The seconde tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testament conteynyng the epistles of S. Paul, and other the Apostles : wherunto is added a paraphrase vpon the reuelacion of S. John.

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To be renewed also in the spirite of your mynde, and to put on that newe man, whiche after God is shapen in righteousnesse and true holmes. Wherefore put awaye lying, and speake e∣uery man trueth vnto his neighbour, for as muche as we are membres one of another. Be an∣gry, and synne not: let not the sunne go downe vpon your wrath, neyther geue place vnto the backebyter. Let hym that stole, steale no more, but let hym rather labour with his handes the thing whiche is good, that he maye geue vnto hym that nedeth.

Forasmuche as you are engraffed vnto the newe man Christe, throughe bap∣tisme, bee you also renewed with hym, not after the bodye, but after the mynde wherein the spirite of Christe dooeth moste chieflye woorke: and laying awaye the maner of youre olde cankered lyfe, put on the newe man, whiche was made after a certayne spirituall sorte lately in you by the woorke manshippe of God, yea made, as it were, by a certayne transformacion, that vnrighteousnes being abolished, Innocencie shoulde succede, and the vnclennesse of humayne lustes be∣yng taken oute of the waye, the holinesse of the Gospelles veritie shoulde take place. Loke therefore that you folowe that holines in euery condicion, and see y^e you desceaue not one an other with countrefaict speache nor liyng, but that eue∣ty one consider with himself the thing, that true is, & deale truely with his neigh∣bour,

remēbring that inasmuche as we are al mēbres of one bodye, no man can hurte an other, but he muste nedes also hurte hymselfe. It is a great perfeccion not to be moued with angre, but in case through the frailtie of mannes nature any rage of angre come in your minde, remēbre (as the holy psalmographe ge∣ueth warning) so to restrayn your angre, whan it would barste out, y^t it breake not out into scoldyng, or iniurie, or malicious hatred. And lette not your angre be onely vnhurtefull, but also let it remayne so litel whyle with you, that it bee sooner out of your stomakes, than the sunne from besydes the earth: leste whan the earth in the night season is naturally colde, you contrarie wise chaufe youre selfes in the meane tyme hootelye with angre. There is nothyng but concorde y^t is hable to defende you safelye agaynste the assaultes of the deuyll, and yf it bee broken through malice and displeasures one agianste another, you open a wi∣kette for your enemye to breake in to your vtter destruccion. Where as concord is, the deuyll is feble, and where discorde is, there is he myghtye, so that yf you geue place to malice, you must perforce geue place also to hym. He that after the olde naughty facion of lyuyng robbed and polled others, now let hym ab∣steyne not onelye from other mennes goodes, but also geue awaye liberallye of hys owne. And if he haue not to dooe with all, let hym not disdeyne to get with his honeste hande labours, wherewith to succoure suche as be nedye.