and chaynes, euen matier to reioyse and glorie of, which tormentynges I endure not for any offence of myne, but suffer them for your weale, whom I saye, though the Iewes neuer so muche saye naye, haue no lesse righte to the benefite of the gospell, than haue the Iewes themselues. And why should I not saye, that I for your weale suffer, for whom Christ suffered? Why should the Apostle be lothe to do that, whiche Christ our prince and maister disdayned not to do? Christ suffered for vs not onelye in his owne body, but also in maner suffereth in oures, euē as one supplying and ful∣filling by his ministers suche thynges as mighte in his affliccions seeme vnperfecte, not that his death of it selfe is insufficient, but because the af∣fliccions and punishmentes of the head and members, of the prince and ministers, are in maner one. These punishmētes the greater and more ve∣hemente they be, the more redounde and make they to the fulnes and per∣feccion of your saluacion. And not for your saluaciō onely, but for y• weale also of Christes whole body, whiche is the churche, do I the office commit¦ted vnto me, for to me is committed the cure and ouer sight of the congre∣gacion. For Christe hath set and placed me in his stede, and hath deliuered vnto me the custody of his owne bodye, specially for that porcion, whiche is of the Gentiles to be receyued to the gospell, to the intente I should wt my labour supply that, whiche he semed to lacke, and to publyshe y•, which was so many hundred yeares before this tyme hidden from the Gentiles, and to teache, that not only the Iewes, but the Gētiles also haue through fayth an entry into this welthy state of the gospel. This to do was by god long since purposed, but yet was this his purpose hidden vntill this tyme from the worlde, and is nowe through my preachyng opened to all suche, as forsakyng theyr former vngraciouse lyfe embrace y• doctrine of Christ, to whome it hath pleased god to declare, howe glorious his ryches is to∣warde vs, when by publyshing this his so long hidden misterie the whole worlde perceyueth, howe that free saluacion, whiche men firste thoughte was offered onely to the Iewes, is nowe commen vnto al nacions, & that the kepyng of Moses lawe is not requyred, but fayth onelye, so that men doubte not of the promises made in the gospell. In stede of all suche thyn∣ges, wherin the Iewes haue had a foolyshe confidence, Christ onely is for you sufficient. If he be in you, ye haue no cause to be sorye of the hope ye stande in, beyng both sure ynough, and also through hym glorious, who of hymselfe wyll vndoubtedly perfourme, as muche as he hath promised. Hym preache we of, and not Moses nor aungels, aduertisyng & teaching not onely the Iewes, but also all people of the world, and in so doong lea∣uyng nothyng vntouched, which appertayneth to the wisdome of the gos∣pell. And this do we to the intent all men should vnderstand, that whither they be circumcised, or not circumcised, theyr weale is in nothyng els to be set, but in Christ Iesus. To bryng whiche fayth into mennes myndes I in suche sorte labour, that for auauncing therof I thynke it not paynfull to put my selfe in so many ieopardies and perilles, which are in dede more weightie, than our weakenes is able to abyde & suffer. But strong & migh∣tie is he, by whose ayde and mayntenaunce I do these actes, who also whē nede requireth, with working of myracles by vs, bryngeth my preaching in eredence.