A fourteenth century English Biblical version, edited by Anna C. Paues ...

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A fourteenth century English Biblical version, edited by Anna C. Paues ...
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[verse 1] And [d in and omitted.] [P folio 60b] þerfore ȝif þer be any comfortynge in Crist, oþer eny solace of charyte, oþer eny felawschupe of spiryt, oþer

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[verse 2] [e]ny [ony with on on erasure, S.] in-wardnesse of hafynge mercy & reuþe, fulfylle ȝe my ioye, þat ȝe saferen on þing, hauynge on charyte, beynge of [verse 3] on soule, & felynge on þing; no þyng þoroȝ stryfynge, ne þoroȝ veyn glorye, bote in humelnesse deme ȝe eferich man [verse 4] sofereyn to oþer; ne no man byholdynge his owene þinges, bote oþer mennes þinges. [verse 5] And fele ȝe þis þing in ȝou, þat [verse 6] was in Crist Iesu: þe whuche whenne he was efene wiþ God, [verse 7] he ne demed it no rafeyn þat he were euene wiþ God, bote he anentysched [first n on erasure, S.] hym-selfen, takynge þe forme of a serfaunt, [verse 8] & was y-mad [y om. P.] in þe [þe om. P.] lykenesse of men, & y-founden in habyt as a man; & he humeled hym-selfe, & was y-mad boxum to þe deþ, ȝe, to þe deþ of þe [þe om. P.] cros. [verse 9] Wherfore God arered hym up, & grauntede hym a name þat is abofen eferich [S folio 53] name; [verse 10] þat in þe name of Iesu eferiche kne be y-bowed, of hefnelyche þinges & of erþelyche þinges and of þynges þat beþ of helle, [verse 11] & eferich tonge knowleche þat oure Lord Iesu Crist is in þe blisse of God þe Fader. [verse 12] And so, my dereste breþeren, as ȝe hafeþ herd byfore, ben boxum noȝt onlyche in my presence bote also in myn absence, so wiþ drede & wiþ quakynge [P folio 61] worche ȝe ȝoure owene hele. [verse 13] For God is þat worcheþ in ȝou wil [il on erasure, S.] & parformynge, for good wil. [verse 14] & alle þinges do ȝe [verse 15] wiþ-outen grucchynges & wiþ-outen doutynges; þat ȝe ben wiþ-outen blame, sympel chyldren of God wiþ-outen reprefe in þe myddel of a [om. P.] schrewed nacyoun & a wykked, among [verse 16] whom ȝe schyneþ as lanternes in þe worlde, holdynge þe word of lyf to my blysse in þe day of Crist; for y ne hafe noȝt y-ronne in veyn, ne y-trauayled in veyn. [verse 17] & ȝif þat ich be offred abofe þe sacrifyce & [in P.] þe seruyse of ȝoure feiþ, y ioye, [verse 18] & glade to ȝou alle: & ioye ȝe alle also in þe same þing, and ioye to me.

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