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

Wherefore go to, what sayest thou now Satan,¹ thou cursed imaginer and practiser of all mischief, allege somewhat at length if thou canst: what sayest thou? Doest thou not see that all thy practices are discovered through that heavenly light? Doest thou not feel infirmity of the flesh, treading now upon thine own head, whiles thou wast devising mischief against infirmity of weak flesh? Thou hadst swallowed down a bait, but art enforced to cast the same out again of thy gorge. Thou diddest await for the destruction of mankind, but withal didst accelerate his ⟨image 64⟩safety. Thou didst enforce the innocent to the death of the cross, such was thy cankered malice, or such rather was thy lewd folly. Thou didst undermine the Son of God: wherein albeit thou didst scarce pinch him, yet hast thou slain thy self thereby, & blessed us for ever. For thou hast not fastened him upon the cross alone, but nailed all our sins also together with him, which being now throughly cleansed with that only sacrifice, hath delivered us from everlasting torments, and recoiled them back upon thine own head unrecoverable for evermore. The brazen serpent might have been a good president unto thee, to have made thee more wary & advised, which, if it had not bin hanged on tree, could not have healed the wounds of them that were plagued. The valiant Sampson being a type & figure of our Lord Jesus, might have forewarned thee: and that mystical immaculate Lamb, above all the rest: the slaying of the which was no less dreadful to the enemy, then comfortable to the godly. Neither happeneth it otherwise to thee,² & thine at this present. Thou didst endeavour to establish thine empire, and art despoiled of thine empire. What? wast thou ignorant, that he whom thou didst assail, was the ⟨image 64⟩son of God? Why then didst thou confess him so to be? And if thou know it, with what shameless impudency couldst thou attempt so execrable impiety? But he seemed weak in thine eye perdy, being clad with p•••e beggarly baseness of the flesh: & thy meaning perhaps was to try, whether he could be slain, & therefore thou didst rush upon him so sternly, and murdered him so horribly. Well, and why didst thou not hold him fast, when thou hadst slain him? Howe chanced that he slipped out of thy paws? and being escaped, whither went he from thee? and where doth he now remain?