A14150:87
A path way i[n]to the holy scripture
London: printed by Thomas Godfray, 1536
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The office of all estates. i. Timo. iii.
The offyce of all estates. i. Timo. iii.
A Bishop must be faultless / the husband of one wife / sober / discrete / honestly apparelled / herberouse / apt to teach / not drunken / no 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 honesty.
A Bysshop must be fautelesse / the husbande of one wyfe / sobre / discrete / houestly apparelled / herberouse / apte to teche / nat dronken / no fyghter / nat gyuen to fylthy lucre: but gentle / abhorryng fyghtynge / abhorrynge couetousnesse / and one that ruleth his owne house honestly / hauynge chyldren vnder obedyence with all honesty.
¶ Rulers. Sap. t.
Ye that are rulers of the earth / see that you love righteousness / and that you commit none unrighteousness in judgement. Levi. ix.
Ye that are rulers of the erth / se that you loue rightuousnesse / and that you cōmyt none vnrightuousnesse in iudgement. Leui. ix.