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But when it pleased God (which had separated me from my mothers wombe, and called me by his grace)

To reueile his Sonne in me, that I should preach him among the Gentiles, immediatly I communicated not with flesh and blood:

And when Peter was come to Antiochia, I withstood him to his face: for he was to be condemned.

Nowe to Abraham and his seede were the promises made. Hee saith not, And to the seedes, as speaking of many: but, And to thy seede, as of one, which is Christ.

But when the fulnesse of time was come, God sent forth his Sonne made of a woman, and made vnder the Lawe,

And because ye are sonnes, God hath sent foorth the Spirit of his Sonne into your heartes, which crieth, Abba, Father.

I haue trust in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but hee that troubleth you, shal beare his condemnation, whosoeuer he be.

For if any man seeme to himselfe, that he is somewhat, when he is nothing, hee deceiueth himselfe in his imagination.

But let euery man prooue his owne worke: and then shal he haue reioycing in himselfe onely and not in another.

For euery man shall beare his owne burden.

Let him that is taught in the worde, make him that hath taught him, partaker of all his goods.

For hee that soweth to his flesh, shall of the flesh reape corruption: but hee that soweth to the spirit, shal of the spirit reape life euerlasting.

Who hath predestinate vs, to be adopted through Iesus Christ in him selfe, according to the good pleasure of his will,

To the prayse of the glory of his grace, wherewith he hath made vs freely accepted in his beloued,

By whom we haue redemption through his blood, euen the forgiuenes of sinnes, according to his rich grace:

And hath opened vnto vs the mysterie of his will according to his good pleasure, which he had purposed in him,

In whom also we are chosen when we were predestinate according to ye purpose of him, which worketh all things after the counsell of his owne will,

That we, which first trusted in Christ, should be vnto the praise of his glorie:

Which is the earnest of our inheritance, for the redemption of that libertie purchased vnto the prayse of his glory.

That the eyes of your vnderstanding may be lightened, that ye may knowe what the hope is of his calling, and what the riches of his glorious inheritance is in the Saints,