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.

¶ The fyrst Chapter.

[illustration]

IAmes the seruaūt of God and of the [ A] Lorde Iesus Christ / sendeth gretinge to y^•. xii. trybes which are scattered here and there. ✚ My bre∣thren / count it excedynge ioye when ye faule into di∣vers tēptacions / for as mo¦che as ye knowe how that the tryinge of youre fayth bringeth pacience: and let pacience have her parfect worke / that* 1.1 ye maye be parfecte and sounde / lackinge nothinge.

Yf eny of you lacke wysdome / let him axe of God which geveth to all men indifferent∣lie / and casteth no man in the teth: and it shal be geven him. But let him axe in fayth & wa∣ver* 1.2 not. For he that douteth is lyke the wa∣ves of the see / tost of the wynde and caried with violence. Nether let that man thinke that he shall receave eny thinge of the Lorde.

A waveringe mynded man is vnstable in all [ B] * 1.3 his wayes.

Let the brother of lowe degre reioyce in y^t he is exalted / & the ryche in that he is made lowe. For evē as y^• flower of the grasse / shall he vanysshe awaye. The sonne ryseth with heate / & the grasse wydereth / & his flower fal∣leth awaye / and the beautie of the fassion of it perissheth: even so shall the ryche man peris∣she with his aboundance.

Happy is the man that endureth in tempta¦cion / for when he is tryed he shall receave the croune of lyfe / which the Lorde hath promy∣sed to them that love him. ⊢

Let no man saye when he is tēpted that he is tempted of God. For God tēpteth not vn∣to evyll / nether tēpteth he anie mā. But every mā is tēpted / drawne awaye / & entysed of his awne concupiscēce. Then when lust hath cō∣ceaved / she bringeth forth synne / & synne whē it is fynisshed bringeth forthe deeth.

Erre not my deare brethren. ✚ Every good gyfte / & every parfayt gyft / is from above and commeth doune frō the father of light / with whom is no variablenes / nether is he chaun∣ged vnto dareknes. Of his awne will begat [ C] he vs with the worde of lyfe / that we shuld be the fyrst frutes of his creatures.

Wherfore deare brethren / let every man be swyfte to heare / slowe to speake / and slowe to wrath. For the wrath of man worketh not that which is ryghteous before God.

Wherfore laye a parte all fylthynes / all su¦perfluite

of maliciousnes / and receave with meknes the worde y^t is grafted in you / which is able to save youre soules ✚. ✚ And se that ye be doars of the worde & not hearers only / deceavinge youre awne selves with sophistrie [ D] For yf eny heare the worde / and do it not / he is lyke vnto a man that beholdeth his body∣ly face in a glasse. For assone as he hath loked on him silfe / he goeth his waye / & forgetteth immediatlie what his fassion was. But who so loketh in the parfaict lawe of libertie / and continueth ther in (yf he be not a forgetfull hearer / but a doar of y^• worke) the same shall∣be happie in his dede.

Yf eny man amonge you seme devoute / and refrayne not his tonge: but deceave his awne herte / this mannes devocion is in vayne Pure devocion and vndefiled before God the father / is this: to vysit the frendlesse and wid∣dowes* 1.4 in their adversite / and to kepe him sil∣fe vnspotted of the worlde. ⊢

Notes

• * 1.1

  rom. v. a.
• * 1.2

  mat. vij. a &. xxj .c. mar. xj. c luc. xj. b. io. xvj. b. and. xvj e
• * 1.3

  * In christ webe all lyke go∣od / & euen seruaun∣tes eche to other for chri∣stes sake / euery mā in his of∣fice. And he that ta¦keth mo∣re on him then that / of what soeuer de¦gre he be of is a fal¦se christē & an apo∣stata frō Christ.
• * 1.4

  Pure de∣vocion.