Martyrs Mirror 378En qual modo le poble se de aver a aquilli guar son de f ora? "How shall our intercourse be with those that are without?"
Open in the reader1. Non amar to mond.
We must not love the world.
2. Fugir la mala consortia.
We must shun evil company.
3. Si es possible aver paz cum fuit.
We must, if possible, live in peace with all men.
4. Non contendre en judici.
We must not go to law.
5. Non veniar si meseine.
We must not avenge ourselves.
6. Amarr li ennemic.
We must love our enemies.
7. holer sustenir trabails, calomnias, menasas, reprovance, vergognas, eriurias, & totas generations de tormens per la verita,
We must willingly bear labor, calumny, threats, rejection, shame, injuries, and all kinds of torment, for the truth's sake.
8. Possessir las arnuas in patientia.
We must possess our souls in patience.
9. Non amenar joug cum li non fidel.
We must not be yoked together with unbelievers.
10. Non communicar a las rnalas obras, & totalment a las, sabent idolatria, & del servici sentent so meseine, & enaimi de las autes.
We must have no fellowship with evil works, especially with such as savor of idolatry, and all services which tend in that direction; and thus we are to judge of like matters.
In said tenth chapter some further rules of these people are found, which have reference to the believers themselves, how they must well govern their own lives and bodies. They read as follows