The New Testament diligently corrected and compared with the GreekThe Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke

This is a true saying. If a man covet the ¹office of a bishop / he desireth a good §Awork. Yea and a bishop must be faultless / the husband of one wife / sober / discrete / honestly apparelled / harberous / 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 honest. For if a man cannot rule his own house / how shall he care for the congregation of God. He may not §Bbe a young scholar / lest he swell and fall into the judgement of the evil speaker. He must also be well reported of among them which are with outforth / lest he fall into rebuke and snare of the evil speaker.

THis is a true sayinge. Yf a mā covet ye ¹office of a bysshope / he desyreth a good §Aworke. Ye and a bisshope must be fautlesse / the husband of one wyfe / sober / discrete / honestly aparelled / harberous / apt to teache / not dronkē / no fighter / not gevē to filthy lucre: but gentle / abhorrynge fightynge / abhorrynge coveteousnes / and one that rueleth his awne housse honestly / havynge chyldren vnder obedience / with all honeste. For yf a man cannot rule his owne housse / how shall he care for the congregacion of God. He maye not