M. Harding.M. Hardinge.

M. Harding.

M. Hardinge.

Ye do well to compare your selves with this Cobilon. For in deed^* ye do as he did. Ye were sent^‡ by Christ to his Vicar, Peters Successor, to be fed and governed like sheep under the shepherd Christ and his Church be a perfect body, he the head, the true believers knit together in charity the members▪ each one in his order and degree. He is the vine, we the boughs and branches. ^*What member cut of from the body, liveth? what bough broken from the tree, groweth? As every such member dieth, and bough withereth: So if ye remain not in the Catholic Church, which is the body of Christ, ye draw no life from the head, ye have no part of the Spirit, that from thence redoundeth to every member, ye have no portion of the vital juice that issueth from the root. Then what remaineth, but that ye be caste into the fire? For this cause S. Cyprian and other Fathers, often times have said, that out and besides the Church, there is no salvation.

Yee doo wel to compare your selues with this Cobilon. For in deede^* ye doo as he did. Yee were sent^‡ by Christe to his Vicare, Peters Successour, to be fedde and gouerned like shepe vnder the shepeherde Christe and his Churche be a perfite body, he the head, the true beleuers knitte togeather in charitie the members▪ eche one in his order and degree. He is the vine, wee the boughes and branches. ^*