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6 & are ready to take vengeaunce on all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfylled.
7 Loke ye on thinges after the vtter appearaunce? If any man trust in hym selfe, that he is Christes, lett hym consyder thys agayne of him selfe, that as he is Christes, euen so, are we Christes.
8 For though I boaste my selfe somwhat more of oure auctorite (which the Lorde hath geuen vs to edifye, and not to destroye you) it shall not be to my shame:
9 lest I shulde seme as though I wente aboute to make you afrayede with letters.
10 For the epistles (sayth he) are sore, and stronge: but hys bodelye presence is weake, and hys speache rude.
11 Lett hym that is soche thynke on thys wyse: that as we are in wordes by letters, when we are absent, soche are we in dedes, when we are present.