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. I.
He comforteth them in their persecutions (being novv by Haptisons made the children of
God) vvith the hope of their heauenly inheritance: 6 shevving hovv meritorious
it is for them to be so constant in faith, 10 and confirming them therein vvith
the authoritie of the Prophets and of the Holy Ghost. 15 Exhorting them to liue
also accordingly in al holines. 15 considering the holines of God, the vprightnes
of his iudgement. the price of their redemption by Christ, 22 and the vertue of
the seede in them (Which is grace regeneratiue in Baptisme) foretold by the Prophet
also.
1 notePeter an Apostle of Iesvs Christ,
to the electe strangers of the dispersion
of Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia,
Asia, and Bithynia,
2 according to
the prescience of God the Father,
into sanctification of the Spirit, vnto
the obedience and sprinkling of the
bloud of Iesvs Christ: Grace to
you and peace be multiplied.
3 note noteBlessed be God and the father of our Lord Iesvs
Christ, vvho according to his great mercie hath regenerated
vs vnto a liuely hope, by the resurrection of Iesvs Christ
from the dead,
4 vnto an inheritance incorruptible, and incontaminate,
and that can not fade, conserued in the heauens
in you,
5 (vvho in the vertue of God are kept by faith
vnto saluati&obar;) ready to be reuealed in the last time.
6 wherin
you shal reioyce, a litle novv if you must be made heauy
in diuerse tentations:
7 that the probation of your faith
much more pretious then gold (vvhich is proued by the fire)
may be found vnto praise and glorie and honour in the reuelati&obar;
of Iesvs Christ: &cross4;
8 vvhom hauing not seen, you
loue: in vvhom novv also not seing you beleeue: and beleeuing
you reioyce vvith ioy vnspeakable and glorified,
9 receiuing the end of your faith, the saluation of your
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soules.
10 Of the vvhich saluation the Prophetes inquired &
searched, vvhich prophecied of the grace to come in you,
11 searching vnto vvhich or vvhat maner of time the Spirit
of Christ in them did signifie: foretelling those passions that
12 are in Christ and the glories folovving: to vvhom it vvas reuealed,
that not to th&ebar; selues, but to you they ministred those
things vvhich novv are told you by them that haue euangelized
to you, the holy Ghost being sent from heauen, on
vvhom the Angels desire to looke.
13 For the vvhich cause hauing the loines of your note minde
girded, sober, trust perfectly in that grace vvhich is offered
you, in the reuelation of Iesvs Christ,
14 as children of obedience,
not configurated to the former desires of your
ignorance:
15 but according to him that hath called you, the
Holy one, be you also in al conuersation holy:
16 because
it is vvritten: You shal be holy, because I am holy. note
17 And if you inuocate
the Father, him vvhich note vvithout acception of persons
iudgeth according to euery ones note vvorke: in feare conuerse
ye the time of your peregrination.
18 Knovving that
note not vvith corruptible things, gold or siluer, you are redeemed
from your vaine conuersation of your fathers note tradition:
19 but vvith the pretious bloud as it vvere of an immaculate
and vnspotted lambe, Christ,
20 noteforeknovven
in deede before the constitution of the vvorld, but manifested
in the last times for you,
21 vvhich by him are faithful
in God vvho raised him from the dead, and hath giuen him
glorie, that your faith and hope might be in God.
22 Making
your soules chaste in obedience of charitie, in the sincere
loue of the fraternitie from the hart loue ye one an other
earnestly:
23 borne againe not of corruptible seede, but incorruptible
by the vvord of God vvho liueth and remaineth
for euer.
24 For al flesh is as grasse: and al the glorie thereof as the
floure of grasse, the grasse is vvithered, and the floure thereof is fallen avvay. note
25 But the vvord of our Lord remaineth for euer, and this
is the vvord that is euangelized among you.
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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