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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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who resembling rather Diagoristes and Protagoristes, then Christians, are so utterly fallen from Christianism, to Atheism, that, measuring this life with the present pleasures thereof, they do believe nothing holy, good, or worthy to be embraced, but those plausible works & objects of nature, wherewith our eyes & senses are delighted most. There is also an other crew & company, not much unlike to these other, who perceiving Christian religion assaulted, racked, and rent in sunder (as they say) with sects, schisms and contrarieties of opinions, do persuade them selves that religion to be best, that will acquaint it self with no religion at all.
who resembling rather Diagoristes and Protagoristes, then Christians, are so vtterly fallen from Christianisme, to Atheisme, that, measuring this life with the present pleasures thereof, they doe beleeue nothing holy, good, or worthy to be embraced, but those plausible workes & obiects of nature, wherewith our eyes & senses are delyghted most. There is also an other crewe & company, not much vnlike to these other, who perceyuing Christian religion assaulted, rackt, and rent in sonder (as they say) with sects, schismes and contrarieties of opinions, do persuade them selues that religion to be best, that will acquaint it selfe with no religion at all.
What shall I say of them, whereof the number is exceeding great, who with full mouth do profess true religion it self, and will not deny, but that they do believe in Jesus Christ: but being demanded, wherefore they do believe in him: what the will of God the father in Christ is: what Grace is: what & how great promises are laid up in store for us ⟨image 6⟩in Christ: how glorious the Majesty & royalty of Christs kingdom is: how inestimable the glory of his riches be: what is the breadth, the length, the depth & the height thereof: how wonderful the love of his knowledge is: how great the force & power of faith is: and upon what principal pillars & foundations it is builded, they can render scarce any reason at all. For as much therefore as the infallible certainty, & true understanding of these things can be attained unto rightly, from no where else, then from the holy closets of sacred Scriptures: it shall be very requisite and needful, that every of us employ all our senses & powers of the mind, continually exercised in the same. For howsoever Christian divinity is tossed, and turmoiled to & fro, with innumerable intricate entangled and wandering questions, yet remaineth faith one self same nevertheless both pure & simple: and as it is but one, so ought all men necessarily be endued therewith wholly That is to say, that we all know Christ, that we repose all our anchorhold of affiance in Christ, & that we imprint Christ in the bowels of our soul, as we are commanded by the mouth of God the father,