For Paul saith Roma. iiij. if Abraham
haue workes / he hath wherof to reioce / but not before
god. For if Abraham had receaued
those promises of deseruynge / then had it bene
Abrahams prayse
and not gods / as thou maist se in the texte: nether had god
shewed Abraham mercy and grace / but had only geuen him his
dutie and deseruinge. But in that Abraham receaued all the
mercie that was shewed him / frely thorow fayth / out of the
deseruinges of the seed that was promised him / as thou
maist se by Genesis and by the gospell
of Ihon / where Christ testifieth that Abraham
saw his daye and reioysed / and of that ioye nodoute wrought
/ it is gods prayse / and the glory of his mercye. And the
same maist thou se by Iames / when he saith Abraham offered
his sonne / and so was the scripture fulfilled / that
Abraham beleued / and it was rekened him for rightwysnesse
and he was therby made gods frende.
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