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Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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CAP. IV.

1   Therfor, my britheren most dereworthe and most desirid, my ioye and my coroun, so stonde &yogh;e in the Lord, most dere britheren. 2   Y preye Eucodiam, and biseche Synticem, to vndurstonde the same thing in the Lord. 3   Also Y preye and thee, german felow, helpe thou the ilke wymmen that traueliden with me in the gospel, with Clement and othere myn helperis, whos names ben in the book of lijf. 4   Ioye &yogh;e in the Lord euere more; eft Y seie, ioye &yogh;e. 5   Be &yogh;oure pacyence knowun to alle men; the Lord is ni&yogh;.

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6   Be &yogh;e nothing bisi, but in al preyer and biseching, with doyng of thankyngis, be &yogh;oure axyngis knowun at God. 7   And the pees of God, that passith al wit, kepe &yogh;oure hertis and vndurstondingis in Crist Jhesu. 8   Fro hennus forth, britheren, what euere thingis ben sothe, what euere thingis chast, what euere thingis iust, what euere thingis hooli, what euere thingis able to be louyd, what euere thingis of good fame, if ony vertu, if ony preising of discipline, thenke &yogh;e these thingis, 9   that also &yogh;e han lerud, and take, and heed, and seyn in me. Do &yogh;e these thingis, and God of pees schal be with &yogh;ou. 10   But Y ioyede greetli in the Lord, that sum tyme aftirward &yogh;e floureden a&yogh;en to feele for me, as also &yogh;e feeliden. But &yogh;e weren ocupied, Y seie not as for nede, 11   for Y haue lerud to be sufficient in whiche thingis Y am. 12   And Y can also be lowid, Y can also haue plentee. Euery where and in alle thingis Y am tau&yogh;t to be fillid, and to hungur, and to abounde, and to suffre myseiste. 13   Y may alle thingis in hym that coumfortith me. 14   Netheles &yogh;e han doon wel, comynynge to my tribulacioun. 15   For and &yogh;e, Filipensis, witen, that in the bigynnyng of the gospel, whanne Y wente forth fro Macedonye, no chirche comynede with me in resoun of thing &yogh;ouun and takun, but &yogh;e aloone. 16   Whiche senten to Tessalonyk onys and twies also in to vss to me. 17   Not for Y seke &yogh;ifte, but Y requyre fruyt aboundinge in &yogh;oure resoun. 18   For Y haue alle thingis, and abounde; Y am fillid with tho thingis takun of Epafrodite, whiche &yogh;e

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senten in to the odour of swetnesse, a couenable sacrifice, plesynge to God. 19   And my God fil alle &yogh;oure desire, by hise richessis in glorie in Crist Jhesu. 20   But to God and oure fadir be glorie in to worldis of worldis. 21   Amen. Grete &yogh;e wel euery hooli man in Crist Jhesu. 22   Tho britheren that ben with me, greten &yogh;ou wel. Alle hooli men greten &yogh;ou wel, moost sotheli thei that ben of the emperouris hous. 23   The grace of oure Lord Jhesu Crist be with &yogh;oure spirit. Amen. Here endith the pistle to Philippensis, and bigynneth the prologe on the pistle to Colocensis.

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Wycliffe (Late) [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] [B02020].
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