now I would not have you ignorant, my brethren, that I often purposed to come to you, tho' I have been hindered hitherto, that I might be useful among you as well as among other Gentiles.

and why may we not do evil, that good may come?" which is slanderously reported to be our maxim, by some, whose condemnation is just.

much more then being now justified by his blood, shall we thro' him be delivered from the wrath to come.

the type of him that was to come: but yet the damage of the fall does not exactly correspond to the advantages of the divine favour: for tho' through the fall of one, mankind became mortal, yet this is greatly over-ballanced by the favour and bounty of God, in the benevolence of one man, Jesus Christ, to all mankind.

but if we hope for what is yet to come, our patience does necessarily intervene.

for I am fully persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

for the words of the promise run thus, "at this time I will come, and Sara shall have a son."

and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, ye are not my people; there shall they be called, the children of the living God."

'tis true, faith comes by preaching, and preaching is by the divine appointment.

I would not, brethren, have you ignorant of this secret, (for fear you should presume too much on your selves) that blindness has fallen upon a part of Israel, until the time when the Gentiles shall be fully come in.

and then all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, "there shall come out of Sion the deliverer, and shall turn away Jacob from his impiety.

let us not judge one another any more: but rather come to this determination, not to put a stumbling-block, or any thing in a brother's way, that may make him fall.

when I have dispatch'd this affair, and have secur'd to them this collection, I will come to you in my way to Spain.

and I know that when I do come, I shall come charged with the blessings of Christ.