or who yet did euer hate his own fleshe, but to saue the
rest) how mutch more is this to be done to them which ar euell
ioyned vnto us? Which yet we must not do as thoughe we did
despise them / but to prouide that our helthe and saluacion be not
brought in daunger by them, after that we do see that we can not
profite them at all. To this also belongith the lawe which
christe did giue:

[[Matth. 18.]]

That he which will not heere the brethern admonishing him / And
doth contemne the voice of the churche when it reprouith / and
correctith hym: he is then to be estemed and taken as an
ethnicke / and a publicane.

[[1. Cor. 5.]]

Which thing Paule puttith in practise when he biddith / that the
Corinthians shuld excommunicat the fornicator / les that a
litill leauen shuld soure the whole lumpe of dowe. To the same
pupose he usith the vearse of the poete Menander.

[[1. Cor. 15.]]

Euell wordes do corrupt goode maniers. Ther Paul teachith that
the true doctrine of the Resurrection was greatly hindered
amonge the Corinthians / which wer but newly turned vnto
christe / bicause they dyd to lightly gyue eare to the vngodly
argumentes and reasons of philosophers / or rather of
heretiques / which did contend and stryue agaynst that doctrine.
No man can sufficiently consider / how the bewitching of wicked
tales / and talkes / do shake and hurt the tender conscience and
weake faithe / of the foeble and weake brother. Wherfor it is
most necessari and profitable to admonishe them which ar weake /
that they do abstayn / and withdrawe them selues / from the
felowshipp and familiar companye / of the vnbeleauers. The
phisicions / do cowncell when a contagius disease hath enfected
any nigh place / that thei which as yet ar sownd and not
enfected / shuld not comme vnto them that be enfected alreadye
and sicke / bicause that in the bodies of men / and the
temperatures / and disposicions of the same / ther is such a
common passion and suffering / that the infection doth easily go
from them that be infected / vnto the other. And though they
which do not take heede and keape them selues from that
infection / do not presently feale the poyson and force therof /
yeat inasmutch as by lytill and litill the infection / and
poyson receyued doth growe / not long after they ar sure to
feale the force and strenghthe of it. Seing this is so / and
eich man maye worthily and godly take heede to auoide the
diseases of the bodie / mutch more