e /

[[Ioan. 4.]]

as it appearith by the talke that he hadd with the woman at the
well. Morouer as the goode fathers in olde tyme / did esteme it
as their singular ioye / when they might be familiarly
conuersant with the godly / so how mutch they sorowed When they
could not be so conuersant with the people of godd / and in
godds house / Dauid is witnes: Who when he fledd from the face
of Saul his persequtour / did mourn / and in the psalmes with
most heauie complaintes / doth lament / that he was compelled to
be conuersant amonge straungers / such as did not knowe the
lyuyng godd / and to be as it wer an exile from godd / and his
people. So shuld the companie hadd with the vnfaithfull / be
heauy and bitter to the faithfull.

[[Daniel 1.]]

Daniell and his thre felows / might haue lyued / vppon the
Kinges table / and haue eaten most fyne and delicate meates /
but they did rather chose to lyue together with potage / and
water / and vtterly to forsake thos pleasures / and delicacies /
then they wold defile them selues with the meates of the
vnbeleauers. Moses also / as it is writon in the epistle to the
hebrues /

[[Hebr. 11.]]

might if he wold haue beene taken for the Sonne of Pharaos
daughter / and so to haue beene in greate hoope of obtaynynge
the kingdome of Egipte: but all this sett a parte / he did chose
rather / forsaking all theise thinges / to go vnto his
brethern / which wer in miserable bondage / seruinge and
laboring in claye / and bricke: Which thing to do / as it was a
greate triall of his faithe / so the doinge of it doth commend /
and sett furth his faithe / and shew what loue he hadd to be
conuersant with the people of godd. They which do not folowe
these examples / do shew how litell they do regarde the glorie
of godd / and the communion and felowship of sayntes / which they
will not gayne nor redeame with losse / no thoughe it be of
neuer so litill: And in this preferring of their own gayne
welthe and commoditie / aboue the glorie of godd / and the
felowlie communion of the godlye / they do most wickedly.

[[1. Cor. 10.]]

Do we (saithe Paule to the corinthians) prouoke the lorde? Ar we
stronger then he? Theise weake brethern / which do not trie their
own strenghth to fele their weaknes so / that they might seeke
the encreace of strenghth in them selues / but being weake
indeede / both dare and do thus desperatlie committ themselues
vnto this familiar conuersacion with the vn