The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.

¶ The .ix. Chapter.

I Saye the trueth in Christ and lye not / in that wherof my conscience beareth [ A] me witnes in the holy gost / that I ha∣ve gret hevynes and continuall sorowe in my hert. For I have wysshed my selfe to be* 1.1 cursed from Christ / for my brethren and my kynsmen as pertayninge to the flesshe / which are the Israelites. To whom pertayneth the* 1.2 adopcion / & the glorie / and the covenauntes / and the law that was geven / and the service of God / and the promyses: whose also are the fathers / and they of whome (as concernynge the flesshe) Christ came / which is God over all thinges blessed for ever Amen.

I speake not these thinges as though the [ B] wordes of god had take none effecte. For they are not all Israelites which came of Israel: nether are they all chyldren strayght waye / because they are the seed of Abraham. But in* 1.3 Isaac shall thy seede be called: that is to saye / they which are the chyldren of the flesshe / are not the chyldren of god. But the chyldren of* 1.4 promes are counted the seede. For this is a worde of promes / aboute this tyme will I co∣me / and Sara shall have a sonne.

Nether was it so w^t her only: but also when [ C] Rebecca was with chylde by one / I meane by oure father Isaac / yeer the chyldren were bor∣ne / when they had nether done good nether bad: that the purpose of God which is by ele∣ction / myght stonde / it was sayde vnto her / not by the reason of workes / but by grace of y^•* 1.5 caller: the elder shall serve the yonger. As it is

written: Iacob he loved / but Esau he hated.

What shall we saye then? is there eny vn∣rightewesses with God? God forbyd. For he [ D] sayth to Moses: I will shewe mercye to whō* 1.6 I shewe mercy: and will have compassion on whom I have cōpassion. So lieth it not then in a mans will or cunnynge / but in y^e mercye* 1.7 of god. For the scripture sayth vnto Pharao: Even for this same purpose have I stered y^e vp / to shewe my power on y^• / & that my name myght be declared thorow out all the worlde. So hath he mercye on whom he will / and whom he will / he maketh hearde herted.

Thou wilt saye then vnto me: why then blameth he vs yet? For who can resist his [ E] * 1.8 will? But o man / what arte thou which dis∣putest with * 1.9 God? Shall the worke saye to the workeman: why hast thou made me on this fassion? Hath not the potter power over the claye / even of the same lompe to make one vessell vnto honoure / and a nother vnto disho¦noure? Even so / God willynge to shewe his wrath / and to make his power knowen / suffe∣red with longe pacience the vessels of wrath / ordeyned to damnacion / that he myght decla∣re y^• ryches of his glory on the vessels of mer¦cye / which he had prepayred vnto glorie: that is to saye / vs which he called / not of the Ie∣wes only / but also of y^e gentyls. As he sayth in O see: I will call them my people which were not my people: and her beloved which was not beloved. And it shall come to passe in the place where it was sayd vnto them /

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ye are not my people: that there shalbe called* 1.10 the chyldren of the lyvynge God.

But Esaias cryeth concernynge Israel / though the nomber of the chyldren of Israel [ F] * 1.11 be as the sonde of the see / yet shall a remnaūt be saved. He finyssheth the worde verely and maketh it short in tyghtwesses. For a short worde will god make on erth. And as Esaias sayd before: Except the Lorde of sabaoth had* 1.12 left vs seede / we had bene made as Zodoma / and had bene lykened to Gomorra.

What shall we saye then? We saye that [ G] the gentyls which folowed not rightewesnes have overtaken rightewesnes: I meane the rightewesnes which cometh of fayth. But Israel which folowed the lawe of rightewes∣nes / coulde not attayne vnto y^e lawe of righte¦wesnes. And wherfore? Because they sought* 1.13 it not by fath: but as it were by the workes of the lawe. For they have stombled at the stom∣blynge stone. As it is written: Beholde I put in Syon a stomblynge stone & a rocke which* 1.14 shall make men faule. And none y^t beleve on him / shalbe ashamed.

Notes

• * 1.1

  What lo¦ue dothe.
• * 1.2

  Adopcion is an in∣heritaun∣ce by gra∣ce.
• * 1.3

  gen. xxj.
• * 1.4

  Gal. iiijd ge. xviij.
• * 1.5

  gen. xxv mala. j. a.
• * 1.6

  ex. xxiij.
• * 1.7

  ex. ix. d.
• * 1.8

  esa. xlv. •• hie: xviij ••••••. •• v. b.
• * 1.9

  The fle¦shly & pro¦ude myn∣de y^• will be as wise as God must be mortified to learne to feare▪ god & to be obey him & to leue dispu¦tige with him. o see. ij. d. j. pe. ij. d.
• * 1.10

  osee. ij. d.
• * 1.11

  Esa. x. c.
• * 1.12

  esa. j. c.
• * 1.13

  esa xxvij j. pe. ij. b. esa. viij. c
• * 1.14

  es. xxviij