But, my good brethren, err not you so; stick not you to
such your imaginations. For if ye inwardly behold these words, if ye
diligently roll them in your minds, and after explicate and open them, ye
shall see our time much touched in these mysteries. Ye shall perceive
that God by this example shaketh us by the noses and pulleth us by the
ears. Ye shall perceive very plain, that God setteth before our eyes in
this similitude what we ought most to flee, and what we ought soonest to
follow. For Luke saith, "The Lord spake these words to his disciples."
Wherefore let it be out of all doubt that he spake them to us, which even
as we will be counted the successors and vicars of Christ's disciples, so
we be, if we be good dispensers and do our duty. He said these things
partly to us, which spake them partly of himself. For he is that rich
man, which not only had, but hath, and shall have evermore, I say not
one, but many stewards, even to the end of the world.
He is man, seeing that he is God and man. He is rich, not only in mercy
but in all kind of riches; for it is he that giveth to us all things
abundantly. It is he of whose hand we received both our lives, and other
things necessary for the conservation of the same.
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