to vnderstand the lordes prayer, but it is a great thyng. Ther∣fore I would haue you to marke it well. But spccially keepe in your remembraunce how our sauiour teacheth vs to know the liberalitie of god, how god hath determined to helpe vs, in so much that we shall lacke nothyng, if we come to his trea∣sor house, where is locked vp all 〈◊〉〈◊〉 necessarye for oure soules and bodies.
Further consider by the same petition that we be but beg∣gers all together. For the beste of vs hath neede to say dayly: Our father, giue vs this day our dayly breade. I would these proude and lofty fellowes would consider this, namelye that they be but beggers as S. Paule sayth. Quid habes, quod nō accepisti: what haue ye yt you haue not goten with begging.
Yet moste aboue all thinges, I would haue you to consider this woorde Our, for in that woord ar conteyned great miste∣ries, and much learning. All those that pray this prayer (that is to saye, all Christen people) helpe me to get my lyuyng at gods hand: and therfore (as I tolde you before) they oughte to be partakers of my substance, seeyng they helpe to get my ly∣uyng at goddes hande: for whan they saye Our, they includs me in their prayers.
Agayne 〈◊〉〈◊〉 the remedy against carefulnes, which is, to truste in god, to hange vppon hym, to come to his treasure house, and then to labour, and to do the workes of our vocati on: then vndoutedly God wyll prouide for vs, we shall not lacke. Therfore learne to trust vpon the lorde, and leaue this wicked 〈◊〉〈◊〉, wherof our 〈◊〉〈◊〉 monisheth vs.
Specially I wold haue you to consider what a wicked 〈◊〉〈◊〉ō this is, to fantasy yt geuing to the poore is a diminishing of our goods. I tolde you of late of the proprieties of thynges how things 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and how 〈◊〉〈◊〉 be not ours; al those thin∣ges which we haue eyther by laboar or by inheritance, or els by giftes, or els by bying all those thyngs which we haue by suche tytles be oure owne: but yet not so, that we may spend them accordyng to our owne pleasure. They be ours vpon yt condicion that we shall spende them to the honor of god, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of our neighbors. And here I spake of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, howe we ought to make amendes vnto that man, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 we