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. VI.
1 Who euere `seruauntis ben vndir &yogh;ok,
deme thei her lordis worthi al honour,
lest the name of `the Lord and doctryn
be blasfemyd.
2 Forsoth thei that han
feithful, `or cristene, lordis, dispise not,
for thei ben britheren; but more serue
thei, for thei ben feithful and loued, the
whiche ben parceners of benefice, `or good
doyng. `These thingis teche thou, and
`these thingis moneste thou.
3 If ony man
techith othirwyse, and acordith not to the
hoole, `or holsum, wordis of oure Lord
Jhesu Crist, and to that teching that is
vp pite,
4 is proud, `no thing kunnynge,
but langwischinge aboute questiouns and
fi&yogh;tingis of wordis, of the whiche ben
brou&yogh;t forth enuyes, stryues, blasfemyes,
yuele suspiciouns,
5 fi&yogh;tingis of men corupt
in soule, `or resoun, and that ben priued
fro treuthe, demynge wynnynge for to be
pite.
6 Forsoth a greet wynnyng is pite,
with sufficience.
7 Forsoth we brou&yogh;ten
no thing in to this world, no dowte, for
we mown not bere awei ony thing.
8 Forsothe
hauynge foodis, and with what
thingis we schulen be clothid, `with these
-- --
thingis be we payed.
9 Forwhi thei that
wolen be maad riche, fallen into temptacioun,
and into gnare of the deuel, and
manye vnprofitable desyris and noyows,
the whiche drenchen men into the deeth
and perdicioun.
10 Sothly the roote of alle
yuels is couetyse, the which `sum men
coueitynge, `or desyringe, erreden fro the
feith, and bisettiden hem with many sorwis.
11 Forsoth thou, man of God, fle thes
thingis; sothli sue thou ri&yogh;twysnesse, pite,
feith, charite, pacience, myldenesse.
12 Stryue
thou a good strif of feith, catche euerlastyng
lyf, into which thou art clepid, and
hast knowlechid a good knowleching bifore
many witnesses.
13 I comaunde to thee
bifore God, that quykeneth alle thingis,
and Crist Jhesu, that &yogh;elde a witnessing
vndir Pilat of Pounce, a good confessioun,
14 that thou kepe the comaundement withouten
wem, irreprehensible, til into the
comyng of oure Lord Jhesu Crist;
15 whom
the blessid and aloone my&yogh;ty kyng of
kingis, and Lord of lordis, schal schewe in
his tymes.
16 The which aloone hath immortalite,
and dwellith in li&yogh;t, to which
no man may come; whom noon of men
sy&yogh;, but nether may se; to whom glorie,
and honour, and empire into withouten
ende.
17 Amen. Comaunde thou to `riche
men of this world, for `to not sauere,
`or vndirstonde, hi&yogh;ly, nethir for to
hope in vncerteynte of richessis, but in
quyk God, that &yogh;yueth to vs alle thingis
plenteuously for to vse;
18 for to do wel,
for to be maad riche in goode werkis,
li&yogh;tli for to &yogh;yue,
19 for to comune, for to
tresoure to hem silf a good foundement
into tyme to comynge, that thei catche
-- --
euerlasting lyif.
20 Thou Tymothe, kepe
the depoost, or thing bitakun to thee,
eschewinge curside noueltees of voyces,
and opynyouns of fals name of kunnyng;
the which `sum men bihetynge,
21
falliden doun aboute the feith. The grace
of God with thee. Amen.
Here endith the firste pistle to Tymothe,
and bigynneth the prolog to the secunde
pistle.
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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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