it hath also his farther growinges, finally it hath his perfite growē age. Those first thinges are not to be supped lothesomly, but gredily, yea and thrustily: neyther yet must you lyngre continually in them, but to procede from them stil vnto thinges of more perfeccion. For in dede it were euen a straunge thing if a man borne of his mother should be alwaies a babe and couet nothing els but mylke. And it behoueth you also to ware bigge, tyll you growe vnto perfite saluaciō, and not alwaies to sticke still in making the foundacions, but to ryse by lytle and lytle vnto the perfite buyldyng of the house. For in case (according to the psalme wryters counsell) you haue tasted that the Lorde Iesus is swete, it is requisite for you to bee prouoked with that taste to sette your appetites vpon greater thynges. In humayne buyldynges, the stones neyther chaunge theyr place ne grow any bigger: But in this buyldyng (which standeth vpon liuing stones) the chiefe principall stone whereof, and the stone that conteyneth all thynges, is the liuyng and eternall Iesus Christe, whiche of late (after the psalme writers prophecying) was cast away of menne, that is to were of the pha∣riseis, who holding of their tēple that should go to naught, had no know∣ledge of this heauēly building, howbeit he was chosen by the iudgement of God, and had in muche price, there is nothing to hinder, but that it may procede forward to the perfite finishyng of the buildyng. Therefore you must necessarily goe, through forewarde encrease of vertues, vnto Christ the liuing stone, the chosen stone, the stone preciously sette by in the sight of God, that you also being grounded vpon suche a foundacion may be buil∣ded vpon by litle and litle, vntyll you bee made spirituall temples muche more holy than the tēple that the Iewes brag of, and in the which temples muche more wholy priesthood is exercised than was vsed in that temple. For in it the leuites and priestes offered vp beastes, but in these spirituall temples you your selues offer vp spirituall sacrifices moste acceptable to God, who, as he is a spirite and not a bodye, so doeth he delyte in spiritu∣all sacrifices, that you should nothing mynde the rites of Moses now be∣ing worne out through the preachyng of the Gospell: in stedde of sundrye kyndes of brute beastes, you slea worldly and br••tish affectes, lecherous lustes, pryde, wrath, enuie, desyre of reuengement, ryot, and couetousnes and in stedde of, incense, you offer pure prayers flying out of the aulter of a pure herte into heauen. These are the sacrifices that are offered at al sea∣sons in the spirituall temple, and are at al tymes acceptably welcome vn∣to God. For those sacrifices of Moses are now all ready growen in to a lothesomenes, as the prophet Esaye beareth recorde. But these maner of sacrifices are contynually allowed through Iesus Christ, by whose com∣mendacion the diligent seruice doinges of the Chrystians are acceptable vnto the father.