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A sermon preached at the christening of a certain Jew at LondonA sermon preached at the christening of a certaine Iew at London
A sermon preached at the christening of a certain Jew at London by John Fox. Containing an exposition of the xi. chapter of S. Paul to the Romans. Translated out of Latin into English by James Bell.A sermon preached at the christening of a certaine Iew at London by Iohn Foxe. Conteining an exposition of the xi. chapter of S. Paul to the Romanes. Translated out of Latine into English by Iames Bell.
London: printed by Christopher Barker, 1578
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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.
O cruel cursed manqueller, doest thou not perceive, into what straits thy savage bloodthirstiness hath driven thee at the last? Doest thou not acknowledge that the very same tree, and that *[Greek or Hebrew], which by the ministry of thy champions, thou gavest to him for food, is turned into thy poison, & for us into the bread of life? Doest thou not remember how y• famous & solemn feast day,2 wherein he did triumph over death, when he spoiled principalities & powers, and made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in his own person, wherein thou thy self with thy mates didst ⟨image 65⟩rejoice by the space of two days, was erected to us for a perpetual monument of eternal joy and freedom? At the very naming whereof, the whole rabble of thy adherents do tr••ble and quake for fear.3 Doest thou not acknowledge now at the length, y• glorious name that was given him above all names, the power whereof thou doest feel now and then among, to thy great grief? and whereunto all the furies of hell confederates of thy malice are compelled to yield maugre their teeth? Doth not this victorious conqueror by contrary interchange of times, tread down thy cowardice deservedly, as saying thus,4 Death where is thy sting? Death where is thy victory? And what availeth thee being altogether vanquished, and brought into thralldom, to kick against the conqueror, inciting & provoking the Pharisees & kings of the Gentiles, so furiously to rage against the godly Martyrs? Go to, and what hast thou won by their imprisonments, chains, stoning to death, scourgings, tormentings by fiery inflamed plates, tortures and rackings, burning, broylinges and skorchinges, by all kinds of horror and cruelty, and by so many their slaughters? I will tell thee. Thou hast ⟨image 65⟩confirmed the faith of Christ, thou hast established & enlarged the kingdom of Christ, and hast heaped upon thy self and thy brood double torments of unquenchable flames. And herein we are somewhat behoing to thee, for that through this deadly madness, it cometh to pass, that throughout the whole world, the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ is magnified and renowned, and also because thou ceasest not to lye in wait against his heel daily as yet: