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FOr ye youre selves knowe brethren of oure entraunce in vnto you / howe that [ A] it was not in vayne: but even after that we had suffered before and were shamfully entreated at Phillippos (as ye well knowe) then were we bolde in oure God to speake
vnto you the gospell of God / with moche stri¦vynge. Dure exhortacion was not to brynge you to erroure / nor yet to vnclennes / nether was it with gyle: but as we were alowed of God / that the gospell shuld be cōmitted vn∣to vs: even so we speake / not as though we en¦tended to please men / but God / which trieth oure hertes. [ B]
Nether was oure conversacion at eny ty∣me wt flatterynge wordes / as ye well knowe nether in cloked coveteousnes / God is recor∣de: nether sought we prayse of men / nether of you / nor yet of eny other / when we myght ha∣ve bene chargeable / as the apostles of Christ but we were tender amonge you / even as a norsse cheressheth her children / so was oure affeccion towarde you / oure good will was to have dealte vnto you / not the gospell of God only: but also oureawne soules / because ye were deare vnto vs.
✚ Ye remember brethrē oure laboure & travay¦le.* 1.1 For we laboured daye & nyght / because we wolde not be greveous vnto eny of you / & prea¦ched vnto you y• gospell of God. Ye are wit∣nesses / & so is god / how holyly & iustly & vn∣blameable* 1.2 we behaved oure selves amonge you that beleve: as ye knowe how that we ex¦horted and comforted and besought every o∣ne of you / as a father his childrē / that ye wol∣de [ C] walke worthy of God / which hath called you vnto his kyngdome and glory.
For this cause thanke we god with out ce∣asynge / because that when ye receaved of vs
the worde wherwith God was preached / ye receaved it not as the worde of man: but even as it was in dedes the worde of God / which worketh in you that beleve. ✚ For ye brethrē became folowers of the congregacions of god which in Iewry are in Christ Iesu: for ye ha∣ve suffered lyke thynges of youre kynsmen as we oure selves have suffered of the Iewes. [ D] Which as they kylled the lorde Iesus & their awne prophetes / even so have they persecuted vs / and God they please not / & are contrary to all men and forbid vs to preache vnto the gen¦tyls / that they myght besaved / to fulfill their synnes all waye. For the wrath of God is co∣me on them / even to the vtmost.
For as moch brethren as we are kept from you for a season / as concernynge the bodyly presence / but not in the herte / we enforsed the more to se you personally with great desire. And therfore we wolde have come vnto you / I paul once and agayne: but Satan with sto∣de vs. For what is oure hope or ioye / or crou∣ne of reioysynge? are not ye it in the presence of oure lorde Iesus Christ at his cōmynges yes ye are oure glory and ioye.
A sure to¦ken of a true apo∣stle.
actu. xx. j. cor. iiij. ij. thes. iij