Romans 11:2-24

²god hath not cast awaye his people which he knew before. Ether wote ye not what the scripture sayth by the mouth of Helias how he maketh intercession to god agaynst Israel sayinge:

³Lorde they have kylled thy prophetes and dygged doune thyn alters: and I am lefte only and they seke my lyfe.

⁴But what sayth the answer of god to him agayne? I have reserved vnto me seven thousande men which have not bowed the knee to Baal.

⁵Even so at this tyme ys ther a remmaunt lefte thorow the eleccion of grace.

⁶Yf it be of grace the is it not of workes. For then were grace no moare grace. Yf it be of workes then is it no moare grace. For then were deservyng no lenger deservynge.

⁷What then? Israel hath not obtayned that that he sought. No but yet the election hath obtayned it. The remnaunt are blynded

⁸accordynge as it is written: God hath geven the the sprete of vnquyetnes: eyes that they shuld not se and eares that they shuld not heare even vnto this daye.

⁹And David sayth: Let their table be made a snare to take them with all and an occasion to faule and a rewarde vnto them.

¹⁰Let their eyes be blynded that they se not: and ever bowe doune their backes.

¹¹I saye then: Have they therfore stombled that they shulde but faule only? God forbyd: but thorowe their faule is salvacion happened vnto the gentyls for to provoke the with all.

¹²Wherfore yf the faule of them be the ryches of the worlde: and the mynysshynge of them the ryches of the gentyls: How moche more shuld it be so yf they all beleved.

¹³I speake to you gentyls in as moche as I am the Apostle of the gentyls I will magnify myn office

¹⁴that I myght provoke them which are my flesshe and myght save some of them.

¹⁵For yf the castynge awaye of them be the reconcylynge of the worlde: what shall the receavynge of them be but lyfe agayne from deeth?

¹⁶For yf one pece be holy the whole heepe is holy. And yf the rote be holy the braunches are holy also.

¹⁷Though some of the brauuches be broken of and thou beynge a wylde olyue tree arte graft in amonge them and made parttaker of the rote and fatnes of the olyve tree

¹⁸bost not thy selfe agaynst the brauches. For yf thou bost thy selfe remember that thou bearest not the rote but the rote the.

¹⁹Thou wilt saye then: the brauches are broken of that I myght be grafte in.

²⁰Thou sayest well: because of vnbeleve they are broken of and thou stondest stedfast in fayth. Be not hye mynded but feare

²¹seynge that God spared not the naturall braunches lest haply he also spare not the.

²²Beholde the kyndnes and rigorousnes of God: on the which fell rigorousnes: but towardes the kyndnes yf thou cotinue in his kyndnes. Or els thou shalt be hewen of

²³and they yf they byde not still in vnbelefe shalbe graffed in agayne. For God is of power to graffe them in agayne.

²⁴For yf thou wast cut out of a naturall wilde olyve tree and wast graffed contrary to nature in a true olyve tree: how moche more shall the naturall brauches be graffed in their awne olyve tree agayne.