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¶ 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?

What then? shal we sinne, because wee are not vnder the Law, but vnder Grace? God forbid.

What fruit had yee then in those things, whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

What shall wee say then? is the law sinne? God forbid. Nay, I had not knowen sinne, but by the lawe: for I had not knowen lust, except the Law had said, Thou shalt not couet.

1611 marginal noteOr, concupiscence.

For that which I do, I allow not: for what I would, that do I not, but what I hate, that doe I.

1611 marginal noteGr. know.

For what the law could not doe, in that it was weake through the flesh, God sending his owne Sonne, in the likenesse of sinnefull flesh, and for sinne condemned sinne in the flesh:

1611 marginal noteOr, by a sacrifice for sin.

For wee are saued by hope: but hope that is seene, is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?