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Romans 9

1 Having testified his greatlove towards his nation, and the signs thereof, 11 He entreateth of the election and reprobation. 24 Of the vocation of the Gentiles, 30 and rejection of the Jews.
1.I say the truth ain Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing me witness in the holie Ghost,
2.That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in mine heart.
3.*For I would wish myself to be bseparate from Christ, for my brethren that are my kinsmen according to the flesh,
4.Which are the Israelites, to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the cglory, and the d*Covenants, and the giving of the Law, and the service of God, and the promises.
5.Of whom are the fathers, & of whom concerning the flesh, Christ came, who is eGod over all blessed for ever, Amen.
6.*Notwithstanding it can not be that the word of God should ^take none effect: for all they are not fIsrael, which are of Israel:
7.Neither are they all children, because they are the seed of Abraham: *but, In gIsaac shall thy seed be called:
8.That is, they which are the children of the hflesh, are not the children of God: but the *children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9.For this is a word of promise, *In this same time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
10.Neither he only felt this, but also *Rebecca when she had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac.
11.For yer the children were born, & when they had neither done good, nor evil (that the purpose of God might remain according to election not by works, but of him that calleth)
12.It was said unto her, *The elder shall serve the younger.
13.As it is written, *I have loved Jacob, & have hated Esau.
14.What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
15.For he saith to Moses, *I iwill have mercy on him, to whom I will show mercy: and will have compassion on him, on whom I will have compassion.
16.So then it is not in him that willeth, nor in him that runneth, but in God that sheweth mercy.
17.For the kScripture saith unto Pharaoh, *For this same purpose have I stirred thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my Name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18.Therefore he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will, he hardeneth.
19.Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet complain? for who hath resisted his will?
20.But, ô man, who art thou which ^pleadest against God? shall the *thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21.Hath not the potter power of the clay to make of the same lump one vessel to ^honour, and another unto dishonour?
22.What and if God would, to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, suffer with long patience the vessels of wrath, prepared to destruction?
23.And that he might declare the riches of his glory upon the vessels of mercy, which he hath prepared unto glory?
24.Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles,
25.As he saith also in Osee, *I will call them, My people, which were not my people: and her, Beloved, which was not beloved.
26.And it shalbe in the place where it was said unto them, *Ye are not my people, that there they shalbe called, The children of the living God.
27.Also Esaias cryeth concerning Israel, *Though the number of the children of Israel were as the sand of the sea, yet shall but a remnant be saved.
28.lFor he will make his account, and gather it into a short sum with righteousness: for the Lord will make a short count in the earth.
29.*And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been made as mSodom, and had been like to Gomorrha.
30.What shall we say then? That the Gentiles which followed not righteousness, have attained unto righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31.But Israel which followed the Law of righteousness, could not attain unto the Law of righteousness.
32.Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the Law: for they have stumbled at the stumbling stone,
33.As it is written, *Behold, I lay in Sion a nstumbling stone, and a rock to make men fall: and everyone that believeth in him, shall not be ashamed.

Notes

1-a.
As becomes him that reverences Christ, or whose tongue Christ rules and so takes Christ for his witness.
3-*.
Act. 9.2, 1 Cor. 15.8
3-b.
He would redeem the rejection of the Jews with his own damnation, which declares his zeal toward God’s glory, read Exod. 32:32
4-*.
Chap. 2.17, Eph. 2.12
4-c.
The Ark of the convenant, because it was a sign of God’s presence, was called God’s glory, 1 Sam. 4.21, Psal. 26.8.
4-d.
The two tables of the convenant, Deut. 11.8
5-e.
Christ is very God
6-*.
Chap. 2.28
6-^.
Greek, fall away
6-f.
That is, of Jacob whose name was also Israel.
7-*.
Gen. 21.12. Ebr. 11.18
7-g.
The Israelites must not be esteemed by their kindred, but by the secret election of God, which is above the external vocation.
8-*.
Gal. 4.28
8-h.
As, Ismael.
9-*.
Gen.18.10
10-*.
Gen. 25.21
12-*.
Gen. 25.23
13-*.
Mal. 1.2
15-*.
Exod. 33.19
15-i.
As the only will and purpose of God is the chief cause of election and reprobation: so his free mercy in Christ is an inferior cause of salvation, and hardening of the heart, and inferior cause of damnation.
17-*.
Exod. 9.16
17-k.
That is, God in the Scripture.
20-*.
Isa. 45.9, Jere. 18.6, Wisd. 15.7
20-^.
Or speakest against.
21-^.
Or, unto honest uses.
25-*.
Hose. 2.23, 1 Pet. 2.10
26-*.
Hose. 1.10
27-*.
Isa. 10.22
28-l.
God will make such a waste of that people that the few which shall remain, shalbe a work of his justice, and shall set forth his glory in his Church.
29-*.
Isa. 1.9
29-m.
That is, utterly lost.
33-*.
Psal. 118.22, Isa. 8.14, & 28.16, 1 Pet. 2.6
33-n.
Jesus Christ is to the infidel destruction, and to the faithful life and resurrection