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

CHAP. II.

He putteth them in minde of their vnvvorthines before they vvere Christians: that al the praise may be giuen to the grace of God: 11 and of the enmitie that vvas th•••• betvvene the Ievv and the Gentil: 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vntil nevv that Christ by his Crosse hath made both one, taking avvay the cerem••nies of the Lavv, and making one body, and building one holy Temple, of al, in his Catholike Church.

[verse 1] AND you vvhen you vvere dead by your offenses & sinnes, ✝ [leftJustify 2] vvherein sometime you vvalked according to the course of this vvorld,* 1.1 according to the * prince of the povver of this aire, of the spirit that novv vvorketh on the childrē of diffidence, ✝ [leftJustify 3] in vvhom also vve al conuersed sometime in the desires of our flesh, doing the vvil of the flesh and of thoughtes, and vvere by nature the children of vvrath as also the rest: ✝ [leftJustify 4] but God (vvhich is riche in mercie) for his exceding charitie vvher∣vvith he loued vs, ✝ [leftJustify 5] euen vvhen vve vvere dead by sinnes, quickened vs together in Christ, (by vvhose grace you are saued,) ✝ [leftJustify 6] and raised vs vp vvith him, and hath made vs sit vvith him in the celestials in Christ IESVS, ✝ [leftJustify 7] that he might shevv in the vvorldes succeding, the aboundant riches of his grace, in bountie vpon vs in Christ IESVS. ✝ [leftJustify 8] For by ″ grace you are saued through faith (and that not of your selues,

for it is the gift of God) ✝ [rightJustify 9] ∷ 1.2 not of vvorkes, that no man glorie ✝ [rightJustify 10] For vve are his vvorke, created in Christ IESVS in good vvorkes, vvhich God hath prepared that vve should vvalke in them.

✝ [rightJustify 11] For the vvhich cause be mindeful that sometime you vvere Gentils in the flesh,* 1.3 vvho vvere * called prepuce, of that vvhich is called circumcision in the flesh, made vvith hand:* 1.4 ✝ [rightJustify 12] vvho vvere at that time vvithout Christ, alienated from the conuersation of Israël, and * strangers of the testa∣ments, hauing no hope of the promis, and vvithout God in this vvorld. ✝ [rightJustify 13] But novv in Christ IESVS, you that someti∣me vvere farre of, are made nigh in the bloud of Christ. ✝ [rightJustify 14] For he is our peace, vvho hath made both one, and dissoluing the middle vvall of the partition, the enmities in his flesh: ✝ [rightJustify 15] eua∣cuating the lavv of cōmaundementsc 1.5 in decrees: that he may create the tvvo in him self into one new man, making peace, ✝ [rightJustify 16] and may reconcile both in one body to God by the crosse, killing the enmities in him self.

✝ [rightJustify 17] And comming he euangelized peace to you that vvere farre of,* 1.6 and peace to them that vvere nigh.* 1.7 ✝ [rightJustify 18] For * by him vve haue accesse both in one Spirit to the Father. ✝ [rightJustify 19] Novv then you are not strangers and forreiners: but you arec 1.8 citi∣zens of the sainctes, and the domesticals of God, ✝ [rightJustify 20] ″ built vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets, IESVS Christ him self being the highest corner stone: ✝ [rightJustify 21] in vvhom al building framed together, grovveth into an holy temple in our Lord, ✝ [rightJustify 22] in vvhom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the holy Ghost. ⊢

ANNOTATIONS CHAP. II.

••. By grace you are saued through faith.]* 1.9 Our first iustification is of Gods grace, and not of our deseruings: because none of al our actions that vvere before our iustification, could merite or iustly procure the grace of iustification. Againe, he saith, through faith: for that faith is the beginning, foundation, and roote of al iustification, and the first of al other vertues, vvithout which it is impossible to please God.

20. Built vpon the foundation.]* 1.10 Note against the Heretikes that thinke it dishonorable to Christ, to attribute his titles or callings to mortal men, that the faithful (though builded first, principally, and properly vpon Christ) yet are said here to be built also vpon the Apostles and Prophets. Vvhy may not the Church then be builded vpon Peter?

Notes

• * 1.1

  Eph. 6, 12.
• ∷ 1.2

  It is said, not of workes as thine, of thy self being vnto thee, but as those in which God hath made, formed, and created thee. Aug. de gr. & lib. arbit. c. 8. & seq.
• * 1.3

  1. reg. 17, 26. Ezec 44, 7.
• * 1.4

  Ro. 9, 4.
• c 1.5

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.6

  Ro. 5, 2.
• * 1.7

  The Epistle for S. Tho∣mas the Apo∣stle. Decemb. 21.
• c 1.8

  〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉
• * 1.9

  Our first iusti∣ficatiō of mere grace, & faith the foundatiō therof.
• * 1.10

  The Church builded vpon Christ, and yet vpon the Apo∣stles also.