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¹Seeing therefore it is the duty and office of an Evangelist or preacher of glad tidings, ⟨image 19⟩first of all to preach the Law and to show how that all men (which are without the circuit and compass of grace and faith in Christ) are the sons and children of wrath, are sinners, and can do nothing but sin, that so they acknowledging their misery and wretchedness with an humble and contrite heart, might thirst after grace, the Apostle St. Paul in in this first Chapter doeth first of all find fault with the unbelief,² and checketh and rebuketh those gross sins which aptly & plainly were known to be manifest offences,³ as were the Idolatry and such gross sins of the Gentiles: as also are of those men which at this day being ignorant of GOD, void of grace, and without ⟨image 20⟩the Spirit, do live in blindness and darkness. The wrath of God is revealed by the Gospel (saith the Apostle) from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men which withhold the truth in unrighteousness. For though man might know by the Creatures that there was a God: yet notwithstanding his nature is evil and wicked, insomuch that it doth not glorify him nor give him thanks, but being blinded, doth always give over it self to worse and worse, until they do not only commit Idolatry and all kind of wickedness. but also favour them that do them, and give their consent and agreement to those which commit such things.

¹Seeing therefore it is the duety and office of an Evangelist or preacher of glad tydings, ⟨image 19⟩first of all to preach the Law and to shew how that all men (which are without the circuit and compasse of grace and faith in Christ) are the sonnes and children of wrath, are sinners, and can doe nothing but sinne, that so they acknowledging their miserie and wretchednesse with an humble and contrite heart, might thirst after grace, the Apostle St. Paul in in this first Chapter doeth first of all finde fault with the vnbeleefe,