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