by the
power of the Spirit of God, so that from Hierusalem and
round about unto Illyricum, I have fully preached the Gospel of
Christ. Yea, so have I strived to preach the Gospel, not where
Christ was named, lest I should build upon another mans founda-
tion: but as it is written,

To whom hee was not spoken of, they shall see:

And they that have not heard, shall understand.

For which cause also I have been much hindered from comming to you. But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many yeeres to come unto you: whensoever I take my iourney into Spaine, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my iourney, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company. But now I goe unto Hierusalem, to minister unto the Saints. For it hath pleased them of Macedonia and Achaia, to make a certaine contribution for the poore Saints which are at Hierusalem. It hath pleased them verely, and their detters they are. For if the

Gentiles have bene made partakers of their spirituall things, their duetie is also to minister unto them in carnall things.

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When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them and promiseth this fruit, I will come by you into Spaine. And I am sure that to see them, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulnes of the blessing

ye

their prayers.

of the Gospel of Christ. Now I beseech you, brethren, for the and requesteth Lord Iesus Christs sake, and for the love of the Spirit, that strive together with me, in your praiers to God for me, that I may bee delivered from them that do not beleeve in Iudea, and that my service which I have for Hierusalem, may bee accepted of the Saints that I may come unto you with ioy by the will of God, and may with you be refreshed. Now the God of peace bee with you all. Amen.

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COMMEND unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the Church which is at Cenchrea: that ye receive her in the Lord as becommeth Saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever businesse she hath need of you: for she hath beene a succourer of many, and of my selfe also. Greete Priscilla and Paul willeth Aquila, my helpers in Christ Iesus: (who have for my life laid the brethren downe their owne neckes: unto whome not onely I give thankes, but also all the Churches of the Gentiles.) Likewise greet the Church that is in their house. Salute my welbeloved Epenetus, who is the first fruits of Achaia unto Christ. Greete Marie, who

to greete many,

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and adviseth them to take heede of those which cause

dissention and offences,

and after sun

endeth with praise and

bestowed much labour on us. Salute Andronicus and Iunia my kinsmen, and my fellow prisoners, who are of note among the Apostles, who also were in Christ before me. Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. Salute Urbane our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. Salute Appelles approoved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus houshold. Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the houshold of Narcissus, which are in the Lord. Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord. Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine. Salute Asyncritus, Phlegon, Hermas, Patrobas, Hermes, and the brethren which are with them. Salute Philologus and Iulia, Nereus, and his sister, and Olympas, and all the Saints which are with them. Salute one another with an holy kisse. The Churches of Christ salute you. Now I beseech you, brethren, marke them which cause divisions and offences, contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned, and avoide them. For they that are such, serve not our Lord Iesus Christ, but their owne belly, and by good wordes and faire speeches deceive the hearts of the simple. For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I am glad therefore on your behalfe: but yet I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evill. And the God of peace shal bruise Satan under your feete shortly. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you. Amen. Timotheus

dry salutations my worke-fellow, and Lucius, and Iason, and Sosipater my kinsemen salute you. I Tertius who wrote this Epistle, salute you in thankes to God. the Lord. Gaius mine hoste, and of the whole Church, saluteth you. Erastus the Chamberlaine of the citie saluteth you, and Quartus a brother. The grace of our Lord Iesus Christ be with you all. Amen. Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my Gospel, and the preaching of Iesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mysterie, which was kept secret since the world began: but now is made manifest, and by the Scriptures of the Prophets according to the commandement of the everlasting God, made knowen to all nations for the obedience of faith, to God, onely wise, bee glorie through Iesus Christ, for ever. Amen.

Written to the Romanes from Corinthus, and sent by Phebe servant
of the Church at Cenchrea.

THE FIRST EPISTLE OF PAUL THE

APOSTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS

CHAPTER I

AUL called to be an Apostle of Iesus Christ, After his saluthrough the will of God, and Sosthenes our tation, and brother, unto the Church of God which is at thankesgiving, Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Iesus, called to be Saints, with all that in every place call upon the Name of Iesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours. Grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Iesus Christ. I thanke my God alwayes on your behalfe, for the grace of God which is given you by Iesus Christ, that in every thing yee are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge: even as the Testimony of Christ was confirmed in you. So that yee come behinde in no gift; wayting for the comming of our Lord Iesus Christ, who shall also confirme you unto the end, that yee may be blamelesse in the day of our Lord Iesus Christ. God is faithfull by whom ye were called unto the felowship of his Sonne Iesus Christ our Lord. Now I he exhorteth beseech you brethren by the Name of our Lord Iesus Christ, that them to unitie, yee all speake the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you but that ye be perfectly ioyned together in the same minde, and in the same iudgement. For it hath bene declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them which are of the house of Cloe, that there are contentions among you. Now this I reprooveth their say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul, and I of Apollo, and dissentions. I of Cephas, and I of Christ. Is Christ divided? was Paul crucified for you? or were yee baptized in the name of Paul? I thanke God that I baptized none of you, but Crispus and Gaius: lest any should say, that I had baptized in mine owne name. And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other. For Christ sent me not to baptize,

and

CHAPTER but to preach the Gospel: not with wisedome of words, lest the Crosse of Christ should be made of none effect. For the preaching God destroyeth of the Crosse is to them that perish, foolishnesse: but unto us which are saved, it is the power of God. For it is written,

the wisedome

of the wise,

by the foolish nesse of preaching, and

calleth not the wise, mighty, and noble, but the foolish, weake, and men of no accompt.

Hee declareth that his preaching, though it bring not excel

I will destroy the wisedome of the wise,

And wil bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? where is the Scribe? where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisedome of this world? For after that, in the wisedom of God, the world by wisedome knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishnesse of preaching, to save them that beleeve. For the Lewes require a signe, and the Greekes seeke after wisedome. But wee preach Christ crucified, unto the Lewes a stumbling block, and unto the Greekes, foolishnesse but unto them which are called, both Iewes and Greekes, Christ, the power of God, and the wisedome of God. Because the foolishnesse of God is wiser then men: and the weakenesse of God is stronger then men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise: and God hath chosen the weake things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty: and base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen, yea and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are, that no flesh should glory in his presence. But of him are ye in Christ Iesus, who of God is made unto us wisedome, and righteousnesse, and sanctification, and redemption: that according as it is written, He that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord.

CHAPTER II

ND I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellencie of speech, or of wisedome, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any lency of speech, thing among you, save Iesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakenesse, and in feare, and in much trembling. And humane wise- my speech, and my preaching was not with entising words of mans dome: yet consisteth in the Xwisedome, but in demonstration of the Spirit, and of power: that power of God: your faith should not stand in the wisdome of men, but in the

or of

and so farre excelleth

the wisedome

of this world, and

power of God. Howbeit wee speake wisedome among them that are perfect: yet not the wisedome of this worlde, nor of the Princes of this worlde, that come to nought: but wee speake the wisedome of God in a mysterie, even the hidden wisedome which God ordeined before the world, unto our glory. Which none of

the princes of this world knewe: for had they knowen it, they CHAPTER
would not have crucified the Lord of glory. But as it is written,

Eye hath not seene, nor eare heard,
Neither have entred into the heart of man,

The things which God hath prepared for them that love
him.

II

humane sense,

as that

But God hath reveiled them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit
searcheth all things, yea, the deepe things of God. For what man
knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in
him? Even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit
of God. Now wee have received, not the spirit of the world, but
the Spirit which is of God, that wee might know the things that are
freely given to us of God. Which things also we speake, not in the
words which mans wisedome teacheth, but which the holy Ghost
teacheth, comparing spiritual things with spirituall. But the the naturall
naturall man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they man cannot
are foolishnesse unto him: neither can he know them, because
they are spiritually discerned. But he that is spirituall, iudgeth all
things, yet he himselfe is iudged of no man. For who hath knowen
the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him? But we have
the mind of Christ.

understand it.

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children.

arguments

ND I, brethren, could not speake unto you as unto spirituall, but as unto carnall, even as unto babes in Christ. I have Milke is fit for fed with milke, and not with meate: for hitherto you yee were not able to beare it, neither yet now are ye able. For ye are Strife and yet carnall for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, division, and divisions, are ye not carnall, and walke as men? For while of a fleshly one saieth, I am of Paul, and another, I am of Apollo, are ye not minde. carnall? Who then is Paul? and who is Apollo? but ministers by whom ye beleeved, even as the Lord gave to every man. I have planted, Apollo watered: but God gave the encrease. So then, Hee that plantneither is he that planteth any thing, neither hee that watereth: eth, and hee that watereth, but God that giveth the increase. Now hee that planteth, and hee is nothing. that watereth, are one: and every man shal receive his own reward according to his owne labour. For wee are labourers together The ministers with God, ye are Gods husbandry, yee are Gods building. Accord- are Gods fellowe ing to the grace of God which is given unto mee, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon. But let every man take heede how hee buildeth thereupon. For Christ the only foundation. other foundation can no man lay, then that is laid, which is Iesus 257

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