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| | HOMILY FOR ROGATION WEEK |
 | | It is a good deed of mercie, to amend the dangerous and noisome wayes, whereby thy poore neighbour sitting on his silly weake beast foundereth not in the deepe thereof, and so the Market the worse serued, for discouraging of poore vittailers to resort thither for the same cause. |
| | If now therefore yee will haue your prayers heard before Almightie GOD, for the increase of your corne and cattell, and for the defence thereof from vnseasonable mistes and blastes, from haile and other such tempestes, loue, equitie, and righteousnesse, ensue mercie and charitie, which GOD most requireth at our hands. |
| | Which Almightie GOD respecting chiefly, in making his ciuill lawes for his people the Israelites, in charging the owners not to gather vp their corne too nigh at haruest season, nor the grapes and Oliues in gathering time, but to leaue behind some eares of corne for the poore gleaners (Leviticus 19.9-10, Deuteronomy 24.19-21). |
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