Part 80 (1/2)
He is the Phisition that knoweth thy sore, 548 And can to health A-gayne thee restore.
[Sidenote: Iames the .i.]
[Sidenote: Ask in faith, and what you ask you shall have; He is more merciful than pen can tell.]
Aske then in fayth, Not doubtynge to haue; 552 The thynges ye desyre ye shall then receaue; So they be lawfull Of G.o.d to requyre, 556 He wyll the heare and graunt thy desyre; More mercifull he is then pen can expresse, 560 The aucthor and geuer here of all goodnesse.
[Sidenote: Math. x.]
”All ye that laboure and burdened be, 564 I wyll you refreshe In commynge to me.”
These are Chrystes wordes, the scripture is playne, 568
[Sidenote: [sign. B. vii.b.]]
Spoken to all suche as here suffre payne; Our wylles to his worde then let vs frame, 572 The heauenly habytacion therby we may clame.
[Sidenote: Behave nicely in church, and don't talk or chatter.]
In the churche comly thy selfe do behaue, 576 In vsage sober, thy countinaunce graue.
whyle you be there, taulke of no matter, 580 Nor one with an other whisper nor chatter.
[Sidenote: Behave reverently; the House of Prayer is not to be made a fair.]
Reuerently thy selfe Order alwaye 584 when to the Churche thou shalt come to pray: Eche thynge hath his tyme, Consyder the place, 588
[Sidenote: Luke .xix.]
For that is a token of vertue and grace,
[Sidenote: [sign. B viii.]]
The Lorde doth call it the house of prayer 592 And not to be vsed As is a fayer.
[Headnote: AGAINST GAMING, AND FOR VIRTUE.]
-- The fruites of gamynge, vertue and learnynge.
Capitulo .vi.
[Sidenote: Avoid dicing and carding.]
++O Lytle chylde, Eschewe thou euer game,-- 596 For that hath brought Many one to shame,-- As dysynge, and cardynge, And suche other playes, 600 which many vndoeth, as we se nowe a dayes.
[Sidenote: Cicero.]
But yf thou delyght In any earthly thynge, 604
[Sidenote: Delight in Knowledge, Virtue, and Learning.]
Delyght in knowledge, Vertue, and learnynge, For learnynge wyll leade thee to the schoole of vertue, 608
[Sidenote: [sign. B. viii.b.]]