Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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CAP. IV.
What therfore schulen we seye,
1 `oure
fadir Abraham for `to haue founden
vp `the fleysch?
2 Forsoth if Abraham be
iustified of the workis of lawe, he hath
glorie, but not anentis God.
3 `What sothli
seith the scripture? Abraham bileuede
to God, and it is rettid to him to ri&yogh;twysnesse.
Forsoth to him that worchith
4
mede is not `&yogh;ouun to, `or rettid, vp
grace, but vp dette.
5 But to hym that
worchith not, forsoth bileuynge into him
that iustifyeth the wickid man, `or vnpitous,
his feith is rettid to ri&yogh;twysnesse,
vp the purposinge of Goddis grace.
6 As
and Dauid seith the blessidnesse of a
man, to whom God acceptith ri&yogh;twysnesse
withoute werkis `of the lawe,
Blessid thei,
7 whos wickidnessis ben for&yogh;ouun,
and whos synnes ben keuered, `or
hid.
8 Blessid that man, to whom God
rettide not synne.
9 Therfore this blessidnesse
dwellith oonly in circumcisioun, or
also in prepucie, `or staat of hethene men?
Forsothe we seyn, for the feith is rettid
to Abraham to ri&yogh;twysnesse.
10 Hou therfore
is it rettid? in circumcisioun, or in
prepucie? Not in circumcisioun, but in prepucie.
And he took a signe of circumcisioun,
11
a markynge, `or tokenynge, of
ri&yogh;twysnesse of feith that is in prepucie,
that he be fadir of alle men bileuynge
by prepucie, that it be rettid and to hem
to ri&yogh;twysnesse;
12 and that he be fadir of
circumcisioun, not oonly to hem that ben
of circumcisioun, but and to hem that
suen his steppis `of the feith `of our
fadir Abraham, that is in prepucie.
13 Forsothe
not by the lawe is biheeste to
Abraham, or to his seed, that he be the
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eyr of the world, but bi the ri&yogh;twysnesse
of feith.
14 Sothli if thei that ben of the
lawe, ben eyris, feith is anentyschid, `or
distroyed, biheeste is don awey.
15 Forsoth
the lawe worchith wraththe; sothli wher
the lawe is not, nethir is preuaricacioun,
`or trespassinge.
16 Therfore of the feith,
that vp grace biheeste be stable, `or stedefast,
to ech seed, not to that seed oonly
that is of the lawe, but to that that is of
the feith of Abraham, the which is fadir
of vs alle.
17 As it is writun, For I haue
sett thee fadir of manye folkis, bifore God
to whom thou hast bileuyd. The which
God quykeneth deede men, and clepith
tho thingis that ben not, as tho that ben.
The which Abraham a&yogh;ens hope bileuede
18
in to hope, that he schulde be maad
fadir of manye folkis, vp that it is seid
to hym, Thus schal thi seed be, as
sterris of heuene, and as grauel, `or
sond, that is in the brynke of the see.
And he is not maad vnstedefast in the
19
bileue, nethir he biheld his body now
ny&yogh; deed, whanne he was almoost of an
hundrid &yogh;eer, and the wombe of Sare ny&yogh;
deed.
20 Also in the byheeste of God he
doutide not with vntrust; but he is comfortid
in bileue, &yogh;yuynge glorie to God,
witinge moost fully for what euere
21
thingis God hath bihi&yogh;t, he is my&yogh;ti and
for to do.
22 Therfore it is rettid to him
to ri&yogh;twysnesse.
23 Forsothe it is not writun
oonly for hym, for it is rettid to him to
ri&yogh;twysnesse,
24 but and for vs, to which it
schal be rettid, beleuynge in to hym that
reyside oure Lord Jhesu Crist fro deede
spiritis.
25 The which is bitakun for
oure synnes, and roos a&yogh;en for oure iustifyinge.
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Wycliffe (Early) [1850], THE HOLY BIBLE, CONTAINING THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, WITH THE APOCRYPHAL BOOKS, IN THE EARLIEST ENGLISH VERSIONS MADE FROM THE LATIN VULGATE BY JOHN WYCLIFFE AND HIS FOLLOWERS: Edited by THE REV. JOSIAH FORSHALL, F.R.S. etc. Late Fellow of Exeter College, and SIR FREDERIC MADDEN, K.H. F.R.S. etc. Keeper of the MSS. in the British Museum (OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD) [word count] [B02010].
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