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. IX.
I seye treuthe in Crist Jhesu,
1 I lye not,
my conscience beringe witnessyng to me
in the Hooly Goost,
2 for greet heuynesse is
to me, and continuel sorwe to myn herte.
Forsothe I my silf desyride for to be
3
cursid, `or departid, fro Crist for my
bretheren, that ben my cosyns aftir the
fleisch,
4 that ben Israelytis, `or of Israel;
whos is adopcioun of sones, and glorie,
and testament, and &yogh;yuynge of lawe, and
seruyse,
5 and biheestis; whos ben the fadris,
and of whom Crist aftir the fleisch,
that is God aboue alle thingis, blessid in
to worldis.
6 Amen. Sothli not that the
word of God hath falle doun, `or failide
vnfulfillid. Sothli not alle that ben of
-- --
Israel, thes ben Israelitis, `or sones of Jacob.
Nether thei that ben seed of Abraham,
7
alle ben sones; but in Ysaac seed
schal be clepid to thee;
8 that is to seye, not
thei that ben sones of the fleish, ben
sones of God, but thei that ben sones of
biheeste ben demyd in seed `of biheeste.
Sothli this is the word of biheeste,
9 Vp
this tyme I schal come, and a sone schal
be to Sare.
10 Forsoth not oonly she, but
and Rebecca, of o `liggynge by hauynge
tweye sones of Ysaac, oure fadir.
11 Sothli
whanne thei weren not &yogh;it born, ether
hadden don ony thing of good or yuel,
that the purpos of God schulde dwelle vp
the eleccioun,
12 not of workis, but of God
clepinge,
13 it is seid to him, For the more
schal serue to the lasse, as it is writun,
I louede Jacob, forsothe `Esau I hadde in
hate.
14 What therfore schulen we seie?
Wher wickidnesse be anentis God? Fer be
it.
15 Forsoth he seith to Moyses, I schal
haue mercy to whom I schal haue mercy;
and I schal &yogh;yue mercy to whom I
schal haue mercy.
16 Therfore it is not nether
of man willinge, nether rennynge,
but of God hauynge mercy.
17 Forsothe the
scripture seith to Pharao, For in to this
thing I haue stirid thee, that I schewe in
thee my vertu, and that my name be told
in al erthe.
18 Therfore of whom God
wole, he hath mercy; and whom he wole,
he endurith, `or hardeneth.
19 `And so
thou seist to me, What thing is &yogh;it sou&yogh;t?
sothli who withstondith his will?
20 Aa!
man, who art thou, `the which answerist
to God? Wher a pott, `or a maad
thing, seith to him that made it, What
hast thou maad me so?
21 Wher a pottere
of cley hath not power of the same gobet
-- --
for to make sothli o vessel in to honour,
anothir forsothe in to dispyt, `or low&yogh; office?
That if God willinge for to schewe
22
wraththe, and for to make power
knowun, susteynede in greet pacience the
vessels of wraththe able in to perdicioun,
`or dampnacioun,
23 that he schulde schewe
the richessis of his glorie in to vesselis of
mercy, `the whiche he made redy in to
glorie.
24 `And whiche he clepide not oonli
of Jewis,
25 but also of hethen men, as he
seith in Osee, I schal clepe not my peple
my peple, and not my loued my loued,
and not hauynge mercy hauynge mercy;
and it schal be in place,
26 wher it is seid,
Not &yogh;e my peple, there thei schulen be
clepid the sones of God lyuynge.
27 Forsoth
Ysai cryeth for Israel, If the noumbre of
Israel shal be as the grauel of the see,
the relifs schulen be maad saf.
28 Forsoth
a word endinge, and abreggynge in
equyte, for the Lord schal make a word
breggid, `or maad short, vpon al erthe.
And as Ysaie bifore seide,
29 `No but God
hadde left to vs seed, we hadden ben maad
as Sodom, and we hadden ben lyk as Gomor.
Therfore what schulen we seye?
30
That hethene men that sueden not ri&yogh;twysnesse,
han kau&yogh;t ri&yogh;twysnesse, sothli
the ri&yogh;twysnesse that is of feith.
31 Forsoth
Israel suynge the lawe of ri&yogh;twisnesse, cam
not parfytli in to the lawe of ri&yogh;twysnesse.
Whi?
32 For not of feith, but as of workis.
Sothli thei offendiden `in to the stoon of
offencioun,
33 `or spurnynge, as it is writun,
Lo! I putte a stoon of offencioun in Syon,
and a stoon of sclaundre; and ech that
schal bileue in to it, schal not be confoundid,
`or schent.
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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