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

And therefore as that doctrine is contrary to the doctrine of our Prophet, & is cast away of you which in this country believe in the man Jesus: So I have more willingly and with a more ready mind hearkened to the words of your teachers, and learned by Gods good working to know more of our promised Messiah, than our fathers believe: but no more than our scriptures most truly contain: Being assured that, seeing you have ⟨image 113⟩the words of our Prophets, and do not follow strange gods, you are to be hearkened unto. For by our Law no Prophet may be rejected but the false prophet, who seeketh to turn us away from the Lord our God to serve other gods. And therefore as I have learned by the words of your teachers, conferring them with our Law and Prophets, that our promised King & Messiah is not a Prince of this world, as one that hath to establish a temporal kingdom amongst us: but a spiritual, whose power and might consisteth in governing us by his Spirit, and forgiving the sins of Israel, and taking away the iniquities of Jacob, bearing in his own body the chastisement of our peace, that is, the chastisement that worketh and getteth us peace as our Prophets tell us: So I confess & acknowledge that he is already come, and that it is he of whom our Prophet spake, Behold the days come, saith the Lord,¹ that I will raise unto David a righteous branch, and a King shall reign and prosper, and shall execute judgement and justice in the earth: in his days Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely, and this is the name whereby they shall call him, The Lord our righteousness. ⟨image 114⟩And therefore being heartily sorry for my so long going astray from the faith of this man Jesus after the evil leading of my country men and kinsmen after the flesh, for whose speedy turning to the Lord I most earnestly pray, and giving the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, hearty thanks for the working of his grace in me, by bringing me from the darkness, wherein my fathers have walked these fifteen hundred years, into his marvellous light, to behold the face of his Christ our true and only Messiah:

And therefore as that doctrine is contrarie to the doctrine of our Prophet, & is cast away of you which in this countrey beleue in the man Iesus: So I haue more willingly and with a more readie minde hearkened to the wordes of your teachers, and learned by Gods good working to knowe more of our promised Messhiach, thā our fathers beleue: but no more than our scriptures most truely conteine: Being assured that, seing you haue