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PAul an Apostle / not of men / nether* 1.1 by man / but by Ie¦sus [ A] Christ / and by God the father which raysed him from deeth: and all the brethren which are with me.
Vnto the congregaciōs of Galacia.
Grace be with you & peace from God the
father / and from oure Lorde Iesus Christ / which gave him selfe for oure synnes / to deli∣ver vs from this present evyll worlde / tho∣row the will of God oure father / to whom be prayse for ever and ever. Amen.
I marvayle that ye are so sone turned frō [ B] him that called you in the grace of Christ / vn¦to another gospell: which is nothinge els / but that ther be some which trouble you / & inten∣de to pervert to gospell of Christ. Neverthe∣lesse though we oure selves / or an angell frō hevē / preache eny other gospell vnto you thē that which we have preached vnto you / hol∣de him as a cursed. As I sayde before / so saye I now agayne / yf eny man preache eny other thinge vnto you / then that ye have receaved / holde him accursed. Preache I mannes doc∣trine or Godes? Ether go I about to please men? If I stodyed to please men / I were not the servaunt of Christ.
✚ I certifie you brethren / that the gospell [ C] which was preached of me / was not after the māner of men / nether receaved I it of mā / ne∣ther wos I taught it: but receaved it by the revelacion of Iesus Christ. For ye have hear¦de of my conversacion in tyme past / in the Ie∣wes wayes / how that beyonde measure I per¦secuted the congregacion of God / & spoyled it: and prevayled in the Iewes laye / above many of my companions / which were of my∣ne awne naciō / and was a moche more fervēt mayntener of the tradicions of the elders.
But whē it pleased God / which seperated
me from my mothers wombe / & called me by his grace / forto declare his sonne by me / that I shuld preache him amonge the hethen: im∣mediatly* 1.2 I cōmened not of the matter with flesshe and bloud / nether returned to Ierusa∣sem to them which were Apostles before me: but wēt my wayes into Arabia / & came agay¦ne [ D] vnto Damasco. Then after thre yeare I re¦turned to Ierusalem to se Peter / & abode with him .xv. dayes / no nother of the Apostles sa∣we I / save Iames the Lordes brother. The thinges which I write / beholde / God kno∣weth I lye not.
After that I went into the costes of Siria & Cilicia: & was vnknowen as touchinge my person vnto ye cōgregaciōs of Iewrye / which were in Christ. But they hearde only / that he which persecuted vs in tyme past / now prea∣cheth the fayth which before he destroyed. And they glorified God on my behalffe. ⊢
Paul / though he came longe af∣ter the a∣postles / yet had he not his aucto¦rite of Pe¦ter or of anye. that went before hī Nether br¦ought he with him letters of recommē¦dacion or bulles of cōfirmaci¦on. But the confir¦macion of his apostl¦eship was the wor∣de of god conscien∣ce of men and the po¦wer of the spirite th∣at testifi∣ed with hī by mira∣cles and manifol∣de gyftes of grace.
Paules gospell was not cōfirmed bi the auc¦torite of man: but by the my racles of the spirite