Hunters go
not forth in every man's sight, but do their affairs closely, and with
use of guile and deceit wax every day more craftier than other.
The children of this world be like crafty hunters; they be misnamed
children of light, forasmuch as they so hate light, and so study to do
the works of darkness. If they were the children of light, they would
not love darkness. It is no marvel that they go about to keep other in
darkness, seeing they be in darkness, from top to toe overwhelmed with
darkness, darker than is the darkness of hell. Wherefore it is well done
in all orders of men, but especial in the order of prelates, to put a
difference between children of light and children of the world, because
great deceit ariseth in taking the one for the other. Great imposture
cometh, when they that the common people take for the light, go about to
take the sun and the light out of the world. But these be easily known,
both by the diversity of minds, and also their armours. For whereas the
children of light are thus minded, that they seek their adversaries'
health, wealth, and profit, with loss of their own commodities, and
ofttimes with jeopardy of their life; the children of the world,
contrariwise, have such stomachs, that they will sooner see them dead
that doth them good, than sustain any loss of temporal things.
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