sisteth them resisteth God's ordinance.

"The third exhortation is, that you live all together like brethren
and sisters: but, alas! pity it is to see what contention and hatred
one man hath against another, not taking each other for brethren and
sisters, but rather as strangers and mortal enemies. But I pray you
learn and bear well away the lesson, to do good to all men as much as
in you lieth, and hurt no man no more than you would hurt your own
natural brother or sister. For this you may be sure, that whosoever
hateth his brother or sister, and goeth about maliciously to hinder or
hurt him, surely, and without all doubt, God is not with that man,
although he think himself never so much in God's favour.

"The fourth exhortation shall be to them that have great substance and
riches of this world, that they may well consider and weigh these
three sayings of the Scriptures. One is of our Saviour Christ himself,
who saith that it is a hard thing for a rich man to come to heaven; a
sore saying, and spoken of Him that knoweth the truth. The second is
of St. John, whose saying is this: He that hath the substance of this
world, and seeth his brother in necessity, and shutteth up his
compassion and mercy from him, how can he say he loveth God? The third
{p.257} is of St. James, who speaketh to the covetous and rich men
after this manner: Weep and howl for the misery which shall come upon
you; your riches doth rot, your clothes be moth-eaten, your gold and
silver is cankered and rusty, and the rust thereof shall bear witness
against you, and consume you like fire; you gather and hoard up
treasure of God's indignation against the last day. I tell them which
be rich, ponder these sentences; for if ever they had occasion to show
their charity, they have it now at this present; the poor people being
so many, and victuals so dear; for although I have been long in
prison, yet have I heard of the great penury of the poor."

The people listened breathless, "intending upon the conclusion."

"And now," he went on, "forasmuch as I am come to the last end of my
life, whereupon hangeth all my life past and all my life to come,
either to live with my Saviour Christ in joy, or else to be ever in
pain with wicked devils in hell; and I see before mine eyes presently
either heaven"--and he pointed upwards with his hand--"or hell," and
he pointed downwards, "ready to swallow me. I shall therefore declare
unto you my very faith, without colour