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BLessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sinne. * 1.1 Came this blessednesse then vpon the circumcision, or vpon the vn∣circumcision also? for wesay that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousnesse. Now was it then reckoned? when he wasin circumcision, or when hee was in the vncir∣cumcision? not in time of circumcision, but when hee was yet
vncircumciseb. And he receiued the sgne of circumcision, as a seale of the righteousnesse of faith, which hee had yet being vncircumcision, that he should bee the father of all them that beleeue, though they be not circumcised, that righteousnesse might be imputed to them also, and that hee might be the fa∣ther of circumcision, not vnto them onely which came of the circumcised, but vnto them also that walke in the steps of the faith that was in our father Abraham before the time of cir∣cumcision. For the promise (that hee should bee heire of the world) happened not to Abraham, or to his seede through the Law, but through the righteousuesse of faith. For if they which are of the Law, be heires, then is faith but va••e, and the promise of none effect.
Rom 4.8.