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A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written
A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas AdamsA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written by the blessed apostle St. Peter. By Thomas Adams
London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Jacob Bloome, 1633London: printed by Richard Badger and Felix Kyngston for Iacob Bloome, 1633
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Can there be now any Jew, that will move that question. Matth. 11.3. Art thou how we should come? or do we look for another? Or that will keep in the old […] of that tempting divell; Si Filius Dei es. Matth. 4.3. If thou be the Son of God: If. Certainly he hath upon him the brand of that old stiff-neckednesse, that will not relent with the yoke of sixteen hundred years conviction. Let them show one Prophecy unfulfilled: one other in whom they can be fulfilled. It was the great question of the world, who is that CHRIST? It is the great question of the Church; who is that Antichrist? In both these are the Jews ignorant. Let them beware their doom: Lu. 19.27. Bring those my enemies that would not have me reign over them and slay them before me. But I would to God there were no vipers of this monstrous ⟨p. 345⟩generation among us: no compounded gallimaufry of Religions; a Christians face, Jews heart, a worldlings foot, an Atheists hand. That confess a God, and know him not: profess a CHRIST, and believe him not. The worst kind of fools, Psa. 14.1. In this worse than the devils: for they could say, Act. 19.15. Jesus I know. Oh God, that after so many miraculous confirmation, thousands of Martyrdoms, glorious victories of truth, confessions of Angels, of men, of devils, universal contestation of all ages? that there should be any spark of this damned Infidelity left? whom have the Prophets foreshowed? what have they foreshowed, that he hath not fulfilled? who could foretell them but the Spirit of God? who could fulfil them but the Son of God? he hath prophesied, he hath accomplished; one true God in both. No other wisdom could say, this shall be done: no other power could make manifest, this is done. The Law was [Greek or Hebrew], a word Prophesied: the Gospel [Greek or Hebrew], a word pronounced. CHRIST is the Alpha of the Prophets, the Omega of the Evangelists; All in all. Therefore If any man love not the LORD JESUS CHRIST, let him be Anathema Maranatha. 1 Cor. 16.22.