at most excellent prophete Dauid /

[[Psal. 116.]]

Righte deere (saithe he) in the fighte of the lorde / is the
dathe of his sainctes. And sainct Peter saith Dearly beloued /

[[1. Pet. 4.]]

maruayle not that ye are proued by fyre / which thynge is to
trye yow as though sum straunge thinge happened vnto yow / but
reioyce / in as mutch as ye are partakers of Christes passions /
that when his glorie appearith / ye maye be mery and gladd. If
ye be rayled vpon / for the name of Christe / happie are ye /
for the glorie and the sprite of Godd restith vpon you. On ther
parte he is euill spoken of / but on your parte he is
glorified / and so furthe. And sainct Paule dothe pronounce that
it is a most greuus synne of ony man do offend the weake by his
euell example. Thy brother doth perish (saithe he) for whom
Christe died. When ye synne so against the brethern / and wounde
thier weake conscience / ye synne againste Christ. Again we are
saied in the scriptures to haue saued hym whom we haue by sounde
doctrine and our goode example / either reteyned in the waye of
the lorde / or haue brought hym backe that went astraye. But if a
greater regarde vs to be had of wife / children and houshold then
of pure religion / so that for that regard / religion seeme
either to be dissembled or denyed: Yf it be euill for religions
sake to dissente from them that be of kindred and alliannce /
yea and for religion to depart from a lawfull wyfe / and in
sum / for faithe to disagree with all frendes and familiars /
shall we saye that the lorde did teach euill / which sayed in
the gospell?

[[Mat. 10.]]

Thincke not that I am come to sende peace vnto the earthe.
I came not to send paeace but a swearde. For I am come to sett a
man at variance against his father / and the doughter against
her mother / and the doughter in lawe against her mother in
lawe. And a mannes foes shalbe they that are of his own
housholde. For from hence forthe ther shalbe fyue in one howse
deuyded / thre against two / and two against thre.

[[Luc. 12.]]

The father shalbe deuided against the sonne / and the sonne
against the father. This not spoken as though that dissension in
itself did pleas Godd the autor of all peace / but bicause he
will haue that peace which stondithe vppon euell and wicked
thinges broken / and haue vs all conioyned in that which is holy
and goode. And therfore we do not allowe when mariages
frendshippes and leagues are broken witho