The seconde tome or volume of the Paraphrase of Erasmus vpon the Newe Testament conteynyng the epistles of S. Paul, and other the Apostles : wherunto is added a paraphrase vpon the reuelacion of S. John.

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For it pleased the father, that in him should all fulnes dwell, and by him to recon∣cile al thinges vnto him selfe, and to set at peace by him through the bloud of his crosse both thinges in heauen and thinges in yearth,

For so hath it pleased the father, that the sonne should with all fulnes of godly power and goodnes be replenished, which shuld in him so abide and dwel, that we should nede no where to borowe any thyng, synce the fa¦ther neither wyll nor can do any thing, but that the sonne can do and will. And syth the fathers pleasure was, that so it should be, it besemeth not vs curiously to demaunde and serche why, synce it can not be but best, what∣soeuer his wysedome hath once decreed.

This wyse to do (I say) God the father thought beste, bothe for oure weale and saluacion, and most for his owne glory, to reconcile al thinges vnto him, not by the ministerie of Angels, but by his owne sonne, whiche with his bloud sheddyng, and tourmentyng vpon the crosse, should abo∣lishe

synne, whiche broke the peace and concorde betwixte heauenly and yearthly creatures, & set all thinges at peace, bothe heauenly & yerthly, makyng them in Christ to agre together, and to be at an vnitie one with an other.

Notes

• That in him should all ful∣nes dwell. &c.