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Aul and Timotheus the ſeruants of Ieſus Chriſt, to all the Saints in Chriſt Ieſus, which are at Philippi, with the Biſhops and Deacons:

Grace be vnto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Ieſus Chriſt.

I thanke my God vpon euery ǁ remembrance of you,

Alwayes in euery prayer of mine for you all making requeſt, with ioy

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

Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you, ǁ will performe it vntil the day of Ieſus Chriſt:

Euen at it is meete for mee to thinke this of you all, becauſe I ǁ haue you in my heart, in as much both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the Goſpel, ye all are ǁ paratakers 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 loue, may abound yet more & more in knowledge, and in ǁ iudgment.

That ye may ǁ approue things that ǁ are excellent, that ye may be ſincere, and without offence till the day of Chriſt.

Being filled with the fruites of righteouſneſſe, which are by Ieſus Chriſt vnto the glory and praiſe of God.

But I would yee ſhould vnderſtand brethren, that the things which happened vnto mee, haue fallen out rather vnto the furtherance of the Goſpel.

So that my bonds ǁ in Christ, are manifeſt in all the ǁ palace, and in ǁ all other places.

And many of the brethen 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 enuie 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 Goſpel.

What then: Notwithstanding euery way, whether in pretence, or in trueth: Chriſt is preached, and I therein doe reioyce, yea, and will reioyce.

For I know that this ſhall turne to my ſaluation 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 liue is Chriſt, and to die is gaine.

But if I liue the in fleſh, this is the fruit of my labour: yet what I ſhal chuſe, I wote not.

For I am in a ſtrait betwixt two, hauing a deſire to depart, ⁊ to bee with Chriſt, which is farre better.