An exhortation to the carrying of Christs cross with a true and brief confutation…An exhortacion to the carienge of Chrystes crosse wyth a true and brefe confutacion…

You are not of them, which receive the beasts mark, which ¹here rejoice, laugh and have their hearts ease, joy, paradise & pleasure: but you are of them, which have received the angel's mark, ²yea gods mark, which here lament, mourn, sigh, sob, weep and have your wilderness to wander in, your purgatory and even hell. You are not of them, which ³cry: let us eat and drink, for to morrow we shall dye. You are not of that number, which say, ⁴they have made a covenant with death and hell for hurting them. You are not of them, which take it but for a vain thing, to serve ⁵the lord. You are not of them, which ⟨p. 8⟩are lulled and rocked a sleep in Jezebels bed, a bed of security. You are not in the number of them which say: tush, god is in heaven ⁶and seeth us not, nor much passeth what we do. You are not of the number of them, which will fall down for the muc• of the world, to worship the fiend: or for displeasing ⁷of men, to worship the golden image.⁸

You are not of them, whyche receaue the beestes marke, whiche ¹here reioice, laugh and haue their hartes ease, ioye, paradise & pleasure: but you are of them, which haue receaued the an̄gels marke, ²yea gods marke, whyche here lament, mourne, sigh, sobbe, wepe and haue your wildernes to wander in, your purgatorye and euen hel. You are not of them, whiche