The sprete speaketh evydently that in the latter tymes some shall departe ^note from the fayth / A   and shall geve hede vnto spretes of erroure / and dyvelysshe doctrine of them which speake falce thorow ypocrisye / and have their consciences marked with an hote yron / ^note forbyddinge to mary / and commaundinge to abstayne from meates which God hath created to be receaved with gevynge thankes / of them which beleve and knowe þe; trueth. For all the creatures of God are good and nothynge to be refused / yf it be receaved with thankes gevynge. For it is sanctyfyed by the worde of God and prayer. B   Yf thou shalt put the brethren in remembraunce of these thynges / thou shalt be a good minister of Iesu Christ / which hast

bene norisshed vp in the wordes of the fayth and good doctryne / ^note which doctryne thou hast continually followed. C   But cast awaye vngostly and olde wyves fables.

Exercyse thy silfe vnto godlines. For bodely exercise proffiteth lyttll: But godlines is good vnto all thynges / as a thynge which hath promyses of the lyfe that is now / and of the lyfe to come. This is a sure sayinge and of all parties worthy to be receaved. For therfore we laboure and suffre rebuke / because we beleve in the livynge god / which is the savioure of all men: but specially of those that beleve. Suche thynges commaunde and teache. Let no man despyse thy youth: but be vnto them that beleve / an insample / in worde in conversacion / in love / in sprete / in fayth and in purenes.

D   Till I come / geve attendaunce to redynge / to exhortacion and to doctryne. Despyse not the gyfte that is in þe; / which was geven the thorow prophesye and with layinge on of þe; hondes of an elder. These thynges exercyse / and geve thy silfe vnto them / that it maye be sene how thou profetest in all thinges. Take hede vnto thy silfe and vnto learnynge / ^note and continue therin. For if thou shalt so do / thou shalt save thy silfe ∧ them that heare the.

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