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My litle children (of whom I trauayle in byrth agayne, vntyll Christ be fashioned in you)

For Agar is called in Arabia ye mount Sina, and reacheth vnto Ierusalem which now is, and is in bondage with hir children.

As for vs (brethren) we are the children of Isaac acordinge to the promes.

So now brethren, we are not children of the bonde mayde, but of the fre woman.

& ordeyned vs before, to receaue vs as children thorow Iesus Christ, acordinge to the pleasure of his will,

in the which in tyme past ye walked, acordinge to the course off this worlde, and after the prynce that ruleth in the ayre namely, after ye sprete, which now worketh in the children of vnbeleue,

amonge whom we also had oure conuersacion in tyme past in the lustes of oure flesh, and dyd the wyll of the flesh and of the mynde, and were naturally the children of wrath, euen as well as other.

that we be nomore children, waueringe & caried aboute with euery wynde of doctryne thorow the wickednes of men and craftynes, wherby they laye awayte for vs to disceaue vs.

Be ye the folowers therfore of God as deare children,

(Let no man disceaue you with vayne wordes) for because of these commeth the wrath of God vpon the children of vnbeleue.

For sometyme ye were darknesse, but now are ye lighte in the LORDE. Walke as the children of lighte.

Ye children, obey youre elders in the LORDE, for that is righte.

And ye fathers, prouoke not youre children vnto wrath, but brynge the vp in the nourtoure and informacion of the LORDE.

for which thinges sakes the wrath of God commeth vpon the children of vnbeleue:

Ye children, obeye youre elders in all thinges, for that is well pleasynge vnto the LORDE.

Ye fathers, rate not yor children, lest they be of a desperate mynde.

but we were tender amonge you. Like as a norsse cherisheth hir children,

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

Ye are alltogether children of lighte, and children of the daye. We are not of the night, nether of darknesse.

Notwitstondynge thorow bearynge of children she shalbe saued, yf she contynue in faith and in loue & in the sanctifyenge with discrecion.