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GOo to now ye ryche men. Wepe / and howle on youre wretchednes that shall [ A] come apon you. Youre ryches is corru¦pte / youre garmentes are motheaten. Youre golde and youre silver are cankred / and the rust of them shalbe a witnes vnto you / & shall eate youre flesshe / as it were fyre. Ye have he∣aped treasure togedder in youre last dayes: Beholde the hyre of ye labourers which have reped doune youre feldes (which hyer is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth: & y• cryes of
them which have reped / are entred into the ea¦res of th•• lorde Sabaoth. Ye have lived in ple¦asure on the erth and in wantannes. Ye have norysshed youre herte / as in a daye of * 1.1 slaugh¦ter. Ye have condempned and have killed the iust / and he hath not resisted you.
✚ Be pacient therfore brethren / vnto the com¦mynge of the lorde. Beholde the husbande man wayteth for the precious frute of the erth / and hath longe pacience ther vppon / vn∣till he receave (the erly and the latter rayne.) Be ye also pacient therfore / and settle youre hertes / for y• commynge of the lorde draweth nye. Grodge not one agaynst another brethrē / * 1.2 lest ye be dāpned. Beholde the iudge stondeth before the dore. Take (my brethren) the pro∣phettes for an ensample of sufferynge adver∣sitie / and of longe pacience / which spake in the name of the lorde. ✚ Beholde we counte them happy which endure. Ye have hearde of the pacience of Iob / & have knowen what ende the lorde made. For the lorde is very pi∣tifull and mercifull.
But above all thynges my brethrē / sweare not / nether by heven / nether by erth / nether by eny other othe. Let youre * 1.3 ye be ye / and youre [] maye naye: lest ye faule into ypocrecy. Yf eny of you be evyll vexed / let him praye. Yf eny of you be mery / let him singe Psalmes. Yf eny be deseased amonge you / let him call for the elders of the congregacion / and let thē praye over him / and anoynte him with oyle in the name of the lorde: and the prayer of fayth
shall save the sicke / and the lorde shall rayse him vp: and yf he have committed synnes / they shalbe forgeuen him.
✚ knowledge youre fautes one to another: & [] praye one for another / that ye maye be healed. The prayer of a ryghteous mā avayleth mo∣che / yf it be fe••vēt. Helias was a man mortall even as we are / and he prayed in his prayer / * 1.4 that it myght not rayne: and it rayned not on the erth by the space of thre yeares and sixe monethes. And he prayed agayne / & the hevē gave rayne & the erth brought forth her frute.
Brethren yf eny of you erre from the trueth* 1.5 and a nother convert him / let the same knowe that he which converted the synner frō goyn¦ge a straye out of his waye / shall save a soule frō deeth / & shall hyde ye multitude of synnes.
Slaug∣hter: as whē men kyll best∣es to ma∣ke chere with all / and as the Iewes did in their thāke of∣feringes / •• frewill offerin∣ges &c.
(Two spe¦ciall ray∣nes) haue they / the one at so∣wēge ty∣me / & the∣oter at bl∣ominge ty¦me: of wh¦ich if they lacke eth∣er / all is frutelesse
whether ye saye ye or naye: se it be so. For yf ye haue one thinge in the harte and ano∣ther in the mouth o•• dede / in v•• sture or ge sture: it is y pocry sie or dissim∣ulacion.
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