The Byble in Englyshe that is to saye, the content of all the holye scrypture, bothe of the olde and newe Testament, truly translated after the veryte of the Hebrue and Greke textes, by the diligent studye of dyuers excellent lerned [men e]xperte in the fore[saide] tongues.

A true preacher 〈◊〉〈◊〉 o••••••••••t / he corrupteth ••o•• the worde ••••

God, but seketh the honoure of Chryst. yet thought it b•• with the parell of his lyst.

CAPI. IIII.

THerfore, seynge that we haue suche an [unspec A] office, euen as God hath had mercy on vs, we go not out of kynde: but haue caste from vs the clokes of vnhonestye, & walcke not in craftines, nether handle we the worde of God disceitfully, but open the trueth, and reporte our selues to euery mānes consciēce in the syght of God. ✚ If our Gospel be yet hyd, it is hyd amonge them that are lost, in whom * 1.1 the God of this worlde * 1.2 hath blyn¦ded the myndes of them whiche beleue not, lest the lyght of the Gospell of the glorye of Christ (whiche is the ymage of God) shulde shyne vnto them. [unspec B]

✚ For we preach not our selues, but Christ Iesus to be the Lorde, & our selues your ser∣uaūtes, for Iesus sake. For it is God, that ‡ 1.3 cōmaunded the lyght to shyne out of darck∣nes, which hath ‡ 1.4 shyned in oure hertes, for to giue the light of the knowledge of the glo¦ry of God, in the face of Iesus Christ.

But we haue this treasure in ‡ 1.5 erthen ves¦sels, that the excellency of the power myght be Gods, & not ours. We are troubled on e∣uery syde, yet are we not without shyfte. We [unspec E] are in pouerty: but not vtterly without som¦what. We suffre persecucion: but are not for saken therin. We are cast downe: neuerthe∣les we perysh not. We alwayes ‡ 1.6 bere about in the bodye, the dying of the Lorde Iesus, that the lyfe of Iesu myght also appeare in our bodye.

‡ 1.7 For we whiche lyue, are alwayes dely∣uered vnto deth for Iesus sake, that the life also of Iesu myght appeare in our mortall fleshe. So then, death worcketh in vs, but life in you. ⊢ ✚ But seyng that we haue the same spirite of fayth (according as it is wryt¦ten: ‡ 1.8 I beleued, & therfore haue I spoken). We also beleue, & therfore speake. For we knowe, that he whiche raysed vp the Lorde Iesus, shall rayse vp vs also by the meanes [unspec D] of Iesus, & shal set vs with you. For al thin∣ges do I for your sakes ‡ 1.9 that the plentuous grace by thanckes gyuen of many, maye re∣d••ūde to the praise of God.

Wherfore, we are not weryed. But though our vtwarde man peryshe, yet the in warde man is renued daye by daye. ‡ 1.10 For oure trybulacyon which is momentany and lyght, prepareth an excedynge and an eter∣nall wayght of glorye vnto vs, whyle we loke not on the thynges whyche are sene: but on the thynges whyche are not sene. For the thynges whyche are sene, are tem∣porall: but thynges whiche are not sene, are eternall. ⊢

Notes

• * 1.1

  Ihon. xii. t. Esay. xi. c.
• * 1.2

  〈…〉〈…〉 xiii. b Mat ••iii. b. Luke. 8. b. Iohn. xii. t Actes. ••8. f
• ‡ 1.3

  Gene i. a.
• ‡ 1.4

  ii. Petr i. d.
• ‡ 1.5

  ii. Cori v. ••
• ‡ 1.6

  Gala. vi. d.
• ‡ 1.7

  Roma. ••. c.
• ‡ 1.8

  Psal. 1:6. b
• ‡ 1.9

  i. Corin. i. n
• ‡ 1.10

  Psal. xxx. b Rom. viii. d