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¶ The Prologe to the epistle of S. Paul vnto Philemon.
IN this pistle S. Paul shewet•• y• a godlye en sample of Christen loue. Herein we se how Paule taketh poore Onesimos vnto him & maketh intercession for him vnto his master & helpetly him with all that he may / and behaueth him selfenone other wyse then as though he him selfe were the say∣de Onesimos. Which thinge yet he dothe not with power and auctoryte / as he well myght ha¦ue done: but putteth of all auctorite & whatso e∣uer he might of ryght do / that Philemō myght do likewise towarde Onesimos / and with great mekenes and wysdome teacheth Philemon to se his dutie in Christ Iesus.