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For it is God which worketh in you both the wyll and the deed, euen of his owne good wyll.

for because of the worke of Christ, he wente so farre, that he came nye vnto death, and regarded not his life, to fulfyll that seruyce which was lackynge on youre parte towarde me.

to knowe him and the vertue of his resurreccion, and the fellishippe of his passion, that I maye be conformable vnto his death,

which shal chauge or vyle body, yt it maye be like fashioned vnto his glorious body, acordinge to ye workynge wherby he is able to subdue all thinges vnto himselfe.

My God fulfyll all yor nede, acordinge to his riches in glory i Christ Iesu.

For this cause we also, sence the daye yt we herde of it, ceasse not to praye for you, & desyre that ye mighte be fulfylled with the knowlege of his will, in all wyssdome and spirituall vnderstondinge,

& to be strengthed wt all power acordinge to the mighte of his glory, to all pacience and longsufferynge with ioyfulnes,

Which hath delyuered vs fro the power of darknesse, & translated vs in to the kyngdome of his deare sonne

( in whom we haue redempcion thorow his bloude, namely, the forgeuenes of synnes.)

and that by him all thinges shulde be reconciled vnto himselfe, whether they be thinges vpon earth or in heauen, that thorow the bloude on his crosse he mighte make peace euen thorow his owne selfe.

in the body of his flesh thorow death, to make you holy, and vnblameable & with out faute in his awne sighte,

Now ioye I in my sufferynges, which I suffre for you, and fulfill that which is behynde of the passions of Christ in my flesh, for his bodyes sake, which is the congregacion,

namely, that mystery which hath bene hyd sence the worlde beganne, and sence the begynnynge of tymes: but now is opened vnto his sayntes,

And hath spoyled rule and power, and hath made a shewe of them openly, and triumphed ouer them in his awne persone.

Let no man make you shote at a wronge mark, which after his owne chosynge walketh in humblenes and spiritualtye of angels, thinges which he neuer sawe, and is vayne, and puft vp in his owne fleshly mynde:

which thinges haue a shyne of wyssdome thorow chosen spiritualtie and humblenes, and in that they spare not the body, and do the flesh no worshipe vnto his nede.

Lye not one to another. Put of ye olde ma with his workes,

Salute the brethre, which are at Laodicea, and salute Nymphas, and the cogregacion which is in his house.

and to loke for his sonne from heaue: whom he raysed vp from the deed, euen Iesus, which hath delyuered vs fro the wrath to come.

as ye knowe, how that as a father his children, euen so exhorted we and comforted and besoughte euery one of you,