¶
To
the
reuerent
father
Fraū●●●●ke
Moline
,
the
byshop
of
Condome
,
newly
elected
,
Erasmus
of
Roterdame
sendeth
gretynge
.
OUR
frende
Hillary
bryngynge
vnto
me
your
letters
,
moste
honorable
prelate
/
full
of
a
certayn
rare
and
singular
fauour
and
beneuolence
towarde
me
:
dyd
doubtles
brynge
vnto
me
very
moche
hilarite
and
gladnes
.
For
asmoche
therfore
as
it
hath
pleased
you
to
let
me
haue
knowlege
and
vnderstandyng
,
what
thyng
you
do
there
in
those
parties
,
where
you
are
abydyng
:
me
thought
it
was
my
parte
againe
to
prouide
that
you
shulde
not
be
ignoraunt
,
nor
vnknowyng
wherabout
I
〈◊〉
occupied
at
that
tyme
,
wha●
yo●
lettre
was
delyuered
vnto
m●●
Horace
at
what
tyme
his
m●●
was
occupied
about
suche
thy●●ges
as
do
apperteyne
to
lyuyng
well
,
and
vertuously
,
wryteth
in
this
wyse
:
I
do
(
saythe
he
)
gather
and
lay
vp
in
my
mynde
holsome
preceptes
/
whiche
I
may
shortely
hereafter
vtter
&
expresse
in
my
conuersation
and
lyuyng
.
But
this
sayde
verse
may
I
more
ryghtfully
&
truely
vse
&
apply
to
my selfe
/
whiche
was
at
that
tyme
occupied
aboute
suche
thinges
as
do
helpe
vnto
dyeng
well
,
&
makyng
of
a
good
ende
.
For
this
is
the
chiefe
and
principall
parte
/
and
also
the
most
ernest
parte
of
philosophie
,
and
wysedome
.
This
thynge
albeit
it
ȳ●
it
oughte
to
be
the
principall
studie
and
busynes
of
a●l
men
,
all
the
tyme
of
theyr
lyfe
:
yet
are
we
the
mooste
parte
of
vs
,
I
wote
not
after
what
facyon
,
moche
of
the
propertie
that
the
people
of
Phrigia
were
of
/
and
we
are
not
lightly
amended
nor
made
better
/
but
by
strokes
&
punyshement
.
The
payne
and
grefe
of
the
raynes
of
the
backe
,
hath
in
dede
very
ofte
at
other
tymes
payned
me
:
but
specially
of
al
other
tymes
/
it
dyd
so
vexe
&
turment
me
in
the
moneth
of
Iuly
laste
passed
/
that
there
was
none
other
remedy
/
but
ernestely
to
thynke
of
departynge
out
of
the
worlde
:
but
the
same
disease
dyd
so
come
vpon
me
agayne
at
Christenmas
/
that
not
onely
I
was
in
dispayre
of
lyfe
/
but
also
I
dyd
desyre
and
wyshe
to
die
:
The
stoone
is
a
warpe
&
a
churly
●e
warner
and
teacher●
euyn
more
cruell
also
than
dethe
it selfe
:
but
yet
for
all
that
herof
I
may
thanke
it
/
or
rathe●
our
lorde
Iesu
by
it
/
that
I
do
nowe
diligently
and
hertely
gyue
hede
and
prouide
,
that
dethe
may
not
come
vpon
me
,
and
take
me
vnprepared
,
and
vnredy
/
although
he
do
come
so
sodeynly
,
that
he
shall
not
graunt
me
laysure
and
space
to
make
confession
at
my
last
ende
.
A
lytle
treatise
,
wherupon
I
do
at
this
tyme
sende
vnto
you
as
annexed
to
my
letters
wryten
vnto
you
:
with
the
whiche
,
yf
you
●hal
iudge
your
epistle
to
be
well
recompensed
/
I
shall
haue
cause
wherfore
greatly
to
be
glad
and
reioyce
,
for
your
good
and
fauorable
mynde
borne
toward
me
/
I
knowe
right
well
that
I
shall
deyned
of
Christe
hym selfe
/
so
that
it
in
no
wyse
maye
be
put
downe
,
or
taken
away
by
men
:
or
els
beinge
broughte
in
of
our
fore
fathers
,
and
elders
/
it
hath
by
lytle
and
lytle
gathered
suche
strength
,
that
the
auctorite
of
it
is
as
great
/
as
yf
it
had
ben
instituted
of
Christe
/
namely
in
as
moche
as
the
auctorite
of
the
byshop
of
Rome
,
and
the
consent
also
of
the
christen
people
hath
confirmed
the
same
.
Furthermore
,
yf
a
man
doth
graunte
that
it
hath
ben
instituted
and
ordeyned
first
of
men
/
than
whether
it
shulde
be
more
expedient
and
profitable
,
that
it
be
lefte
&
do
remayn
styll
/
bicause
of
innumerable
vtilities
and
profites
/
whiche
we
do
se
to
come
of
it
:
or
els
it
shulde
be
better
that
it
were
taken
awaye
/
for
bicause
of
innumerable
inconuenientes
and
harmes
/
whiche
we
do
fynde
by
experience
to
ryse
by
the
occasion
of
it
/
thrugh
the
defaute
of
them
that
do
make
confession
/
and
of
them
that
here
confession
.
But
thou
shalte
loke
for
none
of
these
thiges
in
this
boke
good
reder
/
eyther
bicause
these
thynges
haue
ben
longe
syns
diligently
handled
and
treated
of
/
by
most
connyng
men
:
or
els
bycause
I
lyst
not
nowe
in
this
vnquiete
worlde
,
As
many
as
yet
hytherto
haue
treated
and
wryten
of
this
matter
of
confession
,
I
se
that
theyr
most
principall
labour
,
and
studie
hath
ben
to
shewe
the
commen
kyndes
of
synnes
,
both
speciall
,
and
general
/
and
they
haue
only
instructed
and
taughte
the
persone
that
maketh
confession
/
and
not
also
the
hearer
of
confession
:
albeit
that
this
thynge
was
moste
specially
and
principally
to
be
done
/
namely
these
dayes
/
in
whiche
we
do
se
,
and
sorowe
religious
men
,
and
preestes
,
for
the
mooste
parte
,
to
be
fallen
and
commen
to
that
poynt
/
that
bothe
in
ignoraunce
and
in
corrupte
maners
,
they
do
well
nere
passe
the
commen
vnlerned
lay
people
:
I
haue
therfore
in
this
worke
studied
and
endeuoured
my selfe
to
admonyshe
both
parties
/
to
th
ende
,
that
whyles
he
that
hereth
/
and
he
that
maketh
confession
do
both
of
them
theyr
parte
and
duetie
.
There
may
of
this
thynge
,
beinge
of
it selfe
very
good
/
greatte
and
plentuous
vtilite
come
vnto
them
bothe
.
Nowe
moreouer
,
bicause
there
are
some
men
/
whiche
do
beleue
,
Yf
any
begger
can
ease
the
of
the
feuer
/
woldest
thou
not
,
be
thou
neuer
so
ryche
,
and
honorable
/
gladly
kneele
on
thy
knees
vnto
hym
/
to
haue
hym
restore
the
vnto
helthe
?
Yf
thou
were
taken
prysoner
of
rouers
on
the
See
:
who
is
there
of
so
lowe
degree
and
estate
/
to
whom
thou
woldest
not
gladly
fal
downe
on
thy
knees
/
yf
thou
kneweste
that
it
lay
in
his
power
to
delyuer
the
/
and
to
restore
the
home
agayne
to
thyne
owne
.
Yf
th
emperour
,
being
greuously
offended
and
displeased
with
the
/
had
assigned
or
appoynted
any
one
of
his
cookes
,
eyther
to
punyshe
the
/
or
elles
to
restore
the
in
to
the
princes
fauour
agayn
:
woldeste
thou
not
gladdely
falle
downe
at
the
cookes
knees
/
and
do
what
soeuer
thing
euyn
those
that
are
mooste
humble
suppliauntes
are
wonte
to
do
/
not
so
moche
reputynge
,
and
consyde●yng
what
maner
persone
he
is
/
but
howe
moche
he
may
do
for
the
:
and
woldest
thou
not
in
that
persone
of
lowe
estate
,
honour
and
worshyp
the
maiestie
of
th
emperour
?
Thou
woldest
falle
wyllyngly
,
and
gladly
submytte
thy selfe
vnto
the
rodde
or
wande
of
the
officer
/
whiche
myght
turne
or
chaunge
thyne
estate
/
&
make
the
of
a
mans
bonde
seruaunt
/
a
mans
free
seruaunt
:
And
doste
thou
here
refuse
and
flee
from
the
preestes
hande
/
which
may
make
the
of
the
deuyls
bonde
seruaunt
/
the
sonne
of
god
?
To
loose
&
destroy
thy
soule
,
it
dyd
not
greue
the
/
to
gyue
thy selfe
to
be
troden
vnder
the
foote
of
Satan
:
and
to
receyue
helth
agayne
/
disdaynest
thou
to
commit
&
betake
thy selfe
vnto
a
preeste
?
what
a
folyshe
maner
of
pryde
is
this
,
contrary
to
all
reason
and
ryght
ordre
?
and
what
a
peruerse
and
leude
kynd
of
humblenes
or
mekenes
is
this
?
whyles
thou
dost
auaunce
and
lyfte
vp
thy selfe
/
thou
arte
ouerthrowen
and
caste
downe
.
Yf
thou
wylte
be
exalted
and
enhaunsed
/
there
is
no
remedy
,
but
thou
must
nedes
cast
downe
thy selfe
,
and
brynge
thy selfe
lowe
.
There
is
nothynge
more
hyghe
than
is
god
/
but
yet
thou
goest
away
from
hym
,
THis
vtilite
,
Genesis
.
2.
Math.
27.
that
betrayed
our
lorde
.
There
are
certeyn
synnes
/
whiche
haue
a
secrete
pryde
and
reioysyng
in
them
:
as
for
example
,
the
defylyng
of
fayre
and
beautifull
damosels
/
or
the
ouer
commyng
of
noble
&
riche
wyues
/
or
the
lesynge
of
a
great
somme
of
money
at
the
diese
/
or
the
shrewde
and
euyl
handlyng
of
a
mannes
enemy
&
foo
/
or
the
outragious
expense
done
in
makyng
of
a
feast
or
banket
.
These
thinges
certeyn
men
do
so
confesse
,
and
in
suche
wi●e
shryue
them selues
of
them
,
that
not
onely
they
are
not
ashamed
of
the
offences
that
they
haue
done
:
but
also
do
rather
booste
them
,
as
noble
&
glorious
actes
.
The
preeste
,
whan
he
shall
perceyue
this
in
his
ghostly
chylde
/
shal
labour
and
go
aboute
by
all
maner
meanes
,
to
caste
out
this
folyshe
pryde
,
&
reioysynge
from
the
mynde
of
hym
,
that
maketh
his
confession
/
and
by
shewynge
vnto
hym
the
shamefulnes
and
foulenes
of
the
synne
/
in
stede
of
that
pestilent
pride
&
reioysyng
/
to
bryng
in
to
his
mynd
holsome
shame
&
sorowe
.
Contrary
wyse
agayne
there
are
certeyn
synnes
of
that
kynde
and
sorte
/
that
the
very
iudgement
of
nature
dothe
abhorre
them
/
&
that
he
whiche
hath
committed
them
,
dothe
condempne
and
hate
his
owne
selfe
:
as
for
example
/
kyllynge
of
father
or
mother
/
babeslaughter
/
wonderous
&
abhomynable
kyndes
of
lechery
/
suche
as
are
not
to
be
named
/
commen
theftes
&
robberies
/
whiche
are
done
without
any
maner
sleyght
or
crafte
/
poysonynge
/
collusion
with
wicked
spirites
/
blasphemy
against
god
/
and
suche
other
lyke
to
these
.
The
greuous
enormitie
of
these
sayde
offences
and
crymes
,
doth
otherwhyles
brynge
a
man
in
to
desperation
/
whiche
is
the
most
greuous
and
sorest
offence
that
may
be
,
of
all
other
.
I
haue
knowen
certeyn
persons
/
whiche
coulde
not
perswade
vnto
them selues
,
that
they
were
assoyled
from
theyr
synnes
,
except
the
preeste
dyd
witnesse
and
recorde
the
same
by
his
owne
hande
wrytynge
.
Besydes
this
,
very
many
men
do
scrupulously
&
carefully
confesse
them selues
euyn
of
those
thynges
,
whiche
amonge
venial
synnes
are
of
least
weyghte
/
yea
and
somtyme
euyn
of
those
thynges
,
whiche
are
very
tryfles
:
as
of
pollutions
in
the
nyght
tyme
,
whiche
chaunce
to
come
thrugh
no
vicious
occasion
/
but
onely
of
naturall
disposition
of
the
body
/
neither
hath
any
consent
folowed
or
delectation
in
the
same
.
Of
which
thing
Iohn
Gerson
hath
wryten
so
diligently
,
yea
and
so
specially
,
that
he
hath
caused
many
mens
consciences
,
by
reason
therof
,
to
be
very
scrupulous
.
Semblablye
,
they
do
so
shryue
them selues
of
sodeyn
and
fleing
thoughtes
/
whiche
do
but
as
it
were
only
touche
lightly
,
&
skym
ouer
the
ouermost
or
vttermoste
part
and
skyn
of
the
mynde
,
and
not
synke
or
tary
in
it
.
I
say
they
do
so
confesse
these
thoughtes
,
as
yf
they
had
certeynly
or
stedfastly
ben
determined
and
purposed
vpon
that
thynge
,
whiche
came
in
to
their
mynde
,
or
had
also
fulfylled
it
in
very
dede
:
whan
other
whyles
suche
thoughtes
are
of
thinges
euyn
abhominable
to
be
spoken
of
/
as
whan
there
happeneth
to
come
in
to
a
mans
mynde
a
certeyne
doubtfulnes
of
the
verite
and
truthe
of
the
scriptures
,
of
the
articles
of
the
faythe
/
or
els
a
thought
of
incest
/
or
of
monstruous
formes
or
facyons
of
fulfyllynge
of
fleshely
luste
or
pleasure
.
To
confesse
these
thynges
rehersed
,
scrupulously
and
ꝑticularly
,
it
dothe
bothe
charge
and
ouerlade
the
hearer
with
thinges
superfluous
and
nothynge
ne●efull
:
and
also
dothe
trouble
the
mynde
of
hym
,
that
is
confessed
with
feare
&
dreade
vnprofitably
.
They
say
it
is
a
signe
and
token
of
a
good
mynde
,
there
to
feare
synne
,
where
no
synne
is
.
Admit
that
it
be
a
signe
of
a
good
mynde
:
yet
certeynely
it
is
no
token
of
a
a
perfecte
mynde
.
And
albeit
suche
a
thyng
in
yonge
boyes
,
or
wenches
,
do
betoken
a
nature
or
disposition
mete
to
the
lerning
of
vertue
and
good
lyfe
:
yet
the
same
thynge
in
men
is
vnmete
and
vnprofitable
,
yea
pernicious
also
&
hurtful
/
for
that
the
supersticious
and
superfluous
fleinge
&
eschewynge
of
one
vice●
dothe
brynge
a
man
in
to
another
more
greuous
&
more
weyghtie
/
whiche
thyng
we
do
se
brought
to
passe
in
many
men
/
by
the
subtilte
and
crafte
of
the
deuyll
.
This
peruersite
and
lerned
mynde
is
to
be
rebuked
:
and
simple
and
vnlerned
in●irmite
is
to
be
instructed
and
taughte
.
It
is
a
poynte
of
christian
vertue
and
godlynes
,
to
be
sory
for
suche
maner
infirmities
and
fraylte
of
mannes
nature
:
and
to
withstande
them
asmoche
as
a
man
maye
/
and
to
laboure
towardes
more
perfecte
thinges
.
A
man
that
is
verely
vertuous
and
godly
/
wyssheth
&
desyreth
the
perfecte
integrite
and
clennes
of
his
bodye
/
whiche
he
hopeth
to
haue
in
the
generall
resurrection
/
and
therfore
he
is
sory
,
that
his
vessel
is
polluted
and
de●iled
with
vnclene
dreames
:
but
it
foloweth
not
,
THe
fyfthe
vtilite
is
,
THe
sixte
vtilite
is
,
THe
eyghte
vtilite
,
THe
nynthe
vtilite
is
,
Math.
3.
Roma.
14.
And
this
also
is
a
parte
of
godlynes
,
a
man
to
fulfylle
all
ryghtewysenes
,
and
to
eschewe
offendynge
of
his
brother
/
and
(
accordyng
to
s.
Paules
saying
)
to
please
all
men
in
all
poyntes
.
Many
yeres
ago
,
whan
I
beinge
than
a
very
yonge
boye
,
was
abydynge
in
Dauentrie
/
I
herde
certeyne
harlots
/
wherof
great
plentie
was
there
at
that
tyme
/
reioysynge
and
shewynge
them selues
glad
eche
to
other
,
that
they
gaue
theyr
myndes
to
their
owne
louers
:
bicause
the
curate
hadde
sayd
in
his
sermon
/
that
certeyn
pastors
had
confessed
them selues
,
that
they
had
vsed
them selues
not
very
chastly
towardes
theyr
flocke
/
of
whiche
they
had
cure
&
charge
.
And
it
was
than
Iubilee
.
what
more
folyshe
curate
coulde
there
be
than
this
/
which
neyther
constrayned
by
any
necessite
/
no
nor
yet
prouoked
thervnto
by
any
vtilite
/
dyd
bable
forthe
this
thynge
amonge
the
people
/
by
reason
wherof
hooremongers
and
adulterers
shulde
flatter
them selues
/
and
haue
the
more
lyking
in
theyr
owne
vices
&
synnes
.
Of
late
dayes
also
,
a
certeyn
gray
frere
sayd
openly
in
his
sermon
/
in
a
worshypfull
●owne
/
that
yf
the
olde
lawe
were
yet
styll
remaynyng
/
by
whiche
,
women
,
which
had
committed
adultery
,
shulde
be
stoned
to
dethe
:
an
hole
mountaigne
made
of
stones
heaped
together
,
wolde
not
suffise
to
the
stoning
of
those
,
that
were
worthy
to
be
stoned
to
dethe
.
THe
seconde
yuell
or
harme
is
cosyn
to
this
afore
rehersed
,
I
herde
ones
a
certeyne
diuine
,
whiche
loued
well
the
company
of
vnchast
women
,
reporte
,
that
he
herde
ons
a
certeyn
man
/
which
had
the
rule
&
gouernaunce
ouer
certeyne
nunnes
/
saye
to
hym
in
confession
/
that
hym selfe
had
defyled
.
CC.
virgins
.
By
the
reason
herof
,
he
that
reported
this
tale
,
dyd
so
flatter
hym selfe
/
&
thynke
his
owne
offences
lyghte
/
and
in
a
maner
to
be
none
offence
at
all
:
that
as
it
appered
by
hym
/
he
wolde
neuer
purpose
or
go
about
to
exercise
and
vse
chastite
.
THe
thyrde
discommodite
&
harme
is
,
THe
fourthe
yuell
or
hurte
is
,
Besyd
this
,
though
we
do
graunt
the
preest
to
be
sobre
and
closse
of
tonge
:
yet
for
all
that
,
often
tymes
hatred
&
debate
sodeinly
rysyng
,
breaketh
the
barres
or
rayles
of
silence
:
somtime
dronkennes
also
dothe
the
same
/
whiche
causeth
the
thynge
that
was
secrete
and
hydde
in
the
hette
,
to
swymme
&
flete
aboue
in
the
tonge
.
Finally
syckenes
or
frenesy
sodeynly
rysen
,
breaketh
this
silence
/
whiche
thyng
,
I
my selfe
,
whan
I
was
yonge
,
dyd
knowe
to
haue
chaunsed
in
a
certeyne
curate
:
whiche
whan
he
was
waxen
hoote
in
his
sermon
/
dyd
by
name
vtter
and
disclose
the
synnes
of
many
women
.
And
th
examples
are
not
selde
or
gesome
of
them
/
whom
it
hath
cost
theyr
lyues
/
the
wordes
that
they
haue
spoken
to
the
preeste
in
counsell
,
or
confession
.
Nowe
are
there
also
certeyne
cases
excepted
/
in
whiche
it
is
laufull
to
vtter
&
bewray
hym
,
that
made
his
confession
.
But
vnto
these
cases
certeyn
men
do
impute
and
blame
what
soeuer
thynge
doth
moue
or
styrre
them
to
blab
out
the
secretes
shewed
vnto
them
.
Some
other
men
do
thinke
,
that
they
do
not
offende
/
so
that
they
forbeare
the
names
:
though
they
do
s●launder
and
defame
an
hole
house
/
or
an
hole
college
,
or
company
.
And
yet
who
coulde
be
content
,
or
take
paciently
,
to
here
his
citie
,
or
his
countrey
besprent
or
spotted
with
infamie
?
But
how
many
men
haue
I
herde
reporte
at
feastes
and
bankettes
,
afore
al
maner
men
that
were
present
,
what
they
haue
lerned
by
the
confession
of
certeyn
persones
,
beinge
than
deceassed
:
thynkynge
that
they
myghte
do
that
thynge
laufully
/
albeit
that
no
man
beinge
alyue
wolde
be
contented
that
his
owne
memorie
shuld
be
infamed
&
sclaundered
amonge
them
that
shulde
come
after
hym
?
Laste
of
all
,
princes
do
otherwhyles
require
of
preestes
/
and
compell
them
by
othe
to
vtter
&
bewraye
the
doer
of
the
cryme
.
But
I
,
as
I
wolde
greately
commende
and
alowe
it
,
yf
the
preest
,
not
bewrayinge
the
man
,
coulde
prouide
for
the
saluegard
of
the
commen
weale
:
so
wolde
I
not
take
or
accompt
hym
for
periured
,
THe
syxte
discommoditie
is
,
This
discommoditie
or
yuel
chaunseth
moste
specially
in
chyldren
/
women
/
and
aged
folke
/
&
suche
as
be
by
nature
of
a
timorous
&
a
fearefull
mynde
:
of
which
sorte
I
do
knowe
many
one
.
And
than
is
there
more
ieopardye
also
/
whan
suche
persones
do
happen
vpon
a
sharpe
and
a
chydynge
ghostly
father
.
THe
nynthe
yuel
or
harme
is
,
In
old
tyme
,
in
very
many
churches
/
those
persones
were
not
receyued
to
open
penaunce
/
which
after
they
had
ons
done
penaunce
were
relapsed
and
fallen
agayn
.
So
desirous
is
the
churche
,
that
there
shulde
be
no
recidination
&
retournyng
agayn
vnto
synne
/
yf
it
myght
be
.
And
herin
lykewise
as
in
very
many
other
thynges
/
the
care
of
men
is
all
out
of
ordre
.
God
often
tymes
dothe
differre
and
put
of
his
gyftes
,
This
thynge
shal
be
broughte
to
passe
/
yf
he
do
reherse
only
suche
thynges
,
whiche
not
without
good
cause
,
do
charge
and
gyue
the
conscience
:
of
whiche
sorte
are
suche
synnes
/
as
be
either
without
doubt
deadely
/
or
elles
are
vehemently
suspected
,
to
be
deadely
synnes
.
And
yet
are
not
veniall
synnes
to
be
made
lyghte
of
/
specially
in
th
examynyng
and
amendyng
of
our
lyfe
.
¶
Fyrste
,
And
we
do
se
the
moste
parte
of
men
/
namely
of
those
that
are
preeminent
and
excellent
in
honours
and
dignities
/
to
lyue
after
suche
maner
&
facyon
/
that
either
they
do
seme
not
to
beleue
the
holy
scripture
/
or
elles
not
to
thynke
of
it
.
whiche
persones
,
yf
they
dyd
often
tymes
amonge
ernestly
examyne
them selues
:
they
shulde
fynde
&
perceyue
them selues
to
be
far
away
from
the
office
&
duetie
of
a
christen
made
.
But
this
is
the
fountayne
of
all
synnes
.
And
to
haue
ben
negligent
&
recheles
in
this
behalfe
:
is
euyn
it selfe
a
great
&
weyghty
offence
or
crime
.
Of
whiche
thynge
,
the
commen
sorte
of
christen
men
toutchethe
nothynge
at
all
/
supposyng
it
to
be
sufficient
,
yf
they
do
reherse
and
reken
vp
theyr
dronkennes
/
theyr
adulteries
/
theyr
theftes
/
or
robberies
.
we
oughte
to
pray
moche
more
busily
and
continually
,
There
is
none
other
disease
of
the
mynde
more
incurable
,
than
is
this
:
and
therfore
by
so
moche
the
more
a
wyse
&
discrete
gostly
father
oughte
to
gyue
a
diligent
mynde
to
the
healynge
of
suche
maner
persones
:
and
they
do
all
in
vayne
flatter
them selues
/
and
stande
in
theyr
owne
conceypte
/
as
thoughe
they
loued
god
for
hym selfe
/
whan
eyther
they
do
not
loue
theyr
neyghbour
at
all
/
or
yf
they
do
loue
hym
/
they
do
not
loue
hym
for
gods
sake
/
but
for
theyr
owne
profites
sake
.
Of
these
two
fountaynes
,
Faythe
therfore
driueth
awaye
,
and
putteth
by
all
those
lewde
excusations
,
whiche
the
malicious
crafte
&
subtilte
of
men
is
wonte
to
inuente
and
deuyse
.
Yf
I
do
gyue
any
thyng
to
poore
folkes
/
I
shall
wante
and
lacke
my selfe
.
Yf
I
shall
exercise
and
vse
byeng
and
sellyng
,
and
myne
occupation
or
craft
,
without
fraude
or
gyle
/
in
the
stede
of
gaynes
/
I
shal
susteyne
and
beare
damage
&
losse
.
Suche
maner
men
do
playnely
mystruste
these
promyses
of
almyghty
god
.
This
same
faythe
shall
conforte
vertuous
men
/
yf
the
kyndnes
of
men
do
not
recompence
theyr
benefites
/
nor
shewe
kyndenes
agayne
/
accordyng
to
theyr
deseruynges
.
God
is
faythfull
/
&
true
of
his
promesse
:
to
whom
they
haue
lente
theyr
benefites
/
he
shall
rendre
and
restore
them
theyr
owne
stocke
,
whiche
they
haue
layde
forthe
,
with
inestimable
encreace
and
aduantage
.
But
it
is
commenly
sene
/
that
those
persones
/
whiche
allege
suche
excuses
/
do
lese
and
caste
away
very
many
thinges
,
in
reuell
and
ryot
/
in
fleshely
luste
/
and
in
dysynge
&
cardynge
:
to
whom
euyn
that
lucre
&
gaynes
also
is
loste
,
whiche
they
myghte
haue
gotten
/
yf
they
dyd
not
loue
ydlenes
/
better
than
they
do
lucre
&
aduantage
.
Suche
maner
of
men
doubtles
are
shameles
:
yf
they
do
say
,
onles
I
dyd
vse
fraude
and
guyle
/
I
coulde
not
lyue
.
NOwe
as
touchynge
the
syn
of
omission
/
and
also
transgression
/
a
greatte
parte
of
men
dothe
esteme
and
iudge
them
by
the
constitutions
of
men
/
as
for
example
.
They
ronne
to
compositions
.
Can
than
these
persones
also
be
ignoraunt
/
to
whom
they
shuld
make
restitution
?
But
they
are
affrayde
to
brynge
them selues
in
to
an
yuell
name
.
They
ought
than
to
haue
feared
this
thyng
/
whan
they
wente
aboute
to
do
that
myscheuous
dede
.
Howe
be
it
euyn
here
in
this
thyng
also
is
some
remedy
:
Let
them
make
restitution
by
some
suborned
persone
/
whom
they
knowe
ryghte
well
to
be
faythfull
and
trustie
.
To
conclude
,
yf
we
do
receyue
and
allowe
suche
maner
excusations
:
I
do
thynke
and
iudge
it
to
be
the
surer
way
/
that
suche
money
be
gyuen
to
poore
folkes
/
rather
than
to
commissaries
.
Moreouer
,
there
are
certeyne
kyndes
of
rauynes
and
theftes
/
whiche
fewe
men
do
confesse
/
so
farre
of
is
it
,
Lykewise
carters
and
shypmen
/
whiche
haue
taken
vpon
them
the
cariage
of
wynes
from
one
place
to
another
/
I
wyl
make
an
ende
,
had
I
fyrst
spoken
two
or
thre
wordes
concernynge
satisfaction
.
There
be
two
maners
of
satisfaction
/
that
is
to
witte
,
open
satisfaction
/
and
priuate
or
secrete
satisfaction
.
In
open
satisfaction
,
I
wold
that
this
auctorite
shulde
be
committed
vnto
the
preestes
/
to
whom
soeuer
auctorite
is
committed
to
here
mens
confessions
/
that
they
myghte
accordynge
to
the
circumstaunces
moderate
and
measure
the
sayde
satisfaction
or
penaunce
/
or
also
yf
nede
so
require
/
euyn
to
turne
it
in
to
priuate
&
secrete
satisfaction
.
For
yf
the
fathers
/
whiche
dyd
institute
and
ordeyne
open
satisfactions
/
do
graunte
this
auctorite
to
the
ordinarye
byshops
/
that
they
may
accordynge
to
the
qualite
of
the
persone
/
either
augment
or
diminishe
the
payne
enioyned
:
why
shulde
not
the
same
power
&
auctorite
be
committed
to
them
/
whiche
in
the
thyng
farre
moste
paynfull
of
all
other
/
do
beare
&
fulfyll
the
byshops
rownes
?
And
yf
they
be
not
able
nor
mete
for
the
office
&
charge
committed
vnto
them
/
than
the
defaulte
&
blame
therof
redoundeth
to
the
byshops
.
And
in
the
satisfactions
or
paynes
,
And
in
shewynge
the
remedye
agaynst
the
fyrste
yuell
/
we
haue
also
shewed
the
remedye
agaynst
the
seconde
yuell
/
that
is
to
wit
/
the
silence
and
vertuousnes
of
the
preeste
.
The
thyrde
yuell
or
harme
,
The
whiche
do
alledge
the
.iiij.
discōmodie
or
yuell
/
what
thyng
do
they
elles
/
but
onely
shewe
,
Uery
many
of
them
dare
go
vnto
hym
that
lyeth
sycke
of
the
pestilence
/
for
a
thyng
that
is
bequest
to
them
:
and
be
they
affrayde
to
come
nere
hym
/
whan
his
soule
is
in
ieopardie
and
peryll
?
And
this
thynge
shall
be
a
poynte
of
ciuilite
and
good
maner
also
in
the
people
/
to
make
the
place
,
in
to
whiche
the
preest
shal
be
receyued
,
very
cleane
/
and
with
fyre
and
fumigations
,
to
make
it
as
lytle
ieopardous
&
contagious
,
as
may
be
.
Agayne
,
euyn
this
thynge
also
shall
be
very
profitable
herunto
:
Nowe
to
say
somwhat
concernyng
the
syxte
yuell
/
who
soeuer
by
the
rehersyng
of
their
synnes
,
THese
are
the
thynges
,
most
good
and
honourable
father
/
whiche
me
thought
beste
to
be
admonished
and
taughte
concernynge
confession
/
besydes
the
traditions
of
olde
diuines
/
to
th
entent
that
confession
might
be
very
frutefull
and
profitable
:
whiche
confession
shal
seme
vnto
any
man
to
be
ioyned
with
peryll
and
ieopardie
:
Let
hym
consider
and
be●thȳke
hym
wel
,
how
moche
more
ieopardous
thynge
it
is
to
beare
aboute
an
vnclene
conscience
.
Yf
it
shall
seme
paynefull
and
greuous
:
let
hym
remembre
and
considre
howe
great
tranquilite
and
quietnes
of
mynde
dothe
ensue
and
folowe
of
this
bitter
medicine
.
And
let
hym
so
moche
the
more
diligently
take
hede
and
beware
,
that
he
do
not
agayne
so
ordre
hym
felfe
,
that
he
shall
nede
to
receyue
and
deuoure
suche
a
bytter
pylle
very
ofte
.
But
let
hym
so
make
his
confession
on
s
,
that
he
nede
neuer
after
to
make
confession
agayne
/
&
that
it
may
be
sufficient
to
be
ashamed
ones
for
euer
,
afore
man
.
That
man
shall
not
lyghtly
fall
agayn
in
to
deedly
synne
/
whiche
shall
haue
ones
inwardly
and
hertely
conceyued
in
his
mynde
,
hatered
of
all
his
synnes
.
This
holy
and
godly
purpose
,
god
shall
helpe
and
brynge
forwarde
/
yf
so
be
,
that
we
wyll
knowlege
it
to
be
his
benefite
,
what
soeuer
hath
alredy
chaunsed
to
vs
:
and
yf
trustynge
to
his
ayde
,
rather
than
to
our
owne
myghte
&
strength
/
we
do
enforce
our selues
,
and
endeuer
dayly
more
and
more
to
amende
our
lyuyng
/
and
to
waxe
better
and
better
/
vntyll
that
we
may
growe
vp
in
to
a
perfecte
man
/
in
to
the
measure
of
the
fulnes
of
Iesu
Christe
.
Finis
.