[ 1357] The persons of Poor Men not to be sleighted.
IT is reported of Master Fox the Martyrologist,* 1.1 when it was told him, that a certain Man (of none of the highest or greatest calling) who had received much comfort from him in the dayes of his trouble, was desirous to acknow∣ledge his thankfulnesse towards him, and asked him, Whether he remembred such a one? He answered, I remember him well; I tell you, I forget Lords and Ladies,* 1.2 to remember such as he is. But now it is otherwise in the World, Many there are that look so high, that they cannot discern their lower brother, whom notwithstanding God loveth, for whom Christ dyed, and to whom the Word of Salvation is preached:* 1.3 Nay, so supercilious and lofty are most Men, that they look upon a lower, a poorer Man, no otherwise then if God had made them so on purpose to be laughed at: but let all such know for a certain, that they are the same with them, and though they have not vestem communem, the same coat, yet they have cutem communem, the same skin, and that, He that mocketh the poor, reproacheth him that made him.