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For if thou wert cut out of the Oliue tree which is wilde by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good Oliue tree: how much more shall these which be the naturall branches, bee graffed into their owne Oliue tree?

Euen so haue these also now not beleeued, that through your mercy they also may obtaine mercy.

1611 marginal noteOr, obeyed.

For hee that in these things serueth Christ, is acceptable to God, and approued of men.

But now hauing no more place in these parts, and hauing a great desire these many yeeres to come vnto you:

And these things, brethren, I haue in a figure transferred to my selfe, and to Apollo, for your sakes: that ye might learne in vs not to thinke of men, aboue that which is written, that no one of you bee puffed vp for one against another.

I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloued sonnes I warne you.

Say I these things as a man? or saith not the Law the same also?

But I haue vsed none of these things. Neither haue I written these things, that it should bee so done vnto me: for it were better for me to die, then that any man should make my glorying voyd.

Now these things were our examples, to the intent wee should not lust after euil things, as they also lusted.

1611 marginal noteGr. our figures.

Now all these things happened vnto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, vpon whom the ends of the world are come.

1611 marginal noteOr, Types.