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but was rebuked of his iniquyte. The tame and domme beast spake with mas voyce, & forbad the foolishnes of ye prophet.

It is happened vnto them acordynge vnto the true prouerbe: ye dogg is turned to his vomyte agayne: and ye sowe that was wasshed, vnto hir walowynge in the myre.

& saye: Where is the promes of his commynge? For sence the fathers fell on slepe, euery thinge contynueth as it was from the begynnynge of ye creature.

But the heauens which are yet, and ye earth, are kepte in stoare by his worde, to be reserued vnto fyre agaynst the daye of iudgment and damnacion of vngodly men.

The LORDE is not slacke to fulfyll his promes (as some me counte slacknesse) but is paciet to vs warde, and wyl not that eny ma shulde be lost, but that euery man shulde amende himselfe.

Neuertheles we loke for a new heauen and a new earth (acordynge to his promes) wherin dwelleth righteousnes.

That which we haue sene & herde, declare we vnto you, that ye also maye haue fellishippe with vs, and that oure fellishippe maye be with the father and with his sonne Iesus Christ.

But yf we walke in lighte, euen as he is in lighte, then haue we fellishippe together, and the bloude of Iesus Christ his sonne clenseth vs from all synne.

Yf we saye, we haue not synned, we make him a lyar, and his worde is not in vs.

And hereby are we sure that we knowe him, yf we kepe his comaundemetes.

He that sayeth: I knowe him, and kepeth not his comaundemetes, is a lyar, and the trueth is not in him,

But who so kepeth his worde, in him is the loue of God perfecte in dede. Hereby knowe we, that we are in him.

He that sayeth he is in lighte, and hateth his brother, is yet in darknesse.

He yt loueth his brother, abydeth in the lighte, and there is none occasion of euell in him.

But he yt hateth his brother, is in darknes, and walketh in darknes, and can not tell whither he goeth, for ye darknes hath blynded his eyes.

Babes, I wryte vnto you, that yor synnes are forgeuen you for his names sake.

And now babes, abyde in hi, yt wha he shal appeare, we maye be bolde, & not be made ashamed of him at his commynge.

Who so euer is borne of God, synneth not: for his sede remayneth in him, & he ca not synne, because he is borne of God.

By this are the children of God knowne & the children of the deuell. Who so euer doeth not righteousnes, is not of God, nether he thath loueth not his brother.

not as Cain, which was of the wicked, and slewe his brother. And wherfore slewe he him? euen because his awne workes were euell, and his brothers righteous.