always entreating him that now at length, if such be his will, the way may be made clear for me to come to you.

Though they knew well the ordinance of God, that those who practise such vices are worthy of death, they not only continue to do the same, but were even applauding those who practise vice.

"We know that God's judgment against those who practise such vices is in accord with the truth," you say?

Very well; and do you suppose, you who judge those that practise such vices, and are doing the very same, that you will elude the judgment of God?

And why not say (as I myself am slanderously reported to say), "Let us do evil that good may come out of it"? Such arguments are rightly condemned.

For to be earthly minded is enmity against God; For such a mind is not subject to the Law of God, Nor can it be;

Now such are we whom he has called, not only from among the Jews, but also from among the Gentiles.