The Episile.

IVdas the seruant of Iesus Christ, * the brother of Iames, to them which are called and sanctified in GOD the Father, and preserued in Iesus Christ: mercie vnto you, and peace, and loue be multiplied. Beloued, when I gaue all diligence to write vnto you of the common saluation, it was needefull for mee to write vnto you, to exhort you that yee should continually labour in the faith, which was once giuen vnto the Saintes. For there are certaine vngodly men, craftily crept in, of which it was written Page  [unnumbered] aforetime vnto such iuvgement; They turne the grace of our God into wantonnesse, and denie God (which is the onely Lord) and our Lord Iesus Christ. My minde is therefore to put you in remembrance, forasmuch as yee once know this, how that the Lord (after that hee had deliuered the people out of Egypt) destroyed them which after beleeued not. The angels also which kept not their first state, but left their owne habitation, hee hath reserued in euerlasting chaines vnder darknes, vnto the indgement of the great day. Euen as Sodom and Gomorrhe, and the cities about them, which is like maner defiled themselves with fornication, and folowed strange slesh, are set forth for an example, and suffer the pain of eternall fire. Like wife these being deceiued by dreames, defile the flesh, despise rulers, and speake euill of them that are in authoritie.