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. IV.
1 Moost dere, nyle &yogh;e bileue to eche spirit,
but proue &yogh;e spiritis, if thei ben of God;
for many false prophetes wenten out in
to the world.
2 In this thing the spirit of
God is knowun; ech spirit that knowlechith
Crist for to haue comen in
flesch, is of God;
3 and ech spirit that
dissolueth, `or fordoith, Jhesu, is not of
God. And this is antecrist, of whom &yogh;e
herden, for he cometh; and ri&yogh;t now he
is in the world.
4 &YOGH;e, litel sones, ben of
God, and &yogh;e han ouercome him; for he
that is in &yogh;ou is more, than he that in the
world.
5 Thei ben of the world, therfore
thei speken of the world, and the world
herith hem.
6 We ben of God; he that
knew God, herith us; he that is not of
God, herith not us. In this thing we
knowen the spirit of treuthe, and the
spirit of errour.
7 Moost dere, loue we
to gydere, for charite is of God; and ech
man that loueth his brother, is born of
God, and knowith God.
8 He that loueth
not, hath not charite, `nether knew God;
for God is charite.
9 In this thing the
charite of God apperide in us, for God
sente his oon bigeten sone in to the world,
that we lyue bi him.
10 In this thing is
charite, not as we hadden loued God, `but
for he first louede us, and sente his sone
helpinge for oure synnes.
11 &YOGH;e moost dere,
if God louede us, and we owen for to
loue ech other.
12 No man si&yogh;e euere God;
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if we louen to gydere, God dwellith in us,
and the charite of him is parfijt in us.
13 In this thing we knowen, for we dwellen
in him, and he in us; for of his spirit he
&yogh;af to us.
14 And we si&yogh;en, and witnessen,
`for the fadir sente his sone sauyour of
the world.
15 Who euere `shal knowleche,
for Jhesus is the sone of God, God dwellith
in him, and he in God.
16 And we han
knowen, and bileuen to the charite, that
God hath in us. God is charite, and he
that dwellith in charite, dwellith in God,
and God in him.
17 In this thing is the
parfijt charite of God with us, that we
haue trist in the day of dome; for as he
is, and we ben in this world.
18 Drede is
not in charite, but parfijt charite sendith
out drede; for drede hath peyne. Forsothe
he that dredith, is not parfijt in
charite.
19 Therfore loue we God, for he
former louede us.
20 If ony man `shal
seie, for I loue God, and `shal haate his
brother, he is a li&yogh;er. Sotheli he that
loueth not his brother, whiche he seeth,
hou mai he loue God, whom he seeth not?
And we han this precept of God, that he
that loueth God, loue and his brother.
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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