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The vvorlde cannot hate you.
Bycause you are not of the vvorlde but that I haue parted you from the vvorlde, therefore the vvorlde hateth you.
CHrist in thys fyrst sentence spea∣keth of hys kynsfolke that as yet were fleshly (for it is there sayd of them that they beleued not in hym) he sayd to them, my tyme is not yet cōme, but your tyme is alwayes ready. And he addeth, the worlde cannot hate you,
he sheweth wherein he dyffereth from them.
They myghte and had libertre to shewe themself at al times to the world and without daunger, bycause y• world was frendly and fauourable to them. But as for him he is afrayd of his per∣son, and not without cause, for that the world is his deadly enemie. Therby he openly declareth that they wer fleshly. For whosoeuer wil haue peace with y• world he must consent to vice and to al manner of wickednesse.
Touchyng the other place, he spea∣keth to another sort of folke, to were, to hys Apostles whiche were begotten a newe, and by that begettyng, parted from the world. Now the true felicitye of the faythful standes herein, bycause that by thys meane they are deliuered from destruction. Thē he maketh here a dyfference beetwene, those that are not regenerated and the true faythful, which though they study to haue peace with al men: yet they loke on y• whiche is lawful not geuyng themselues ouer to y• corruptions of ye world to please it.
Thys notwithstandyng is not to saye that al they which are hated of ye world are therfore welbeloued of God: For we see thys cōme to passe yea ordina∣rilye, that there is stryfe beetwene the worldlynges, and one of them hateth another, forasmuche as the worlde is full of hote debate within it selfe. But here Christ goeth aboute to shewe that the world hateth nothyng in the fayth∣ful but that whiche is of God. Nowe the diuersitye of the persons wel consi∣dered in these two sentences shal make vs to knowe that there is no dysagree∣ing. The one sort cannot be hated of the world bycause they are of ye worlde. The other cannot be loued of ye worlde bycause they be not of it.