UVhat preferment then hath the Iewe? other what a vauntageth circumcision? A    Surely very moche. Fyrst vnto them was committed the worde of God What then though some of them did not beleve? shall their vnbeleve make the promes of god with out effecte? God forbid. Let god be true / and all men lyars / as it is written: ^note That thou myghtest be iustifyed in thy sayinge and shuldest overcome when thou arte iudged.

Yf oure vnrightewesnes make the rightewesnes of God more excellent: what shall we saye? B   Is God vnrighteous which taketh vengea&ubar;ce? I speake after the maner of m&ebar;. God forbid. For how then shall God iudge the worlde? Yf the veritie of God appere moare excellent thorow my lye / vnto his prayse / why am I hence forth iudged as a synner? ∧ saye not rather (as men evyll speake of vs / and as some affirme that we saye) let vs do evyll / that good maye come therof. Whose damnacion is iuste.

What saye we then? Are we better then they? No / in no wyse. For we have all ready proved how that both Iewes ∧ Gentils are all vnder synne / as it is writt&ebar;: There is none righteous / ^note no not one: There is none that vnderstondith / there is none þt; seketh after God / C    they are all gone out of þe; waye / they are all made vnprofytable / ther is none that doeth good / no not one. Their throte is an open sepulchre / with their tounges they have disceaved: the poyson of Aspes is vnder their lippes. Whose mouthes are full of coursynge ∧ bitternes. Their fete are swyfte to sheed bloud. Destruccion ∧ wretchednes are in their wayes. And the waye of peace they have not knowen. There is no feare of God before their eyes.

&cross2; Ye and we knowe that whatsoever þe; lawe sayth / he sayth it to them which are vnder the lawe. That all mouthes maye be stopped and all the worlde be subdued to god / ^note because

that by þe; dedes of the ^note lawe / shall no flesshe be iustified in the sight of God. For by the lawe commeth the knowledge of synne.

D   Now verely is þe; rigtewesnes that c&obar;meth of God declared without the fulfillinge of þe; lawe / havinge witnes yet of þe; lawe ∧ of the Prophet&es;. The rightewesnes no dout which is good before God / ^note c&obar;meth by þe; fayth of Iesus Christ / vnto all ∧ vpon all that beleve.

Ther is no differ&ebar;ce: for all have synned / ∧ lacke the prayse þt; is of valoure before God: but are iustified frely by his grace / through the redemcion that is in Christ Iesu / whom God hath made a seate of mercy thorow faith in his bloud / to shewe þe; rightewesnes which before him is of valoure / in þt; he forgeveth þe; synnes þt; are passed / which God dyd suffre to shewe at this tyme / þe; rightewesnes þt; is alowed of him / þt; he myght be co&ubar;ted iuste / ∧ a iustifiar of him which belevith on Iesus. &cross3;

Where is then thy reioysinge? It is excluded. By what lawe? by þe; lawe of workes? Naye: but by the lawe of fayth.

For we suppose that a man is iustified by fayth without the dedes of þe; lawe. ^noteIs he the God of the Iewes only? Is he not also the God of the Gentyls? Yes / ev&ebar; of the Gentyles also. For it is God only which iustifieth circumcision which is of fayth / ∧ vncircumcision thorow fayth. Do we then destroye the lawe thorow fayth? God forbid. But we rather ^note mayntayne the lawe.

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