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And Morouer / as paul saith .Ro. ix. not al that came of Israel
are ryght Israelites nether are al they Abrahams sonnes that are
Abrahams seed. Whi so? because they folowed not the steppes of
the
fayth of their graundfathers. Even so / not all they
that were called and also came vnto the mariage whych god the
father made betwene
christ hys sonne and all sinners / brought their
maryage garment
wyth them / that is to wete / true faith wherwyth we
be maryed vnto chryste and made his flesh and hys bloude and
one spirite with hym / his brethern and heyres with him and the
sonnes of god also. But many of them (to fulfyll the sayenge of
christ / that the kyngdome of heuen / which is the gospell / is
like a net that ketcheth good
and bad) were dreuen in to the net and compelled to
confesse that Iesus was christ and that seed that was promised
Abraham and Messias that shuld come: not off any inward
fealinge that the spirite of god gaue them / nether of any
louely consent that they had vnto the law of god that it was
good / mornynge / both because they had
broken it and because also they had no power to
fulfill it and therfore to obtayne mercie and power came to
christ and vnto the father thorow him / with the hert of
naturall childern which receaue all thinge frely of their
fathers bounteous lyberalitie and of loue become saruauntes
vnto theyr brethern for theyr fathers sake: But were compelled
only
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