displeasing vnto vs, it notwithstanding auaileth to our saluation, sith by meane hereof we shall purchase eternall life. We ought besides to ab∣horre and hate our body, when it is pleased in delightes and vices: for so liuing carnally, we estrange our selues from the loue of IE∣SVS CHRIST, and make our owne entry into hell; and by rea∣son that by sinne we become loathsome and miserable, and that the concupiscences of our flesh are contrary to our true good, and make vs prone to euill, as our lord saith. From the hart of man proceed euill co∣gitations, fornications, adulteries, murders, couetousnes, theftes, de∣ceiptes, blasphemies, false testimonies, pride, and the foly of this world, and all the foresaid euils procure and make the soule loathsome, defiled, and refrigerate: we therfore, who haue already forsaken the world, should haue regard to no other thinge, but to doe the will of God, an to take contentment therin. Lett vs haue care not to be like the earth by the way side full of stones and thornes, because as our lord saith, the seed (that is the word of God) which was sowne by the way side, was trodden vnder foote by passengers and destroyed. Hereto are compared those that heare the word of God, but dispose not themsel∣ues to vertue, and the deuill incontinently rooteth it out of their harts, least beleeuing they might be saued. They are compared to the stone, wheron the other seed fell, who willingly heare the word of God, and insome sort dispose themselues to doe well: but some affliction befal∣ling them, they are incontinently scandalized, the seed then withereth, because it hath no root. They are compared to thornes, who hearing the word of God, haue their harts alwayes employed on worldly thin∣ges and permitt thēselues to be seduced by richesse and auarice, busying themselues in terrestriall affaires, and therfore the seed cannot profitt them. But they are like to fertile land, who heare the word of God, and with the hart obserue and practise it, and doe worckes worthy of pe∣nance. Lett vs therfore, as our Lord saith, suffer the dead to bury the dead. Lett vs be seriously wary of the slightes and mischeiuous de∣uises of the deuill, who seeketh no other thing but to separate our sou∣le from vnion with God by the bait of temporall richesse, honours, and pleasures of the flesh, seeking to become lord and master of the hart of man, employing all his endeauour to root out of his memory the preceptes of God, and doth striue to blind the hart of man in the desires and cogitations of the world and to confirme him in them, according to the saying of our lord: When the vncleane spiritt shall depart out of a man, he wandereth through places without water seeking rest. And not finding, he saith, I will retourne into my house whence I departed. And when he is come, he findeth it swept with a besome, and trim∣med.