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¶ Those Cityes are acursed, that whan ye worde of god is shewed vnto them, they wyll not receyue it, ne take repentaunce. Math. xj. Wo be to the Chorasyn, wo be to the Betzaida: for yf ye myracles, which were shewed ī you, had be done in Tyre & Sydon / they had repented longe ago in sackcloth & asshes. Neuertheles I say vn¦to
you, it shal be easyer for Tyre & Sydon at the day of iudgemēt, than for you. And thou Capernaum, which art lyft vp vnto heuen: shalt be brought downe to hell. For yf ye myracles whiche haue be done in the had be shewed in zodom / they had remay∣ned vnto this daye. Math. xxiij. Ierusa∣lem / Ierusalem, whiche kyllest {pro}phetes & stonest them which are sent vnto ye. &c. Beholde your habitacion shal be left vnto you desolate. Ione. iij. God sawe ye wor∣kes of the Niniuytes, whiche were cōuer¦red from their euyll waye: & he retracted the punyshment, that he had thretened to do vnto them. Wherfore you senatours & people of chrystyan Cytyes, I desyre you all yt I can, feare god & gladly receyue his worde / & louyngly cleue thervnto / & with that, study for the {pro}fyte of ye cōmen welth & brotherly charite: & all thynges shal suc¦cede vnto you prosperously / not onely in this worlde, but for euer in the worlde to cōme. And chose suche officers as haue ye feare of god, and so forth / as it is wryten
Exodi. xviij. For cōmenly according to the iudge of ye people, suche are his ministers And as the ruler of the Citye is: suche are the inhabytauntes therin.