It is the duty of every good pastor and curate, diligently ⟨image 3⟩to search and know what virtue is most meet to be commended, and what vice most to be reprehended in the Church that he serveth. I vvill leave therefore the unknown evils unto metro the shepherd of every parish, requiring him to mark the sins of the people after, and by the estimation of Gods word, and thereby to ponder the condition of his people least that he cause them and do the same him self, swallow a Camel, and be choked with a flee: leap over a block, and stumble at a straw. Before all things, see that the people know their commandments, and the works thereof, appertaining unto God, in the first table, that they honour no wrong not false God, nor yet the true God, a wrong way: but as he hath commanded him self, in the old Testament, and the new. And also that they avoid all such sins, faults, and disobedience, as be contrary to the commandments of God, in the second table. And for a help unto you, and also to the people in this behalf, I have set forth here the 13. Chapter of S. Paul to the Romans, which entreateth of all the second table, and duty of a Christian man, how he should use him self with, and towards all sorts of people. Most heartily praying you, and also in Gods name, and the kings majesties name command you, that as many as serveth any cure within this Diocese, that can not for lack of learning or exercise, teach or preach him self to the people the like doctrine, that they do every day, read unto the people this 13. Chapter, as I have here set it forth: that the people may learn ⟨image 4⟩to know, love, and fear the better the Kings majesty, and other such Magistrates as be by him appointed over the people. And all such as God hath given grace of preaching unto, in their Sermons, shall oftentimes inculcate and persuade this argument and rule of obedience unto the people. And the cause why, I have written in this chapter, more then an other, and think it very expedient to be now taught unto the people, is the great & dangerous offences and sins of the richer sort of people, and also of the poor, both in this shire, and also other the kings majesties, in this realm. And certain I am that both of them shall dye eternally, if they amend not.
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