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For he is not a Iew which is a Iewe outwarde: nether is that circucision which is done outwardly in ye flesh:

For yf the trueth of God be thorow my lye the more excellent vnto his prayse, why shulde I the be iudged yet as a synner?

What saye we then? Are we better then they? No, in no wyse: for we haue proued afore, yt both the Iewes and Grekes are all vnder synne.

because yt by ye dedes of the lawe no flesh maye be iustified in his sighte. For by the lawe commeth but the knowlege of synne.

For they are all synners, and wate the prayse that God shulde haue of the,

whom God hath set forth for a Mercyseate thorow faith in his bloude, to shewe the righteousnes which avayleth before him, in that he forgeueth the synnes, which were done before vnder the sufferaunce of God, which he suffred,

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

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

owbeit vnto him, yt goeth not aboute with workes, but beleueth on him yt iustifieth the vngodly, is his faith counted for righteousnes.

Now this blessednes, goeth it ouer the circucision, or ouer the vncircumcision? We must nedes graunte, yt Abrahas faith was couted vnto hi for righteousnes.

As for the toke of circucision he receaued it for a seale off the righteousnes off faith, which he had yet in ye vncircusion, yt he shulde be a father of all the yt beleue, beinge in ye vncircucisio, yt it might be couted vnto the also for righteousnes:

For the promes (that he shulde be ye heyre of the worlde) was not made vnto Abraham or to his sede thorow the lawe, but thorow the righteousnes of faith.

For yf they which are of the lawe be heyres, the is faith vayne, and the promes of none effecte,

for so moch as the lawe causeth but wrath. For where the lawe is not, there is also no transgression.

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

And therfore was it rekened vnto him for righteousnes.

But this is not wrytte onely for his sake, yt it was counted vnto him,

but also for oure sakes: vnto who it shalbe counted, yf we beleue on him, that raysed vp oure LORDE Iesus from the deed.

Which was geuen for oure synnes, and raysed vp for oure righteousnesse sake.

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.