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freed us from

to them,

the time was come, God sent foorth his Sonne made of a woman, made under the Law, to redeeme them that were under the Law, that we might receive the adoption of sonnes. And because yee But Christ are sonnes, God hath sent foorth the spirit of his Sonne into your the Law: hearts, crying Abba, Father. Wherefore thou art no more a therefore we servant, but a sonne; and if a sonne, then an heire of God through are servants no Christ. Howbeit, then when ye knew not God, yee did service longer to it. unto them which by nature are no Gods. But now after that yee have knowen God, or rather are knowen of God, how turne ye againe to the weak and beggerly Elements, whereunto ye desire againe to be in bondage? Yee observe dayes, and moneths, and times, and yeeres. I am afraide of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vaine. Brethren, I beseech you, be as I am; for I am as ye are, ye have not iniured me at all. Ye know how through infirmitie of the flesh, I preached the Gospel unto you at the first. And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised He remembreth not, nor reiected, but received mee as an Angel of God, even as their good will Christ Iesus. Where is then the blessednes you spake of? for I to him, and his beare you record, that if it had bin possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. Am I therefore become your enemie, because I tell you the trueth? They zelously affect you, but not well: yea, they would exclude you, that you might affect them. But it is good to bee zealously affected alwayes in a good thing, and not onely when I am present with you. My litle children, of whom I travaile in birth againe, untill Christ bee formed in you: I desire to bee present with you now, and to change my voyce, for I stand in doubt of you. Tell me, ye that desire to be under the Law, doe ye not heare the Law? For it is written, that Abraham had two sonnes, and sheweth the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman. But he who that wee are was of the bond woman, was borne after the flesh but hee of the Abraham by freewoman, was by promise. Which things are an Allegorie; for the free woman. these are the two Covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Ierusalem, which now is, and is in bondage with her children. But Ierusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all. For it is written,

Reioyce thou barren that bearest not,

Breake foorth and cry thou that traveilest not;

For the desolate hath many moe children then she which
hath an husband.

Now wee, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
But as then hee that was borne after the flesh, persecuted him

the sonnes of

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that was borne after the Spirit, even so it is now. Neverthelesse, what saith the Scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her sonne for the son of the bondwoman shall not bee heire with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

Hee mooveth them to stand

in their libertie,

and not to observe circumcision:

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TAND fast therefore in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made us free, and bee not intangled againe with the yoke of bondage. Beholde, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shal profite you nothing. For I testifie againe to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to doe the whole Law. Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are iustified by the Law: ye are fallen from grace. For we through the spirit waite for the hope of righteousnesse by faith. For in Iesus Christ, neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision, but faith which worketh by love. Ye did run well; who did hinder you, that ye should not obey the trueth? This perswasion commeth not of him that calleth you. A little leaven leaveneth the whole lumpe. I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will be none otherwise minded; but he that troubleth you, shall beare his iudgement, whosoever hee be. And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why doe I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the crosse ceased. I would they were even cut off which trouble you. For brethren, ye have beene called unto liberty, onely use not libertie for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another. For all the Law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selfe. But if yee bite and devoure one another, take heed ye be not consumed one of another. This I say then, Walke in the spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other: so that yee cannot doe the things that yee would. But if yee be lead of the spirit, yee are not under the Law. Nowe the workes of the flesh are manifest, up the workes which are these, adulterie, fornication, uncleannesse, lascivious

but rather
love, which
is the summe
of the Law.

He reckoneth

of the flesh,

and the fruits of the spirit,

nesse, idolatrie, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murthers, drunkennesse, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also tolde you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherite the kingdome of God. But the fruit of the spirit is love,

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ioy, peace, longsuffering, gentlenesse, goodnesse, faith, meekenesse, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christs, have crucified the flesh with the affections and lustes, and exhorteth If we live in the Spirit, let us also walke in the Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vaine glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

to walke in the spirit.

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RETHREN, if a man bee overtaken in a fault: yee which are He moveth spirituall, restore such a one in the spirit of meeknesse, them to deale mildly with a considering thy selfe least thou also be tempted. Beare ye brother that For if a hath slipped,

burden.

one anothers burthens, and so fulfill the Law of Christ. man thinke himselfe to be some thing, when he is nothing, hee and to beare deceiveth himselfe. But let every man proove his owne worke, one anothers and then shall he have reioycing in him selfe alone, and not in an other. For every man shall beare his owne burthen. Let him that Tobee liberall to is taught in the word, communicate unto him that teacheth, in all their teachers, good things. Be not deceived, God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reape. For hee that soweth

to his flesh, shall of the flesh reape corruption: but he that soweth

to the spirit, shall of the spirit reape life everlasting. And let us and not wearie not bee weary in well doing for in due season we shall reape, if of well doing. we faint not. As we have therefore opportunitie, let us doe good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith. Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine owne hand. As many as desire to make a faire shew in the He sheweth flesh, they constraine you to be Circumcised: onely least they what they intend that preach should suffer persecution for the Crosse of Christ. For neither circumcision. they themselves who are circumcised, keepe the Law, but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh. But He glorieth in God forbid that I should glory, save in the Crosse of our Lord nothing, save Iesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto of Christ. the world. For in Christ Iesus neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision, but a new creature. And as many as walke according to this rule, peace be on them, and mercie, and upon the Israel of God. From henceforth let no man trouble mee, for I beare in my body the markes of the Lord Iesus. Brethren, the grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen.

Unto the Galatians, written from Rome.

in the Crosse

After the salutation,

and thankesgiving for the Ephesians,

he treateth of our Election,

and Adoption by grace,

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL THE APOSTLE

TO THE EPHESIANS

CHAPTER I

AUL an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the will of God, to the Saincts which are at Ephesus, and to the faithfull in Christ Iesus. Grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Iesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spirituall blessings in heavenly places in Christ: according as he hath chosen us in him, before the foundation of the world, that wee should bee holy, and without blame before him in love having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Iesus Christ to himselfe, according to the good pleasure of his will: to the praise of the glorie of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved: in whom wee have redemption through his blood, the forgivenesse of sinnes, according to the riches of his grace, wherein hee hath abounded toward us in all wisedome and prudence: having made knowen unto us the mysterie of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he had purposed in himselfe, that in the dispensation of the fulnesse of times, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him: in whom true and proper also we have obteined an inheritance, being predestinated accordmans salvation, ing to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsell of his owne will: that we should be to the praise of his glorie, who first trusted in Christ. In whom ye also trusted after that ye heard the word of trueth, the Gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that yee beleeved, yee were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance, untill the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his he praieth that glorie. Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord they may come Iesus, and love unto all the Saints, cease not to give thankes for

which is the

fountaine of

And because the height of this mysterie cannot easily be atteined unto,

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and

you, making mention of you in my prayers, that the God of our Lord Iesus Christ the Father of glorie, may give unto you the Spirit of wisedome and revelation in the knowledge of him: the to the full eyes of your understanding being inlightned: that yee may know knowledge, what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glorie of his inheritance in the Saints: and what is the exceeding greatnesse of his power to us-ward who beleeve, according to the working of his mightie power: which he wrought in Christ when he possession raised him from the dead, and set him at his owne right hand in thereof in the heavenly places, farre above all principalitie, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not onely in this world, but also in that which is to come: and hath put all things under his feete, and gave him to be the head over all things to the Church, which is his body, the fulnesse of him that filleth all in all.

Christ.

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ND you hath hee quickned who were dead in trespasses, and By compar sinnes, wherein in time past ye walked according to the ing what we were by course of this world, according to the prince of the power

of the aire, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience, among whom also we all had our conversation in times nature, with past, in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh, and what we are of the minde, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others but God who is rich in mercie, for his great love wherewith hee loved us, even when wee were dead in sinnes, hath by grace: quickned us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Iesus: that in the ages to come, hee might shew the exceeding riches of his grace, in his kindenesse towards us, through Christ Iesus. For by grace are ye saved, through faith, and that not of your selves: it is the gift of God: not of workes, lest any man should boast. For wee are his work emanship, He declareth, created in Christ Iesus unto good workes, which God hath before that wee are made for good ordeined, that we should walke in them. Wherefore remember workes; and that ye being in time passed Gentiles in the flesh, who are called beeing brought uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the neere by Christ, flesh made by hands, that at that time yee were without Christ, as Gentiles, and being aliens from the common wealth of Israel, and strangers from forreiners in the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. But now in Christ Iesus, ye who sometimes were far off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For hee is our peace, who 6: PP 297

should not live

time past, but as