¶ That Monkes bee no holyer thē lay men by reason of their coule or place: translated into English out of his booke De Doctor. Sent.
FOr often times we see certaine, as it were stricken with remorse by the * 1.1 voyce of the preacher, to haue chaūged their habite, and not their mynde: so that they would take vnto them a reli∣gions garment, but they would not tread vnder foote their former vyces, but were styrred outragiously with the prickes of anger, or waxyng whote wt grief of theyr neighbours, become proud with certain good gifts shewed in the sight of mē, gape after the gayne of this present world and haue onely a cōfidence of holynes on their outward habit, which they haue taken. For it is of no matter of any merite, to regarde what is outwardly done in our body, but we must bee very carefull what is done in our mynde.
FOr oftē tymes we complayne of our neighbours lyfe, wee endeuour to chaunge our dwellyng place, and to choose a secret place for a solitary lyfe, not consideryng that if Gods spirite bee wantyng, the place helpeth not. Loth wēt out from the Sodomites ho∣ly, but in the moūtaine hee sinned. But that the place doth not strengthen the mynde, the first father of all mankynd