an holy
lyfe / and that amonge the vnbeleauers their conuersacion be so
godly / graue / comely / and agreing with their profession /
that in no wise they do gyue any offence through the wickednes
of their lyfe: for yf by their lyfe the vnfaythfull shuld be
offendid / then shuld their mynistery be vnprofitable to the
vnbeleuers / for that by their euell doings they shuld
ouerthrowe what soeuer they labored to builde vpp in wordes.

[[3]]

The thred thinge that theise men must take heede of / and Rule
which they must obserue is. That they do not communicate / with
the vnfaythfull in their supersticions and idolatries / nor iet
do so mutch as outwardly to seame to allowe them. Thys ys not to
be doone in ony wise / no not in hope therby to wynne the
vnbeleauer from hys supersticion / and Idolatrie:

[[Ro. 3]]

For this Rule of the holy ghoste doth euer remain certain /
Euell things ar not to be doone / that goode maye comme therof.
This vnchaungeable rule must not be broken.

[[4]]

The fourth and last thing that theise men must take heede of /
and Rule which they must obserue is this. That they haue not
ther familiar conuersacion with the vnbeleuers for their own
cause / as for their pleasure and recreacion / or for their gayn
and profite / but only in respect of wynnynge them to the
gospell of christe. Neither ys this conuersacion and companie /
contynually to be hadd and kept with the vngodly and
vnbeleuers / but so long as ther is goode hoope of wynninge /
and conuerting them to the gospell of christe. For yf the
vnbeleauers shall shew themselues so obstinate in their euell /
that they giue iuste cause to despaire of ther amendement / then
ar they vtterly to be forsaken / and no conuersacion or companie
is to be hadd with them / farther then the necessitie of lyfe
enforcith either partie. As yff the vnbeleauers shuld be in such
extreme necessitie / that they could not be releaued but at the
hand of the faythfull: or yf theise shuld be in that
necessitie / that they could not otherwise obtain thinges
necessarie but of the vnfaithfull. Also in byinge and selling
thinges necessarie for the lyfe / as garmentes / victuals / and
such like: Agayn in such thinges as cyuile estates / and
condicions do require / as of princes and Rulars to demaunde
lawfull defence / and to obey them in thinges lawfvll: to
fathers / maried folke / masters / and such lyke / to do thos
duties which ar appointed in godds worde.