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 Lo! I wrijte to &yogh;ou this secounde epistle,
in which I stire &yogh;oure cleer soule in
monestinge to gydere,
2 that &yogh;e be myndeful
of the wordis, that I bifore seide of holy
prophetis, and of the maundementis of
holy apostlis of the Lord sauyour;
3 first
witynge this thing, that in the laste dayes
illusours, `or scorners, or deceyuours,
shulen come in deceyt, goynge aftir hir
owne coueitinges,
4 seiynge, Where is biheste,
or the comyng, of him? forsothe sith
fadirs slepten, so alle thinges lasten fro
the bigynnynge of creature.
5 Sotheli it
daarith hem willinge this thing, that
heuenes weren bifore, and the erthe of
watir and bi watir beynge, `or stondinge,
to gydere bi Goddis word;
6 bi whiche
thingis `that ilke world clensid thanne
perischide.
7 Forsothe the heuenes that
now ben, and the erthe, bi the same word
-- --
`put a&yogh;en, ben kept to fijr in to the day of
dome and perdicioun of vnpitouse men.
8 Forsothe, &yogh;e moost dere, oo thing `daare
&yogh;ou not, `or be not unknowun, for oo
day anentis God as a thousynd &yogh;eeres,
and a thousynd &yogh;eer as oo day.
9 The
Lord tarieth not his biheest, as `sum men
gessen, but he doith paciently for &yogh;ou, `not
willinge ony for to perische, but alle
for to turne a&yogh;en to penaunce.
10 Forsothe
the day of the Lord shal come as a theef,
in which heuenes with greet bire, `or feersnesse,
shulen passe, sotheli elementes
shulen be dissolued bi heete, forsothe the
erthe, and alle werkes that ben in it, shulen
be brent.
11 Therefore whan alle thes thinges
shulen be `to be dissolued, what maner
men bihoueth &yogh;ou for to be in holy
lyuyngis and pitees,
12 abidynge and hi&yogh;inge
in to the comynge of the day of oure Lord
Jhesu Crist, bi whom heuenes brennynge
shulen be dissolued, and elementes
bi brennynge, `or heete, of fijr `shulen
fayle.
13 Sotheli we abijden up his biheestes
newe heuenes and newe erthe, in whiche
ri&yogh;twisnesse dwellith.
14 For which thing,
&yogh;e moost dere, abijdinge thes thinges,
bisye for to be founde to him in pees
vnspottid and vnfoulid.
15 And deme &yogh;e
the longe abijdinge of oure Lord &yogh;oure
helthe, as and oure moost dere brother
Poul wroot to &yogh;ou, up wisdom &yogh;ouun to
him.
16 As and in alle epistlis spekinge `in
hem of thes thingis; in whiche ben summe
harde thinges in vndirstondinge, the
whiche vnwijse, `or vntau&yogh;t, and vnstable
men deprauen, as and othere scriptures,
to her owne perdicioun.
17 Therfore &yogh;e,
britheren, bifore witynge kepe &yogh;ou silf,
lest &yogh;e ouerled, `or deceyued, bi errour of
-- --
vnwijse men, falle awey fro &yogh;oure owne
sadnesse.
18 Forsothe wexe &yogh;e in grace and
knowinge of oure Lord Jhesu Crist and
oure Sauyour; to him glory and now
and in to the day of euerelastingenesse.
Amen.
Heere endeth the secounde pistle of
seynt Petre, and now bigynneth the first
pistle of seynt Joon.
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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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