The Bible (Old and New Testaments)

For that ye ought to saye: yf the lorde will and yf we live let vs do this or that.

But nowe ye reioyce in youre bostinges. All soche reioysynge is evyll.

Therfore to him that knoweth how to do good and doth it not to him it is synne.

Goo to now ye ryche men. Wepe and howle on youre wretchednes that shall come apon you.

Youre ryches is corrupte youre garmentes are motheaten.

Youre golde and youre silver are cankred and the rust of them shalbe a witnes vnto you and shall eate youre flesshe as it were fyre. Ye have heaped treasure togedder in youre last dayes:

Beholde the hyre of the labourers which have reped doune youre feldes (which hyer is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth: and the cryes of them which have reped are entred into the eares of the lorde Sabaoth.

Ye have lived in pleasure on the erth and in wantannes. Ye have norysshed youre hertes as in a daye of slaughter.

Ye have condempned and have killed the iust and he hath not resisted you.

Be pacient therfore brethren vnto the commynge of the lorde. Beholde the husbande man wayteth for the precious frute of the erth and hath longe pacience ther vppon vntill he receave (the erly and the latter rayne.)

Be ye also pacient therfore and settle youre hertes for the commynge of the lorde draweth nye.

Grodge not one agaynst another brethren lest ye be dampned. Beholde the iudge stondeth before the dore.

Take (my brethren) the prophettes for an ensample of sufferynge adversitie and of longe pacience which spake in the name of the lorde.

Beholde we counte them happy which endure. Ye have hearde of the pacience of Iob and have knowen what ende the lorde made. For the lorde is very pitifull and mercifull.

But above all thynges my brethren sweare not nether by heven nether by erth nether by eny other othe. Let youre ye be ye and youre maye naye: lest ye faule into ypocrecy.

Yf eny of you be evyll vexed let him praye. Yf eny of you be mery let him singe Psalmes.

Yf eny be defeated amonge you let him call for the elders of the congregacion and let the praye over him and anoynte him with oyle in the name of the lorde:

and the prayer of fayth shall save the sicke and the lorde shall rayse him vp: and yf he have committed synnes they shalbe forgeuen him.

knowledge youre fautes one to another: and praye one for another that ye maye be healed. The prayer of a ryghteous man avayleth moche yf it be fervet.

Helias was a man mortall even as we are and he prayed in his prayer that it myght not rayne: and it rayned not on the erth by the space of thre yeares and sixe monethes.

And he prayed agayne and the heven gave rayne and the erth brought forth her frute.

Brethren yf eny of you erre from the trueth and an other convert him

let the same knowe that he which converted the synner from goynge a straye out of his waye shall save a soule from deeth and shall hyde the multitude of synnes.

Peter an Apostle of Iesu Christ to them that dwell here and there as straungers thorowout Pontus Galacia Capadocia Asia and Bethinia

electe by the forknowledge of God the father thorow the sanctifyinge of the sprete vnto obedience and springklinge of the bloud of Iesus Christ. Grace be with you and peace be multiplyed.

Blessed be God the father of oure Lorde Iesus Christ which thorow is aboundant mercie begat vs agayne vnto a lively hope by the resurreccion of Iesus Christ from deeth

to enioye an inheritaunce immortall and vndefiled and that purifieth not reserved in heven for you

which are kept by the power of God thorow fayth vnto salvacion which salvacion is prepared all redy to be shewed in the last tyme

in the which tyme ye shall reioyce though now for a season (if nede requyre) ye are in hevines thorowe manifolde temptacions,

that youre fayth once tried beinge moche more precious then golde that perissheth (though it be tried with fyre) myght be founde vnto lawde glory and honoure at the apperinge of Iesus Christ:

whom ye have not sene and yet love him in whom even now though ye se him not ye yet beleue and reioyce with ioye vnspeakable and glorious:

receavynge the ende of youre fayth the salvacion of youre soules.

Of which salvacion have the Prophetes enquyred and searched which prophisied of the grace that shuld come vnto you

searchinge when or at what tyme the sprete of Christ which was in them shuld signifie which sprete testified before the passions that shuld come vnto Christ and the glory that shuld folowe after:

vnto which Prophetes it was declared that not vnto them selves but vnto vs they shuld minister the thinges which are now shewed vnto you of them which by the holy goost sent doune from heven have preached vnto you the thinges which the angels desyre to beholde.

Wherfore gyrde vp the loynes of youre myndes be sober and trust perfectly on the grace that is brought vnto you by the declaringe of Iesus Christ

as obedient chyldren not facioninge youre selves vnto youre olde lustes of ignorancye:

but as he which called you is holy even so be ye holy in all maner of conuersacion

because it is written. Be ye holy for I am holy.

And yf so be that ye call on the father which with out respecte of person iudgeth accordinge to every manes worke se that ye passe the tyme of youre pilgremage in feare.

For as moche as ye know how that ye were not redemed with corruptible sylver and golde from youre vayne conversacion which ye receaved by the tradicions of the fathers:

but with the precious bloud of Christ as of a lambe vndefiled and withouten spot

which was ordeyened before the worlde was made: but was declared in the last tymes for youre sakes

which by his meanes have beleved on god that raysed him from deth and glorified him that youre fayth and hope myght be in god.

And for as moche as ye have purified youre soules thorowe the sprete in obeyinge the trueth for to love brotherly withouten saynynge se that ye love one another with a pure hert fervently:

for ye are borne a newe not of mortall seed but of immortall by the worde of god which liveth and lasteth for ever.

For all flesshe is as grasse and all the glory of man is as the floure of grasse. The grasse widdereth and the flower falleth awaye

but the worde of the lorde endureth ever. And this is the worde which by the gospell was preached amonge you.

Wherfore laye asyde all maliciousnes and all gyle and dissimulacion and envie and all backbytynge:

and as newe borne babes desyre that reasonable mylke which is with out corrupcion that ye maye growe therin.

If so be that ye have tasted how plesaunt the lorde is

to whom ye come as vnto a livynge stone disalowed of men but chosen of god and precious:

and ye as lyvynge stones are made a spretuall housse and an holy presthode for to offer vp spretuall sacryfice acceptable to god by Iesus Christ.

Wherfore it is contayned in the scripture: beholde I put in Sion an heed corner stone electe and precious: and he that beleveth on him shall not be ashamed.

Vnto you therfore which beleve he is precious: but vnto them which beleve not the stone which the bylders refused the same is made the heed stone in the corner

and a stone to stomble at and a rocke to offende them which stomble at the worde and beleve not that where on they were set.

But ye are a chosyn generacion a royall presthod an holy nacion and a peculiar people that ye shuld shewe the vertues of him that called you out of darknes into hys marvelous light

which in tyme past were not a people yet are now the people of God: which were not vnder mercye but now have obteyned mercye.

Derly beloved I beseche you as straugers and pilgrems abstayne from flesshly lustes which fyght agaynst the soule

and se that ye have honest conversacion amonge the getyls that they which backbyte you as evyll doars maye se youre good workes and prayse god in the daye of visitacion.

Submit youre selves vnto all manner ordinaunce of man for the lordes sake whether it be vnto the kynge as vnto the chefe heed:

other vnto rulars as vnto them that are sent of him for the punysshment of evyll doars: but for the laude of them that do well.

For so is the will of god that ye put to sylence the ygnorancie of the folyshe men:

as fre and not as havinge the libertie for a cloke of maliciousnes but even as the servautes of god.

Honoure all men. Love brotherly felishippe. Feare god and honour the kynge.

Servauntes obey youre masters with all feare not only yf they be good and courteous: but also though they be frowarde.

For it is thankeworthye yf a man for conscience towarde god endure grefe sufferinge wrongfully.

For what prayse is it if when ye be buffeted for youre fautes ye take it paciently? But and yf when ye do well ye suffer wronge and take it paciently then is there thanke with God.

For herevnto verely were ye called: for Christ also suffered for vs levinge vs an insample that ye shuld folowe his steppes,

which dyd no sinne nether was ther gyle founde in his mouth:

which when he was reviled reviled not agayne: when he suffered he threatened not: but committed the cause to him that iudgeth ryghteously

which his awne silfe bare oure synnes in his body on the tree that we shuld be delyvered from synne and shuld lyve in rightewesnes. By whose strypes ye were healed.

For ye were as shepe goinge astraye: but are now returned vnto the shepheerd and bisshoppe of youre soules.

Lykewyse let the wyves be in subieccion to their husbandes that even they which beleve not the worde maye with out the worde be wonne by the conversacion of the wyves:

whill they beholde youre pure coversacion coupled with feare.

Whose apparell shall not be outwarde with broyded heare and hanginge on of golde other in puttinge on of gorgious aparell:

but let the hyd man of the herte be incorrupt with a meke and a quyet sprete which sprete is before God a thinge moche set by.

For after this maner in the olde tyme dyd the holy wemen which trusted in God tyer the selves and were obediet to their husbades

even as Sara obeyed Abraham and called him Lorde: whose doughters ye are as longe as ye do well and be not afrayde of every shadowe.

Lyke wyse the men dwell with them accordinge to knowledge gevinge honoure vnto the wyfe as vnto the weaker vessell and as vnto them that are heyres also of the grace of lyfe that youre prayers be not let.

In conclusion be ye all of one mynde one suffre with another love as brethren be petifull be courteous

not redringe evyll for evyll nether rebuke for rebuke: but contrary wyse blesse remembringe that the are thervnto called even that ye shuld be heyres of blessinge.

If eny man longe after life and loveth to se good dayes let him refrayne his tonge from evyll and his lippes that they speake not gyle.

Let him eschue evyll and do good: let him seke peace and ensue it.

For the eyes of the Lorde are over the righteous and his eares are open vnto their prayers. But the face of the Lorde beholdeth the that do evyll.

Moreover who is it that will harme you yf ye folowe that which is good?

Not withstondynge happy are ye yf ye suffre for rightewesnessis sake. Ye and feare not though they seme terrible vnto you nether be troubled:

but sanctifie the Lorde God in youre hertes. Be redy all wayes to geve an answere to every man that axeth you a reason of the hope that is in you and that with meaknes and feare:

havinge a good consciece that when they backbyte you as evyll doars they maye be ashamed for as moche as they have falsely accused youre good conversacion in Christ.

It is better (yf the wyll of God be so) that ye suffre for well doynge then for evyll doynge.

For as moche as Christ hath once suffered for synnes the iuste for the vniuste forto bringe vs to God and was kylled as pertayninge to the flesshe: but was quyckened in the sprete.

In which sprete he also wet and preached vnto the spretes that were in preson

which were in tyme passed disobedient when the longe sufferinge of God abode excedinge paciently in the dayes of Noe whyll the arcke was a preparinge wherin feawe (that is to saye.viii soules) were saved by water

which signifieth baptism that now saveth vs not the puttinge awaye of the filth of the flesshe but in that a good conscience consenteth to God by the resurreccion of Iesus Christ

which is oure right honde of God and is gone into heven angels power and myght subdued vnto him.

For as moche as christ hath suffred for vs in the flesshe arme youre selves lyke wyse with the same mynde: for he which suffereth in the flesshe ceasith from synne

that he hence forwarde shuld lyve as moche tyme as remayneth in the flesshe: not after the lustes of men but after the will of God.

For it is sufficient for vs that we have spent the tyme that is past of the lyfe after the will of the gentyls walkinge in wantannes lustes dronkennes in eatinge drinkinge and in abominable ydolatrie.

And it semeth to them a straunge thinge that ye runne not also with them vnto the same excesse of ryote and therfore speake they evill of you

which shall geve a comptes to him that is redy to iudge quycke and deed.