A   UVe beseche you brethren by the commynge of oure lorde Iesu Christ / ∧ in that we shall assemble vnto him / that ye be not sod&ebar;ly moved from youre mynde / and be not troubled / nether by sprete / nether by wordes / nor yet by letter which shuld seme to come from vs / as though the daye of Christ were at honde. Let no m&abar; deceave you by eny meanes / ^note for the lorde commeth not / excepte ther come a departynge fyrst / and that that synfnll man be opened / þe; sonne of perdicion which is an adversarie / ^note ∧ is exalted above all that is called god / or that is worshipped: so that he shall sitt as God in temple of god / and shew him silfe as god.

B   Remember ye not / that when I was yet with you / I tolde you these thynges? And nowe

ye knowe what with holdeth: even that he myght be vttered at his tyme. For the mistery of that iniquitie doeth he all readie worke which onlie loketh / vntill it be taken out of þe; waye. And then shall that wicked be vttered / whom the lorde shall consume with the sprete ^note of hys mouth / and shall destroye with the apearaunce of his commynge / &cross3; even him whose commynge is by the workynge of Satan / C   wyth all ^note lyinge power / signes and wonders: and in all deceavablenes of vnrightewesnes / amonge them that perysshe: because they receaved not the (love) of the truth / that they myght have bene saved. ^noteAnd therfore god shall sende them stronge delusion / that they shuld beleve lyes: that all they myght be damned which beleved not the trueth but had pleasure in vnrightewesnes.

But we are bounde to geve thankes alwaye to god for you brethren beloved of the lorde / for because that God hath from the begynnynge chosen you to saluacion / thorow sanctifyinge of the sprete / and thorowe belevynge the trueth: whervnto he called you byoure gospell / to obtayne þe; glorye that c&obar;meth of oure lord Iesu Christ.

D   &cross2; Therfore brethren stonde fast and kepe þe; ordinaunces which ye have learned: whether it were by oure preachynge / or by pistle. Oure lorde Iesu Christ hym silfe / and God oure father which hath loved vs and hath geven vs everlastynge consolacion and good

hope thorowe grace / comforte youre hertes / ∧ stablysshe you in all doctrine ∧ good doynge.

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