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excepte it be for this one worde, that I cried stondinge amonge them: Of the resurreccion off the deed am I iudged of you this daye.

I thinke my selfe happye (O kynge Agrippa) because I shal answere this daye before the, of all the thinges wherof I am accused of the Iewes:

And now stonde I, and am iudged because of the hope of the promes, that was made of God vnto oure fathers,

vnto the which (promes) oure twolue trybes hope to come, seruynge God instatly daye and nighte. For the which hopes sake (O kynge Agrippa) I am accused of the Iewes.

But I sayde: LORDE, who art thou? He sayde: I am Iesus, whom thou persecutest.

But Paul sayde: I am not madd (most deare Festus) but speake the wordes of trueth and sobernesse:

Paul sayde: I wolde to God, that (not onely in a parte but alltogether,) I mighte persuade not the onely, but all them that heare me this daye, to be soch I am, these bondes excepte.

For this night stode by me the angell off God (whose I am, & who I serue)

For this cause haue I called you, eue to se you, & to speake wt you: because yt for ye hope of Israel, I am bounde wt this cheyne.

I am detter both to the Grekes, and to the vngrekes, to the wyse and to the vnwyse.

Wherfore (as moch as i me is) I am ready to preach the Gospell vnto you at Rome also.

For I am not ashamed of the Gospell of Christ: for it is the power of God, which saueth all that beleue theron, the Iewe first & also the Greke:

For we knowe, that the lawe is spirituall, but I am carnall, solde vnder synne:

O wretched man that I am, who shal delyuer me from the body of this death?

For sure I am, that nether death ner life, nether angell, ner rule, nether power, nether thinges present, nether thinges to come,

Esaye after him is bolde, aud sayeth: I am founde of them, that sought me not: & haue appeared vnto them, that axed not after me.

I saye then: Hath God thrust out his people? God forbyd: for I also am an Israelite, of the sede of Abraham out of the trybe of Ben Iamin.

LORDE, they haue slayne thy prophetes, & dydged downe thine altares, and I am lefte ouer onely, and they seke my life?

I speake vnto you Heythen: for in as moch as I am ye Apostle of the Heythen, I wil prayse myne office,

I knowe, & am full certified in ye LORDE Iesu, yt there is nothinge comen of itselfe: but vnto him yt iudgeth it to be comen, to him is it comen.