The Epistle.

WE as helpers exhort you, * that yee receiue not the grace of GOD in vaine. For he saith, I haue heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of saluation haue I succoured thee. Behold, now is that accepted time: Behold, now is that day of saluation. Let vs giue none occa∣sion of euill, that in our office bee found no fault: but in all things let vs behaue our selues as the mi∣nisters of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in auguish, in stripes, in prisonments, in strifes, in labours, in watchings, in fastings, in purenes, in knowledge, in long suf∣fering, in kindnesse, in the holy Ghost, in loue vnfained, in the word of truth, in the power of God, by the armour of righte∣ousnesse on the right hand and on the left, by honour and dis∣honour, by euill report and good report, as deceiuers, and yet true, as vnknowen, and yet knowen, as dying, and behold we liue, as chastened, and not killed, as sorrowing, and yet alway merrie, as poore, and yet making many rich, as hauing no∣thing, and yet possessing all things.