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¶ Either what woman hauing ten pieces of siluer, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweepe the house, and seeke diligently till shee find it?

1611 marginal noteDrachma heere translated a piece of silver, is the eight part of an ounce which commeth to seven pence halfe penie, and is equall to the Romane penie, Mat. 18.28

Likewise I say vnto you, there is ioy in the presence of the Angels of God, ouer one sinner that repenteth.

And am no more worthy to be called thy sonne: make me as one of thy hired seruants.

And he called one of the seruants, and asked what these things meant.

So hee called euery one of his lords detters vnto him, and said vnto the first, How much owest thou vnto my lord?

¶ No seruant can serue two masters, for either he will hate the one, and loue the other: or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other: yee cannot serue God and Mammon.

1611 marginal noteMatth. 6.24.

And it is easier for heauen and earth to passe, then one title of the law to faile.

1611 marginal noteMatth. 5.18.

And hee said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went vnto them from the dead, they will repent.

And hee said vnto him, If they heare not Moses and the Prophets, neither will they be perswaded, though one rose from the dead.

It were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his necke, and he cast into the Sea, then that he should offend one of these little ones.