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Grace bee to you and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ.

Who deliuered vs from so great a death, and doeth deliuer: in whom we trust that he will yet deliuer vs:

And I wrote this same vnto you, least when I came, I should haue sorrow from them of whome I ought to reioyce, hauing confidence in you all, that my ioy is the ioy of you all.

I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother, but taking my leaue of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

¶ Doe wee begin againe to commend our selues? or need wee, as some others, Epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

But we all, with open face beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glorie to glorie, euen as by the spirit of the Lord.

1611 marginal noteOr, of the Lord the spirit.

For in this we grone earnestly, desiring to be clothed vpō with our house, which is from heauen.

Therefore we are alwayes confident, knowing that whilest wee are at home in the body, wee are absent from the Lord.

We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

Wherefore come out from among them, and bee yee separate, saieth the Lord, and touch not the vncleane thing, and I will receiue you,

1611 marginal noteEsa. 52.11.