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Through faith Sara also receiued strength to conceiue and be with child, and was delyuered of child when she was past age, because she iudged hym faithfull whych had promised. And therfore sprang there of one (euen of one whiche was as good as deade) so manye in multitude, as are starres of the skie, and as the sand the which is bi the sea shore innumerable.
Moreouer his wyfe Sara when she had bothe an olde man to her husband, and her selfe was so stricken with age, that her matrice lacked natural strength to drawe mannes sede vnto it, and retayne the same, dyd neuerthelesse cōceyue, and was deliuered of Isaac, mistrusting the strength of nature, but yet giuing credence vnto God, who by an aungell promysed her a man chylde the nexte yeare. She gaue no eare to nature reclaming and barking to the contrarie, but onely had a sure belefe that God coulde not lye. God promysed Abraham a po∣steritie equall in nombre to the starres, and the sande of the sea shore, and yet by the course of nature was there no hope of yssue at all. That notwithstandyng, he had no mystrust. And therfore of this one olde man beyng barayne by rea∣son of age, there yssued a posteritie so many in numbre, as are the starres of the s••ye, and the sande in the sea shore. For he loked for sonnes and nephewes, not after the kynred of bloud, but after the imitacion of faith, wherby al we are the ofspring and posteritie of Abraham, whiche do beleue the promises of the gos∣pel. Therfore not onely Abraham, but also all his true posteritie were of suche constaunt fayth, that very death bereaued not them therof.