A sermon preached at the christening of a certain Jew at LondonA sermon preached at the christening of a certaine Iew at London

All which heavenly graces, albeit you miserable Hebrews will not acknowledge, & most disdainfully do blaspheme in your synagogues, the angel of the everlasting testament, having regard to y• part of him only, wherein he seemeth weak according to the utter appearance & dispensation of the flesh by reason of his death ⟨image 61⟩and burial:¹ yet we for our part beholding his heavenly divinity, unseparably united together with the baseness of his humanity, and comparing his miraculous life, death and resurrection, yea, the whole course and actions of his life with the reports of the Prophets: and being established in faith with infallible testimonies of the sacred scriptures, instructed hereunto by the guiding of the holy ghost, persuaded by the assured promises of the Prophets, and casting anchorhold in the assured haven of his wonderful miracles: do firmly believe, and with unshaken faith confess, that this is the very same Messiah whom you do yet expect and look for. Finally, reposing all our trust and affiance upon his mighty power, guarded with the invincible protection of so great Majesty, do with so valiant forwardness of mind, raise up the undaunted courage of our hearts against all assaults and battery of the world, against all storms of fretting adversity, that now neither the raging railing of your blasphemous mouth, nor fearful delusions of wily Satan, not the dreadful sight of hell gates, nor the tyrannous threatenings thereof: not the grisly countenance of ghastful death, be it never so terrible, ⟨image 61⟩nor the cruel curse & continual accusations of the Law (which is more horrible then all the rest) can in any respect appal & terrify our settled consciences. For why should that person tremble or be amazed with the threatenings of the Law, whose Lord and master Christ Jesus is Judge and ruler over the Law? Why should he dread death, or the devil him self procurer of death, or all the furious champions of the devil, for the safety of whose life, and assured raising from death to life, the very son of God Christ Jesus is become surety & pledge? who sitting at the right hand of the Father,² doeth keep the keys of death and hell, and therewith alone shutteth, and no man openeth,