The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.

¶ A Prologe to the seconde epistle of S. Peter.

THis pistle was writtē agaynst thē which thought that Chri∣stē fayth might be ydle & with oute workes / when yet the promes of Christ is made vs vpon that condicion / that we henceforth worke the wyll of God & not of the flesshe. Ther¦fore he exhorteth them to exercise them selues diligentlye in vertue & all good workes / ther∣by to be sure that they haue the true fayth / as a man knoweth the goodnes of a tree by his fru∣te. Then he cōmendeth and magnifieth the go∣spell / and willeth that men herkē to that on••ye / and to mēnes doctryne not at all. For as he say∣eth / ther came no propheticall scripture by the wyll of man / but by the wyll of the holye goost which onlye knoweth the wyll of God / nether is any•• scripture of priuate interpretacion: that is to saye / maye be otherwyse expounded the•• agreinge to the open places and generall arti∣cles and to the couenauntes of God and all the rest of the scripture.

And therfore in the seconde he warneth them of false teachers that shuld come / and thorow preachinge confidence in false workes to satis∣fye their courtousnes with all / shuld denye Christ. Which he threateneth with thre terrible exsamples▪with the fall of the angelles / the floude of No•• and ouerthrowinge of ••odome and Gomor / and so describeth them with their insaciable couetousnes / pryde / slou borne and dysobedience to all remvorall rule and auctory¦te / with their abominable whordome and ypo∣cre••ie that a blinde man maye se that he pro∣phisied it of the popes holye spiritualtie which deuoured the whole worlde with their coueteous¦nes

lyuinge in all lust and pleasure & rayninge as temporall tyrantes.

In the thyrde he sheweth that in the latter dayes / the people thorow vnbeleffe & lacke of feare of the iudgement of the last daye / shalbe euen as Epicures / wholy geuen to the flesshe. Which last daye shall yet surelye & shortlye co∣me sayth he: for a thousande yeres & one daye is with God all one. And he sheweth also how ter¦rible that daye shalbe / & how sodenlye it shall co¦me & therfore exhorteth all m••n to loke ernest∣lie for it / and to prepare them selues agaynst it with holye conuersacion & godly liuinge.

Finallie. The fyrst Chapter sheweth how it shuld goo in the tyme of the pure & true Go∣spell. The seconde how it shuld goo in the tyme of the pope and mennes doctrine. The thyrde h••w at the last men shuld beleue nothinge n••r feare God at all.