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¶ A Paraphrase vpon the Epistle of the holy Apostle S. Paule to the Romanes.
The first Chapter.
I Paul, whom men here∣tofore haue called Saule, that is to say, one which is now become of a busie and troublesome felow, or of a very tyrant and persecuter, a well stayed, peaceable, and quiet man: and was bound many yeres agone vnder the law of Moyses, strayghtly to serue and obey him: but now at this tyme ••n made frée from him, set at libertie, and pref••rred to the highe fréedome, seruice, and dignitie of the great God our Lorde Iesus Chryst: yet notwithstanding, I am not thereby falne into the corrupte state of Apostacie, or a cleane forsaker of Moyses institutions: but am called to be Chrystes true messanger, and therefore now more highly aduaunced, than when I was one of the stoute and mightie d••••••••ders of the Pharisies secte against Moyses. For the cause thereof was, that béeing then not truely godly, nor ledde by the spirite of truthe: and although learned, yet not rightly learned, but a wanderer in darkenesse and error, I missed very farre from the veritie, and from the true vnder∣standing of the holy law of God. But now I may rightly be called a true Pharisie, that is, one which by grace am cho∣sen, separated, and put aparte by the Lorde Iesus Chryst him selfe, who hath endued me with the spirite of truth, to preach and teache the Gospell of his eternall father, which is not any new Gospell, of lately inuented, but the same that was