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Commentary upon the Epistle to the Romans
A commentary upon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romans, written in Latin by M. John Calvin, and newly translated into English by Christopher Rosdell preacher. Whereunto is added a necessary table for the better and more ready finding out of certain principal matters contained in this workA commentarie vpon the Epistle of Saint Paul to the Romanes, written in Latine by M. Iohn Caluin, and newely translated into Englishe by Christopher Rosdell preacher. Whereunto is added a necessarie table for the better and more readie finding out of certayne principall matters conteyned in this worke
London: printed by Thomas Dawson for John Harison and George Bishop, 1583London: printed by Thomas Dawson for Iohn Harison and George Bishop, 1583
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11 For there is no respect of persons with God.
12 Whosoever have sinned without law, shall also perish ⟨p. 23⟩without law: and who so have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law.
12 Whosoeuer haue sinned without lawe, shall also perishe ⟨p. 23⟩without lawe: and who so haue sinned in the lawe shall be iudged by the lawe.
13 For not the hearers of the law, are righteous before God: but the doers of the law shall be justified.
13 For not the hearers of the lawe, are righteous before God: but the doers of the lawe shalbe iustified.
11 For there is no respect of persons. Hitherto he hath drawn all men generally, guilty unto judgement: now he beginneth here to reprove the Jews by themselves, and the Gentiles by themselves: And withal he teacheth that that diversity or difference which separateth the one from the other letteth not, but both of them without difference may be subject to eternal death. The Gentiles pretended excuse by ignorance: the Jews gloried in the title of the Law, from the Gentiles he taketh all excuse and hafting, and the Jews he spoileth of their false and vain boasting. It is therefore a certain division or distribution of all mankind into two members. For God had severed the Jews from other nations: and as for all other nations they were in one and the like case. Now he showeth that that diversity hindereth nothing, whereby they should not both be entangled & wrapped in the same guiltiness. But the word person is used in the Scripture,