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¹ The sprete speaketh euydently, that in ye latter tymes some shal departe from the faith, and shal geue hede vnto spretes of erroure, and deuelish doctrynes, of them² which speake false thorow ypocrysie, and haue their coscience marked with an whote yron,³ forbyddinge to mary, and comaundynge to abstayne fro the meates, which God hath created to be receaued wt geuynge thankes of them which beleue and knowe the trueth.⁴ For euery creature off God is good, and nothinge to be refused, yt is receaued with thankesgeuynge:⁵ for it is sanctifyed by the worde of God and prayer.

⁶ Yf thou shalt put the brethren in remembraunce of these thinges, thou shalt be a good mynister of Iesu Christ, which hast bene norished vp in the wordes of faith and of good doctryne, which thou hast folowed hither to.⁷ As for vngoostly and olde wyuesh fables, cast them awaye, but exercyse thy selfe vnto godlynes.⁸ For bodely exercyse profyteth litle, but godlynes is profytable vnto all thinges, as a thinge which hath promyses of the life that is now, and of the life for to come.⁹ This is a sure sayenge, & of all partes worthy to be receaued.¹⁰ For therfore we laboure and suffre rebuke, because we hope in the lyuynge God, which is the Sauioure of all men, but specially of those that beleue.¹¹ Soch thinges commaunde thou and teach.¹² Let no man despyse yi youth, but be thou vnto them that beleue, an ensample, in worde, in couersacion, in loue, in ye sprete, in faith, in purenesse.¹³ Geue attendaunce to readynge, to exhortacion, to doctryne, vntyll I come.¹⁴ Be not necligent in the gifte that is geuen the thorow prophecye, with layege on of the handes of the Elders.¹⁵ These thinges exercyse, and geue thy selfe vnto them, that thine increase maye be manifest vnto euery man.¹⁶ Take hede vnto thy selfe, and to learnynge, cotynue in these thinges. For yf thou so do, thou shalt saue thy selfe, and them that heare the.