first

Honour thy father and mother, (which is the first commandement with promise,)

For your felowship in the Gospel from the first day vntill now;

For the Lord himselfe shall descend from heauen with a shout, with the voyce of the Archangel, and with the trumpe of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.

Let no man deceiue you by any meanes, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sinne bee reuealed, the sonne of perdition,

Howbeit, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Iesus Christ might shew foorth all long suffering, for a paterne to them which should hereafter beleeue on him to life euerlasting.

¶ I exhort therefore, that first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giuing of thanks be made for all men:

1611 marginal noteOr, desire.

For Adam was first formed, then Eue:

And let these also first be proued; then let them vse the office of a Deacon, being found blamelesse.

But if any widow haue children or nephewes, let them learne first to shew pietie at home, and to requite their parents: for that is good and acceptable before God.

1611 marginal noteOr, kindenesse.

Hauing damnation, because they haue cast off their first faith.