1   Ivde a seruaunt of Iesus Christ, and ^note brother of Iames, to them which are called and sanctified ^note of God the Father, and ^note returned to Iesus Christ:

2   Mercie vnto you, and peace and loue be multiplied.

3    ^noteBeloued, when I gaue al dilig&ebar;ce to write vnto you of the ^note common saluati&obar;, it was needful for me to write vnto you to exhort you, þt; yee should earnestly ^note contend for the mainten&abar;ce of þe; faith, which was ^note once giuen vnto the Saintes.

4    ^noteFor there are certaine men crept in, which were before of olde ordeined to this condemnation: ^note vngodly men they are which turne the grace of our God into wantonnesse, and ^note denie God the onely Lord, and our Lord Iesus Christ.

5    ^noteI wil therfore put you in rem&ebar;brance, forasmuch as ye once knew this, how that the Lord, after þt; he had deliuered the people out of Egypt, ^note destroied them afterward which beleeued not.

6    ^noteThe ^note Angels also which kept not their first estate, but left their owne habitation, hee hath reserued in euerlasting chaines vnder darkenesse vnto the iudgement of the great day.

7   As ^note Sodom and Gomorrhe, and the cities about them, which in like maner as they did, ^note committed fornication, and followed ^note strange flesh, are set foorth for an ensample, and suffer the vengeance of eternall fire.

8   Likewise notwithstanding these ^note sleepers also defile the flesh, ^note and despise ^note gouernment, and speake euill of them that are in authoritie.

9    ^noteYet Michael the Archangell, when hee stroue against the deuill, and disputed about the body of Moses, durst not blame him with cursed speaking, but sayd, The Lord rebuke thee.

10    ^noteBut these speake euill of those thinges, which they know not: & whatsoeuer things they know naturally, as beasts, which are without reason, in those things they corrupt them selues.

11    ^noteWo be vnto them: for they haue followed the way ^note of Cain, and are cast away by the deceit ^note of Balaams wages, and perish in the gainsaying ^note of Core.

12    ^noteThese are rockes in your ^note feasts of charitie when they feast with you, without ^note al feare, feeding themselues: ^note cloudes they are &wt;out water, caried about of windes, corrupt trees & without fruit, twise dead, and plucked vp by þe; rootes.

13   They are the raging waues of the sea, foming out their owne shame: they are wandring starres, to whome is reserued the ^note blackenesse of darkenesse for euer.

14   And Enoch also the seuenth from Adam, prophecied of such, saying, ^note Beholde, the Lorde ^note commeth with thousands of his Saints,

15   To giue iudgement against al men, and to rebuke all the vngodly among them of all their wicked deeds, which they haue vngodly committed, and of all their cruel speakings, which wicked sinners haue spoken against him.

16   These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their owne lustes: ^note Whose mouthes speake proud things, hauing mens persons in admiration, because of aduantage.

17    ^noteBut, yee beloued, remember the wordes which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Iesus Christ,

18   How that they told you that there should be mockers ^note in þe; last time, which should walke after their owne vngodly lustes.

19    ^noteThese are they that separate them selues from other, naturall, hauing not the Spirit.

20   But, yee beloued, edifie your selues in your most holy faith, praying in the holy Ghost,

21   And keepe your selues in the loue of God, looking for the mercie of our Lorde Iesus Christ, vnto eternall life.

22    ^noteAnd haue compassion of some, in putting difference:

23   And other saue with ^note feare, pulling them out of the fire, & hate euen that ^note garment which is spotted by the flesh.

24    ^noteNowe vnto him that is able to keepe you, that ye fall not, and to present you faultlesse before the presence of his glorie with ioy,

25   That is, to God only wise, our Sauiour, be glorie, and maiestie, and dominion, and power, both nowe and for euer, Amen.

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