William Tyndale (Pentateuch, Jonah &NT)

The. iii. pistle of S. Iohn.

A
The Elder vnto the beloven Gayus / whom I love in þe trueth. Beloved / I wisshe in all thinges that thou prosperedest and faredest well ev as thy soule prospereth. I reioysed greatly when the brethren came / and testified of the trueth that is in the / how thou walkest in trouthe. I have no greater ioye then for to heare howe that my sonnes walke in veritie.

B
Beloved / thou doest faythfully what soever thou doest to the brethren / and to straungers / which bare witnes of thy love before all the congregacion. Which brethren wh thou bryngest forwardes on their iorney (as it besemeth god) thou shalt do well: because that for his names sake they went forth / and toke nothinge of the gentyls. We therfore ought
to receave soche / that we also myght be helpers to the trueth.

I wrote vnto the congregaciobar.gif: but Diotrephes which loveth to have the preeminence amobar.gifge them / receaveth vs not. Wherfore yf I come / I will declare his dedes which he doeth / iestinge on vs with malicious wordes / nether is therewith content. Not only he him silfe receaveth not the brethr: but also he forbiddeth them that wolde / and thrusteth them out of the congregacion.

Beloved / folowe not that which is evyll / but that which is good. He that doeth well is of God: but he þt doeth evyll seith not God. Demetrius hath good reporte of all men / and of the trueth: ye and we oure selves also beare recorde / & ye knowe that oure recorde is true.

D
I have many thinges to wryte: but I will not with ynke and penne wryte vnto the. For I trust I shall shortly se the / and we shall speake mouth to mouth. Peace be with the. The lovers salute the. Grete the lovers by name.