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And advising

them to a triall of their faith,

mation of their sinnes before his comming,

spare: since ye seeke a proofe of Christ, speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weake, but is mightie in you. For though hee was crucified through weaknesse, yet he liveth by the power of God for wee also are weake in him, but wee shall live with him by the power of God toward you. Examine your selves, whether ye be in the faith: prove your owne selves. Know yee not your owne selves, how that Iesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates? But I trust that yee shall knowe that we are not reprobates. and to a refor. Now I pray to God, that ye doe no evill, not that we should appeare approved, but that ye should doe that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. For wee can doe nothing against the trueth, but for the trueth. For wee are glad when wee are weake, and ye are strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. Therefore I write these things being absent, lest being present I should use sharpnesse, according to the power which the Lord hath given me to edification, and not to destruction. Finally, brethren, farewell: Bee perfect, bee of good comfort, bee of one minde, live in peace, and the God of love and peace shalbe with you. Greet one another with an holy kisse. All the Saints salute you. The grace of the Lord Iesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen. The second Epistle to the Corinthians, was written from Philippos a citie of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.

He concludeth his Epistle with a generall ex

hortation and

a prayer.

THE EPISTLE OF PAUL TO THE

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so soone left

AUL an Apostle, not of men, neither by man, but by Iesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead, and all the brethren which are with mee, unto the Churches of Galatia: Grace bee to you and peace, from God the Father, and from our Lord Iesus Christ, who gave himselfe for our sinnes, that he might deliver us from this present evill world, according to the will of God, and our Father, to whom bee glorie for ever and ever, Amen. I marveile, He wondereth that you are so soone removed from him, that called you into the that they have grace of Christ, unto an other Gospel: which is not another; but him, and the there bee some that trouble you, and would pervert the Gospel of Gospel, Christ. But though we, or an Angel from heaven, preach any And accurseth other Gospel unto you, then that which wee have preached unto those that you, let him be accursed. As we said before, so say I now againe, other Gospel preach any If any man preach any other Gospel unto you, then that yee have then hee did. received, let him be accursed. For doe I now perswade men, or God? or doe I seeke to please men? For if I yet pleased men, I should not bee the servant of Christ. But I certifie you, brethren, He learned the that the Gospel which was preached of me, is not after man. For Gospel not of I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the men, but of revelation of Iesus Christ. For yee have heard of my conversation in time past, in the lewes Religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the Church of God, and wasted it: and profited in the And sheweth Lewes Religion, above many my equals in mine owne nation, being what he was before his more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers. But calling, when it pleased God, who separated me from my mothers wombe, and called me by his grace, to reveale his sonne in mee, that I might preach him among the heathen, immediatly I conferred not with flesh and blood: neither went I up to Ierusalem, to them 6:00 289

God:

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and what he
did presently
after it.

He sheweth when he went

up againe to Hierusalem,

and for what purpose:

was not cir

cumcised:

which were Apostles before me, but I went into Arabia, and returned againe unto Damascus. Then after three yeeres, I went up to Ierusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteene dayes. But other of the Apostles saw I none, save Iames the Lords brother. Now the things which I write unto you, behold, before God I lye Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia, and was unknowen by face unto the Churches of Iudea, which were in Christ. But they had heard onely, that he which persecuted us in times past, now preacheth the faith, which once hee destroyed. And they glorified God in me.

not.

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HEN fourteene yeeres after, I went up againe to Ierusalem with Barnabas, and tooke Titus with me also. And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that Gospel, which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any meanes I should runne, or And that Titus had runne in vaine. But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greeke, was compelled to be circumcised: and that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spie out our libertie, which wee have in Christ Iesus, that they might bring us into bondage. To whom wee gave place by subiection, no not for an houre, that the trueth of the Gospel might continue with you. But of these, who seemed to bee somewhat, (whatsoever they were, it maketh no matter to mee, God accepteth no mans person,) for they who seemed to be somewhat, in conference added nothing to me. But contrariwise, when they saw that the Gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the Gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter: (for he that wrought effectually in Peter to the Apostleship of the circumcision, the same was mightie in me towards the Gentiles.) And when Iames, Cephas and Iohn, who seemed to bee pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship, that wee should goe unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision. Onely they would that wee should remember the poore, the same which I also was forward to doe. But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, resisted Peter, because he was to be blamed. For before that certaine came from Iames, he did eate with the Gentiles: but when they were come, hee withdrew, and separated himselfe, fearing them which were of the Circumcision. And the other lewes dissembled likewise with him, insomuch that Barnabas also was caried away with their

And that he

and told him the reason,

II

dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly CHAPTER according to the truth of the Gospel, I said unto Peter before them al, If thou, being a Iew, livest after the maner of Gentiles, why hee and and not as doe the lewes, why compellest thou the Gentiles to other being Iewes, doe belive as do the lewes? We who are lewes by nature, and not leeve in Christ sinners of the Gentiles, knowing that a man is not iustified by the to bee Iustified works of the Law, but by the faith of Iesus Christ, even we have by faith, and not by workes : beleeved in Iesus Christ, that we might be iustified by the faith of Christ, and not by the workes of the Law: for by the workes of the Law shall no flesh be iustified. But if while we seeke to be iustified by Christ, wee our selves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sinne? God forbid. For if I build againe the things which I destroyed, I make my selfe a transgressour. For I through the Law, am dead to the Law, that I might live unto God. I am crucified with Christ. Nevertheles, I live, yet And that they not I, but Christ liveth in me, and the life which I now live in the live not in flesh, I live by the faith of the sonne of God, who loved mee, and gave himselfe for me. I doe not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousnes come by the Lawe, then Christ is dead in vaine.

sinne, who are

so iustified.

O

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FOOLISH Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that you He asketh what should not obey the trueth, before whose eyes Iesus Christ moved them to leave the faith, hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This and hang upon onely would I learne of you, received ye the spirit, by the works the Law? of the Law, or by the hearing of faith? Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh? Have ye suffered so many things in vaine? if it be yet in vaine. He therfore that ministreth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, doeth he it by the workes of the Law, or by the hearing

of faith? Even as Abraham beleeved God, and it was accounted They that to him for righteousnesse. Knowe yee therefore, that they which beleeve are are of faith, the same are the children of Abraham. And the iustified, Scripture foreseeing that God would iustifie the heathen through x faith, preached before the Gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed. So then, they which bee of faith, are and blessed blessed with faithfull Abraham. For as many as are of the works with Abraham. of the lawe, are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every And this he one that continueth not in all things which are written in the sheweth by booke of the Law to doe them. But that no man is iustified by the Lawe in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The iust shall livex

many reasons.

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by faith.
And the Law is not of faith: but the man that doeth
them, shall live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse
of the Law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is
every one that hangeth on tree: that the blessing of Abraham
might come on the Gentiles, through Iesus Christ: that wee might
receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Brethren, I speake
after the maner of men: though it be but a mans covenant, yet
if it bee confirmed, no man disanulleth, or addeth thereto. Now to
Abraham and his seede were the promises made. He saith not,
And to seeds, as of many, but as of one, And to thy seed, which
is Christ. And this I say, that the Covenant that was confirmed
before of God in Christ, the Lawe which was foure hundred and
thirtie yeres after, cannot disanul, that it should make the
promise of none effect. For if the inheritance bee of the Law, it
is no more of promise: but God gave it to Abraham by promise.
Wherefore then serveth the Law? it was added because of trans-
gressions, till the seed should come, to whome the promise was
made, and it was ordeyned by Angels in the hand of a Mediatour.
Now a mediatour is not a Mediatour of one, but God is one. Is
the Lawe then against the promises of God? God forbid for if
there had beene a Lawe given which could have given life, verily
righteousnesse should have bene by the Law. But the Scripture
hath concluded all under sinne, that the promise by faith of Iesus
Christ might be given to them that beleeve. But before faith came,
wee were kept under the Law, shut up unto the faith, which should
afterwards bee revealed. Wherefore the Law was our Schoolemaster
to bring us unto Christ, that we might be iustified by Faith. But
after that Faith is come, we are no longer under a Schoolemaster.
For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Iesus. For
as many of you as have bene baptized into Christ, have put on
Christ. There is neither lewe, nor Greeke, there is neither bond
nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in
Christ Iesus. And if yee be Christs, then are ye Abrahams seed,
and heires according to the promise.

We were under

the Law till

Christ came,

報關

as the heire is under his

gardian till

he be of age.

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OW I say, that the heire, as long as hee is a child, differeth nothing from a servant, though hee bee Lord of all, but is under tutors and governours untill the time appointed of the father. Even so we, when wee were children, were in bondage under the Elements of the world: but when the fulnes of