An exposycyon vpon the v.vi.vii. chapters of Mathewe which thre chapters are the keye and the dore of the scrypture, and the restoring agayne of Moses lawe corrupt by ye scrybes and pharyses. And the exposycyon is the restorynge agayne of Chrystes lawe corrupte by the Papystes. Item before the boke, thou hast a prologe very necessary, conteynynge the whole sum of the couenaunt made betwene God and vs, vpon whiche we be baptysed to kepe it. And after thou haste a table that ledeth the by the notes in the margentes, vnto al that is intreated of in the booke.

Wherfore if thy ryght eye offende the plucke it out and caste it from the. For it is better for the that one of thy membres peryshe / then that thy hole bodye shulde be caste into hell. And euen so if thy ryght hande offende the / cut it of / and caste it from the. For it is better for the / that one of thy members peryshe / then that thy hole bodye shulde be caste into hell.

Thys is not mente of the outwarde members For then we must cut of nose, eares, hande and

fote / ye we must procure to destroy the saynge herynge, smellynge, tastynge and felynge, and so euery man kyl him selfe. But it is a phrase or speache of the Ebrue tonge / and wyll that we cut of occasyons / daunsynge / kyssyng / ryotous eatynge / * 1.1 and drynkynge / and the luste of the hart and fylthy ymagynacyons that moue a mā to concupyscence. Let euery man haue his wyfe thynke her the fayrest and the best cōdicyoned and euery woman her husbande so to. For god hath blessed thy wyfe and made her without syn to the / * 1.2 whiche ought to seme a beautyful fayr∣nes, And al that ye suffer to gether / y^e one with the other / is blessed also and made the verye Crosse of Chryste and plesaunt in the syghte of God / why shulde she then be lothe some to the because of a lytle sufferynge, that thou shuldest luste after a nother / that shuld defyle thy soule and flee thy cōscyence and make the suffer euer∣lastynglye?

Notes

• * 1.1

  Fylthye,
• * 1.2

  A wyfe how good a thynge.