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If ye be then risen againe with Christ, seke those thinges whiche are aboue, where Christ sitteth on the right hande of God. Set your affeccion on heauenly thinges, and not on yearthly thinges.
BAse and lowe are these thinges, & vnbesemyng the true mēbres of Christ. But if ye to worldly affayres be vere∣ly dead, & risen againe with Christ to the desyre of high and euerlastyng treasures and commodities, sette at naught suche vile matters, and seeke for heauēly plea∣sures and thinges aboue, where Christ your head sit∣teth at the right hand of God his father. For mete it is that al the studyes and cares of the membres were directed to that place, wheras the head is now present, and where the same shall with the head hereafter reigne for euer. For there liueth euery man, where he loueth.
For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Whensoeuer Christ, (whi∣che is our life) shal shewe him selfe, then shal ye also appeare with him in glory.
To this world ye seme dead, as whiche are neither delited with worldly wealth, nor yet regarde suche phātalies, wherwith the worldly people are delited. Wherfore ye liue not here among men, & yet liue ye with Christ before God, though y• in the meane season after y• iudgement of the world your life be hidden. But whattyme Christ shall come againe, and shewe both his glory and the glory of his body to all the worlde, then shall men see you with your head, partakers of glory.
Mortifie therfore your yearthly membres: fornicacion, vncleanes, vnnatural lust, euil concupiscence, and couetousnes whiche is worshippyng of idols: for whiche thin∣ges sake the wrath of God vseth to come on the children of vnbelief, among whom ye walked sometyme, when ye liued in them. But now put ye also away frō you al such thinges, wrath, fiersnes, maliciousnes, cursed speakyng, filthy communicacion out of your mouth.
In the meane season diligently endeuour, that all the body be like vn∣to the high and heauenly head, whose mēbres if they here dye not vtterly to carnal desyres, they cannot in heauen liue with Christ. The deuil hath