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PAul the seruaunt of God / [ A] & an Apostle of Iesu Christ / to preache the fayth of goddis electe / & ye knowledge of that trueth / which is after godly∣nes vpon the hope of eternall lyfe / which lyfe God that cannot lye / hath promised before the worlde begāne: but hath
opened his worde at ye tyme apoynted thorow preachynge / which preachynge is committed vnto me / by the commaundement of god ou∣re saveoure.
To Titus his naturall sonne in the com∣men fayth.
Grace mercie and peace from God the fa∣ther / and from the lorde Iesu Christ oure save¦oure.
For this cause left I y• in Creta / that thou [ B] * 1.1 shuldest performe that which was lackynge / and shuldest ordeyne elders in every citie as I apoynted the. Yf eny be faut••lesse / the hus∣bande of one wyfe / havynge faythfull chil∣drē / which are not sclandred of royote / nether are disobediēt. For a * 1.2 bisshoppe must be faute¦lesse / * 1.3 as it becommeth the minister of God: not stubborne / not angrye / no dronkarde / no fyghter / not geven to filthy lucre: but herbe∣rous / one that loveth goodnes / sobre mynded righteous / holy / temperat / and suche as cle∣veth vnto the true worde of doctryne / that he maye be able to exhorte with wholsom lear∣ny••ge / and to improve them that saye a∣gaynst it.
For ther are many disobedient and talkers of vanite and disceavers of myndes / namely [ C] they of the circumcisiō / whose mouthes must be stopped / which pervert whole houses tea∣chinge thinges which they ought not / becau∣se of filthy lucre. One beynge of thē selves / which was a poyet of their awne / sayde: The Cretayns are all wayes lyars / evyll beastes /
and slowe belies. This witnes is true / wherfo¦re rebuke them sharply / that they maye be so∣unde in the fayth / and not takynge hede to Ie¦wes [ D] fables and commaūdmentes of men that turne from the trueth. Unto the pure / are all thynges pure: but vnto them that are defiled* 1.4 and vnbelevynge / is nothynge pure: but even the very myndes and consciences of them are defiled. They confesse that they knowe god: but with the dedes they denye hym / and are abhominable and disobedient / and vnto all good workes discommendable.
••••hers which Ti¦motheus calleth o∣uersears.
Byssho¦pes and el¦ders is all one & an officer ch¦osen to go¦uerne the congrega¦cion in do¦ctryne ād ••iuinge.
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