SVrely I meruayle moche of theyr blyndnes & howe they myght for shame writte so sim∣ple a reason. They wolde haue all religious per∣sones of one araye as other christianes. And yet they se nat howe variant the clothynge and aray is of al other christianes / nat only of diuerse realmes or kyngdomes: but also of the contres / or shyres of the same selfe realme. And the cities also or townes / let them loke well vpon the selfe citezyns of Londō / and they shall se euery crafte variant ī habite from other / and in one house theyr seruauntes ben nat of one araye. The lordes / knyghtes / and Ientelmen / haue variant lyuereys and diuerse fashons. After whiche sorte wolde these heretikes that the religi∣ous persones shulde be clothed or arayed? I trowe they wyll appoynte none. yet saye they: it were cō¦uenient that if they shulde be different frome other people: [Obiection.] they shulde yet amonge them selfe / be all of one hebite and fashon / and nat so many disgysyng{is} amonge them. Here vnto saye I: [Answere.] let them brynge aboute that all the ley people be of one araye and of one fashone / and I wyll than vndertake to brynge all religious persones vnto the same / or vnto any other after theyr deuyse. But in the meane tyme: I fere and drede that theyr owne araye (I meane the
Here begynneth the boke called the Pype, or tonne, of the lyfe of perfection The reason or cause wherof dothe playnely appere in the processe.
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- Here begynneth the boke called the Pype, or tonne, of the lyfe of perfection The reason or cause wherof dothe playnely appere in the processe.
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- Whitford, Richard, fl. 1495-1555?
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- [Imprynted at london :: In fletestrete, by me Robert Redman, dwellynge in saynt Dunstones parysshe, next the churche,
- In the yere of our lorde god a thousande fyue hondred and. xxxii. [1532] the xxiii. day of Marche]
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heretikes) And the araye also of many other christi¦anes: shall go forthe / and continue as it nowe is. And that is more lyke vnto the turkes araye than vnto christianes / or rather more defourme and ab∣hominable thā of any infideles. For surely ye world in many thynges: draweth moche vnto Ientilite. Natwithstandynge that saynt Paule sayde vnto his disciples.* 1.1 Nolite conformari huic seculo. Haue nat you wyll / appetite / or desyre / to be in any thyng conformable / or lyke / vnto the synfull people of the worlde. This answere is hederto (as we sayd) lyke vnto lyke.
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* 1.1
Ro. 12. A.