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But if I tary long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behaue thy selfe in the House of God, which is the Church of the liuing God, the pillar and ground of the trueth.

If any man or woman that beleeueth haue widowes, let them relieue them, and let not the Church be charged, that it may relieue them that are widowes indeed.

The Lord Iesus Christ bee with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.The second Epistle vnto Timotheus, ordeined the first Bishop of the Church of the Ephesians, was written from Rome, when Paul was brought before Nero the second time.

All that are with mee salute thee. Greete them that loue vs in the faith. Grace be with you all. Amen.It was written to Titus ordeined the first Bishop of the Church of the Cretians, from Nicopolis of Macedonia.

And to our beloued Apphia, and Archippus our fellow Souldier, and to the Church in thy house.

Saying, I will declare thy Name vnto my brethren, in the midst of the Church will I sing praise vnto thee.

To the generall assembly, and Church of the first borne which are written in heauen, and to God the Iudge of all, and to the spirits of iust men made perfect:

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:

The Church that is at Babylon elected, together with you, saluteth you, and so doth Marcus my sonne.

Which haue borne witnesse of thy charitie before the Church: whome if thou bring forward on their iourney after a godly sort, thou shalt doe well:

I wrote vnto the Church, but Diotrephes, who loueth to haue the preeminence among them, receiueth vs not.

Wherefore if I come, I will remember his deeds which he doeth, prating against vs with malicious words: and not content therewith, neither doth hee himselfe receiue the brethren, and forbiddeth them that would, and casteth them out of the Church.

Vnto the Angel of the church of Ephesus, write, These things saith he that holdeth the seuen starres in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seuen golden Candlesticks:

And vnto the Angel of the Church in Smyrna, write, These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is aliue,

And to the Angel of the Church in Pergamos, write, These things saith hee, which hath the sharpe sword with two edges:

And vnto the Angel of the church in Thyatira, write, These things saith the Sonne of God, who hath his eyes like vnto a flame of fire, and his feete are like fine brasse:

And vnto the Angel of the Church in Sardis write, These things saith he that hath the seuen Spirits of God, & the seuen starres; I know thy workes, that thou hast a name that thou liuest, and art dead.

And to the Angel of the Church in Philadelphia write, These things saith he that is Holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of Dauid, he that openeth, and no man shutteth, and shutteth, and no man openeth;

And vnto the Angel of the Church of the Laodiceans, write, These things saith the Amen, the faithfull and true witnesse, the beginning of the creation of God: