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A methodical preface prefixed before the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romans very…A methodicall preface prefixed before the Epistle of S. Paule to the Romanes very…
A methodical preface prefixed before the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romans very necessary and profitable for the better understanding of it / made by the right reverend father and faithful servant of Christ Jesus, Martin Luther ; now newly translated out of Latin into English, by W.W. ...A methodicall preface prefixed before the Epistle of S. Paule to the Romanes very necessary and profitable for the better vnderstandyng of it / made by the right reuerend father and faythfull seruant of Christ Iesus, Martin Luther ; nowe newly translated out of Latin into English, by W.W. ...
Imprinted at London : For Thomas Woodcocke, dwelling in Pauls Churchyard, at the sign of the Black Bear, 1594?Imprinted at London : For Thomas Woodcocke, dwellyng in Paules Churchyard, at the signe of the Blacke Beare, 1594?
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Gift is the holy spirit him self whom ⟨image 9⟩4God doth send into their hearts whom he hath taken mercy upon, and whom he favoureth: as very well appeareth in the .v. Chapter: where he distinguisheth gift from grace. Although now we have not the fullness of this gift or of the Spirit (because in this life there will always remain in us remnants of sin which fight against the Spirit, as the Apostle saith in the .vii. Chapter and the .iii. to the Galatians, as also Moses saith in the iii. of Genesis: that there will be a conflict betwixt the seed of the woman and the seed of the Serpent) yet grace worketh this in us, that the relics of sin shall not be imputed unto us: but that we shall be reputed and accounted before God as men fully and perfectly just. Neither is the grace and favour of God so imperfectly bestowed upon us, as we said the gift was. For God rather doth love and embrace us with a full favour and a right perfect good will for Christs sake, who is our mediator, earnest penny, and the first finites of the Spirit. Therefore though remnants of sin do daily glister and shine in us: yet never theles we are just before God, and syil is not imputed unto us through faith which dally striveth and wageth war against ⟨image 10⟩the flesh.
Gyft is the holy spirit hym selfe whom ⟨image 9⟩4God dooth send into theyr hartes whom he hath taken mercy vpon, and whom he fauoreth: as very well appeareth in the .v. Chapter: where he distinguisheth gyft from grace. Although now we haue not the fulnes of this gyft or of the Spirit (bicause in this life there will alwayes remayne in vs remnaunites of sinne which fight agaynst the Spirit, as the Apostle sayth in the .vii. Chapter and the .iii. to the Galathians, as also Moses sayth in the iii. of Genesis: that there will be a conflict betwixt the seede of the woman and the seede of the Serpent) yet grace worketh this in vs, that the reliques of sinne shall not be imputed vnto vs: but that we shall be reputed and accounted before God as men fully and perfitly iust. Neyther is the grace and fauour of God so imperfectly bestowed vpon vs, as we sayd the gyft was. For God rather dooth loue ande imbrace vs with a full fauour and a right perfect good will for Christes sake, who is our mediator, earnest penney, and the first finites of the Spirit. Therefore though remnaunts of sinne doo dayly glister and shine in vs: yet neuer theles we are iust before God, and syil is not imputed vnto vs through faith which daly striueth and wageth war against