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.

¶ What greate care Paule toke for all Congregacyons. He eruorteth thē to be sted fast in Christe, to be ware of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 teachers and worldely wysdome, and descrybeth•• the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Prophetes.

CAPI. II.

FOr I wolde that ye knewe howe great [unspec A] care that I haue for you and for them that are at Laodicia, and for as many as haue not sene my person in the flesshe, that their hertes myght be comforted whan they are knet togyther in loue, and in al riches of full vnderstādyng, for to know the mystery of god the father, & of Chryste, in whom are hyd al the treasures of wysdome and know¦ledge. This I say, lest any man shuld be∣gyle you with entisyng wordes. For though I be absent in the flesshe, yet am I with you in the spirit, ioyinge and be holdynge your order, and your stedfast fayth in Christe. As [unspec B] ye haue therfore receyued Christ Iesu the Lorde euen so walke ye in him, so that ye be roted & buylt in hym, and stablished thorow fayth, as ye haue learned: & therin be plentu¦tuous with geuyng thankes.

✚ Beware, least any man spoyle you thorowe Pholosophy and dysceatful vany∣tye, after the tradicyon of men, and after the ordynaunces of the worlde, and not after Christ. For in him dwelleth at the fulnes of the god head bodely, & ye are ••••plete in him: whiche is the head of al rule and power, by whō also ye are circūcysed with circūcisyd

whych is done without handes, for asmuch as ye haue put of the synful body of the fles∣she thorow the circūcision that is in Chryst, in that ye are buried with him thorow bap tyme, in whom ye are also rysen agayne tho rowe fayth, that is wrought by the operacy on of God whiche raysed him from death.

And ye whā ye were dead thorow synne [unspec C] and thorowe the vncyrcumcysion of youre flesshe, hath he guyckened with hym, & hath forgyuen vs all our trespaces ⊢ and hathe put out the hāde wrytyng that was against vs, contayned in the law wrytten: and that hath he taken out of the way, and hath faste ned it to his crosse, and hath spoyled rule and power, and hath made a shewe of them openly, and hath tryumphed ouer them in his owne person.

Let no man therfore trouble your cōscyen ce aboute meate and dryncke or for a pece of an holy daye, or of the newe Mone, or of the Saboth dayes, whiche are shaddowes of thīges to come: but the body is in Christ. Let no man make you shot at a wronge marcke [unspec D] by the hūblenes & holynes of angels, in the thynges which he neuer sawe, beyng cause∣lesse puft vp with his fleshly mynde, and hol¦deth not the head, wherof al the body by ioyn tes and couples receyueth norysshment and is knet together, and increaseth with the in∣creasyng that commeth of God.

Wherfore, yf ye be dead with Christ from the ordinaūces of the world, why as though ye yet lyued in the world, are ye led with tra∣dicions? Touche not, tast not, handle not: whiche al peryshe thorowe the very abuse: after the commaundementes and doctrynes of men: which thynges outwardly haue the symilitude of wysdome by superstycion and humblenes, and by hurting of the body, and in that they do the flesshe no worshyppe vn∣to the nede therof.

Notes

• Ephe. v. ••▪
• Ma••. 24. •• Mar xiii. a Luke. xxi a Ephe. v. b.
• Roma. ii d Ephes. ii. c. Collo. ii. b.
• Roma. vi a Gala. iii, d
• Roma. v. a Ephe. ii. a. Collo. i. c.
• Gene. iii. c Luke. xi. c. Ihon. xii. c.
• Debr•• 8. a. and. x. a.
• Gala. iiii. b