Vnderstond also (to se how we came yn to
like blyndenesse) that before the comynge of christe in the
flesh / the Israelites and
Iewes were scatered thorow out all the world / to
punish theyr imageseruice / both eest / west south and north /
as ye reade in the
chronicles how Englonde was once full: so that there
was no prouince or greate citie in the world where no Iewes
were: god so prouydynge for the spedie preachynge of the
gospell amonge the hethen thorow out the worlde. Now chryst /
as he was promised /
so was he sent / vnto the Iewes or Israelites. And
what by chrystes preachynge and the appostles after his
resurrexion / there were innumerable
Iewes conuerted haply an hundred thousand or moo in
Ierusalem and Iewry and in the contres aboute / and abode still
in the
londe. Then paul rose vpp and persecuted them in
Iherusalem and thorow out al Iewry and Damasco / sleynge all
that he coude catche or makinge them forswere christe. For
feare of which persecucion they fled in to all costes and
preached vnto the Iewes that were scatered / prouinge that
Iesus was christ the sauioure of the worlde / both by the
scripture and also by myracles: so that agreate parte of the
Iewes came to the faith euery where / and we hethen came in
shortely after / and parte a bode styll in vnbeleffe as vnto this daye.
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