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are Gods childre: for ye haue not receaued the sprete of bondage to feare eny more, but ye haue receaued ye sprete of adopcion, wherby we crye: Abba, deare father.

For I suppose, that the affliccions off this tyme, are not worthy of ye glorye, which shalbe shewed vpon vs.

For the feruent loginge of ye creature loketh for the appearinge of the children of God,

because the creature is subdued vnto vanyte agaynst hir will, but for his wyll that hath subdued her vpon hope.

For the creature also shal be fre from the bondage of corrupcion, vnto the glorious libertye of the childre of God.

For we knowe, that euery creature groneth, and trauayleth with vs in payne vnto the same tyme.

Not they only, but we oure selues also, which haue the first frutes of the sprete, grone within in oure selues for the childshippe, and loke for ye delyueraunce of oure bodye.

For we are saued i dede, howbeit i hope: but ye hope that is sene, is no hope: for how can a man hope for that which he seyeth?

But yf we hope for that which we se not, the do we thorow pacience abyde for it.

Likewyse the sprete also helpeth oure weaknesse: for we knowe not what we shulde desyre as we oughte: neuertheles ye sprete it selfe maketh intercession mightely for vs with vnoutspeakable gronynges.

Howbeit he yt searcheth the hert, knoweth what the mynde of the sprete is: for he maketh intercession for the sayntes acordinge to the pleasure of God.

But sure we are, that all thinges serue for the best vnto them that loue of God, which are called of purpose.

For those whom he knewe before, hath he ordeyned also before, yt they shulde be like fashioned vnto ye shappe of his sonne, yt he mighte be the first begotte amoge many brethre.

As for those whom he hath ordeyned before, them hath he called also: and whom he hath called, the hath he also made righteous: and whom he hath made righteous, them hath he glorified also.

Which spared not his owne sonne, but hath geuen him for vs all: how shal he not with him geue vs all thinges also?

who wil then condemne? Here is Christ that is deed, yee rather which is raysed vp agayne, which is also on ye righte hande of God, and maketh intercession for vs.

As it is wrytten: For thy sake are we kylled all the daye longe, we are counted as shepe appoynted to be slayne.

Neuerthelesse in all these thinges we ouercome farre, for his sake that loued vs.

For sure I am, that nether death ner life, nether angell, ner rule, nether power, nether thinges present, nether thinges to come,

I haue wysshed my selfe to be cursed from Christ for my brethren, that are my kynsmen after the flesh,