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A compendious introduction, prologue or preface unto the pistle off Paul to the…A compendious introduccion, prologe or preface vn to the pistle off Paul to the…
A compendious introduction, prologue or preface unto the pistle off Paul to the RomansA compendious introduccion, prologe or preface vn to the pistle off Paul to the Romayns
Worms : P. Schoeffer, 1526
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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.
God Hit is not good to caste pearls before swine / nether to give holy things and the children's breed unto the dogs and bounds. Ye sin continually with out ceasing / and though I let my word be preached among you never so much / yet ye follow not / nether obey / but despise it.
God Hit is not good to caste pearles before swyne / nether to geve holy thinges and the childrens breed vnto the dogges and boundes. Ye synne cō tinually with out ceasynge / ād though I lett my word be preached a monge you never so moche / yet ye folowe not / nether obeye / but despice it.
The sinner O father have mercy on us / and deny us not that breed of love / it grieveth us sore / even at the very heart roots of us / that we can not satisfy thy word and follow it / we desire the therefore to have patience with us thy pour and wretched children / and to forgive us our trespass and gilt / and judge us not after thy law / for no man is righteous in thy presence. Look on thy promises / we forgive our trespassers and that with all our hearts / and unto such haste thou promised forgiveness / not that we through such forgiveness are worthy of thy forgiveness / but that ⟨image 22⟩at thou art true / and of thy grace and mercy haste promised forgiveness unto all them that forgive their neighbours / in this thy promise therefore is all our hope and trust.
The synner O father have mercy on vs / and denye vs not that breed of love / it greveth vs sore / even at the very herte rotes of vs / that we can not satisfye thi word and folowe it / we desyre the therefore to have pacience with vs thi poure and wretched cheldren / and to forgeve vs oure treaspace ād gylt / and iudge vs not after thi lawe / for nomā is rightewes in thy presence. Loke on thi promyses / we forgeve oure treaspasers and that wyth all oure hertes / and vn to soche haste thou promysed forgevenes / not that we thorowe soch forgevenes are worthy of thy forgevenes / but that ⟨image 22⟩