Abraham

¶ What shall we say then, that Abraham our father, as perteining to the flesh, hath found?

For if Abraham were iustified by workes, hee hath whereof to glory, but not before God.

For what saith the Scripture? Abraham beleeued God, and it was counted vnto him for righteousnes.

Commeth this blessednes then vpon the circumcision onely, or vpon the vncircumcision also? for wee say that faith was reckoned to Abraham for righteousnesse.

And the father of circumcision, to them who are not of the circumcision onely, but also walke in the steppes of that faith of our father Abraham, which he had being yet vncircumcised.

For the promise that he should be the heire of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed through the Lawe, but through the righteousnesse of faith.

Therefore it is of faith, that it might bee by grace; to the ende the promise might be sure to all the seede, not to that onely which is of the Law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of vs all,

Neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children: but in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

1611 marginal noteGen. 21.12.

¶ I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbidde. For I also am an Israelite of the seede of Abraham, of the tribe of Beniamin.