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Certain prayers and godly meditations very needful for every ChristenCerteine prayers and godly meditacyons very nedefull for euery Christen
Emprented at Malborow i.e. Antwerp : The year of our Lorde et M.CCCCC.XXXviii. per me Joannem Philoponon i.e. H. Peetersen van Mideelburch?, 1538Emprented at Malborow i.e. Antwerp : The yeare of our Lorde et M.CCCCC.XXXviii. per me Joannem Philoponon i.e. H. Peetersen van Mideelburch?, 1538
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¶The office of all Estates. i. Timothy .iij.¶The offyce of all Estates. i. Timothe .iij.
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¶The office of all Estates. i. Timothy .iij.
¶The offyce of all Estates. i. Timothe .iij.
A Bishop must be faultless / the husband of one wife: sober discrete: honestly apparelled: herberous / apt to teach / not drunken not fighter: not given to filthy lucre but gentle / abhorring fighting / abhorring covetousness / and one that ruleth his own house honestly / having children under obedience / with all honest.
A Bysshop muste be fautlesse / the husbande of one wyfe: sober discrete: honestly appareled: herberous / apte to teache / not dronkē not fyghter: not gyuen to fylthy lucrebut gentyl / abhorringe fyghtynge / abhorringe couetousnesse / and one that ruleth his owne house honestly / hauynge chyldren vnder obedyence / with all honeste.
¶Rulers. Sapien. i.
Ye that are rulers of the earth / see that you love righteousness / and that you commit none unrighteousness in judgement. Levi. ix. Thou shalt not favour the poor / nor honour the mighty / but shalt jug thy neighbour righteously.
Ye that are rulers of the earth / se that you loue ryghteousnes / and that you commyt none vnryghteousnes in iudgement. Leui. ix. Thou shalte not fauour the poore / nor honoure the myghty / but shalt iugge thy neyghbour ryghtteously.