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Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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CAP. I.

1   Poul, apostle, and Siluan, and Tymothe, to the chirche of Tessalonycensis, in God, oure fadir, and the Lord Jhesu Crist, `grace to &yogh;ou, and pees. 2   We don thankingis to God euermore for alle &yogh;ou, makinge mynde of &yogh;ou in oure preieris

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withoute ceessynge; we myndeful of `&yogh;oure werk of feith, and traueil, and charite, and susteynyng of the hope of oure Lord Jhesu Crist, bifore `the Lord and oure fadir. 4   We witynge, &yogh;e moost loued britheren of `the Lord, &yogh;oure chesyng; 5   for oure gospel was not at &yogh;ou in word oonli, but in vertu, and in the Hooly Goost, and in moche plente; as &yogh;e witen, what maner men we weren in &yogh;ou for &yogh;ou; 6   and &yogh;e ben maad oure foloweris, and of the Lord, resceyuynge the word in moche tribulacioun, with ioye of the Hooly Goost; 7   so that &yogh;e ben maad fourme, `or ensaumple, to alle men bileuynge, in Macedonye and in Achaye. 8   Forsoth of &yogh;ou the word of the Lord is defamyd, `or moche told, not oonly in Macedonye and Achaye, but in ech place &yogh;oure feith that is to God, is parfyt; so that it is not nede for to speke `to &yogh;ou `ony thing. 9   Forsoth thei schewen of &yogh;ou, what maner entre we hadden to &yogh;ou, and hou &yogh;e ben conuertid to God fro symylacris, for to serue to quyk God and very; 10   and for to abide his sone fro heuenes, whom he reisyde fro deede men, Jhesu, that delyuerede vs fro wraththe to comynge.
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Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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