1   I Say then: Hath god reiected his people? God forbid. for I also am an Israelite, of the seede of Abraham, of the tribe of Ben-iamin.

2   God hath not reiected his people vvhich he foreknevve. Or knovv you not in Elias vvhat the Scripture saith: hovv he requesteth God against Israël?

3   Lord, they haue slaine thy Prophets, they haue digged dovvne thine altares: and I am left alone, and they seeke my life. ^note

4   But vvhat saith the diuine

ansvver vnto him? I haue left me seuen09Q1019 thousand men, that haue not bovved their knees to ^note Baal?

5   So therfore at this time also, there are remaines saued according to the election of grace.

6   And if by grace:09Q1020 not novv of vvorkes. othervvise grace novv is not grace.

7   Vvhat then? that vvhich Israel sought, the same he hath not obtained: but the election hath obtained: and the rest vvere blinded.

8   as it is vvritten:09Q1021 God hath giuen them the spirit of compunction: eies, that they may not see: and eares, that they may not heare: vntil this present day. ^note

9   And Dauid saith: Be their table made for a snare and for a trappe and for a scandal and for a retribution vnto them. ^note

10   Be their eies darkened, that they may not see: and their backe make thou alvvaies crooked.

11   I say then, haue they so stombled, ^note that they should fall? God forbid. but by their offence, saluation is to the Gentils, that they may emulate them.

12   And if the offence of them be the riches of the vvorld, and the diminution of them ^note the riches of the Gentils: hovv much more the fulnesse of them?

13   For to you Gentils I say, as long verely as I am the Apostle of the Gentils, I vvil honour my ministerie,

14   if by any meanes I may prouoke my flesh to emulation, and may saue some of them.

15   For if the losse of them be the reconciliation of the vvorld: vvhat shal the receiuing be, but life from the dead?

16   And if the first fruite be holy, the masse also: and if the roote be holy, the boughes also.

17   And if some of the boughes be broken, and thou vvhereas thou vvast a vvilde oliue, art graffed in them, and art made partaker of the roote and of the fatnesse of the oliue,

18   glorie not against the boughes. And if thou glorie: not thou bearest the roote, but the roote thee.

19   Thou saiest then: The boughes vvere broken, that I might be graffed in.

20   Vvel:09Q1022 because of incredulitie they vvere broken, but thou by faith doest stand: be not to highly vvise, but ^note feare.

21   For if God hath not spared the natural boughes: lest perhaps he vvil not spare thee neither.

22   See then the goodnes and the seueritie of God: vp&obar; them surely that are fallen, the seueritie: but vpon thee the goodnes of God, if thou abide in his goodnesse, othervvise thou also shalt be cut of.

23   But they also, if they do not abide in incredulitie, shal be graffed in. for God is able to graffe them in againe.

24   For if thou vvast cut out of the natural vvild oliue, and contrarie to nature vvast graffed into the good oliue: hovv much more they that are according to

nature, shal be graffed into their ovvne oliue?

25   For I vvil not haue you ignorant, brethren, of this mysterie (that you be not vvise in your selues) that blindnes in part hath chaunced in Israël, vntil the fulnes of the Gentiles might enter:

26   and so al Israël might be saued, as it is vvritten: There shal come out of Sion, he that shal deliuer, and shal auert impietie from Iacob. ^note

27   And this to them the testament from me: vvhen I shal haue taken avvay their sinnes.

28   09Q1023According to the Gospel in deede enemies for you: but according to the election, most deere for the fathers.

29   for vvithout repentance are the giftes and the vocation of God.

30   for09Q1024 as you also sometime did not beleeue God, but novv haue obteined mercie because of their incredulitie:

31   so these also novv haue not beleeued, for your mercie, that they also may obteine mercie.

32   For God hath 09Q1025 c&obar;cluded al into incredulitie, that he may haue mercie on al.

33   09Q1026O depth of the riches of the vvisedom and of the knowledge of God: hovv incomprehensible are his iudgements, and his vvaies vnsearcheable? ^note

34   for ^note vvho hath knovven the minde of our Lord? or vvho hath been his co&ubar;seler?

35   Or vvho hath first giuen to him, and retribution shal be made him?

36   For of him, and by him, and in him are al things: to him be glorie for euer. Amen. &cross4;

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