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¹What shall we saye then that Abraham oure father as pertayninge to the flesshe dyd finde?

²If Abraham were iustified by dedes the hath he wherin to reioyce: but not with god.

³For what sayth the scripture? Abraham beleved god and it was counted vnto him for rightewesnes.

⁴To him that worketh is the rewarde not reckened of favour: but of duty.

⁵To him that worketh not but beleveth on him that iustifieth the vngodly is his fayth counted for rightewesnes.

⁶Even as David describeth the blessedfulnes of the man vnto whom god ascribeth rightewesnes without dedes.

⁷Blessed are they whose vnrightewesnes are forgeven and whose synnes are covered.

⁸Blessed is that man to whom the Lorde imputeth not synne.

⁹Came this blessednes then vpon the circumcised or vpon the vncircumcised? We saye verely how that fayth was rekened to Abraham for rightewesnes.

¹⁰How was it rekened? in the tyme of circumcision? or in the tyme before he was circumcised? Not in tyme of circucision: but when he was yet vncircumcised.

¹¹And he receaved the signe of circumcision as a seale of that rightewesnes which is by fayth which fayth he had yet beynge vncircumcised: that he shuld be the father of all them that beleve though they be not circumcised that rightewesnes myght be imputed to them also:

¹²and that he myght be the father of the circumcised not because they are circumcised only: but because they walke also in the steppes of that fayth that was in oure father Abraham before the tyme of circumcision.

¹³For the promes that he shuld be the heyre of the worlde was not geven to Abraham or to his seed thorow the lawe: but thorow the rightewesnes which cometh of fayth.

¹⁴For yf they which are of the lawe be heyres then is fayth but vayne and the promes of none effecte.

¹⁵Because the lawe causeth wrathe. For where no lawe is there is no trasgression.

¹⁶Therfore by fayth is the inheritaunce geven that it myght come of faveour: and the promes myght be sure to all the seed. Not to them only which are of the lawe: but also to them which are of the fayth of Abraham which is the father of vs all.

¹⁷As it is wrytten: I have made the a father to many nacions even before god whom thou hast beleved which quyckeneth the deed and called those thinges which be not as though they were.

¹⁸Which Abraham contrary to hope beleved in hope that he shuld be the father of many nacions accordynge to that which was spoken: So shall thy seed be.

¹⁹And he faynted not in the fayth nor yet consydered hys awne body which was now deed even when he was almost an hondred yeare olde: nether yet that Sara was past chyldeberinge.

²⁰He stackered not at the promes of God thorow vnbelefe: but was made stronge in the fayth and gave honour to God

²¹full certifyed that what he had promised that he was able to make good.

²²And therfore was it reckened to him for rightewesnes.

²³It is not written for him only that it was reckened to him for rightewesnes:

²⁴but also for vs to whom it shalbe counted for rightewesnes so we beleve on him that raysed vp Iesus oure Lorde from deeth.

²⁵Which was delivered for oure synnes and rose agayne forto iustifie vs.