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. III.
1 A feithful word. If ony man desyre a
byschopriche, he desyrith a good werk.
2 Therfore it bihoueth a byschop for to be
irreprehensyble, `or withoute reproue,
and the hosebonde of oo wyf, sobre,
prudent, ourned, chast, holdynge hospitalite,
techer;
3 not &yogh;ouun moche to wyn,
not smyter, but temperaunt, `or pacient,
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not litigious, `or ful of stryf, or chidyng,
not coueitous,
4 wel rewlynge his
hous, hauynge sones suget with al chastite;
5 forsoth if ony man kan not gouerne
his hous, how schal he haue diligence
of the chirche of God?
6 not newe
conuertid into feith, lest he borun vp
into pride, falle into the dom, `or synne,
of the deuyl.
7 Forsoth it bihoueth hym
for to haue good witnessyng and of hem
that ben withoute forth, that he falle not
into schenschip, `or reprof, and into the
snare of the deuyl.
8 Also `it byhoueth
dekenes for to be chast, not dowble tungid,
not &yogh;ouun `to moche wyn, not suynge
foul wynnyng;
9 hauynge the mysterie of
feith in clene conscience.
10 And forsoth be
thei proued first, that thei mynystre so,
hauynge no cryme, `or greet synne.
11 Also `it bihoueth wymmen for to be
chast, not bacbitinge, sobre, feithful in alle
thingis.
12 Dekenes be thei hosebondis of o
wyf; the whiche dekenes gouerne wel
her sones and her housis.
13 Sothli thei
that `schulen mynistre wel, schulen gete
a good degree to hem silf, and moche trist
in the feith, that is in Crist Jhesu.
14 Sone
Tymothe, I write to thee thes thingis,
hopinge me for to come soone to thee;
forsoth if I schal tarie,
15 that thou wite,
how it bihoueth thee for to lyue in the
hous of God, that is the chirche of quyk
God, a piler and sadnesse of treuthe.
16 And
opynly it is a greet sacrament of pite,
that that is schewid in fleisch, is iustified
in spirit, it apperide to aungels, it is
prechid to hethen men, it is byleuyd in the
world, it is takyn vp in glorie.
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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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