among whom Jesus Christ has also called you:

the reward is not counted as a favour to him that has done good actions, but as a debt:

whereas he that trusts in God to be made righteous, tho' he has not done such actions, shall find his faith accounted as righteousness.

who has given us access by faith to that degree of favour, we are in, by which we triumph in the hopes of divine glory.

for the christian dispensation of a spiritual life has set me free from the legal state of sin and death.

for we are saved but by hope: but hope supposes things not yet present; for how can a man hope for what he has now in possession?

We know too, that all things co-operate for the good of those who love God, who, pursuant to his purpose, has now called them:

but whom he predispos'd, he calls: and whom he has call'd, he justifies: and whom he has justified, he glorifies.

nay, but, O man, who art thou, to raise a dust against heaven? shall the pitcher say to him that formed it, "why hast thou made me thus?"

if the divine Being has patiently bore with those objects of his displeasure, that had been working out their own destruction, why may he not reveal himself to make them feel his vindictive power,

to such as we, whom he has called, both from among the Jews, and from among the Gentiles.

for if you openly confess, that Jesus is the Lord, and sincerely believe, that God has raised him from the dead, you shall be saved.

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.

Now it is by virtue of my apostolical commission, that I charge every man among you, not to entertain too high an opinion of himself; but modestly consider, that 'tis God who has dealt to every man his proportion of spiritual gifts.

do not for such a thing as meat, pull down what God has been raising. all things indeed are pure; but they become evil to him who by eating giveth offence.

nevertheless, brethren, I have writ to the Gentile part of you, and admonish'd you with the greater freedom by virtue of the commission that God has given me,

for I will not offer to mention any thing, but what Christ has wrought by me, to make the Gentiles christians, both in profession and practice:

This has chiefly hindred me from coming to you.