: CHAPTER V and to be eousnesse and trueth.) Prooving what is acceptable unto the Lord and have no fellowship with the unfruitfull workes of darkenesse, but rather reprove them. For it is a shame even to speake of those things which are done of them in secret. But all things that are reprooved, are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest, is light. Wherfore hee saith: Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. See then that yee walke circumspectly, not as fooles, but to walke as wise, redeming the time, because the dayes are evill. Where- warily, fore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. And bee not drunke with wine, wherein is excesse: but bee filled with filled with the Spirit: speaking to your selves, in Psalmes, and the spirit, Hymnes, and Spirituall songs, singing and making melodie in your heart to the Lord, giving thankes alwayes for all things unto God, and the Father, in the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ, submitting your selves one to another in the feare of God. Wives, submit your he descendeth selves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband to the particular dueties, how is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the Church: wives ought to and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the Church is obey their subiect unto Christ, so let the wives bee to their owne husbands in husbands, every thing. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved and husbands the Church, and gave himselfe for it: that he might sanctifie and ought to love cleanse it with the washing of water, by the word, that hee might present it to himselfe a glorious Church, not having spot or wrinckle, or any such thing: but that it should bee holy and without blemish. So ought men to love their wives, as their owne bodies: hee that loveth his wife, loveth himselfe. For no man ever yet hated his owne flesh: but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the Church: for we are members of his body, of his flesh, and of his bones. For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be ioyned unto his wife, and they two shalbe one flesh. This is a great mysterie: but I speake concerning Christ even as Christ and the Church. Neverthelesse, let every one of you in particular, couch. so love his wife even as himselfe, and the wife see that she reverence her husband. their wives, doth his C CHAPTER VI children to HILDREN, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right. The duetie of Honour thy father and mother, (which is the first com- wards their mandement with promise,) that it may bee well with thee, parents, and thou maiest live long on the earth. And yee fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nourture CHAPTER towards their Our life is a warfare, Not onely against flesh and blood, but also spiritual enemies. armor of a Christian, and admonition of the Lord. Servants, bee obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh, with feare and trembling, in singlenesse of your heart, as unto Christ: not with eye service as men pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart: with good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men, knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free. And ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatning knowing that your master also is in heaven, neither is there respect of persons with him. Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devill. For wee wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darknes of this world, against spirituall wickednes in high places. Wherfore take unto you the whole armour of God, that yee may be able to The complete withstand in the evill day, and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore, having your loynes girt about with trueth, and having on the breast-plate of righteousnesse: and your feete shod with the preparation of the Gospel of peace. Above all, taking the shielde of Faith, wherewith yee shall bee able to quench all the fierie dartes of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: praying alwayes with all prayer and supplication in the spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance, and supplication for all Saints, and for mee, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make knowen the mysterie of the Gospel for which I am an ambassador in bonds, that therein I may speake boldly, as I ought to speake. But that yee also may know my affaires, and how I doe, Tychicus a beloved brother, and faithfull minister in the Lord, shall make knowen to you all things. Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that yee might know our affaires, and that he might comfort your hearts. Peace be to the brethren, and love, with faith from God the Father, and the Lord Iesus Christ. Grace be with all them that love our Lord Iesus Christ in sinceritie. and how it Tychicus is commended. Written from Rome unto the Ephesians by Tychicus. THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE TO THE PHILIPPIANS P CHAPTER I nesse to God, for the fruits JAUL and Timotheus the servants of Iesus Christ, to all the Saints in Christ Iesus, which are at Philippi, with the Bishops and Deacons : Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ. I He testifieth thanke my God upon every remembrance of his thankefulyou, alwayes in every prayer of mine for you and his love all making request, with ioy for your felowship toward them, in the Gospel from the first day untill now; of their faith being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a and fellowship, good work in you, will performe it until the day of Iesus Christ in his sufferings, even as it is meete for mee to thinke this of you all, because I have you in my heart, in as much as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the Gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace. For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all, in the bowels of Iesus Christ. And this I pray, that your love may dayly praying abound yet more and more in knowledge, and in all iudgment. to him for That ye may approve things that are excellent, that ye may be in grace: sincere, and without offence till the day of Christ. Being filled with the fruites of righteousnesse, which are by Iesus Christ unto the glory and praise of God. But I would yee should understand Hee sheweth brethren, that the things which happened unto mee, have fallen what good the out rather unto the furtherance of the Gospel. So that my bonds had received by in Christ, are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places. his troubles at Rome, And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident, by my bonds, are much more bold to speake the word without feare. Some in deed preach Christ, even of envie and strife, and some also of good will. The one preach Christ of contention, not syncerely, supposing to adde affliction to my bonds: but the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the Gospel. What then? Notwithstanding every way, whether in pretence, 303 their increase faith of Christ CHAPTER I and how ready he is to glorifie Christ either by his life or death, or in trueth: Christ is preached, and I therein doe reioyce, yea, and will reioyce. For I know that this shall turne to my salvation through your prayer, and the supplie of the spirit of Iesus Christ, according to my earnest expectation, and my hope, that in nothing I shalbe ashamed: but that with all boldnes, as alwayes, so now also Christ shal be magnified in my body, whether it be by life or by death. For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gaine. But if I live in the flesh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I shal chuse, I wote not. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to bee with Christ, which is farre better. Nevertheles, to abide in the flesh, is more needfull for you. And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all, for your furtherance and ioy of faith, that your reioycing may bee more abundant in Iesus Christ for me, by my exhorting them comming to you againe. Onely let your conversation bee as it to unitie, becommeth the Gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may heare of your affaires, that yee stand fast in one spirit, with one minde, striving together for the faith and to fortitude of the Gospel, and in nothing terrified by your adversaries, which in persecution. is to them an evident token of perdition: but to you of salvation, and that of God. For unto you it is given in the behalfe of Christ, not onely to beleeve on him, but also to suffer for his sake, having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now heare to be in me. He exhorteth I' CHAPTER II F there bee therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels, and mercies; fulfill ye my ioy, that yee be like minded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one minde. Let nothing bee done through strife, or vaine glory, but in lowlinesse of minde let each esteeme other better then themselves. Looke not every man on his owne things, but every man also on the things of others. Let this minde bee in you, which was also in Christ Iesus who being in the forme of God, thought it not robbery to bee equall with God: but made himselfe of no reputation, and tooke upon him the forme of a servant, and was made in the likenesse of men. And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himselfe, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Crosse. Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a Name which is above every name: that at the Name of Iesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth: and that every tongue should CHAPTER II to them, whom confesse, that Iesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. Wherefore, my beloved, as yee have alwayes obeyed, not as in my presence onely, but now much more in my absence; worke out To a carefull your owne salvation with feare, and trembling. For it is God proceeding in the way of which worketh in you, both to will, and to doe, of his good salvation, that pleasure. Doe all things without murmurings, and disputings: they bee as that yee may bee blamelesse and harmelesse, the sonnes of God, lights to the wicked world, without rebuke, in the middes of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world: holding foorth the and comforts word of life, that I may reioyce in the day of Christ, that I have to him their Apostle, who not runne in vaine, neither laboured in vaine. Yea, and if I bee is now ready offered upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I ioy, and to bee offered reioyce with you all. For the same cause also doe ye ioy, and up to God. reioyce with me. But I trust in the Lord Iesus, to send Timo- He hopeth to theus shortly unto you, that I also may bee of good comfort, when send Timothie I know your state. For I have no man like minded, who will hee greatly naturally care for your state. For all seeke their owne, not the commendeth, things which are Iesus Christs. But ye know the proofe of him, That as a sonne with the father, hee hath served with me, in the Gospel. Him therefore I hope to send presently, so soone as I shall see how it wil goe with me. But I trust in the Lord, that I also my selfe shall come shortly. Yet I supposed it necessary, to as Epaphroditus send to you Epaphroditus my brother and companion in labour, also, whom he presently sendand fellow souldiour, but your messenger, and hee that ministred eth to them. to my wants. For hee longed after you all, and was full of heavinesse, because that yee had heard that he had bene sicke. For indeed he was sicke nigh unto death, but God had mercy on him: and not on him onely, but on mee also, lest I should have sorow upon sorow. I sent him therefore the more carefully, that when ye see him againe, ye may reioyce, and that I may bee the lesse sorrowfull. Receive him therfore in the Lord with all gladnesse, and hold such in reputation: because for the worke of Christ he was nigh unto death, not regarding his life, to supply your lacke of service toward me. CHAPTER III FI of the false INALLY, my brethren, reioyce in the Lorde. To write the Hee warneth same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous: but for them to beware you it is safe. Beware of dogs, beware of evill workers: teachers of the beware of the concision. For we are the circumcision, which Circumcision, worship God in the spirit, and reioyce in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Though I might also have confidence 6: QQ 305 |