de rule the elder / and as vncomely as that wemen shulde rule
the men / but when nede requireth . And therfore if paul had had
other shifte & a man of age as mete for the rowme / he wold
not haue put Timothe in the office. He shuld no doute haue bene
kepte backe vntyll a fuller age and haue lerned in the meane
tyme in silence. And what soeuer thou be / that
readest this / I exhorte the in oure lorde / that
thou reade both the epistles of Paul to Timothe / that thou
maist se how diligently (as
a mother careth for hir child / if it be in perell)
Paul writeth vnto Timothe / to enstructe him / to teach him /
to exhorte / to corage him / to stere him vpp / to bewise /
sobir / diligent / circumspecte / sad / humble and meke
sayenge: these I write / that thou maist know how to behaue thy
selfe in the howsse of god which is the church or congregacion.
Avoyde lustes of youth / beware of vngodly fables
and old wiues/ tales / & auoyde the companye of men of
corrupte myndes which wast their braynes aboute wranglynge
questions. Let no man dispise thyne youth. As who shulde saye /
youth is a dispised
thinge of it selfe / where vnto men geue none
obedience naturally or reuerence. Se therfore that thy vertue
excede / to recompence thy lacke of age / and that thou so
behaue thy selfe / that no
faute be founde with the. And agayne / rebuke not an
elder sharpely / but exhorte him as thy father / and yongemen as
thy brethern / and the elder wemen as thy mothers / and the
younge wemen and soch like in euerye chapter.
Admitte none accusacion agenst an elder vnder lesse then .ij.
wittenesses. as thy sisters And Paul
chargeth him in the sight of god and of the lorde
Iesus christe and of his electe angeles / to doo nothynge
rashly or of af
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