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Beholde, we count them blessed which endure. Ye haue heard of the patience of Iob, and haue knowen what ende the Lord made. For the Lord is very pitifull and mercifull.

Is any sicke among you? Let him call for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray for him, and anoynt him with oyle in the Name of the Lord.

Acknowledge your faultes one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed: for the prayer of a righteous man auaileth much, if it be feruent.

Helias was a man subiect to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rayne, and it rayned not on the earth for three yeeres and sixe moneths.

To an inheritance immortall and vndefiled, and that withereth not, reserued in heauen for vs,

Wherein yee reioyce, though nowe for a season (if neede require) yee are in heauinesse, through manifolde tentations,

Because it is written, Be yee holie, for I am holie.

Which was ordeined before the foundation of the world, but was declared in the last times for your sakes,

Being borne anewe, not of mortall seede, but of immortall, by the woorde of God, who liueth and endureth for euer.

For all flesh is as grasse, and all the glorie of man is as the flower of grasse. The grasse withereth, and the flower falleth away.

But the woorde of the Lorde endureth for euer: and this is the woorde which is preached among you.

Therefore submit your selues vnto all maner ordinance of man for the Lordes sake, whether it be vnto the King, as vnto the superiour,

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

For so is the will of God, that by well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of the foolish men,

As free, and not as hauing the libertie for a cloke of maliciousnesse, but as the seruauntes of God.

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

For what praise is it, if when ye be buffeted for your faultes, yee take it paciently? but and if when ye doe well, ye suffer wrong and take it paciently, this is acceptable to God.

For hereunto ye are called: for Christ also suffred for you, leauing you an ensample that ye should folow his steppes.

For ye were as sheepe going astray: but are nowe returned vnto the shepheard and Bishop of your soules.

For euen after this maner in time past did the holy women, which trusted in God, tire them selues, and were subiect to their husbands.