A    ^noteLet men this wyse esteme vs / ev&ebar; as the ministers of Christ / and disposers of þe; secretes of God. Furthermore it is requyred of the disposers that they be founde faithfull. ^note With me is it but a very smal thinge / that I shuld be iudged of you / ether of (mans daye) No I iudge not myn awne selfe. I know nought by my selfe: yet am I not therby iustified. It is the Lorde that iudgeth me. Therfore iudge no thinge before the tyme / vntill the Lorde come / ^note which will lighten thinges that are hyd in darcknes and op&ebar; the counsels of the hertes. And then shall every man have prayse of God. &cross3;

B   These thing&es; brethr&ebar; I have described in myn awne person ∧ Apollos / for youre sak&es; / that ye myght learne by vs / that no man co&ubar;te of him selfe beyonde that which is above written: that one swell not agaynst another for eny mans cause. For who preferreth the? What hast thou / that thou hast not receaved? Yf thou have receaved it / why reioysest thou as though thou haddest not receaved it? Now ye are full: now ye are made rych: ye raygne

as king&es; with out vs: ∧ I wold to god ye dyd raygne / that we might raygne with you.

Me thinketh that God hath set forth vs which are Apostles / for the lowest of all / as it were m&ebar; appoynted to deeth. For we are a gasyngestocke vnto the worlde / ∧ to þe; angels / ∧ to men. ^noteWe are foles for Christes sake / ∧ ye are wyse thorow Christ. We are weake / ∧ ye are str&obar;ge. Ye are honorable ∧ we are despised. C   Ev&ebar; vnto this daye we honger ∧ thyrst / ∧ are naked / ∧ are boffetted &wt; fistes / ∧ have no certayne dwellinge place / and laboure workinge with oure awne hondes. We are revysed / ∧ yet we blesse. We are persecuted / ∧ suffer it. ^noteWe are evyll spoken of / and we praye. We are made as it were the filthynes of the worlde / the ofscowringe of all thinges / even vnto this tyme.

I write not these thinges to shame you: but as my beloved sonnes I warne you. For though ye have ten thousande instructours in Christ: yet have ye not many fathers. In Christ Iesu / I have begotten you thorowe þe; gospell. D   Wherfore I desyre you to folowe me. For this cause have I sent vnto you Timotheus / which is my deare sonne / ∧ faithfull in the Lorde / which shall put you in remembra&ubar;ce of my wayes which I have in Christ / ev&ebar; as I teache every where in all congregaci&obar;s. Some swell as though I wolde come no more at you. But I will come to you shortely / yf God will: ∧ will knowe / not þe; wordes of th&ebar; which swell / but þe; power: for þe; kyngdome of

God is not in wordes / but in power. What will ye? Shall I come vnto you with a rodde / or els in love ∧ in the sprete of mekenes?

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