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 Prologe vpon the epistle of S. Paul to the Galathyans.

AS ye reade. Act. xv. how cer∣ten came from Ierusalem to Antioche and vexed the disci¦ples there / affirmynge that they coulde not be saued ex∣cept they were circumcised. Euē so after Paule had cōuer¦ted the Galathyās & coupled them to Christ / to trust in him onlye for the re∣mission of synne / & hope of grace & saluaciō / & was departed: there came false apostles vnto thē (as vnto the Corinthians / and vnto all places where Paule had preached) and that in the na∣me of Peter / Iames and Ihon / whome they cal¦led the hie Apostles / and preached circumcision and the kepinge of the lawe / to be saued by and mynisshed pauls auctorite.

To the confoundynge of those / Paule mag¦nifieth his office and Apostleshipe in the two fyrst chapters and maketh him selfe equall vn¦to

the hye Apostles / and concludeth that euery man must be iustified with oure deseruynges / with oute workes / and with out helpe of the lawe: but alone by Christ.

And in the thyrde and fourth / he proueth y^• same with scripture / examples and symylitu∣des / and sheweth that the lawe is cause of mo∣re synne and bringeth the cursse of god vpon vs / and iustifieth vs not: but that iustifyinge cometh by grace promysed vs of God thorow the deseruinge of Christ / by whome (if we bele¦ue) we are iustifyed with oute helpe of the wor¦kes of the lawe.

And in the .v. and .vj. he exhorteth vnto the workes of loue which folowe fayth and iustify¦inge. So that in all his epistle he obserueth this order. Fyrst he preacheth the dampnaciō of the lawe: then the iustifyinge of fayth / and thyrd∣ly the workes of loue. For on that condycion that we loue & worke / is the mercie geuen vs.