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For wee are saued by hope: but hope that is seene, is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?

But if wee hope for that wee see not, then doe wee with patience waite for it.

Likewise the spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what wee should pray for as wee ought: but the spirit it selfe maketh intercession for vs with groanings, which cannot bee vttered.

And he that searcheth the hearts, knoweth what is the minde of the spirit, because he maketh intercession for the Saints, according to the will of God.

And wee know that all things worke together for good, to them that loue God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his sonne, that hee might bee the first borne amongst many brethren.

What shall wee then say to these things? If God be for vs, who can bee against vs?

He that spared not his owne son, but deliuered him vp for vs all: how shall hee not with him also freely giue vs all things?

Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather that is risen againe, who is euen at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for vs.

(As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long, wee are accounted as sheepe for the slaughter.)

For I am perswaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

For I could wish that my selfe were accursed from Christ, for my brethren my kinsemen according to the flesh:

Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is ouer all, God blessed for euer, Amen.

Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel which are of Israel:

That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.

For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall haue a sonne.

(For the children being not yet borne, neither hauing done any good or euil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of workes, but of him that calleth.)

For hee saith to Moses, I will haue mercy on whom I wil haue mercie, and I will haue compassion on whom I will haue compassion.

For the Scripture saith vnto Pharaoh, Euen for this same purpose haue I raised thee vp, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my Name might bee declared throughout all the earth.

Thou wilt say then vnto mee; Why doeth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?