Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. IX.
To them that so vaunted their libertie about Idolothyta, he bringeth his ovvne example,
to vvit, that he also had libertie to liue by the Gospel, but yet that he vsed it not,
so to auoid scandal of the infirme, and because it vvas more meritorious.
24 Declaiming against their securitie, and shevving them by similitudes and
examples, 24 both of him self, 1 And of the Israelites, that saluation is not so
lightly come by: 14 and so concludeth againe against eating of Idolothyta,
because it is also to commit idolatrie, 22 and not onely to giue il example to the
infirme.
1 Am I not free? Am I not an Apostle? Haue I not
seen Christ Iesvs our Lord? Are not you
09Q1089my vvorke in our Lord?
2 And if to others
I be not an Apostle, but yet to you I am. for
you are the seale of my Apostleship in our
Lord.
3 my defense to them that examine me is this:
4 Haue
not vve povver to eate and drinke?
5 Haue vve not povver
to lead about09Q1090a vvoman a sister, as also the rest of the Apostles,
and our Lordes brethren, and note Cephas?
6 Or I only
and Barnabas haue not vve povver to doe this?
7 09Q1091Vvho
euer plaieth the souldiar at his ovvne charges? Vvho planteth
a vine, and eateth not of the fruite thereof? Vvho feedeth
a flocke, and eateth not of the milke of the flocke?
8 Speake I these things according to man? Or doth not the
Lavv also say these things?
9 For it is vvritten in the Lavv
of Moyses, Thou shalt not moosel the mouth of the oxe that note treadeth out the
corne. note Vvhy, hath God care of oxen?
10 Or for vs certes doth
he say it? For they are vvritten for vs because he that eareth,
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ought to eare in hope: and he that treadeth, in hope to receiue
fruite.
11 If vve haue sovven vnto you spiritual things,
is it a great matter if vve reape your carnal things?
12 If other
be partakers of your povver: vvhy not vve rather? Hovvbeit
vve haue not vsed, this povver: but vve beare al things,
lest vve should giue any offence to the Gospel of Christ.
13 Knovv you not note that they which vvorke in the holy place,
eate the things that are of the holy place: and they that serue
note note the altar, participat with the altar?
14 So also our Lord ordained
for them that preach the Gospel, to liue of the Gospel.
15 But I haue vsed none of these. Neither haue I vvritten
these things, that they should be so done in me: for it is
good for me to die rather, then that any man should make
my glorie void.
16 For and09Q1092if I euangelize, it is no glorie
to me: for necessitie lieth vpon me: for vvoe is to me if I
euangelize not.
17 For if I doe this vvillingly, I haue revvard:
but if against my vvil, a charge is committed to me.
18 Vvhat is my revvard then? That preaching the Gospel, I
yeld the Gospel vvithout cost, that I abuse not my povver in
the Gospel.
19 For vvhereas I vvas free of al, I made my self
the seruant of al: that I might gaine the moe.
20 And I became
to the Ievves as a Ievv, that I might gaine the Ievves.
21 to them that are vnder the Lavv, as though I vvere vnder
the Lavv (vvhereas my self vvas not vnder the Lavv) that I
might gaine them that vvere vnder the Lavv. to them that
vvere vvithout the Lavv, as though I vvere vvithout the
Lavv (vvhereas I vvas not vvithout the lavv of God, but
vvas in the lavv of Christ) that I might gaine them that
vvere vvithout the Lavv.
22 To the vveake I became weake,
that I might gaine the weake. To al men note I became al things,
that I might saue al.
23 And I doe al things for the Gospel,
09Q1093that I may be made partaker thereof.
24 Knovv you not that they that runne in the race, al r&ubar;ne
in deede, but one receiueth the price? note 09Q1094So runne that you
may obteine
25 And euery one that striueth for the maistrie,
refraineth him self from al things: and they certes, that they
may receiue a corruptible crovvne: but vve an incorruptible.
26 I therfore so runne, not as it vvere at an vncertaine thing:
so I fight, not as it vvere beating the aire:
27 but09Q1095I chastise my
body, and bring it into seruitude,09Q1096lest perhaps vvhen I haue
preached to others, my self become reprobate.
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Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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