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. II.
1 Forwhi &yogh;e witen, britheren, oure entre
to &yogh;ou,
2 for it was not veyn; but first we
suffrid, and punyschid with wrongis, `or
fals reprouyng, as &yogh;e witen in Philippis,
hadden trust in oure Lord, for to speke
`to &yogh;ou the gospel of God in moche bysynesse.
3 Sothli oure exortacioun, `or techinge,
not of errour, nether of vnclennesse,
nether in gile,
4 but as we ben proued
of God, that the gospel schulde be takyn
to vs, so we speken; not as plesynge to
men, but to God that proueth oure hertis.
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5 Forsoth nethir we weren ony tyme in
word of glosyng, as &yogh;e witen, nether in
occasioun of auarice;
6 God is witnesse; nethir
sekinge glorie of men, nethir of &yogh;ou,
nethir of othere,
7 whanne we my&yogh;ten be
to charge to &yogh;ou, as Cristis apostelis.
But we ben maad litle in the myddil of
&yogh;ou,
8 as if a noryse fostre hir sones; so we
desyringe &yogh;ou coueityngly, `or with greet
loue, wolden bitake to &yogh;ou, not oonly
the gospel of God, but also oure soules,
`or lyues, for &yogh;e ben maad to vs moost
dereworthe.
9 Forsothe, britheren, &yogh;e ben
myndeful of oure traueil and werynesse;
ny&yogh;t and day we worchinge, that we
schulden not greue ony of &yogh;ou, prechiden
in &yogh;ou the euangelie of God.
10 &YOGH;e ben
witnessis, and God, how hoolily, and
iustli, and withouten querel, `or pleynt,
to &yogh;ou that bileueden, `we weren.
11 As &yogh;e
witen, how ech of &yogh;ou, as the fadir his
sones,
12 `preiynge and comfortynge &yogh;ou, we
han witnessid, that &yogh;e schulden go worthili
to God, that clepide &yogh;ou into his kyngdom
and glorie.
13 Therfore and we don thankingis
to God with oute ceessinge. For
whanne &yogh;e hadden takun of vs the word
of the heringe of God, &yogh;e token it not as
the word of men, but as it is verily, the
word of God, that worchith in &yogh;ou that
han bileued.
14 Sothli, britheren, &yogh;e ben
maad foloweris of the chirchis of God,
that ben in Judee, in Crist Jhesu, for and
&yogh;e han suffrid the same thinges of &yogh;oure
euene lynagis, as and thei of Jewis.
15 The
whiche slowen and the Lord Jhesu and
the prophetis, and pursuwen vs, and thei
plesen not to God, and to alle men thei
ben aduersaries;
16 forbedinge vs for to
speke to hethen men, that `the hethen
men be maad saaf, that thei fulfille her
synnes euermore; forsoth the wraththe
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of God bifore cam vpon hem til into the
ende.
17 Forsoth, britheren, we desolat
fro &yogh;ou `at the tyme `of an hour, in
bihooldynge, not in herte, more plenteuously
han hi&yogh;ed for to se &yogh;oure face
with greet desyr.
18 For we wolden come
to &yogh;ou, sotheli I Poul, and oones and eftsoone,
but Sathanas lettide vs.
19 Sothli
what is oure hope, or ioye, or crowne of
glorie? Wher &yogh;e ben not bifore oure
Lord Jhesu Crist in his comynge?
20 Forsoth
&yogh;e ben oure glorie and ioye.
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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