affection or zeal as they call it. Peter of a good mind and of a good affection or zeal chode Christ Math. xvi. because he said that he must go to Hie rusalem and there be slain.