TSK · Isaiah 41:8

For they are my seruauntes, which I brought out of the lande of Egypt, and shall not therfore be solde as bondmen.

Notwithstandyng, the Lorde had a delight in thy fathers to loue them, and chose their seede after them, euen you aboue all nations, as thou seest this day.

O ye seede of Abraham his seruaunt, ye his chosen children of Iacob:

Blessed is the nation that hath God to be their Lorde: that people hath he chosen to be an inheritaunce for him.

For he remembred his holy worde: spoken vnto Abraham his seruaunt.

And he gaue away their lande for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for euer.

Therefore thus saith the Lorde to the house of Iacob, euen thus saith he that redeemed Abraham: Iacob shall not nowe be confounded, nor his face pale.

You are my witnesses saith the Lord, and my seruaunt whom I haue chosen: therefore be certified, and geue me faythfull credence, and consider that I am he before whom there was neuer any god, neither shalbe any after me.

Consider this O Iacob and Israel, for thou art my seruaunt: I made thee that thou mightest serue me, O Israel forget me not.

Hearken vnto me O Iacob, and Israel whom I haue called: I am euen he that is, I am the first and the last.

Consider Abraham your father, and Sara that bare you, how that I called hym alone, and blessed hym, and encreased hym.

Considerest thou not what this people speaketh? Two kinredes say they had the Lorde chosen, and those same two hath he cast away: for so they haue despised my people, and they reputed them as though they were no people.

They aunswered hym: We be Abrahams seede, and were neuer bonde to any man: howe sayest thou then, ye shalbe made free?

And that he myght be father of circumcision, not vnto them only whiche came of the circumcised: but vnto them also that walke in the steppes of the fayth that was in our father Abraham, before the time of circumcision.

Wherfore then serueth the lawe? It was added because of transgressions, tyl the seede came to whom the promise was made: and it was ordayned by Angels in the hande of a mediatour.

And the scripture was fulfylled, which sayth: Abraham beleued God, and it was reputed vnto hym for ryghteousnesse: And he was called the friende of God.