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AN EXPOSITION VPON THE THREE FIRST Chapters of the EPISTLE of Saint Paul to the Romanes.
The Occasion and Scope of the Epistle.
THE occasion of this Epistle seemes this: Report of mani∣fold disagreements, both in iudgement and affection, risen in the Church of Rome; consi∣sting partly of Iewes, partly of Gentiles. The Iewes some of them wholy oppugning the Gospell, others mingling Law and Gospell together, in the case of Iustification; and ioyntly all excluding Gentiles from fellowship in Christ. The Gentiles againe, proud∣ly insulting ouer the Iewes; because God, hauing reie∣cted the body of the Iewes from being his people, had grafted them into the body of Christ. Now to allay all these controuersies and to settle them in truth, and vnitie of iudgement and affections, the Apostle, being hindered from comming to them, deales by letters.