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I exhorte therfore that above all thynges prayers supplicacions intercessions and gevynge of thankes behad for all men:

for kynges and for all that are in auctorite that we maye live a quyet and a peasable life in all godlines and honestie.

For that is good and accepted in the sight of god oure savioure

For ther is one god and one (mediator) bitwene god and man which is ye man Christ Iesus

which gave him silfe a raunsome for all men that it shuld be testified at his tyme

For Adam was fyrst formed and then Eve.

For yf a man cannot rule his owne housse how shall he care for the congregacion of God.

For they that minister well get them selves good degre and greate libertie in the fayth which is in Christ Iesu.

For all the creatures of God are good and nothynge to be refused yf it be receaved with thankes gevynge.

For it is sanctyfyed by the worde of God and prayer.

For bodely exercise proffiteth lyttll: But godlines is good vnto all thynges as a thynge which hath promyses of the lyfe that is now and of the lyfe to come.

For therfore we laboure and suffre rebuke because we beleve in the livynge god which is the savioure of all men: but specially of those that beleve.

Take hede vnto thy silfe and vnto learnynge and continue therin. For if thou shalt so do thou shalt save thy silfe and them that heare the.

Yf eny wyddowe have chyldren or neves let them learne fyrst to rule their awne houses godly and to recompence their elders. For that is good and acceptable before God.

Yf ther be eny that provideth not for his awne and namly for them of his housholde the same denyeth the fayth and is worsse then an infydell.

The yonger widdowes refuse. For when they have begone to wexe wantone to the dishonoure of Christ then will they mary

For many of them are all redy turned bake and are gone after Satan.

And yf eny man or woman that beleveth have widdowes let the minister vnto them and let not the congregacion be charged: that yt maye have sufficient for them that are widdowes in dede.

For the scripture sayth: Thou shalt not mousell the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne. And the labourer is worthy of his rewarde.

Drynke no lenger water but vse a lytell wyne for thy stommakes sake and thyne often diseases.