The seconde tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testament conteynyng the epistles of S. Paul, and other the Apostles : wherunto is added a paraphrase vpon the reuelacion of S. John.

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I beseche you brethren for our lord Iesus Christes sake, and for the loue of the spirit that ye helpe me in my busynes with your praiers to God for me, that I may be deliue¦red from them, whiche beleue not in Iewry: and that this my seruice whiche I haue to do at Ierusalem, may be accepted of the saintes, that I may come vnto you with ioy by the wyll of God, and may be with you refreshed. The God of peace be with you al. Amen.

In the meane season I beseche you for our lorde Iesus Christes sake, and for the vnfained charities sake, whiche we haue by his spirit receiued that forasmuche as I can not yet presently haue your cūpany, that at lest in your godly prayers & peticions made vnto God, ye wyl helpe me la∣bouryng & trauailyng in suche daūgerous busines, as I do, that by his helpe I may be deliuered frō the misbeleuers that are in Iury, & suche as resist the gospel of Christ that theyr malice hinder no part of the fruit of

our preachyng, and that this myne office in deliueraunce of this money, whiche I am now about to make at Ieru••••lē, may without any lette be pleasaūt & thākeful to the good & deuoute people there, that when this is* 1.1 done, as I would haue it, both my comyng by y^• wyl of God may be vnto you ioyful, & that I may after great labors taken, be a whyle among you refreshed. But to finishe the exhortacion that I begunne, I beseche, that the God of true peace, the father, author & mainteiner of cōcorde, may al∣way abide among you, whiche as resisteth & goeth farre from proud and sedicious persons, so is he gotten & kept with mutual cōsent & agrement.

Notes

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  That this my seruice, which I haue to do at Ierusalem may be accep∣ted. &c.