Iudas the servaunt of Iesus Christ / the brother of Iames. To them which are cal & sanctified in god the father / and preserved in Iesu Christ.
Beloved / when I gave all diligence to write vnto you of the commen saluacion: it was nedfull for me to wryte vnto you / to exhorte you / that ye shuld continually laboure in the fayth which was once gev vnto the sayntes
My mynde is therfore to put you in rembraunce / for as moche as ye once knowe this / how that the Lorde (after that he had delivered the people out of Egypt) destroyed them 1.B which afterwarde beleved not. The angels also which kept not their fyrst estate: but lefte their awne habitacion / he hath reserved in everlastinge chaynes vnder darcknes vnto þe iudgem
t of the greate daye:
Yet Michael the archangell when he strove agaynst the devyll / & disputed about the body of Moses / durst not geve raylinge sentce / but sayde: the Lorde rebuke þe. But these speake evyll of those thinges which they knowe not: & what thinges they knowe naturally / as beastes which are without reason / in tho thinges they corrupte them selves. Wo be vnto them / for they have folowed þe waye of Cayn /
These are spottes which of youre kindnes feast to gedder / with out feare / fedynge them selves. Cloudes they are with outen water / caried about of wyndes /
Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied before of suche / saying: Beholde / 6.E þe lorde shall come with thousand[es] of sayntes / to geve iudgement agaynst all men / & to rebuke all that are vngodly amonge them / of all their vngodly dedes / which they have vngodly cmitted / and of all their cruell speakynges /
These are murmurers / complayners / walkynge after their awne lustes / whose mouthes speake proude thynges. They have men in greate reverence be cause of a vauntage. But ye beloved / remember the wordes which were spoken before of the Apostles of oure lorde Iesus Christ / how that they tolde you that ther shulde be begylers in the last tyme / 7.F which shuld walke after ther awne vngodly lustes. These are makers of sectes fleshlie / havynge no sprete.