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And I say, that the heyre, as long as he is a chylde, differeth nothyng from a seruaut, though he be Lorde of all,
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But is vnder tuters and gouernours, vntyll the tyme appoynted of the father.
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Euen so we, when we were chyldren, were in bondage vnder ye rudimentes of the worlde:
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But when the fulnesse of the tyme was come, God sent his sonne, made of a woman, and made vnder the lawe,
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To redeeme them that were vnder the lawe, that we myght receaue the adoption of chyldren.
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Because ye are sonnes, God hath sent the spirite of his sonne into your heartes, crying, Abba, father.
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Wherfore thou art no more a seruaunt, but a sonne: If thou be a sonne, thou art also an heire of God, through Christ.
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Notwithstandyng, when ye knewe not God, ye dyd seruice vnto the which by nature are no Gods.
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But nowe after that ye haue knowen God, yea, rather are knowen of God, howe turne ye agayne vnto the weake and beggarly rudimentes, whervnto againe ye desire a freshe to be in bondage?
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Ye obserue dayes, and monethes, and tymes, and yeres.
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I am in feare of you, lest I haue bestowed on you labour in vayne.
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Brethren, I besech you be as I [am] for I am as ye are.
Ye haue not iniured me at all.
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Ye knowe howe through infirmitie of the fleshe, I preached the Gospell vnto you at the first:
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And my temptation which was in my fleshe, ye dispised not, neither abhorred: but receaued me as an Angel of God, euen as Christe Iesus.
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What is then your felicitie?
For I beare you recorde, that yf it had ben possible, ye woulde haue plucked out your owne eyes, and haue geuen them to me.
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Am I therfore become your enemie, because I tell you the trueth?
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They are gelouse ouer you amisse: Yea, they intende to exclude you, that ye shoulde be feruent to them warde.
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It is good alwayes to be zelous in a good thyng, and not only when I am present with you
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My litle chyldren, of whom I trauayle in birth agayne, vntyll Christe be fashioned in you.
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But I desire to be present with you nowe, and to chaunge my voyce: for I stande in doubt of you.
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Tell me, ye that desire to be vnder the lawe, do ye not heare the lawe?
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For it is written, that Abraham had two sonnes, the one by a bonde mayde, the other by a free woman:
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But he which was of the bonde woman, was borne after the fleshe: but he which was of the free woman, [was borne] by promise.
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Which thynges are spoken by an allegorie.
For these are two testamentes: the one from the mount Sina, which gendreth vnto bondage, which is Agar.
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For Agar is the mount Sina in Arabia, and bordreth vpon the citie, which is nowe [called] Hierusalem, and is in bondage with her chyldren.
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But Hierusalem which is aboue, is free: which is the mother of vs all.
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For it is written: Reioyce thou baren, that bearest no chyldren, breake foorth and crye, thou that trauaylest not: For the desolate hath many mo chyldren, then she which hath an husbande.
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But brethren, we are after Isaac the chyldren of promise.
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But as then he that was borne after the fleshe, persecuted hym that was borne after the spirite: euen so is it now.
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Neuerthelesse, what saith the scripture?
put away the bondwoman and her sonne: For the sonne of the bondwoman, shall not be heire with the sonne of the free woman.
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So then brethren, we are not chyldren of the bonde woman, but of the free.