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John Trapp on Romans 1:16

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Romans1:16

Verſe 16. For I am not aſhamed] As men are apt to be; whence that fatherly charge, 2 Tim. 1.8. Doe ye thinke (ſaid Iohn Frith, Martyr, to the Archbiſhops men that would have let him go) that I am afraid to declare mine opinion unto the Biſhops of England in a manifeſt truth?Act. and Mon. 1917. If you ſhould both leave me here, and go tell the Biſhops that you had loſt Frith, I would ſurely follow as faſt after, as I might, and bring them news that I had found and brought Frith again.

For it is the power, &c.] Eternall life is potentially in the Word preached, as the harveſt is potentially in the ſeed.

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