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Or is God the God of the Iewes onely? Is he not also the God of the Heythen? Yes verely the God of the Heythen also,

for so moch as he is the God onely that iustifieth the circumcision which is of faith, and the vncircucision thorow faith.

Destroye we then the lawe thorow faith? God forbyd. But we mantayne the lawe.

This we saye: Yf Abraham were made righteous thorow workes, then hath he wherin to reioyse, but not before God.

But what sayeth ye scripture? Abraha belened God, & yt was counted vnto him for righteousnes.

Euen as Dauid sayeth also, that blessednes is onely that mans, vnto who God counteth righteousnes without addinge to of workes, where he sayeth:

As it is wrytten: I haue made the a father of many Heythe before God, whom thou hast beleued: which quyckeneth the deed, and calleth it which is not, that it maye be.

For he douted not in the promes of God thorow vnbeleue, but was stroge in faith, and gaue God the prayse:

& was sure, that loke what God promyseth, he is able to make it good.

Because therfore that we are iustified by faith, we haue peace with God thorow oure LORDE Iesus Christ

by who also we haue an intraunce in faith vnto this grace, wherin we stonde, & reioyse in the hope of ye glorye for to come, which God shal geue.

As for hope, is letteth vs not come to cofusion, because the loue of God is shed abrode in oure hertes, by the holy goost which is geuen vnto vs.

Therfore doth God set forth his loue towarde vs, in yt Christ dyed for vs,whan we were yet synners:

For yf we were recocyled vnto God by ye death of his sone, wha we were yet enemies: moch more shal we be saued by him, now yt we are reconcyled.

Not onely that, but we reioyse also in God thorow oure LORDE Iesus Christ, by whom we haue now receaued the attonement.

But it is not with the gifte as with the synne: for yf thorow the synne of one many be deed, yet moch more plenteously came the grace and gifte of God vpon many by the fauoure that belonged vnto one man Iesus Christ.

God forbyd. How shal we lyue in synne, yt are deed from it?

For as touchinge that he dyed, he dyed cocernynge synne once: but as touchinge that he lyueth, he lyueth vnto God.

Likewyse ye also, counte youre selues to be euen deed concernynge synne, and to lyue vnto God thorow Iesus Christ oure LORDE.

ether geue ye ouer youre membres vnto synne to be wapens of vnrighteousnes, but geue ouer youre selues vnto God, as they that off deed are become lyuynge, and youre membres vnto God to be wapes off righteousnes.