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¶ What aduantage then hath the Iew? or what profit is there of Circumcision?

For what if some did not beleeue? shall their vnbeliefe make the faith of God without effect?

But if our vnrighteousnesse commend the righteousnesse of God, what shall we say? is God vnrighteous who taketh vengeance? (I speake as a man)

What then? are wee better then they? No in no wise: for we haue before proued both Iewes, and Gentiles, that they are all vnder sinne,

1611 marginal noteGr. charged.

Now we know that what things soeuer the Law saith, it saith to them who are vnder the Law: that euery mouth may bee stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

1611 marginal noteOr, subiect to the iudgement of God.

Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what Law? Of works? Nay: but by the Law of faith.

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

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

And being fully perswaded, that what he had promised, he was able also to performe.

¶ What shall we say then? shall wee continue in sinne: that grace may abound?