/ or to make an acte prefect / yt
sufficithe not to take heede that it be not euell of nature / or
repugnant vnto gods worde / but vnto this ys also required /
that we do go about the same with an vpright and perfect mynde
and will. S. Paul / therfor / doth not simply permitt this
going / but with certayn circumstances. Which ar / to go with a
goode will to enstruct the vnfaythfull: Agayn to go with an
assured purpose / not to be, and taste of such strenghthe / that
he shall not be ouerthrown. And thus this proposicion remaynith
true / that the man whiche ys weak and vnlearned / must separate
himself from the company and famyliar conuersacion of the
vnbeleauers / so mutch as cyuile and naturall businesses and
affaires will suffer / and as the necessitie of lyfe shall
require (as I saide before). Lykewise all houshold duties and
offices appointed in gods worde must be obserued / els shall he
offend / for as Paule saithe:

[[1. Timo. 5.]]

He that prouidith not for hys / and especially for them of hys
own howshold / the same hath denied the faithe / and ys wors
then an Infidell. And to proue farther / that this vnlearned and
weake man must abstayn from the familiar companie of the
vnbeleauers / yea thoughe they be most deere vnto hym / that
Rule doth serue / which Christe our Sauiour gyuithe sayinge.

[[Matt. 5. 18.]]

If thy hande or fote offend the / and hinder the / cut yt of /
and cast it from the / &c. If thyn eye offend the / plucke yt
out / and caste yt from the. We ar not commaunded in this
place / to cut of the outward membres of our bodie / as Origen
(yf it be true that sum do report of hyme) dyd vntruly thincke /
but as the sownd interpretours do write / thos frends and
thinges / which ar most nighe and deere vnto vs / Theise ar they
which must be cut of plucked out / and cast awaye from our
familiaritie and companie / when they do plucke / and separate
vs / from the true waye of saluacion / or be such a hinderaunce
vnto vs as puttinge impedimentes and lettes in our waye / do
hynder vs from walking in gods lawe. Chrisostom entreating this
matier / writithe.

[[In Ioan. hom. 15.]]

If the membre which ys misioined vnto the bodie must be cut of /
ar not then euell frends mutch nore to be cut of? And agayn / he
saith / If we do cut of that membre which ys rotten / and
incurable from the bodie / for feare les yt shuld corrupt the
other partes therof / (which we do not bicause we do neglect
it / f