❧The .ij. Chapter.
He sheweth his loue towardes them, 7 requiryng lykewyse that they would be fauou∣rable to the incestuous adulterer, seyng he dyd repent. 14 He also reioyceth in God for the efficacie of his doctrine, 17 confutyng therby such quarell pykers, as vnder pretence of speakyng agaynst his person, sought nothyng but the ouerthrowe of his doctrine.
[unspec A] 1 BVt I determined this in my selfe, yt I would not come againe to you in heauynesse.
2 For if I make you so∣rie, who is he yt shoulde make me glad, but the same which is made (a) 1.1 sorie by me?
3 And I wrote this same vnto you, lest when I came, I shoulde take heauy∣nesse of them of whom I ought to re∣ioyce. This confidence haue I toward you all, that my ioy is [the ioy] of you all.
4 For in great affliction and anguishe of heart, I wrote vnto you with many teares, not that ye shoulde be made so∣rie, but that ye myght perceaue the loue which I haue, most specially vnto you.
5 But yf any man hath caused sorowe, [unspec B] the same hath not made me sorie, but partly, lest I shoulde greeue you all.
6 * 1.2It is sufficient vnto the same man that he was rebuked of many.
7 So that nowe contrarywise, ye ought rather to forgeue hym, and comforte hym, lest that same person shoulde be swallowed vp with ouermuche heauy∣nesse.