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PAul and Timotheus the servaun¦tes of Iesu Christ [ A] To all y• saincte in Christ* 1.1 Iesu which are at Phi∣lippos / with y• Bisshops and Deacons.
Grace be with you and peace from God oure fa∣ther / and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.
I thanke my God with all remembraunce of you / all wayes in all my prayers for you & praye with gladnes / because of the fellow∣shyp which ye have in the gospell from the fyrst daye vnto now: ✚ and am suerly certifi∣ed of this / that he which beganne a good wor¦ke in you / shall go forthe with it vntyll the daye of Iesus Christ / as it becōmeth me so to iudge of you all / because I have you in my her¦te / and have you also every one companiōs of grace with me / even in my bondes / as I defen¦de and stablysshe the gospell.
For God beareth me recorde how great∣ly I longe after you all from the very herte [ B] rote in Iesus Christ. And this I praye / y• you¦re love maye increace more & more in know∣ledge / and in all fealinge / that ye myght accep¦te thinges most excellent / that ye myght be pure and soche as shuld hurte no mānes con¦science / vntyll the daye of Christ / filled with the frutes of rightewesnes / which frutes co∣me by Iesus Christ vnto the glory and la••de of God. ⊢
I wolde ye vnderstode brethern that my busynes is happened vnto the greater furthe¦rynge of the gospell. So that my bondes in Christ are manyfest thorow out all the iud∣gement hall and in all other places: In so moche that many of the brethrē in y• lorde are boldned thorow my bōdes / and dare more lar¦gely speake the worde with out feare. Some ther are which preache Christ of envie & stry∣fe / and some of good wyll. The one parte pre∣acheth
Christ of stryfe & not purely / suppo∣singe to adde more adversitie to my bondes. The other parte of love / because they se that I am set to defend the gospell.
What then? So that Christ be preached [ C] all maner wayes / whether it be by occasion / or of tru•• meaninge / I therin ioye: ye and will ioye. For I knowe that this shall chaunce to my salvacion / thorow youre prayer and mini¦stringe of the sprete of Iesu Christ / as I her¦tely loke for & hope / that in nothinge I shalbe ashamed: but that with all confidence / as all wayes in tymes past / even so now Christ shal be magnified in my body / whether it be tho∣rowelyfe / or els deeth. For Christ is to me ly¦fe / and deeth is to me a vauntage.
Yfit chaunce me to live in the flesshe / that is to me frute full forto worke / & what to cho∣se [ D] I wote not. I am constrayned of two thin∣ges: I desyre to be lowsed & to be with Christ / which thinge is best of all. Neverthelesse to abyde in the flesshe is moare nedfull for you. And this am I sure of / that I shall abyde / & with you all continue / for the furtheraunce and ioye of youre fayth / that ye maye moare aboundantly reioyce in Iesus Christ thoro∣we me / by my comminge to you agayne.
Only let yovre conversacion be / as it be cō¦meth the gospell of Christ: that whether I come & se you / or els be absent / I maye yet hea¦re of you / that ye contynue in one sprete / and in one soule / labouringe as we do / to mayn∣tayne the fayth of the gospell / & in nothynge
fearinge youre adversaries: which is to them a token of perdicion / & to you of salvacion / & that of God. For vnto you it is geven / that not only ye shulde beleve on Christ: but also suffre * 1.2 for his sake / & have evē the same fight which ye sawe me have and now heare of me.
IF ther be amōge you eny consolacion in [ A] Christ / yf ther be eny cōfortable love / yf there be eny fellishippe of the sprete / yf ther be eny cōpassion or mercy: fulfyll my ioye / that ye drawe one waye / havinge one lo∣ve / beynge of one accorde / and of one mynde / that nothinge be done thorow stryfe or vayne glory / but that in mekenes of mynde every man esteme other better then him selfe / & that no man consyder his awne / but what is mete for other.* 1.3
✚ Let the same mynde be in you that was in Christ Iesu: Which beynge in the shape of god / and thought it not robbery to be equall with god. Neverthelesse he made him silfe of no reputacion / and toke on him the shape of a servaunte / & became lyke vnto men / and was founde in his aparell as a man▪ He humbled him silfe & became obediēt vnto y• deeth / even [ B] the deeth of the crosse. Wherfore god hath ex¦alted* 1.4 him / and gevē him a name above all na∣mes: that in the name of Iesus shuld every* 1.5 knee bowe / bothe of thing{is} in hevē & thinges in erth & thing{is} vnder erth / and that all ton∣ges* 1.6 shuld confesse that Iesus Christ is the lorde vnto the prayse of God the father. ⊢
Wherfore my dearly beloved / as ye have al¦ways obeyed / not when I was present only / but now moche more in myne absence / even so worke out youre awne * 1.7 saluaciō with feare & tremblynge. For it is god which worketh in you / both y• will & also y• dede / evē of good will [ C]
Do all thyng{is} with out murmurynge & dis¦putynge / that ye maye be faute lesse and pure / and the sonnes of God with out rebuke / in y• middes of a croked & a perverse nacion / amon¦ge which se that ye shyne as lightes in the worlde / holdinge fast the worde of lyfe / vnto my reioysynge in y• daye of Christ / that I ha∣ve not runne in vayne / nether have labored in vayne. Yee & though I be offered vp vpon the offerynge and sacrifice of youre fayth▪ I re¦ioyce / and reioyce with you all. For the same cause also / reioyce ye / and reioyce ye with me.
I trust in the lorde Iesus for to sende Ti∣motheus shortly vnto you / that I also maye be of good comforte / when I knowe what ca∣se ye stonde in. For I have nomā that is so ly¦ke mynded to me / which with so pure affecciō careth for youre matters. For all other seke y• ir awne / and not that which is Iesus Christe Ye knowe the proffe of him / howe that as a sone with the father / so with me bestowed he his labour apon the gospell. Him I hope to sende assone as I knowe how it will go with me. I trust in the lorde I also my silfe shall come shortly. [ D]
I supposed it necessary to sende brother E∣paphroditus vnto you / my companion in la∣boure
& felowe soudier / youre Apostel and my minister at my nedes. For he longed after you [ D] and was full of hevines / because that ye had hearde saye that he shuld be sicke. And no dou¦te he was sicke / and that nye vnto deeth. But god had mercy on him: not on him only / but on me also / lest▪ I shuld have had sorowe apon sorowe.
I sent him therfore the diligentliar / that when ye shuld se him / ye myght reioyce agay∣ne / and I myght be the lesse sorowfull. Recea¦ve him therfore in the lorde with all gladnes / and make moche of soche: because that for y• worke of Christ he went so farre / that he was nye vnto deeth / and regarded not his lyfe / to fulfill that service which was lackynge on youre parte towarde me.
MOrover my brethren / reioyce in the lorde. It greveth me not to write one thinge often to you. For to you it is asure thynge. Beware of dogges / beware of evyll workers. Beware of dissencion. For we are circūcision which * 1.8 worshippe god in the sprete / and reioyce in Christ Iesu / and have no confidence in the flesshe: though I have wher of I myght reioyce in the flesshe. Yf eny o∣ther man thynketh that he hath wherof he myght trust in the flesshe: moche moare I: cir¦cumcised the eyght daye / of y• kynred of Isra∣hell / of y• trybe of Beniamyn / an Ebrue borne of y• Ebrues: as concernynge the lawe / a pha∣risaye / and as concernynge fervētnes / I perse¦uted [ B] the congregacion / and as touchynge the
rightewesnes which is in the lawe I was vnrebukable.
But the thynges that were vauntage vnto me I counted losse for Christes sake. Ye I thinke all thynges but losse for that excellēt knowledges sake of Christ Iesu my lorde. [ C] For whom I have counted all thyng{is} losse / & do iudge them but donge / that I myght wyn∣ne Christ / and myght befounde in him / not ha¦vynge myne awne rightewesnes which is of the lawe: But that which spryngeth of the fayth which is in Christ. I meane the righte¦wesnes which cōmeth of God thorowe fayth in knowynge him and the vertue of his resur¦reccion / and the fellowshippe of his passions / that I myght be cōformable vnto his (deeth) yf by enymeanes I myght attayne vnto the resurreccion from deeth.
Not as though I had all redy attayned to it / Ether were all redy parfect: but I folowe / yf yt I maye comprehende that / wherin I am comprehended of Christ Iesu. Brethren I co¦unte not my silfe that I have gotten it: but o∣ne thynge I saye: I * 1.9 forget y• which is behyn¦de and stretche my silfe vnto that which is be¦fore and preace vnto y• marke apoynted / to ob¦tayne the rewarde of the hye callynge of god in Christ Iesu. Let vs therfore as many as be perfect be thus wyse minded: and yf ye be otherwyse mynded / I praye God open even this vnto you. Neverthelesse in that wher vn¦to [ D] we are come / let vs procede by one rule / yt we maye be of one acorde.
✚ Brethren be folowers of & me loke on them which walke even so / as ye have vs for an en [ D] sample. For many walke (of whom I have tolde you often / and now tell you wepynge)* 1.10 that they are ye enemyes of ye crosse of Christ / whose ende is dampnaciō / whose God is their bely / and whose glory is to their shame / which are worldely mynded. But oure conversacion* 1.11 is in heven / from whence we loke for a save∣our euen the lorde Iesus Christ / which shall chaunge oure vile bodies / that they maye be fassioned lyke vnto his glorious body / acordin¦ge to the workynge wherby he is able to sub∣due all thinges vnto hym silfe. ⊢
HErfore my brethren dearly beloved and longed for / my ioye and croune / [ A] so continue in the lorde ye beloved. I praye Evodias / and beseche Sintiches that they be of one accorde in the lorde. Yee and I beseche the faythfull yockfelowe / helpe the wemen which labored with me in the gospell / and with Clement also / and with other my labour felowes / whose names are in the bo∣ke of lyfe. ✚ Reioyce in the Lorde alwaye / and agayne I saye reioyce. Let youre softenes be knowen vnto all men. The lorde is even at honde. Be not carfull: but in all thynges she∣we youre peticion vnto god in prayer and su∣plicacion wt gevynge of thankes. And the pea¦ce of god which passeth all vnderstondinge / kepe youre hertes & myndes in christ Iesu. ✚ [ B]
Furthermore brethren / whatsoever thing{is}
are true / whatsoever thyng{is} are honest / what¦soever thynges are iust / whatsoever thynges are pure / whatsoever thynges pertayne to lo∣ve / whatsoever thynges are of honest reporte: yf ther be eny verteous thynge / yf there be e∣ny laudable thynge / those same have ye in you¦re mynde / which ye have both learned & re∣ceaved / herde [ C] and also sene in me: those thyn∣gēs do / and the god of peace shalbe with you. I reioyse in the lorde greatly / that now at the last ye are revived agayne to care for me / in yt wherein ye were also carefull / but ye lacked o∣portunite. I speake not because of necessitie. For I have learned in whatsoever estate I am therewith to be content. I can both cast dou∣ne my silfe / I can also excede. Every where and in all thynges I am instructed / both to be full / and to be hongry: to have plenty / & to suf¦fre nede. I can do all thynges thorow the hel∣pe of Christ which strengtheth me. Not wi∣stondynge ye have well done / that ye bare par¦te with me in my tribvlacion.
Ye of Philippos knowe that in the begyn∣nynge [ D] of the gospell / when I departed from Macedonia / no congregacion bare parte with me as concernynge gevynge and receavynge / but ye only. For when I was in Tessalonica / ye sent once and afterwarde agayne vnto my nedes: not that I desyre gyftes: but I desyre aboūdant frute on youre parte. I receaved all / and have plentie. I was even filled after that I had receaved of Epaphroditus / that which came from you / an odour that smelleth swete / * 1.12
a sacrifice accepted and plesaunt to God. My god fulfill all youre nedes thorow his glori∣ous riches in Iesu Christ. Vnto God and ou¦re father be prayse for ever more. Amen. Salu¦te all the sainctes in Christ Iesu. The bre∣thren which are with me grete you. All the saynctes salute you: & most of all they which are of the Emperours housholde. The grace of oure lorde Iesu Christ be wt you all.
Bissho∣pes. Deaco∣nes.
Tribula¦ciō is a to¦ken of sal¦uacion to the true beleuers.
To folo∣we christ is oure professiō and so to vinble ou¦re selues / that we mave be so exalted
hebr. ij. b
••om. xiiij
esa. xlv.
As ye be saued frō synne tho¦row faith so worke accordyn¦ge to the couena••••t vntyll ye come to the salua¦ciō of glo¦ry. For yf ye cease workige / the spiri∣te quen∣cheth aga¦yne / and ye cease to be parta∣kers of y• promes.
We wor¦shipe god in spirite thorow fayth and loue. We reioyce th¦at christ hath rede∣nied vs & trust not in oure workes. Chri••▪ onlye is oure righ¦teousnes for his sake oure synnes a∣re forge∣uen vs. And for his sake oure good workes a¦re accept∣ed. Which else were dānable for the s••¦ne that is in them. (deeth) we must dye with christ yf we will lyue with him.
I loke not on the workes that I ha∣ue done / but what I lacke of the perfec¦tnes of ch¦rist.
••om. xvij
If we be lyke christ in conuer¦sacion / we shalbe ly∣ke him in glorye.
rom. xi••.