The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ, translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages; vvith arguments of bookes and chapters, annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the corruptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the controversies in religion, of these daies: in the English College of Rhemes

If any do sinne, therest that do the vvorkes of the Holy Ghost, must not therfore take pride in them selues, but rather make humilitie of it, partly by fearing their ovvne fall, partly by looking straitly to their ovvne vvorkes. 6 He exhorteth earnestly to good vvorkes, assuring them that they shal reaps none other then here they sovv. 11 With his ovvne hand he vvriteth, telling them, the true cause vvhy those false Apostles preach circumcision, to be only to please the Ievves: 17 and a plaine argument that he preacheth it not, to be this, that he is persecuted of the Ievves.

[verse 1] BRETHREN, and if a man be pre∣occupared in any fault, you that are spiritual, instruct such an one in the spirit of lenitie, considering thine ovvne self, lest thou also be tempted. ✝ [rightJustify 2] Beare ye one an others burdens: & so you shal fulfil the lavv of Christ. ✝ [rightJustify 3] For if any man esteeme him self to be something, vvhereas he is no∣thing, he seduceth him self. ✝ [rightJustify 4] But let euery one proue his ovvne vvorke, & so in him self only shal he haue the glorie, and not in an other. ✝ [rightJustify 5] For euery one shal beare his ovvne burden.* 1.1 ✝ [rightJustify 6] And let * him that is catechized in the vvord, communicate to him that catechizeth him, in al his goods. ✝ [rightJustify 7] Be not deceiued, God is not mocked. ✝ [rightJustify 8] For what things a mā shal sow, those also shal he reape. For he that sovveth in his flesh, of the flesh also shal reape corruptiō▪ but he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shal reape life euerlasting. ✝ [rightJustify 9] And * doing good, let vs not faile.* 1.2 For in due time vve shal∷ 1.3 reape

not failing. ✝ [leftJustify 10] Therfore vvhiles vve haue time, let vs vvorke good to al, but ″ especially to the domesticals of the faith. ⊢

✝ [leftJustify 11] See vvith vvhat maner of letters I haue written to you vvith mine ovvne hand. ✝ [leftJustify 12] Vvhosoeuer vvil please in the flesh, they force you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer the persecution of the crosse of Christ. ✝ [leftJustify 13] For nei∣ther they that are circumcised, do keepe the Lavv: but they vvil haue you to be circumcised, that they may glorie in your flesh. ✝ [leftJustify 14] b 1.4 But∷ 1.5 God forbid that I should glorie, sauing in the crosse of our Lord IESVS Christ: by vvhom the vvorld is crucified to me, and I to the vvorld. ✝ [leftJustify 15] For in Christ IESVS neither circumcision auaileth ought, nor prepuce, but ″ a nevv creature. ✝ [leftJustify 16] And vvhosoeuer shal folovv this rule, peace vpō them, and mercie, and vpon the Israël of God. ✝ [leftJustify 17] From hence∣furth let no man be troublesome to me▪ for I beare the mar∣kes [leftJustify 18] of our Lord IESVS in my body. The grace of our Lord IESVS Christ be vvith your spirit brethren. Amen. ⊢

ANNOTATIONS CHAP. VI.

6. Communicate] The great duety & respect that vve ought to haue to such as preach or teach vs the Cath.* 1.6 faith▪ and not in regard onely of their paines taken vvith vs, and vvel-deseruing of vs by their doctrine: but that vve may be partakers of their merites, vve ought specially to do good to such, or (as the Apostle speaketh) cōmunicate vvith them in al our temporal goods, that vve may be partakers of their spiritual. See S. Augustine li. 2. Euang. quaest. q. 8.

10. Especially.]* 1.7 In giuing almes, though vve may do vvel in helping al that are in necessitie, as farre as vve can, yet vve are more bound to succour Christians, then Ievves or Infidels: and Catho∣likes, then Heretikes. See S. Hierom q. 1. ad Hedibiam.

15. A nevv creature.]* 1.8 Note vvel that the Apostle calleth that here a nevv creature, vvhich in the last chapter he termed, faith vvorking by charitie, & (1 Cor. 7, 19) the obseruatiō of the cōmaun∣demēts of God. Vvhereby vve may learne that vnder the name of faith is conteined the vvhole refor∣mation of our soules and our nevv creation in good vvorkes, and also that Christian iustice is a very qualitie,* 1.9 condition and state of vertue and grace resident in vs, and not a phantastical appre∣hension of Christes iustice only imputed to vs. Lastly, that the faith vvhich iustifieth, ioyned vvith the other vertues, is properly the formal cause, and not the efficient or instrumental cause of iusti∣fication, that is to say, these vertues put together, being the effect of Gods grace, be our nevv crea∣ture and our iustice in Christ.

Notes

• * 1.1

  1. Cor. 9, 7.
• * 1.2

  2. Thes. 3, 13.
• ∷ 1.3

  The workes of mercie be the seede of life euerla∣sting, and the proper cause thereof, and not faith on∣ly.
• b 1.4

  The Epistle for S. Francis, Octob. 4.
• ∷ 1.5

  Christ (saith S. Augustine) chose a kinde of death, to hang on the Crosse and to sixe or fasten the same crosse in the fore∣heads of the faithful, that the Christian may say, God forbid that I should glorie sauing in the crosse of our Lord IESVS CHRIST. Expos. in Euang. Io. tract. 43.
• * 1.6

  Duety to our spiritual tea∣chers.
• * 1.7

  In almes whom to preferre.
• * 1.8

  Iustice an in∣herent quali∣tie in vs.
• * 1.9

  Faith with the other vertues is the formal cause of iusti∣fication.