ANTHONY: Nay, nay, my lord--Christ hath not so great need of your
Lordship as, rather than to lose your service, he would fall at
such covenants with you as to take your service at halves, to serve
him and his enemy both! He hath given you plain warning already by
St. Paul that he will have in your service no parting-fellow: "What
fellowship is there between light and darkness? Between Christ and
Belial?" And he hath also plainly told you himself by his own
mouth, "No man can serve two lords at once." He will have you
believe all that he telleth you, and do all that he biddeth you,
and forbear all that he forbiddeth you, without any manner of
exception. Break one of his commandments, and you break all.
Forsake one point of his faith, and you forsake all, as for any
thanks that you get of him for the rest. And therefore, if you
devise, as it were, indentures between God and you--what you will
do for him and what you will not do, as though he should hold
himself content with such service of yours as you yourself care to
appoint him--if you make, I say, such indentures, you shall seal
both the parts yourself, and you get no agreement thereto from him.
And this I say: Though the Turk would make such an appointment with
you as you speak of, and would, when he had made it, keep
it--whereas he would not, I warrant you, leave you so when he had
once brought you so far forth.
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