Vnto the congregaci&obar;s of Galacia.

Grace be with you ∧ peace from God the

father / and from oure Lorde Iesus Christ / which gave him selfe for oure synnes / to deliver vs from this present evyll worlde / thorow the will of God oure father / to whom be prayse for ever and ever. Amen.

B   I marvayle that ye are so sone turned fr&obar; him that called you in the grace of Christ / vnto another gospell: which is nothinge els / but that ther be some which trouble you / ∧ intende to pervert to gospell of Christ. Neverthelesse though we oure selves / or an angell fr&obar; hev&ebar; / preache eny other gospell vnto you th&ebar; that which we have preached vnto you / holde him as a cursed. As I sayde before / so saye I now agayne / yf eny man preache eny other thinge vnto you / then that ye have receaved / holde him accursed. Preache I mannes doctrine or Godes? Ether go I about to please men? If I stodyed to please men / I were not the servaunt of Christ.

C   &cross2; I certifie you brethren / that the gospell which was preached of me / was not after the m&abar;ner of men / nether receaved I it of m&abar; / nether was I taught it: but receaved it by the revelacion of Iesus Christ. For ye have hearde of my conversacion in tyme past / in the Iewes wayes / how that beyonde measure I persecuted the congregacion of God / ∧ spoyled it: and prevayled in the Iewes laye / above many of my companions / which were of myne awne naci&obar; / and was a moche more ferv&ebar;t mayntener of the tradicions of the elders.

But wh&ebar; it pleased God / which seperated

me from my mothers wombe / ∧ called me by his grace / forto declare his sonne by me / that I shuld preache him amonge the hethen: ^note immediatly I c&obar;mened not of the matter with flesshe and bloud / nether returned to Ierusalem to them which were Apostles before me: but w&ebar;t my wayes into Arabia / ∧ came agayne vnto Damasco. D   Then after thre yeare I returned to Ierusalem to se Peter / ∧ abode with him .xv. dayes / no nother of the Apostles sawe I / save Iames the Lordes brother. The thinges which I write / beholde / God knoweth I lye not.

After that I went into the costes of Siria ∧ Cilicia: ∧ was vnknowen as touchinge my person vnto þe; c&obar;gregaci&obar;s of Iewrye / which were in Christ. But they hearde only / that he which persecuted vs in tyme past / now preacheth the fayth which before he destroyed. And they glorified God on my behalffe. &cross3; ¶ The .ii. Chapter.

Then .xiiii. yeares after that / I w&ebar;t vp agayne to Ierusalem with Barnabas / ∧ toke with me Titus also. A   Ye and I went vp by revelacion / ∧ c&obar;mened with them of the Gospell which I preache amonge the ^note gentyls: but apart with them which were co&ubar;ted chefe / lest it shuld have bene thought þt; I shuld runne or had runne in vayne. Also Titus which was with me / though he were a Greke / yet was not compelled to be circumcised / ∧ that because of inc&obar;mers beynge falce brethren / which came in am&obar;ge other to spye

out oure libertie which we have in Christ Iesus / that they might bringe vs into bondage. ^noteTo whom we gave no roume / no not for the space of an houre / as c&obar;cerninge to be brought into subiecci&obar;: ∧ that because that the trueth of the gospell myght continue with you.

B   Of th&ebar; which seme to be great (what they were in tyme passed it maketh no matter to me: God loketh on no mans person) neverthelesse they which seme great / added nothynge to me. But contrary wyse / when they sawe that the gospell over the vncircumcision was c&obar;mitted vnto me / as the gospell over þe; ^note circ&ubar;cision was vnto Peter: for he þt; was myghty in Peter in the Apostleshippe over the circumcision / the same was myghty in me am&obar;ge the gentyls: and therfore when they perceaved the grace that was gev&ebar; vnto me / then Iames / Cephas ∧ Iohn / which semed to be pilers / gave to me ∧ Barnabas the ryght hondes / ∧ agreed with vs / that we shuld preache amonge the Hethen / and they amonge the Iewes: warnynge only that we shulde remember the poore. Which thinge also I was diligent to do.

C   And when Peter was come to Antioche / I withstode him in the face / ^note for he was worthy to be blamed. For yerr that certayne came fr&obar; Iames / he ate with the gentyls. But when they were come / he withdrue ∧ separated him selfe / fearinge them which were of þe; circumcision. And þe; other Iewes dissembled lyke wyse / in so moche that Barnabas was

brought into their simulaci&obar; also. But when I sawe / that they went not the ryght waye after the trueth of the gospell / I sayde vnto Peter before all men / yf thou beynge a Iewe / livest after the m&abar;ner of the gentyls / ∧ not as do the Iewes: why causest thou the g&ebar;tyls to live as do the Iewes? We which are Iewes by nature / D   ∧ not synners of the g&ebar;tyls / knowe that a man is not iustified by þe; ^note dedes of the lowe: but by the fayth of Iesus Christ. And therfore we have beleved on Iesus Christ / þt; we myght be iustified by þe; fayth of Christ / ∧ uot by the dedes of the lawe: because that by þe; dedes of þe; lawe no flesshe shalbe iustified.

Yf then whill we seke to be made rightewes by Christ / we oure selves are founde synners / is not then Christ þe; minister of synne? God forbyd. For yf I bylde agayne þt; which I destroyed. then make I my selfe a treaspaser. But I thorow þe; lawe ame deed to þe; lawe: that I myght live vnto God. I am crucified with Christ. I live verely: yet now not I / but Christ liveth in me. For þe; lyfe which I now live in þe; flesshe / I live by the fayth of þe; sonne of God / which loved me / and gave him selne for me. I despyse not the grace of God. For if rightewesnes come of the lawe / then Christ dyed in vayne. ¶ The .iii. Chapter.

A   O folisshe Galathy&abar;s: who hath bewitched you / that ye shuld not beleve the trueth? To whom Iesus Christ was described before the eyes / ∧ am&obar;ge you crucified. This only wolde I learne of you: receaved

ye the sprete by the dedes of þe; lawe / or els by preachinge of þe; faith? Are ye so vnwyse / that after ye have begonne in the sprete / ye wolde nowe ende in the flesshe? So many thinges there ye have suffred in vayne / if þt; be vayne. ^noteWhich ministered to you the sprete / and worketh myracles amonge you / doth he it thorow the dedes of the lawe / or by preachinge of the fayth? Even as Abraham beleved God / and it was asscribed to him for rightewesnes. Vnderstonde therfore / þt; they which are of fayth / the same are the chyldren of Abraham.

B   For the seripture sawe afore honde / þt; God wolde iustifie the hethen thorow fayth / and therfore shewed before honde glad tydinges ^note vnto Abraham: In the shall all nacions be blessed. So then they which be of fayth / are blessed with faythfull Abraham. For as many as are vnder the dedes of the lawe / are vnder maledicci&obar;. For it is written: cursed is every man þt; c&obar;tinueth not in all thing&es; which are writt&ebar; in þe; boke of þe; lawe / to fulfill th&ebar;. That no m&abar; is iustified by þe; lawe in þe; sight of God / is evid&ebar;t. For the iuste shall live by fayth. The lawe is not of fayth: but the man that fulfilleth the thinges contayned in the lawe (shall live in th&ebar;.) But Christ hath delivered vs fr&obar; the curse of the lawe / ∧ was made a ^note cursed for vs. For it is writt&ebar;: cursed is every one that hangeth on tree / that the blessynge of Abraham might come on the g&ebar;tyls thorow Iesus Christ / and that we might receave the promes of the sprete thorow fayth.

C   Brethren I will speake after the m&abar;ner of men. Though it be but a mans testament / yet no m&abar; despiseth it / or addeth eny thinge therto when it is once alowed. &cross2; To Abraham ∧ his seed were the promises made. He sayth not / in the seedes as in many: but in thy sede / as in one / which is Christ. This I saye / that the lawe which beganne afterwarde / beyonde .iiii.C ∧ .xxx. yeares / doth not disanull the testament / that was confermed afore of God vnto Christ ward / to make the promes of none effect. For yf the inheritaunce come of the lawe / it c&obar;meth not of promes. But God gave it vnto Abraham by promes.

Wherfore then serveth þe; lawe? ^noteThe lawe was added because of transgression (tyll the seed cam to which þe; promes was made) ∧ it was ordeyned by angels in þe; honde of a mediator. A mediator is not a mediator of one. But God is one. Ys the lawe then agaynst þe; promes of God? God forbid. D   How be it yf ther had bene a lawe gev&ebar; which coulde have geven lyfe: then no doute rightewesnes shuld have come by þe; lawe. ^noteBut þe; scripture concluded all thinges vnder synne / þt; the promes by the fayth of Iesus Christ shuld be gev&ebar; vnto them þt; beleve. &cross3; Before þt; fayth cam / we were kept and shut vp vnder the lawe / vnto the fayth which shuld afterwarde be declared.

Wherfore the lawe was oure scolemaster vnto the tyme of Christ / þt; we might be made rightewes by fayth. But after þt; fayth is come / now are we no lenger vnder a scolemaster.

For ye are all the ^note sonnes of God / by þe; fayth which is in Christ Iesus. For all ye that are baptised / have put on Christ. Now is ther no Iewe nether g&ebar;tyle: ther is nether bonde ner fre: ther is nether man ner woman: but ye are all one thinge in Christ Iesu. Yf ye be Christes / then are ye Abrahams seed / and heyres by promes. ¶ The .iiii. Chapter. &cross2;

A   And I saye that the heyre as longe as he is a chylde / differth not from a servaunt / though he be Lorde of all / but is vnder tuters and governers / vntill the tyme appoynted of the father. Even so we / as longe as we were chyldren / were in bondage vnder the ordinaunces of the worlde. But when the tyme was full come / God sent his sonne borne of a woman ∧ made bonde vnto þe; lawe / to redeme th&ebar; which were vnder the lawe: þt; we thorow eleccion myght receave the inherita&ubar;ce þt; belongeth vnto the naturall sonnes. Be cause ye are sonnes / God hath sent the sprete of his sonne in to oure hert&es; / which cryeth Abba father. Wherfore now / thou art not a servaunt / but a sonne. B   Yf thou be þe; sonne / thou arte also the heyre of God thorow Christ. &cross3;

Notwithstondinge / wh&ebar; ye knewe not God / ye dyd service vnto them / which by nature were no goddes. But now seinge ye knowe god (yee rather are know&ebar; of God) how is it that ye tourne agayne vnto the weake and bedgarly cerimonies / ^note whervnto agayne ye desyre afresshe to be in bondage? Ye observe dayes / ∧ monethes / and tymes / and yeares. I am in

feare of you / lest I have bestowed on you laboure in vayne.

Brethern I besech you / be ye as I am: for I am as ye are. Ye have not hurte me at all. ^noteYe knowe / how thorow infirmite of the flesshe / I preached the gospell vnto you at the fyrst. And my temptacion which I suffered by reason of my flesshe / ye despysed not / nether abhorred: but receaved me as an angell of god: ye as Christ Iesus. How happy were ye then? for I beare you recorde that yf it had bene possible / ye wolde have plucked out youre awne eyes / and have geven them to me. Am I therfore become youre enemie / because I tell you the truth?

C   They are gelous over you amysse. Ye / they int&ebar;de to exclude you / that ye shuld be feru&ebar;t to them warde. It is good alwayes to be fervent / so it be in a good thinge / and not only wh&ebar; I am present with you.

My littel children (of whom I travayle in birth againe vntill Christ be fassioned in you) I wolde I were with you now / ∧ coulde chaunge my voyce: for I stonde in a doute of you

Tell me ye that desyre to be vnder the lawe have ye not hearde of the lawe? &cross2; For it is written that Abraham had two sonnes / þe; one by a bonde mayde / the other by a fre woman. Yee and he which was of the bonde woman was borne after the flesshe: ^note but he which was of the fre woman / was borne by promes. Which thinges betoken mystery. For these wemen are two testamentes / the one fr&obar;

the mounte Sina / which gendreth vnto bondage / which is Agar. For mounte Sina is called Agar in Arabia / and bordreth vp&obar; the citie which is now Ierusalem / and is in bondage with her chyldren.

D   But Ierusalem / which is above / is fre: which is the mother of vs all. For it is written: reioyce thou bar&ebar; / that bearest no chyldr&ebar;: breake forthe ∧ crye / ^note thou that travelest not. For the desolate hath many moo chyldren then she which hath an husband. ^noteBrethr&ebar; we are after the maner of Isaac / chyldren of promes. But as then he þt; was borne carnally / persecuted him that was borne spiritually. Even so is it now. Neverthelesse what sayth the scripture: put awaye the bonde woman ∧ her sonne. ^noteFor the sonne of the bonde wom&abar; shall not be heyre with the sonne of þe; fre woman. So then brethren we are not chyldr&ebar; of the bonde woman: but of the fre woman. &cross3; ¶ The .v. Chapter.

A   Stond fast therfore in þe; libertie wher with Christ hath made vs fre / ∧ wrappe not youre selves agayne in þe; yoke ^note of bondage. Beholde I Paul saye vnto you / that yf ye be circumcised / Christ shall proffit you nothinge at all. I testifie agayne to every man which is circumcised that he is bounde to kepe the whole lawe. Ye are gone quyte fr&obar; Christ as many as are iustified by the lawe / ∧ are fallen from grace. We loke for ∧ hope in the sprite / to be iustified thorow fayth. For in Iesu Christ / nether is circumcision enythinge

worth / nether yet vncirc&obar;cision / but ^note faith which by love is mighty in operacion. Ye did runne well: who was a let vnto you / that ye shuld not obey the trueth? B   Ev&ebar; that counsell that is not of him that called you. A lytell leven doth leven the whole lompe of dowe.

&cross2; I have trust towarde you in the Lorde / þt; ye wyll be none other wyse mynded. He that troubleth you shall beare his iudgem&ebar;t / what soever he be. ^noteBrethren yf I yet preache circ&ubar;cision: why do I then yet suffre persecucion? For then had the offence which the crosse geveth / ceased. I wolde to God they were seperated from you which trouble you. Brethr&ebar; ye were called in to (libertie) only let not youre libertie be an occasion vnto the flesshe / but in love serve one another. ^noteFor all þe; lawe is fulfilled in one worde / which is this: thou shalt love thyne neghbour as thy selfe. Yf ye byte ∧ devoure one another: C   take hede lest ye be consumed one of another.

^note&cross2; I saye walke in the sprete / ∧ fulfill not þe; lustes of þe; flesshe. For þe; flesshe lusteth contrary to þe; sprete / ∧ þe; sprete c&obar;trary to þe; flesshe. Tese are c&obar;trary one to the other / so þt; ye c&abar;not do that which ye wolde. ^noteBut ∧ yf ye be ledde of the sprete / then are ye not vnder the lawe. The dedes of the flesshe are manyfest / whiche are these / advoutrie / fornicaci&obar; / vncl&ebar;nes / wantannes / ydolatrye / witchecraft / hatred / variaunce / zele / wrath / stryfe / sedicion / sectes / D   envyinge / murther / dronk&ebar;nes / glottony / and soche lyke: of the which I tell you before

as I have tolde you in tyme past / that they which c&obar;mit soche thing&es; / shall not inherite / þe; kyngdome of God. But ^note þe; frute of sprete is / loue / ioye / peace / longesufferinge / g&ebar;tlenes goodnes / faythfulnes / meknes / temperancye. Agaynst suche ther is no lawe. They þe; are Christis / have crucified the flesshe with the appetites and lustes &cross3; &cross2; Yf we lyve in the sprete / let vs walke in the sprete. Let vs not be vayne glorious / provokinge one another / ∧ envyinge one another. ¶ The .vi. Chapter.

A   Brethren / yf eny m&abar; be fallen by cha&ubar;ce into eny faute: ye which are spirituall helpe to amende him / ^note in the sprete of meknes: consyderynge thy silfe / lest thou also be tempted. Beare ye one anothers burth&ebar; and so fulfill the lawe of Christ. If eny m&abar; seme to him silfe that he is somwhat wh&ebar; in dede he is nothynge / the same deceaveth hym silfe in his ymaginacion. Let every man prove his awne worke / and then shall he have reioysinge in his awne silfe / ^note and not in another For every man shall beare his awne burthen.

Let him that is taught in þe; worde minister vnto him þt; teacheth him in all good thing&es;. Be not ^note deceaved / God is not mocked. For what soever a man soweth / B   þt; shall he reepe. He that soweth in his flesshe / shall of þe; flesshe reepe corrupci&obar;. But he þt; soweth in þe; sprete / shall of the sprete reepe lyfe everlastinge. Let vs not be wery of well doynge. For when the tyme is come / ^note we shall repe with out werines.

Whill we have therfore tyme / let vs do good vnto all men / and specially vnto them which are of the housholde of fayth. &cross3;

C   Beholde how large a letter I have written vnto you with myne awne honde. As many as desyre with vtwarde appera&ubar;ce to please carnally / they constrayne you to be circumcised / only be cause they wolde not suffre persecucion with the crosse of Christ. For they them selves which are circumcised / kepe not the lawe: but desyre to have you circumcised / that they myght reioyce in youre flesshe.

God forbyd that I shuld reioyce but in the crosse of oure Lorde Iesu Christ / wherby the worlde is crucified as touchinge me / and I as concerninge the worlde. For in Christ Iesu nether circ&ubar;cision avayleth eny thinge at all nor vncircumcisi&obar;: but a ^note new creature. And as many as walke accordinge to this rule / peace be on them / and mercy / and vpon Israel that pertayneth to God. From hence forth / D   let no man put me to busynes. For I beare in my bodye þe; markes of the Lorde Iesu. Brethren the grace of oure Lorde Iesu Christe be with youre sprete. Amen. ¶ Vnto the Galathyans written from Rome.

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