Bishops(i)
1 My brethren, be not manie maisters, knowyng howe that we shall receaue the greater damnation
2 For in many thynges we sinne all. If a man sinne not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle all the body
3 Beholde, we put bittes in the horses mouthes, that they may obey vs, and we turne about all the body of them
4 Beholde also ye shippes, which though they be so great, and are dryuen of fierce windes, yet are they turned about with a very small helme, whither soeuer the violence of the gouernour wyll
5 Euen so the tongue is a litle member also, & boasteth great thynges. Beholde how great a matter a litle fire kindleth
6 And the tongue is fyre, euen a worlde of wickednesse. So is the tongue set among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fyre the course of nature, & it is set on fyre of hell
7 All the natures of beastes, & of byrdes, and of serpentes, and thynges of the sea, are meeked and tamed of the nature of man
8 But the tongue can no man tame, it is an vnruly euyll, full of deadly poyson
9 Therwith blesse we God the father: and therwith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God
10 Out of one mouth proceadeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these thynges ought not so to be