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Then Paul stode vp and beckened with the honde and sayde: Men of Israel and ye that feare God geve audiece.
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The God of this people chose oure fathers and exalted the people whe they dwelt as straugers in ye londe of Egypt and with a mighty arme brought them oute of it
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and aboute the tyme of .xl. yeares suffred he their maners in the wyldernes.
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And he destroyed. vii nacios in the londe of Canaan and devided their londe to them by lot.
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And after warde he gave vnto them iudges aboute the space of .iiii.C. and .l. yeres vnto the tyme of Samuel ye Prophet.
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And after that they desyred a kinge and God gave vnto them Saul the sonne of Cis a man of the tribe of Beniamin by the space of .xl. yeres.
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And after he had put him doune he set vp David to be their kynge of whome he reported sayinge: I have founde David the sonne of Iesse a man after myne awne hert he shall fulfill all my will.
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Of this manes seed hath God (accordinge to his promes) brought forth to the people of Israel a saviour one Iesus
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when Iohn had fyrst preached before his cominge the baptyme of repentauce to Israel.
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And when Iohn had fulfylled his course he sayde: whome ye thinke that I am the same am I not. But beholde ther cometh one after me whose shewes of his fete I am not worthy to lowse.
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Ye men and brethren chyldren of the generacion of Abraham and whosoever amoge you feareth God to you is this worde of salvacio sent.
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The inhabiters of Ierusalem and their rulers because they knewe him not nor yet the voyces of the Prophetes which are redde every Saboth daye they have fulfilled them in condepninge him.
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And when they founde no cause of deeth in him yet desyred they Pylate to kyll him.
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And when they had fulfilled all that were written of him they toke him doune from the tree and put him in a sepulcre.
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But God raysed him agayne from deeth
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and he was sene many dayes of them which came wt him fro Galile to Ierusalem. Which are his witnesses vnto the people.
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And we declare vnto you how that ye promes made vnto the fathers
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God hath fulfilled vnto vs their chyldre in that he reysed vp Iesus agayne eve as it is written in the fyrste psalme: Thou arte my sonne this same daye begat I the.
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As concernynge that he reysed him vp from deeth now no more to returne to corrupcion he sayde on this wyse: The holy promyses made to David I will geve them faithfully to you.
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Wherfore he saith also in another place: Thou shalt not soffre thyne holye to se corrupcion.
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Howbe it David after he had in his tyme fulfilled the will of God he slepte and was layde with his fathers and sawe corrupcion.
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But he whom God reysed agayne sawe no corrupcion.
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Be it knowne vnto you therfore ye men and brethre that thorow this man is preached vnto you the forgevenes of synnes
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and yt by him are all yt beleve iustified fro all thinges fro the which ye coulde not be iustified by ye lawe of Moses.
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Beware therfore lest that fall on you which is spoken of in the Prophetes:
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Beholde ye despisers and wonder and perishe ye: for I do aworke in youre dayes which ye shall not beleve yf a ma wolde declare it you.