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The grace of the Lord Iesus Christ, and the loue of God, and the communion of the holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.The second Epistle to the Corinthians, was written from Philippos a citie of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.

Paul an Apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Iesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him fro the dead,

Grace bee to you and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Iesus Christ,

Who gaue himselfe for our sinnes, that he might deliuer vs from this present euill world, according to the will of God, and our Father,

For doe I now perswade men, or God? or doe I seeke to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not bee the seruant of Christ.

For yee haue heard of my couuersation in time past, in the Iewes Religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the Church of God, and wasted it:

But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mothers wombe, and called me by his grace,

Now the things which I write vnto you, behold, before God I lye not.

And they glorified God in me.

But of these, who seemed to bee somewhat, (whatsoeuer they were, it maketh no matter to mee, God accepteth no mans person,) for they who seemed to be somewhat, in conference added nothing to me.

But if while we seeke to be iustified by Christ, wee our selues also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sinne? God forbid.

For I through ye Law, am dead to the Law, that I might liue vnto God.

I am crucified with Christ. Neuertheles, I liue, yet not I, but Christ liueth in me, and the life which I now liue in the flesh, I liue by the faith of the sonne of God, who loued mee, and gaue himselfe for me.

I doe not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousnes come by the Lawe, then Christ is dead in vaine.

Euen as Abraham beleeued God, and it was accounted to him for righteousnesse.

And the Scripture foreseeing that God would iustifie the heathen through faith, preached before the Gospel vnto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

But that no man is iustified by the Lawe in the sight of God, it is euident: for, The iust shall liue by faith.

And this I say, that the Couenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the Lawe which was foure hundred and thirtie yeres after, cannot disanul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

For if the inheritance bee of the Law, it is no more of promise: but God gaue it to Abraham by promise.

Now a mediatour is not a Mediatour of one, but God is one.