A   UVherfore laye asyde all maliciousnes and all gyle / and dissimulacion / and envie / and all backbytynge: and as newe borne babes / desyre that reasonable mylke which is with out corrupcion / that ye maye growe therin. If so be that ye have tasted how plesaunt the lorde is / to whom ye come as vnto a livynge stone disalowed of men / but chosen of god and precious: and ye as lyvynge stones / are made a spretuall ^note housse / and an holy presthode / for to offer vp spretuall sacryfice / acceptable to god by Iesus Christ.

B   Wherfore it is contayned in the scripture: beholde / I put in Sion an heed corner stone /

electe and precious: and he that beleveth on him shall not be ashamed. ^noteVnto you therfore which beleve / he is precious: but vnto them which beleve not / þe; stone which þe; bylders refused þe; same is made þe; heed stone in the corner / ∧ a stone to stomble at / ∧ a rocke to offende them which stomble at the worde / ^note and beleve not that where on they were set. But ye are a chosyn generacion / a royall presthod / an holy naci&obar; / and a peculiar people / that ye shuld shewe the vertues of him that called you out of darknes into hys marvelous light which ^note in tyme past were not a people / yet are now the people of God: which were not vnder mercye but now have obteyned mercye. &cross3;

C    ^note&cross2; Derly beloved / I beseche you as stra&ubar;gers and pilgrems / abstayne from flesshly lustes which fyght agaynst the soule / and se that ye have honest conversacion amonge the g&ebar;tyls that they which backbyte you as evyll doars ^note maye se youre good workes and prayse god in the daye of visitacion.

Submit youre selves vnto all manner ordinaunce of man for the lordes sake / whether it be vnto the kynge as vnto the chefe heed: ^note other vnto rulars / as vnto them that are sent of him / for the punysshment of evyll doars: but for the laude of them that do well. For so is the will of god / that ye put to sylence the ygnorancie of the folyshe men: as fre / and not as havinge þe; libertie for a cloke of maliciousnes but even as the serva&ubar;tes of god. Honoure all men. Love brotherly felishippe. ^noteFeare

god and honour the kynge.

^noteServauntes obey youre masters with all feare / not only yf they be good ∧ courteous: but also though they be frowarde. For it is thankeworthye yf a man for conscience towarde god endure grefe / sufferinge wrongfully. For what prayse is it / if when ye be buffeted for youre fautes / ye take it paciently? But and yf when ye do well / ye suffer wronge and take it paciently / then is there thanke with God.

For herevnto verely were ye ^note called: for &cross2; Christ also suffered for vs levinge vs an insample þt; ye shuld folowe his steppes / which dyd no sinne / nether was ther gyle founde in his mouth: which when he was reviled / reviled not agayne: ^note wh&ebar; he suffered / he threatened not: but comitted the cause to him that iudgeth ryghteously / which his awne silfe bare oure synnes in his body on the tree / that we shuld be delyvered from synne and shuld lyve in rightewesnes. By whose strypes ye were healed. For ye were as shepe goinge astraye: but are now returned vnto þe; shepheerd ^note and bisshoppe of youre soules. &cross3;

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