Then sayde Iesus vnto his disciples: If any man wyll folowe me, let hym forsake him selfe, and take vp his crosse, and folowe me.
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TSK · Romans 8:17
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Feare not litle flocke, for it is your fathers pleasure to geue you a kyngdome.
Ought not Christe to haue suffered these thinges, & to enter into his glory?
Father, I wyll that they which thou hast geuen me, be with me where I am, that they may see my glorie which thou hast geuen me. For thou louedst me, before the foundation of the world.
And nowe brethren I commende you to God, and to the worde of his grace, which is able to buylde further, and to geue you an inheritaunce among all the which are sanctified.
Muche more then nowe, we that are iustified by his blood, shalbe saued from wrath through hym.
For what the lawe coulde not do, in as much as it was weake through the fleshe, God sendyng his owne sonne, in the similitude of sinfull fleshe, euen by sinne, condempned sinne in the fleshe:
But as it is written: The eye hath not seen, & the eare hath not heard, neither haue entred into the heart of man, the thynges which God hath prepared for them that loue hym.
And our hope is stedfast, insomuch as we knowe howe that as ye are partakers of ye afflictions, so ye be partakers also of the consolation.
If ye be Christes, then are ye Abrahams seede, and heyres accordyng to the promise.
That the gentiles shoulde be inheritours also, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christe, by the Gospell:
Therfore I suffer all thynges for the electes sakes, that they myght also obtaine the saluation, which is in Christ Iesus, with eternall glorie.
Are they not all ministring spirites, sent foorth into ministerie for their sakes which shalbe heyres of saluation?
Hearken my deare beloued brethren. Hath not God chosen the poore of this worlde, such as are riche in fayth, and heyres of the kyngdome, which he promised to them that loue hym?
But reioyce, in as much as ye are partakers of Christes passions: that when his glory appeareth, ye maye be mery and glad.
He that ouercommeth, shall inherite all thynges, and I wyl be his God, and he shalbe my sonne.