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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.
It was a means, I must needs confess, that made me more deeply to enter into the former consideration of our long captivity, & better to think of the words of our Prophets, and the promises set down by them touching our Messiah. For the wall that maketh a separation between our nation the stock of Abraham, and you the Gentiles, is in your respect and in your behalf broken down: so that I can not justly say of you, as we & our fathers and Elders say of all other, using in all our books and writings to call and account of them by no other name but Baal abodazara Idolatrous masters, and lords of strange worship: A thing so detestable unto us, as nothing more concerning our Law, being in deed the first and chiefest of our commandments given us by the hand of Mosheh, and so often repeated unto us, as no one thing more in all our scriptures: Besides the manifest anger of God showed against it,1 in punishing the trespass therein committed by our forefathers in the absence of Mosheh, ⟨image 111⟩when he was gone up into the mount to fetch the Law. When our fathers were to enter into the land of promise, the first and principal point required of them was this:2 When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, & shall root out many nations be•ore thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, & the Ammonites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations mightier and greater than thou, & the Lord thy God shall give them before thee: then shalt thou smite them, thou shalt utterly destroy them, thou shalt make no covenant with them nor have compassion on them, neither shalt thou make marriages with them, neither give thy daughter unto his son, nor take his daughter unto thy son: for they will cause thy son to turn away from me, & to serve other gods: then will the wrath of the Lord wax hot against you, and destroy thee suddenly:3 But thus you shall deal with them, you shall overthrow their altars, and break down their pillars, and you shall cut down their groves and burn their graven images with fire.