This Epistle has been highly esteemed by several learned men of the church of Rome and others. The Quakers have printed a translation and plead for it, as the reader may see, by consulting Poole's Annotations on Col. vi. 16. Sixtus Senensis mentions two MSS., the one in the Sorbonne Library at Paris, which is a very ancient copy, and the other in the Library of Joannes a Viridario, at Padua, which he transcribed and published, and which is the authority for the following translation. There is a very old translation of this Epistle in the British Museum, among the Harleian MSS., Cod. 1212.

1. Di Lɛta we Pɔl di Apɔsul bin rayt to di pipul dɛn na
Laodisya
CHAPTER 1
1 Pɔl na Apɔsul, nɔto mɔtalman ɔ mɔtalman, bɔt na Jizɔs Krays, to di brɔda dɛn
we de na Laodisia.
2 Gɔd we na di Papa ɛn wi Masta Jizɔs Krays gɛt gudnɛs ɛn pis.
3 A de tɛl Krays tɛnki pan ɛni prea we a de pre, so dat una go kɔntinyu fɔ du gud
wok ɛn kɔntinyu fɔ du wetin Gɔd prɔmis di de we Gɔd go jɔj.
4 Una we de chenj di trut, nɔ mek ɛni wɔd we nɔ gɛt wan prɔblɛm, so dat dɛn go
pul una kɔmɔt nia di trut we de na di Gud Nyuz we a dɔn prich.
5 Ɛn naw mek Gɔd gri, so dat di wan dɛn we dɔn chenj mi go gɛt pafɛkt no bɔt di
trut bɔt di Gud Nyus, fɔ gɛt bɛnifit, ɛn du gud wok dɛn we de wit sev.
6 Ɛn naw mi bon dɛn, we a de sɔfa wit Krays, dɔn klia, we a gladi ɛn gladi fɔ.
7 A no se dis go mek a sev sote go, we go bi tru una prea ɛn di Oli Spirit we una
de gi mi.
8 Ilɛksɛf a de alayv ɔ a day; bikɔs fɔ mi layf go bi layf to Krays, fɔ day go bi gladi-
at.
9 Ɛn wi Masta go sɔri fɔ wi, so dat una go gɛt di sem lɔv ɛn tink di sem we.
10 So, mi fambul dɛm, as una dɔn yɛri bɔt di Masta in kam, na so una de tink ɛn
du tin wit fred, ɛn i go bi fɔ una layf we go de sote go;
11 Na Gɔd de wok wit una;
12 Ɛn du ɔltin we nɔ gɛt sin.
13 Ɛn di bɛst, mi fambul dɛn, una gladi fɔ di Masta Jizɔs Krays, ɛn avɔyd ɔl di dɔti
mɔni.
14 Mek Gɔd no ɔl wetin una de aks fɔ, ɛn una fɔ kɔntinyu fɔ lan bɔt Krays.
15 Ɛn ɛnitin we gud ɛn tru, we de tɔk fayn, we klin, we de du wetin rayt, ɛn we
pɔsin lɛk, na dɛn tin ya de du.
16 Dɛn tin ya we una dɔn yɛri ɛn gɛt, una tink bɔt dɛn tin ya, ɛn pis go de wit una.
17 Ɔl di oli wan dɛn de salut una.
18 Wi Masta Jizɔs Krays in spɛshal gudnɛs de wit una spirit. Amen.
19 Mek dɛn rid dis Lɛta to di Lɛta Fɔ Kɔlɔse, ɛn di Lɛta we di Lɛta Fɔ Kɔlɔse rayt
wit una.