Matthew(i)
1 I say the trueth in Christe and lye not, in that where of my conscience beareth me wytnes in the holy goste,
2 that I haue great heauines and continuall sorowe in my hert.
3 For I haue wyshed my selfe to be cursed from Christ, for my brethren and my kynsmen (as pertaynynge to the fleshe)
4 whiche are the Israelites. To whom pertayneth the adoption, and the glory, and the couenauntes, & the lawe that was geuen, & the seruice of God, & the promises:
5 whose also are the fathers & they of whom (as concerninge the flesh) Christe came, whiche is God ouer al thynges blessed for euer. Amen.
6 I speake not these thinges as though the wordes of God had taken none effect. For they are not al Israelites whiche came of Israell,
7 neither are they al chyldren strayght way, because they are the seede of Abraham. But in Isaac shall thy seede be called:
8 that is to saye, they whiche are the chyldren of the fleshe, are not the chyldren of God. But the chyldren of promise are counted the seede.
9 For this is a worde of promyse, aboute this tyme wyll I come, and Sara shall haue a sonne.
10 Neither was it so with her onely: but also when Rebecca was wyth childe by one, I meane by oure father Isaac,
11 yer the children were borne, when they had neither done good nor bad: that the purpose of God whiche is by election, might stand, it was sayed vnto her, not by the reason of workes, but by grace of the caller: