tuous and holeſome documents, I mean not onely by hearing of the ſincere veritie: neither yet by much talkyng of the ſame to heare, and not to bear awaye is altogether friuolous: To babble and prate much of Chriſt and hys goſpell (as though we would be counted ghoſtly goſpellers) and to wante the chefeſt thing, I meane the frutes of well-governed converſacion, and to be cleane voyde of integritie, and cleaneſſe of lyfe, in my judgement and as the ſacred Scripture verifieth, is nothynge but folly: (example) A tree that is altogether barren and at the required time deſtytute of fruyte hauing a trim ſhewe of leaves, deſerueth to be hewed downe and made meet for the fier: ſo we wantinge fruites required, but hauing plenty of leaues be of lyke effect, and for all the outwarde ſhewe that we haue, we ſhall in like caſe be cut
