promise

Now wee, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.

In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of trueth, the Gospel of your saluation: in whom also after that yee beleeued, yee were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

That at that time yee were without Christ, being aliens from the common wealth of Israel, and strangers from the couenants of promise, hauing no hope, & without God in the world.

That the Gentiles should be fellow heires, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ, by the Gospel:

Honour thy father and mother, (which is the first commandement with promise,)

For bodily exercise profiteth litle, but godlinesse is profitable vnto all things, hauing promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

1611 marginal noteOr, for a little time.

¶ Paul an Apostle of Iesus Christ by the will of God, according to the promise of life, which is in Christ Iesus,

¶ Let vs therefore feare, lest a promise being left vs, of entring into his rest, any of you should seeme to come short of it.

For when God made promise to Abraham, because hee could sweare by no greater, he sware by himselfe,

And so after he had patiently indured, he obtained the promise.