An A.B.C. for layemen, othervvise called, the lay-mans letters An alphabet for lay-men, deliuering vnto them such lessons as the holy Ghost teaches them in the worde, by thinges sensible, very necessary to be diligently considered.

World.

SUch safety as sheepe haue amongest wolues, such must the Ministers of God looke for in this Worlde.* 1.1 For the loue of the World, and the loue of God can not abyde togeather in one and the same man.* 1.2 But this is the comfort of the children of God,* 1.3 that the World with all the de∣sires thereof shall passe away, but they that seeke to fulfill the will of the Lorde, shall abide and endure for euer.* 1.4 If the Worlde therefore hate vs, it is no matter: it hated Christ first. And there is one and the same cause of hating, both because Christ and all his true followers do witnesse vn∣to the Worlde,* 1.5 the wickednesse of their workes. For it is a continuall worke of the spirite, in all those which are therewith endued, to conuince the worlde of sinne.* 1.6 Whosoeuer therefore ioy∣neth

in friendship with the world,* 1.7 foorthwith be∣commeth the enemy of God. Loue not then the world,* 1.8 nor the thinges that are in the world. For if any man loue the worlde, the loue of the Fa∣ther is not in him.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Math. 10.10
• * 1.2

  1. Iohn. 2.15.
• * 1.3

  1. Iohn. 2.17.
• * 1.4

  Iohn. 15.18
• * 1.5

  Iohn. 7.7.
• * 1.6

  Iohn. 16.8.
• * 1.7

  Iames. 4.4
• * 1.8

  1. Iohn. 2.15