❧ An exhortation to be spoken to such parishes where they use their perambulation in rogation week for the oversight of the bonds and limits of their Town.❧ An exhortation to be spoken to such parisshes where they vse their perambulation in rogation weeke for the ouersight of the bondes and limits of their Towne.

❧ An exhortation to be spoken to such parishes where they use their perambulation in rogation week for the oversight of the bonds and limits of their Town.

❧ An exhortation to be spoken to such parisshes where they vse their perambulation in rogation weeke for the ouersight of the bondes and limits of their Towne.

Although we be now assembled together (good Christian people) most principally to laud and thank almighty GOD for his great benefits, by beholding the ⟨p. 468⟩fields replenished with all manner fruit, to the maintenance of our corporal necessities, for our food and sustenance, and partly also to make our humble suites in prayers to his Fatherly providence to conserve the same fruits, in sending us seasonable weather, whereby we may gather in the said fruits, to that end for which his fatherly goodness hath provided them: Yet have we occasion secondarily given us in our walks on these days, to consider the old ancient bonds and limits belonging to our own Township, and to other our neighbours bordering about us, to the intent that we should be content with our own, and not contentiously strive for others, to the breach of charity, by any encroaching one upon another, or claiming one of the other, further then that in ancient right and custom our forefathers have peaceably laid out unto us for our commodity and comfort. Surely a great oversight it were in us, which be christian men in one profession of faith, daily looking for that heavenly inheritance which is bought for every one of us by the bloodshedding of our saviour Jesus Christ, to strive and fall to variance for the earthly bounds of our towns, to the disquiet of our life betwixt our selves, to the wasting of our goods by vain expenses and costs in the law. We ought to remember, that our habitation is but transitory and short in this mortal life. The more shame it were to fall out into immortal hatred among our selves, for so brittle possessions, and so to loose our eternal inheritance in heaven. It ⟨p. 469⟩may stand well w•th charity, for a Christian man quietly to maintain his right and just title. And it is the part of every good towns man, to preserve as much as lieth in him, the liberties, franchises, bounds, and limits of his town and country. But yet so to strive for our very rights and duties with the breach of love and charity, which is the only livery of a Christian man, or with the hurt of godly peace and quiet, by the which we be knit together in one general fellowship of Christs family, in one common household of God, that is utterly forbidden.