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Be yee also patient; stablish your hearts: for the comming of the Lorde draweth nigh.

Take, my brethren, the Prophets, who haue spoken in the Name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

Is any sicke among you? let him call for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray ouer him, anointing him with oyle in the Name of the Lord:

Confesse your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that yee may bee healed: the effectuall feruent prayer of a righteous man auaileth much.

To an inheritance incorruptible, and vndefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserued in heauen for you,

Wherin ye greatly reioyce, though now for a season (if neede bee) yee are in heauinesse through manifolde temptations:

Wherefore gird vp the loynes of your minde, bee sober, and hope to the end, for the grace that is to bee brought vnto you at the reuelation of Iesus Christ:

Because it is written, Be ye holy, for I am holy.

For as much as ye know that yee were not redeemed with corruptible things, as siluer and golde, from your vaine conuersation receiued by tradition from your fathers;

Who verily was foreordeined before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.

Being borne againe, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God which liueth and abideth for euer.

For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glory of man as the flowre of grasse: the grasse withereth, and the flowre thereof falleth away.

But the word of the Lord endureth for euer: & this is the word which by the Gospel is preached vnto you.

Submit your selues to euery ordinance of man for the Lordes sake, whether it be to the King, as supreme,

Or vnto gouernours, as vnto them that are sent by him, for the punishment of euil doers, and for the praise of them that doe well.

For so is the will of God, that with well doing yee may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.

As free, and not vsing your libertie for a cloake of maliciousnesse, but as the seruants of God.

For this is thanke-worthie, if a man for conscience toward God endure griefe, suffering wrongfully.

For what glory is it, if when yee be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently: but if when yee doe well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

For euen hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for vs, leauing vs an example, that yee should follow his steps.