After having been there three months, we embark'd on board the Castor and Pollux from Alexandria, that had put in there by hard weather:

from thence we turn'd to the wind, and arriv'd at Rhegium: the next day the wind being at south, we came in two days to Puteoli:

they reply'd, we have receiv'd no letter from Judea concerning you; nor have any of our brethren that are arrived, said any harm of you.

Having therefore set him a day, they came in great numbers to his lodgings; where he explain'd and confirm'd the reality of the gospel-dispensation, from morning to night, enforcing what the writings of Moses and the prophets had affirm'd concerning Jesus.

but as to his holy spirit miraculously declared to be the son of God, by his resurrection from the dead:

to all the beloved of God, the saints by this vocation, who are in Rome, grace to you, and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

or indeed that we may have mutual consolation from the faith which is in common to you and to me.

there the divine wrath is revealed from heaven against all impiety, and injustice of men, who wickedly suppress the truth.

What advantage then hath the Jew? or what benefit is there from circumcision?

How then can we assert, "that Abraham our father obtained this from circumcision?"

for if Abraham was justified by works, he had matter of pretension, whereas he had no such claim from God.

far from being weak in faith, unconcern'd at his own bodily decay, being then about an hundred years old, and at Sarah's incapacity of child-bearing,

but for us also, to whom it shall be accounted, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead,

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

nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who had not sinned by violating a positive law, as did Adam, who is

neither is the gift, as was the fall by one sin: for the sentence of condemnation, was for one offence; but the divine favour extends to justification from a multitude of sins.

therefore we are buried with him by being plunged into a sort of death: that as Christ was raised up from the dead into a state of glory with the father, even so we also should proceed to a new state of life.

for by its being dead, we are set free from sin.

knowing that Christ being raised from the dead, is to die no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

being then set free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

but now being set free from sin, and actually in the service of God, the present advantage you reap is holiness, and the future everlasting life.

now a married woman is bound by the law to her living husband: but if her husband dieth, she is released from the marriage-contract.

wherefore she will be reputed an adulteress if she become another man's during her husband's life: but if her husband dies, she is clear from that law, from the imputation of being an adulteress, though she become another man's.

thus, my brethren, the law is become dead with respect to you by the body of Christ; that you might be subject to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

O wretched man that I am, what shall deliver me from this body of death?

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

for if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; he that raised up Christ from the dead, shall likewise restore your mortal bodies to life, by his spirit that dwelleth in you.

and therefore hope to be removed from this slavish condition of mortality to the free inheritance of divine glory.

and not only they, but even those who have the first fruits of the spirit, even we our selves do inwardly groan for the fruit of our adoption, by the deliverance of our body from corruption.

What shall we conclude then from this? if God be for us, who can be against us?

what shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or penury, or peril, or sword?

neither the high, nor the low, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God by Christ Jesus our Lord.

for I could wish to be as one anathematiz'd from the christian church for my brethren, who are of the same race as my self,

However, the divine promise cannot but have its effect. for they are not the whole of Israel, who are descended from Israel:

this appears too from the case of Rebecca, who conceived twins by our father Isaac.

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

but the justification which is by faith, speaks in this manner; "say not in thine heart, who shall ascend into heaven, in order to bring Christ down from above?

or, who shall descend into the deep, in order to bring up Christ again from the dead?"

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.

for if you were taken from the wild olive, which was natural to you, to be grafted into a good olive-stock of a different nature, with how much greater reason shall these who are the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive-tree?

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.

wherefore you ought to submit not only from an apprehension of punishment, but

from a principle of conscience. for this is the reason why you also pay tribute, because under God, they are continually

he that observes a day, and he that obobserves it not, act both from a sense of duty. he that eats, consisiders it as the bounty of his Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that forbeareth to eat, considers his forbearance as enjoined by his Lord, and giveth God thanks for the rest.

it is better to abstain from flesh, and wine, and every thing whereby your brother is in danger of falling off.

by virtue of the miracles and prodigies wrought by the power of the divine spirit; so that from Jerusalem, and the neighbouring country, quite to Illyricum,

This has chiefly hindred me from coming to you.

that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea; and that the charitable service which I am employed about, for the converts at Jerusalem, may be acceptable to them:

Now to him that is able to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, conformable to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret from antient times, but now is laid open,

grace and peace be with you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

for from him it is that ye believe in Christ Jesus, whom God has made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: that,

now the spirit which we have received, is not the spirit of this world, but that which comes from God; that we might know what he has graciously bestowed upon us.

therefore suspend your judgment till the Lord comes, who will bring to light the secrets of darkness, and expose the counsels of mens hearts: and then shall every man have his due reward from God.

to this very day we suffer both hunger, thirst, and penury: we are buffeted from place to place, as vagabonds:

we have it from all quarters, that incest is practis'd among you, and such as is not among the Gentiles, that of a man's having his father's wife.

those that are without, God will judge. therefore expel the libertine from your community.

what! know ye not that your bodies are the temple of the holy spirit, which is in you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own?

for I wish that all men were as I myself am: but every man hath his proper gift from God, some one way, and some another.

as to the married, I enjoin this rule, not as from my self, but from the Lord, that a woman should not leave her husband:

have you been redeemed from slavery? then, don't turn slaves.

As to the case of celibacy, I have no positive instructions: yet my advice deserves to be regarded, as coming from one the divine favour has distinguished.

are you contracted to a wife? seek not to be disengag'd. are you disengag'd from your wife? don't look out for another;

and they that possess this world, as those that can't make an ill use of it. for the scene of this world is continually shifting. I would have you free from anxiety.

yet to us there is but one God, the father, from whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

if for your benefit we have sown spirituals, is it so extraordinary if we should reap some benefit from your temporals?

don't you know, that they who prepare the sacrifices, do eat of the sacrifice in the temple? and they who wait at the altar, have their portion from the altar?

whence then is my reward? why, from my preaching the gospel of Christ gratis, without making use of the privilege which the gospel gives me.

and all drank the same spiritual drink: (for they drank of what flowed from the spiritual rock: and that rock was Christ.)

now these things were examples to deter us from longing after things that are pernicious, as they did.

wherefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

A man ought not to be veil'd: he has the honour of being invested with authority from God, and may glory in his priority to the woman.

for the man was not taken from the woman: but the woman from the man.

nor was the man copied from the woman: but the woman from the man.

for as the woman was taken from the man, so man is born of the woman: and all are from God.

For I received it from the Lord, and I inform'd you of it: that the Lord Jesus, the night in which he was betrayed, took bread:

What, did the gospel take its rise from you? or was it communicated to you alone?

Now if it has been declared, that Christ rose from the dead, how comes it, that some among you assert, "there is no resurrection of the dead?"

rouze from your sins, as is but just; for some of you have not the knowledge of God: I speak it to your shame.

the glory of the sun is of one kind, the glory of the moon of another, and the glory of the stars still different; nay, one star differs from another star in glory.

the first man was formed from the dust of the earth: the second man was from heaven.

let all your transactions flow from social affections.

and peace be to you from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

and he did deliver me from so terrible a death, and on him I have relied for further deliverance: especially,

not to call upon you as I pass into Macedonia, but in my return from thence, to be conducted by you toward Judea.

and I wrote to you upon that disagreeable subject, that when I came, I might not receive uneasiness from those from whom I ought to receive comfort, being persuaded that you will all think yourselves interested to promote my satisfaction.

The affliction I have had, comes only from a particular quarter, so that my resentment does not affect the whole church.

I was so uneasy in my mind for not finding Titus my brother, that taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.

for we are not like others, who adulterate the word of God; but we preach the pure gospel of Christ, as I receiv'd it from God, and as in the presence of God.

Do I begin again to commend my self? or need I, as some others, commendatory letters to you, or from you?

not that I am sufficient of myself to effect any thing by the strength of my own reason: but my sufficiency is from God.

and do not act as Moses did, who threw a veil over his face so as to hinder the children of Israel from perceiving the end of that which was to cease:

but this treasure is lodg'd in such earthen vessels as we are, that the exceeding efficacy of it may appear to be from God, and not from us.

therefore being always certainly assur'd that whilst I sojourn in this body, I am absent from the Lord,

but in all things I approve myself as the minister of God, by great constancy in afflictions, in torments, in distresses, from stripes,

from imprisonments, from tumults, from labours, from watchings, from penury.

wherefore come out from among them, be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

since then, we have these promises, my dear brethren, let us cleanse our selves from all impurity, whether of body or mind, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

for when I came to Macedonia, I had no respit from the trouble that beset me on every side: oppositions from without, and apprehensions within.

but by the consolation I received from you by him, when he acquainted me with your earnest desire to see me, with your concern, and your zeal for me; which greatly increas'd my joy.

For tho' I was sorry my letter gave you some uneasiness, I do not repent of it, perceiving, that the uneasiness you had from that letter, did not dwell upon your minds.