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PAul / Syfuanus [ A] and Timotheus. Unto the congre¦gacion of the Tessalony∣ans / in God the father / & in y• Lorde Iesus Christ.
Grace be with you / and peace from God oure fa∣ther / and from the Lorde Iesus Christ.
We geve God thākes all waye for you all / makinge mension of you in oure prayers with
out ceasynge / and call to remembraunce youre worke in the faythe / and labour in love & per∣severaunce in the hope of oure lorde Iesus [ B] Christ / in the sight of God oure father: becau¦se we knowe brethren beloved of god / how y• ye are electe. For oure gospell came not vnto you in worde only / but also in power / and also in the holy gost and in moche certayntie / as ye knowe after what maner we behaued oure sel¦ves amonge you / for youre sakes.
And ye became folowers of vs and of the lord / and receaved the worde in moche afflic∣cion / with ioye of the holy gost: so that ye we∣re an ensample to all that beleve in Macedo∣nia and Achaia. For from you sounded out the worde of the lorde / not in Macedonia and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Achaia only: but youre fayth also which ye have vnto god / spred hersilfe abroade in all quartars / so greatly that it nedeth not vs to speake eny thynge at all. For they thē selves shewe of you what maner of entrynge in we had vnto you & how ye tourned to God from ymages / for to serve the livynge & true god / & for to loke for his sonne from heven / whom he raysed from deeth: I mean Iesus which delivereth vs from wrath to come.