Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. XII.
He telleth of his incomparable visions, 5 but for humilitie liketh better to talke of his
infirmities: 11 putting the fault in the Corinthians for that he is faine thus to
rehearse his ovvne commendations. 13 Vvhere againe he reasoneth the matter
vvith them like is father, vvhy they should preferre those false Apostles before
him. 20 And feareth left at his comming he shal be compelled to excommunicate
many of them.
1 If I must glorie (it is not expedient in deede)
but I vvil come to the09Q1192 visions and reuelati&obar;s
of our Lord.
2 I knovv a man in Christ aboue
fourtene yeres agoe (vvhether in the body, I
knovv not: or out of the body, I knovv not:
God doth knovv) such a one note rapt euen to the third heau&ebar;.
3 And I knovv such a man (vvhether in the body, or out of
the body, I knovv not: God doth know)
4 that he vvas rapt
into Paradise: & heard secrete vvordes, which it is not lavvful
for a man to speake.
5 For such an one I vvil glorie: but for
my self I vvil glorie nothing, sauing in my infirmities.
6 For
and if I vvil glorie, I shal not be foolish: for I shal say truth.
but I spare, lest any m&abar; should esteeme me aboue that vvhich
he seeth in me, or heareth any thing of me.
7 And lest the
greatnes of the reuelations might extoll me, there vvas giuen
me a pricke of my flesh, an angel of Satan, to buffet
me.
8 For the vvhich thing thrise I besought our Lord,
that it might depart from me:
9 and he said to me, My grace
sufficeth thee, for povver is perfited in infirmitie. Gladly
therfore vvil I glorie in mine infirmitie, that the povver of
Christ may dvvel in me. &cross4;
10 For the vvhich cause I please
my self in infirmities, in contumelies, in necessities, in persecutions,
in distresses for Christ. for vvhen I am vveake, then
am I mightie.
11 I am become foolish: you haue compelled me. For I
ought to haue been commended of you: for I haue been nothing
lesse then they that are09Q1193 aboue measure Apostles: although
I am nothing.
12 Yet the signes of my Apostleship
haue been done vpon you in al patience,09Q1194 in signes & vv&obar;ders
and mighty deedes.
13 For vvhat is there that you haue had
lesse then the other churches: but that I my self haue not
burdened you? Pardon me this iniurie.
14 Behold, novv
the third time I am ready to come to you: and I vvil not be
burdenous vnto you. For I seeke not the things that are
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yours: but you. For neither ought the childr&ebar; lay vp treasures.
for the parents, but the parents for the children.
15 But I most
gladly vvil bestovv, & vvil my self moreouer be bestovved
for your soules: although louing you more, I am loued lesse.
16 But be it so: I haue not burdened you: but being craftie,
I tooke you by guile.
17 Haue I circumuented you by
any of them vvhom I sent to you?
18 I requested Titus, and
I sent vvith him a brother. Did Titus circumuent you? vvalked
vve not vvith one spirit? not in the self same steppes?
19 noteOf old thinke you that vve excuse our selues to you?
Before God, in Christ vve speake: but al things (my deerest)
for your edifying.
20 For I feare lest perhaps vvhen I come,
I finde you not such as I vvould: and I be found of you, such
an one as you vvould not. lest perhaps c&obar;tentions, emulati&obar;s,
stomakings, dissensions, detractions, vvhisperings, svvelings,
seditions be among you.
21 lest againe vvhen I come, God
humble me among you: & I mourne many of them that sinned
before, & note haue not done pen&abar;ce for the vncleannes &
fornication and incontinencie that they haue committed.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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