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Déere friends this Emperour is our blessed sauiour Jesu Christ, which or∣dained by his holy law that euery man should kéepe holy the Saboth day.
This Virgill that made this ymage is the holy ghost, which establisheth a∣mong vs, Preachers to teach vertues, and to reproue vices, and that should not spare the poore ne the riche. But now if a Preacher would say the truth against any man, anon he shall be thre∣tened
of the enimies of Christ, that is to saye, by euill men that neither loue God nor man, wherefore the Preacher may say now a dayes that posey which was written in the forehead of ye image Times bene chaunged from good to ill, and men bene dayly worse: For who so would saye the truth now a dayes, shall haue his head broken. Therefore it is néede they be armed, that is to say, that euery Preacher be armed wt vertuous examples of their good lyfe towards o∣ther, and than it needeth not to dread, in so much yt they haue ye truth of God to stand by them, according to the Apo∣stles saying. Si Deus nobiscū, quis contra nos. If God be with vs who is against vs. By this smith Focus, is vnderstoode euery good Christian man, which dayly should spende his tyme in warie redée∣ming euery houres trauaile with some profit corporall and spirituall, and then ought hee to be presented before the hea∣uenly Emperour. This Focus paid ii. d. to his father, & so we should pay to our Father of Heauen ii. d. that is to saye, honour & loue. For when we were the
childrē of wretchednes & put in bōdage, almightie God sent downe to the earth his sonne to redéeme vs, according to S. Iohn the Euangelist, laying: Deus dilex∣it mundum vt filium suum vnigenitum daret pro mundo. God loueth the world so well yt he would giue his onely sonne for the saluation of the world.
Also this Focus lent ii. d. to his son, that is to say, euery Christian man ought to lend to ye son of god our lord Christ Jesu good firme faith & fruitfull good works & déeds in our lyfe, and he wil repay vs a∣gaine at ye day of dome with his heauē∣ly mercy, whē soule & body shalbe glori∣fied, & in that he is our brother, it may well be proued by ye text of Esay, saying thus. Puer natus est nobis, &c. A child is borne to vs. This Eocus lost ii. d. on his wife. Thy wife betokeneth thy flesh, vpō whom thou lost ii. d. yt is to say, vnlawful loue & consent to sinne, for why, the flesh is contrary to the spirit, & euer is redy to harme. This Focus also spent ii. d. on himselfe, yt is to say, by ye first penny ye shall vnderstand penance done, in which the soule greatly delighteth in heauen,