My brethren / be not every m&abar; a note master
/ remembringe how that we shall
receave the more damnacion: for in
many thinges we synne all. Yf a man synne
not in worde / the same is a parfecte m&abar; / ∧ able
to tame all the body. Beholde we put bittes
into þe; horses mouthes that they shuld obeye
vs / ∧ we turne aboute all the body. Beholde
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also the shyppes / which though they be so
gret / and are dryven of fearce windes / yet are
they turned about with a very smale helme /
whither soever the violence of the governer
wyll. Even so the tonge is a lyttell member /
and bosteth great thinges.
Beholde how gret a thinge a lyttell fyre
kyndleth / ∧ the tonge is fyre / and a worlde of
wyckednes. So is the tonge set amonge oure
members / that it defileth the whole body / ∧
setteth a fyre all that we have of nature / and
is it selfe set a fyre even of hell.
B All the natures of beastes / ∧ of byrdes / and
of serpentes / and thinges of þe; see / are meked
∧ tamed of the nature of man. But the tonge
can no man tame. Yt is an vntuely evyll full
of deedly poyson. Therwith blesse we God
the father / and therwith cursse we m&ebar; which
are made after the similitude of God. Out of
one mouth proceadeth blessynge and cursynge.
My brethren these thinges ought not so
to be. Doth a fountayne sende forth at one
place swete water and bytter also? Can the
fygge tree / my Brethren / beare olive beries: other
a vyne beare fygges? So can no fountayne
geve bothe salt water and fresshe also. If
eny man be wyse and endued with learnynge
amonge you let him shewe the workes of his
C
good conversaci&obar; in meknes that ys coupled
with note wisdome.
But Yf ye have bitter envyinge and stryfe
in youre hertes / reioyce not: nether be lyars
agaynst the trueth. This wisdome desc&ebar;deth
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not from a boue: but is erthy / and note naturall /
and divelisshe. For where envyinge ∧ stryfe
is /
A there is stablenes ∧ all m&abar;ner of evyll workes.
But the wisdom that is from above / is
fyrst pure / then peasable / gentle / and easy to
be entreated / full of mercy and good frutes /
without iudgynge / and without simulaci&obar;:
yee / note and the frute of rightewesnes is sowen
in peace / of them that mayntene peace.
Tyndale [1534], ¶ The newe Testament / dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale: and fynesshed in the yere of oure Lorde God A. M. D. ∧. xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember (, ANWERP) [word count] [B03000].
