Roles in Worship

1Folowe ye me, as I do Christ.

2I commende you brethren, that ye remembre me in all poyntes, and kepe the ordinaunces, eue as I delyuered them vnto you. 3But I certifye you, that Christ is the heade of euery man. As for ye man, he is the heade of ye woman, but God is Christes heade. 4Euery man that prayeth or prophecieth, and hath eny thinge on his heade, shameth his heade. 5But euery woman that prayeth or prophecieth with vncouered heade, dishonesteth hir heade. For it is euen a lyke moch as yf she were shauen. 6Yf the woma be not couered, let hir heer also be cut of. But yf it be vncomely for a woman to haue hir heer cut of or to be shauen, then let hir couer hir heade. 7Neuertheles the man oughte not to couer his heade, for so moch as he is the ymage and glory of God: but the woma is the glory of the man. 8For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man. 9Nether was the man created for the womans sake, but the woma for the mans sake. 10Therfore ought the woman to haue a power vpon hir heade, for the angels sakes. 11Neuertheles nether is the man without ye woman, nether the woman without the ma in the LORDE. 12For as the woman is of the man, euen so commeth the man also by the woman, but all of God. 13Iudge ye by yor selues, whether it be comly, yt a woma praye before God bare headed? 14Or doth not nature teach you, yt it is a shame for a man 15yf he weere loge heer, & a prayse to ye woma, yf she weere loge heer? For hir heer is geue heer to couer her withall. 16But yf there be eny man amoge you that hath lust to stryue, let him knowe, that we haue no soch custome, nether the congregacions of God.

Sharing in the Lord’s Supper
(Matthew 26:20–30; Mark 14:17–26; Luke 22:14–23)

17But this must I warne you of: I commende it not, that ye come together not after a better maner but after a worse. 18First, whan ye come together in the congregacion, I heare, that there are discensions amonge you, and I partly beleue it. 19For there must be sectes amonge you, that they which are perfecte amonge you, mighte be knowne. 20Now whan ye come together, the LORDES supper can not be kepte. For whan it shulde be kepte, euery ma taketh his awne supper afore. 21And one is hogrie, another is dronke. Haue ye not houses to eate and drynke in? 22Or despyse ye ye cogregacion of God, and shame them that haue not? What shal I saye vnto you? Shal I prayse you? in this prayse I you not.

23That which I delyuered vnto you, receaued I of the LORDE. For the LORDE Iesus the same nighte in the which he was betrayed, toke the bred, 24& gaue thankes, and brake it, and sayde: Take ye, & eate ye, this is my body, which is broken for you. This do in the remembraunce of me. 25After the same maner also he toke ye cuppe whan supper was done, and sayde: This cuppe is the new Testament in my bloude, this do (as oft as ye drynke it) in the remebrauce of me. 26For as oft as ye shal eate of this bred, & drynke of this cuppe, ye shal shewe the LORDES death, vntyll he come.

27Wherfore who soeuer shal eate off this bred, and drynke off this cuppe of the LORDE vnworthely, shalbe giltye of the body and bloude of the LORDE. 28But let a man examen himselfe, and so let him eate of this bred, and drynke of this cuppe. 29For he that eateth and drynketh vnworthely, eateth & drynketh his awne damnacion, because he maketh no differece of the LORDES body. 30Therfore are there so many weake and sicke amoge you, and many slepe. 31For yf we iudged oure selues, we shulde not be iudged. 32But whan we are iudged, we are chastened of ye LORDE, that we shulde not be daned with the worlde.

33Wherfore my brethren, whan ye come together to eate, tary one for another. 34But yf eny man honger, let him eate at home, that ye come not together vnto codempnacion. As for other thinges, I wil set them in order whan I come.