¶ The .ii. Chapter.
ANd I brethren when I came to you / ca¦me not in gloriousnes of wordes or of [ A] wysdome / shewynge vnto you the testi¦mony of God. Nether shewed I my selfe that I knewe eny thinge amonge you save Iesus Christ / evē the same that was crucified. And I was amōge you in weaknes / & in feare / & in moche trēblinge. And my wordes & my prea∣chinge were not with entysynge wordes of* 1.1 mānes wysdome: but in shewinge of ye sprete & of power / that youre fayth shuld not stonde [ B] in y• wysdome of mē / but in y• power of God.
That we speake of / is wysdome amonge them that are perfecte: not the wysdome of this worlde nether of the rulars of this worl¦de (which go to nought) but we speake y• wys¦dome of God / which is in secrete & lieth hyd / which God ordeyned before the worlde vnto oure glory: which wysdome none of ye rulars of the worlde knewe. For had they knowē it / they wolde not have crucified the Lorde of glory. But as it is written: The eye hath not* 1.2 sene / & the eare hath not hearde / nether have entred into the herte of man / ye thinges which [ C] God hath prepared for them that love him.
But God hath opened them vnto vs by his sprete. For ye sprete searcheth all thinges / ye the bottome of Goddes secretes. For what man knoweth the thing{is} of a mā: save y• spre¦te