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 Amoneste, `or comaunde, hem, for to
be sugettis to princes, and poweris; for
to obeische to seyinge, for to be redy
to al good werk;
2 for to blasfeme no man,
for to be not litygious, `or ful of chiding,
but temperaunt, `or pacient, schewinge
al myldenesse to alle men.
3 Forsoth
and we weren sum tyme vnwyse,
vnbileueful, erringe, and seruynge to desyris,
and dyuerse voluptees, in malice
and enuye doynge, hateful, `or worthi
for to be hatid, hatynge to gidere.
4 Forsoth
whanne the benygnyte, and humanite,
`or manhed, of `oure sauyour God
apperide,
5 not of workis of ri&yogh;twysnesse
that we diden, but vp his mercy he made
vs saaf, by waischynge, `or baptym, of
a&yogh;en bigetyng, and a&yogh;en newyng of the
Hooly Gost,
6 whom he schedde out in to vs
plenteuously by Jhesu Crist, oure sauyour,
that we iustifyed bi his grace,
7 be eyris
vp hope of euerlastyng lyf.
8 A trewe
word is, and of thes thingis I wole thee
for to conferme othere men, that thei
that bileuen to God, curen, `or do bisynesse,
for to be bifore in goode werkis.
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Thes thingis ben goode and profitable to
men.
9 Forsoth eschewe thou foltische
questiouns, and genelogies, and stryues,
and fi&yogh;tingis of the lawe; forsoth thei
ben vnprofitable and veyn.
10 Schonye
thou a man heretyk, aftir oon and the
secunde coreccioun, `or correpcioun, or reprouyng;
11 witinge for he that is such
maner man is subuertid, and trespassith,
dampned bi his owne dom.
12 Sothli whanne
I schal sende to thee Arteman, or Tytik,
hy&yogh;e, `or haste, thou for to come to me
to Nicopolis; forsoth I haue purposid
for to dwelle in winter ther.
13 Bisily
`sende bifore Zenam, a wyse man of
lawe, and Apollo, that no thing fayle to
hem.
14 Forsothe and oure men lerne for
to be bifore in good werkis, to necessarie
vses, that thei be not vnfruytouse.
15 Alle
men that ben with me greeten thee wel.
Greete thou wel hem, that louen vs in
feith. The grace of God with &yogh;ou alle.
Amen.
Here endith the epistle to Tyte, and
bygynneth the prolog to Filomon.
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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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