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For if ye live after the flesshe ye must dye. But yf ye mortifie the dedes of the body by the helpe of the sprite ye shall lyve.

For ye have no receaved the sprete of bondage to feare eny moare but ye have receaved the sprite of adopcion wherby we crye Abba father.

because the creatures are subdued to vanyte agaynst their will: but for his will which subdueth them in hope.

Not they only but even we also which have the fyrst frutes of the sprite morne in oureselves and wayte for the (adopcio) and loke for the delivraunce of oure bodyes.

For we are savyd by hope. But hope that is sene is no hope. For how can a ma hope for that which he seyth?

But and yf we hope for that we se not then do we with pacience abyde for it.

Lyke wyse ye sprite also helpeth oure infirmities. For we knowe not what to desyre as we ought: but the sprete maketh intercession mightely for vs with gronynges which canot be expressid with tonge.

which spared not his awne sonne but gave him for vs all: how shall he not wt him geve vs all thinges also?

nether are they all chyldren strayght waye because they are the seed of Abraham. But in Isaac shall thy seede be called:

that is to saye they which are the chyldren of the flesshe are not the chyldren of god. But the chyldren of promes are counted the seede.

Nether was it so wt her only: but also when Rebecca was with chylde by one I meane by oure father Isaac

it was sayde vnto her not by the reason of workes but by grace of ye caller: the elder shall serve the yonger.

As it is written: Iacob he loved but Esau he hated.

So lieth it not then in a mans will or cunnynge but in ye mercye of god.

But o man what arte thou which disputest with God? Shall the worke saye to the workeman: why hast thou made me on this fassion?

that is to saye vs which he called not of the Iewes only but also of ye gentyls.

But Esaias cryeth concernynge Israel though the nomber of the chyldren of Israel be as the sonde of the see yet shall a remnaut be saved.

But Israel which folowed the lawe of rightewesnes coulde not attayne vnto ye lawe of rightewesnes.

And wherfore? Because they sought it not by fath: but as it were by the workes of the lawe. For they have stombled at the stomblynge stone.

For I beare them recorde that they have a fervet mynde to God warde but not accordinge to knowledge.