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 Therfore I biseche first of alle thingis,
for to be maad bisechingis, preieris, axyngis,
doynge of thankyngis, for alle
men,
2 for kyngis and alle that ben sett in
hi&yogh;nesse, `or greet stat, that we lede
quyet and pesyble lyf, in al pite and
chastite.
3 Forsoth this thing is good and
acceptid bifore God,
4 oure sauyour, that
wole alle men for to be maad saaf, and
for to come to the knowynge of treuthe.
5 Sothli o God and mediatour of God and
men,
6 a man `Jhesus Crist, that &yogh;af him
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silf redempcioun for alle men. Whos witnessinge
is confermyd in his tymes;
7 in
the which I am putt a prechour and
apostle. Sothli I seie treuthe `in Crist
Jhesu, and I lye not, a techer of hethen
men in feith and in treuthe.
8 Therfore I
wole, `menf or to02Q0014 preie in al place, liftynge
vp clene hondis with oute wraththe
and disputyng, `or stryf.
9 Also and
wymmen `in ourned, `or couenable, abite,
with schamfastnesse and sobrenesse ournynge
hem silf, not in writhun heeris,
ethir in gold, ethir margaritis, `that ben
peerlis,
10 ether precious cloth; but that
that bicometh wymmen, bihetynge pite
bi goode werkis.
11 A womman lerne in
silence, with al subieccioun.
12 Forsothe I
suffre not a womman for to tech, nether
for to haue lordschip into the man, `or
hosebonde, but for to be in silence.
13 Forsoth Adam was first foormyd, aftirward
Eue;
14 and Adam was not disceyued
`in feith, forsoth the womman
was disceyued `in feith, in preuaricacioun,
`or brekyng of the lawe.
15 Sothli
sche schal be saued by generacioun of
sones, if sche `schal dwelle perfytli in
feith, and loue, and hoolynesse, with sobrenesse.
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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