William Tyndale (Pentateuch, Jonah &NT)

The fyrst epistle of S. Paul vnto Timotheus.
The Prologe vpobar.gif the fyrst epistle of S. Paule to Timothe.

This pistle wryteth S. Paule to be an ensample vnto all bisshops / what they shuld teache / & how they shuld gouerne the congregacion of Christ in all degrees /

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that it shuld be no nede to gouerne Christes flocke with the doctrine of their aw good meaninges.

In the fyrst Chapter / he commaundeth that the bysshope shall maynteme the ryght fayth & loue / and resist false preachers which make the lawe & workes equall with Christ and his Gospell. And he maketh a shorte conclusion of all Christen learninge / wherto the lawe serueth


& what the ende therof is / also what the gospell is / & setteth him selfe for a cobar.giffortable ensample vnto all synners & troubled consciences.

In the seconde he commaundeth to praye for all degrees / and chargeth that the wemen shall not preache ner were costlye apparell / but tobe obedyent vnto the men.

In the thyrde he descrybeth what maner persons the bysshope or preste and their wyues shuld be / and also the deacones and their wyues: and commendeth it / if anye man desyer to be a bysshope after that maner.

In the fourth he prophisieth and sheweth before of the false bysshopes and spirituall offycers that shuld aryse amonge the christ people / and be / do and preache cleane contrary to the fore descrybed ensample / and shuld departe from the fayth in Christ and forbyd to mary & to eate certen meates / teachynge to put trust therin / bothe of iustifienge and forgeuenes of synnes and also of deseruinge of eternall lyfe.

In the fyueth he teacheth how a bysshope shuld vse him selfe towarde younge and olde & concernynge widowes what is to be done / and which shuld be founde of the commen cost: and teacheth also how men shuld honoure the verteous bysshopes and prestes / and how to rebuke the euell.

In the sixte he exhorteth the Bisshope to cleaue to the gospell of Christ and true doctrine / and to auoyde vayne questions and superfluous disputynges which gender stryfe and quenche the truthe / and by which also the false prophetes get them auctorite and seke to satisfie their insaciable couetousnes.


The fyrst epistle of S. Paul vnto Timotheus.
The fyrst Chapter.

[Untitled Possibly Huge Image] Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ / by the cobar.gifmaundement of God oure savioure /

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1.A & Lorde Iesus Christ / which is oure hope.

2.AVnto Timothe his naturall sonne in the fayth.

Grace / mercy and peace from God oure father & Lorde Iesus Christ oure Lorde.

As I besought the to abyde styll in Ephesus when I departed into Macedonia / even so do / that thou cobar.gifmaunde some that they teache no nother wise: nether geve hede to fables & genealogies which are endlesse / & brede doutes more then godly edyfyinge which is by fayth: for þe ende of the cobar.gifmaundemt is 3.A love that cobar.gifmeth of a pure herte & of a good conscience / & of fayth vnfayned: frobar.gif the which thinges some have erred / & have turned vnto vayne iangelinge / because they wolde be doctours the scripture / and yet vnderstonde not what they speake / nether wherof they affirme.

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4.Bcross.gif We knowe þt the lawe is good / yf a man vse it lawfully / vnderstondinge this / how þt the lawe is not geven vnto a righteous man / bu vnto the vnrighteous & disobedit / to the vngodly & to synners / to vnholy and vnclean / to murtherers of fathers & murtherers of
mothers / to manslears and whormongers: to them that defile them selves with mankynde: to menstealers: to lyars and to periured / & so forth yf ther be eny other thinge that is cobar.giftrary to holsome doctrine / accordinge to the gospell of the glory of the blessed God / which gospell is committed vnto me.

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And I thanke Christ Iesus oure Lorde which hath made me stronge: for he counted me true / & put me in office / when before I was a blasphemar / & a persecuter / & a tyrat. But I obtayned mercy / because I dyd it ignoratly thorow vnbelefe. Neverthelater the grace of oure Lorde was more aboundaunt with fayth and love which is in Christ Iesu. cross.gif

5.Ccross.gif This is a true sayinge & by all meanes worthy to be receaved / that Christ Iesus came into the world to save synners / of whom I am chefe. Notwithstondinge for this cause was mercy gev vnto me that Iesus Christ shuld fyrst shewe on me all longe pacience / vnto the ensample of them which shall in tyme 6.C to come beleve on him vnto eternall lyfe.

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So then vnto god / kynge everlastinge / immortall / invisible / and wyse only / be honoure and prayse for ever and ever Amen.

This commaundement commit I vnto the sonne Timotheus / accordynge to the prophisies which in tyme past were prophisied of the / þt thou in them shuldest fyght a good fyght / havinge fayth & good conscice which some have put awaye frobar.gif them / & as cobar.gifcerninge fayth have made shipwracke. Of whose


nombre is Himeneus and Alexander which 7.D I have delivered vnto Satan / þt they myght be taught not to blaspheme

The .ii. Chapter. cross.gif

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I exhorte therfore / that above all thynges / prayers / supplicacions intercessions / and gevynge of thankes behad for all men: for kynges / and for all that are in auctorite / that we maye live a quyet and a peasable life / in all godlines and honestie. For that is good and accepted in the sight of god oure savioure / which 8.A will have all men saved / and to come vnto the knowledge of þe trueth.
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For ther is one god / & one (mediator) bitwene god & man / which is þe man Christ Iesus which gave him silfe a raunsome for all men / that it shuld be testified at his tyme / wherevnto I am ordayned a preacher and an apostle: I tell the trueth in Christ and lye not / beynge the teacher of the gentyls in fayth and veritie. cross.gif

9.BI wyll therfore that the men praye every where / liftynge vp pure hondes without wrath / or dowtinge. 10.BLykwyse also the wemen that they araye them selves in comlye aparell with shamfastnes & discrete behaveour /

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not with broyded heare / other golde / or pearles / or costly araye: but with suche as becobar.gifmeth wemen that professe the worshippynge of God thorow good workes. 11.CLet the woman learne in silence with all subieccion. I suffre not a woman to teache / nether to have auctoricie over a man: but forto be in silence. For Adam was fyrst formed / and then Eve. Also Adam
was not deceaved / but the woman was deceaved / and was in transgression. Notwithstondynge thorow bearinge of chyldr they shalbe saved / so they continue in fayth / love and holynes with discrecion.

The .iii. Chapter.

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This is a true sayinge. Yf a m covet þe office of a bysshope / 12.A he desyreth a good worke. Ye and a bisshope must be fautlesse / the husband of one wyfe / sober / discrete / honestly aparelled / harberous / apt to teache / not dronk / no fighter / not gev to filthy lucre: but gentle / abhorrynge fightynge / abhorrynge coveteousnes / and one that rueleth his awne housse honestly / havynge chyldren vnder obedience / with all honeste. For yf a man cannot rule his owne housse / how shall he care for the congregacion of God. He maye not be a yonge skoler /
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lest he swell and faule into the iudgement of the evyll speaker. He must also be well reported of amonge them which are with out forth / lest he fall into rebuke and snare of the evyll speaker.

13.BLykwyse must the deacons be honest / not double tonged / not gev vnto moche drynkinge / nether vnto filthy lucre: but havynge the mistery of the fayth in pure conscice. And let them fyrst be proved / and then let them minister / yf they be founde fautlesse.

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Even so must their wynes be honest / not evyll speakers: 14.C but sober and faythfull in all thinges. Let the deacons be the husbandes of one wyfe / and suche as rule their chyldren
well / and their awne housholdes. For they that minister well / get them selves good degre and greate libertie in the fayth / which is in Christ Iesu.

These thinges write I vnto the / trustinge to come shortly vnto the:

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but and yf I tarie longe / þt then thou mayst yet have knowledge how thou oughtest to behave thy silfe in the housse of God / which is the congregacion of the livinge God / the pillar and grounde of trueth. And with out naye great is that mistery of godlines: God was shewed in the flesshe / was iustified in the sprete / was sene of angels / was preached vnto the gentyls / was beleved on in erth and receaved vp in glory.

The .iiii. Chapter.

The sprete speaketh evydently that in the latter tymes some shall departe 15. from the fayth /

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and shall geve hede vnto spretes of erroure / and dyvelysshe doctrine of them which speake falce thorow ypocrisye / and have their consciences marked with an hote yron / 16.A forbyddinge to mary / and commaundinge to abstayne from meates which God hath created to be receaved with gevynge thankes / of them which beleve and knowe þe trueth. For all the creatures of God are good and nothynge to be refused / yf it be receaved with thankes gevynge. For it is sanctyfyed by the worde of God and prayer.
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Yf thou shalt put the brethren in remembraunce of these thynges / thou shalt be a good minister of Iesu Christ / which hast
bene norisshed vp in the wordes of the fayth and good doctryne / 17.B which doctryne thou hast continually followed.
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But cast awaye vngostly and olde wyves fables.

Exercyse thy silfe vnto godlines. For bodely exercise proffiteth lyttll: But godlines is good vnto all thynges / as a thynge which hath promyses of the lyfe that is now / and of the lyfe to come. This is a sure sayinge and of all parties worthy to be receaved. For therfore we laboure and suffre rebuke / because we beleve in the livynge god / which is the savioure of all men: but specially of those that beleve. Suche thynges commaunde and teache. Let no man despyse thy youth: but be vnto them that beleve / an insample / in worde in conversacion / in love / in sprete / in fayth and in purenes.

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Till I come / geve attendaunce to redynge / to exhortacion and to doctryne. Despyse not the gyfte that is in þe / which was geven the thorow prophesye and with layinge on of þe hondes of an elder. These thynges exercyse / and geve thy silfe vnto them / that it maye be sene how thou profetest in all thinges. Take hede vnto thy silfe and vnto learnynge / 18.D and continue therin. For if thou shalt so do / thou shalt save thy silfe & them that heare the.

The .v. Chapter.

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Rebuke not an elder: but exhorte him as a father / and the yonger m as brethren / the elder wemen as mothers / þe yonger as sisters / with all purenes. Honoure
widdowes which are true wyddowes. 19.AYf eny wyddowe have chyldren or neves / let them learne fyrst to rule their awne houses godly / and to recompence their elders. For that is good and acceptable before God. She that is a very wyddowe and frendlesse / putteth her trust in god / and continueth in supplicacion and prayer nyght and daye. But she that liveth in pleasure / is deed even yet alive. And these thynges commaunde / that they maye be without faut / Yf ther be eny that provideth not for his awne / and namly for them of his housholde / the same denyeth the fayth / and is worsse then an infydell.

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20.BLet no wyddowe be chosen vnder threscore yere olde / and soche a one as was the wyfe of one man / and well reported of in good workes: yf she have noresshed children / yf she have bene liberall to stragers / yf she have wesshed the saynctes fete / yf she have ministred vnto them which were in adversite / yf she were continually gev vnto all maner good workes. The yonger widdowes refuse. For when they have begone to wexe wantone / to the dishonoure of Christ / then will they mary / havynge 21.B damnaciobar.gif / because they have brok their fyrst fayth. And also they learne to goo from housse to housse ydle / ye not ydle only / but also tryflynge and busybodyes / speakynge thynges which are not comly.

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I will therfore that þe yonger wem mary and beare childr / and gyde the housse / and geve none occasiobar.gif to þe adversary to speake evill
For many of them are all redy turned bake / and are gone after Satan. And yf eny man or woman that beleveth have widdowes / let th minister vnto them / & let not the congregacion be charged: that yt maye have sufficient for them that are widdowes in dede.

The elders þt rule wel / are worthy of double honoure / most specially they which laboure in þe worde & in teachinge. For the scripture sayth: Thou shalt not mousell the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne. 22.CAnd the labourer is worthy of his rewarde. Agaynst an elder receave none accusacion: but vnder two or thre witnesses. Them that synne / rebuke openly / that other maye feare.

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I testifie before god and the lorde Iesus Christ / and the electe angels / that thou observe these thynges with out hasty iudgement / and do nothynge parcially. Laye hondes sodly on no man nether be partaker of other ms synnes: kepe thy silfe pure. Drynke no lenger water / but vse a lytell wyne / for thy stommakes sake and thyne often diseases.

Some mennes synnes are open before honde and goo before vnto iudgement: some mennes synnes folowe after. Lykwyse also good workes are manyfest before honde & they that are other wyse / cnot be hid.

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23.ALet as many servauntes as are vnder þe yoke / counte their masters worthy of all honour / that the name of god and his doctryne be not evyll spoken of. Se that they which have belevynge masters / despyse them
not because they are brethren: but so moche the rather do service / for as moche as they are belevynge and beloved and partakers of the benefite.

These thynges teache and exhorte. Yf eny man teache other wise / and is not contt with þe wholsome wordes of oure lorde Iesu christ / and with the doctryne of godlines / he is pufte vp & knoweth nothynge: but wasteth his braynes aboute questions & stryfe of wordes /

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wherof sprynge envie / stryfe / raylinges / evyll surmysinges and vayne disputacions of men with corrupte myndes and destitute of the trueth / which thynke that lucre is godlines. From soche seperate thy silfe. 24.BGodlines is great ryches / yf a man be content with that he hath. For we brought nothynge into the worlde / and it is a playne case that we can cary nothynge out.

When we have fode & rayment / let vs therwith be contt. They that wilbe ryche / faule into temptaciobar.gif and snares / and into many folysshe and noysome lustes / which droune m in perdicion & destruccion. 25.BFor coveteousnes is the rote of all evyll / which whill some lusted after / they erred frobar.gif the fayth / & tanglyd them selves with many sorowes. But thou which arte the man of god /

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flye soche thyng[es] 26.CFolowe rightewesnes / godlines / love / pacience and meknes. Fyght þe good fyght of fayth. Laye honde on eternall lyfe / where vnto thou arte called / and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.
27.CI geve the charge in the sight of God / which quickneth all thing[es] / and before Iesu Christ which vnder Pobar.gifcius Pilate witnessed a good witnessinge / þt thou kepe the cobar.gifmaundemt / & be with out spotte and vnrebukeable / vntyll the apperynge of oure lorde Iesus Christ / which aperynge (when the tyme ys come) he shall shewe that is blessed and myghty only / kynge of kynges and lorde of lordes / 28.C which only hath immortalite / and dwelleth in light that no man can attayne / whom never man sawe / 29.C nether can se: vnto whom be honoure and rule everlastynge. Amen.

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30.D Charge them that are ryche in this worlde / that they be not excedynge wyse / & that they trust not in the vncertayne ryches / but in the livynge god / which geveth vs aboundantly all thynges to enioye them / and that they do good and be ryche in good workes / 31.D and redy to geve and to distribute / layinge vp in store for them selves a good foundaciobar.gif agaynst the tyme to come þt they maye obteyne eternall lyfe

O Timothe save that which is gev þe to kepe / & avoyde vngostly vanities of voyces & opposiciobar.gifs of scice falsly so called / which scice whyll some professed / they have erred as concernynge the fayth. Grace be with the Amen.

Sent from Laodicea / which is the chefest cite of Phrigia Pacaciana.

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