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¹Rebuke not an elder: but exhorte him as a father and the yonger me as brethren

²the elder wemen as mothers the yonger as sisters with all purenes.

³Honoure widdowes which are true wyddowes.

⁴Yf 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.

⁵She that is a very wyddowe and frendlesse putteth her trust in god and continueth in supplicacion and prayer nyght and daye.

⁶But she that liveth in pleasure is deed even yet alive.

⁷And these thynges commaunde that they maye be without faut

⁸Yf 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.

⁹Let no wyddowe be chosen vnder threscore yere olde and soche a one as was the wyfe of one man

¹⁰and well reported of in good workes: yf she have noresshed children yf she have bene liberall to straugers yf she have wesshed the saynctes fete yf she have ministred vnto them which were in adversite yf she were continually geve vnto all maner good workes.

¹¹The yonger widdowes refuse. For when they have begone to wexe wantone to the dishonoure of Christ then will they mary

¹²havynge damnacion because they have broke their fyrst fayth.

¹³And 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.

¹⁴I will therfore that the yonger weme mary and beare childre and gyde the housse and geve none occasion to the adversary to speake evill

¹⁵For many of them are all redy turned bake and are gone after Satan.

¹⁶And yf eny man or woman that beleveth have widdowes let the minister vnto them and let not the congregacion be charged: that that maye have sufficient for them that are widdowes in dede.

¹⁷The elders that rule wel are worthy of double honoure most specially they which laboure in the worde and in teachinge.

¹⁸For the scripture sayth: Thou shalt not mousell the mouth of the oxe that treadeth out the corne. And the labourer is worthy of his rewarde.

¹⁹Agaynst an elder receave none accusacion: but vnder two or thre witnesses.

²⁰Them that synne rebuke openly that other maye feare.

²¹I 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.

²²Laye hondes sodely on no man nether be partaker of other mens synnes: kepe thy silfe pure.

²³Drynke no lenger water but vse a lytell wyne for thy stommakes sake and thyne often diseases.

²⁴Some mennes synnes are open before honde and goo before vnto iudgement: some mennes synnes folowe after.

²⁵Lykwyse also good workes are manyfest before honde and they that are other wyse cannot be hid.