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

I protest unto you, that I utterly forsake my former ways and the steps that my nation walketh in, leaving with them not only that false looking for an other Christ, but my name also which was given me at my circumcision (being Jehuda) though in it self it be honourable: desiring that as I have received a new gift from the Lord, so in token thereof I may be called Nathanael: the sum of which gift, so far forth as he hath as yet revealed unto me, I here confess & acknowledge before you, that you may be witnesses with me of my faith in Christ that Messiah, whom you believe in, and I receive for my redeemer.

I protest vnto you, that I vtterly forsake my former wayes and the steps that my nation walketh in, leauing with them not only that false looking for an other Christ, but my name also which was giuen me at my circumcision (being Iehuda) though in it selfe it be honourable: desiring that as I haue receiued a new gift from the Lord, so in token thereof I may be called Nathanael: the summe of which gifte, so farre forth as he hath as yet reuealed vnto me, I here confesse & acknowledge before you, that you may be witnesses with me of my faith in Christ that Meshiach, whom you beleeue in, and I receiue for my redeemer.

I confess with my mouth and believe from my heart, that the man Jesus Christ borne of the virgin Mary (according to the foretelling of our Prophets) and so, by the flesh he toke of her, descending of the seed & stock of David for the continuance of his kingdom for ever over his people Israel, is the undoubted Messiah promised to our fathers for the redemption and delivery of us his people out of the captivity we are in: which is not the captivity of Egypt or Babylon, or the captivity of the Romans Empire, which we have justly deserved by the shedding of his innocent blood through betraying and delivering him into the hands of the wicked to be crucified: but the captivity of sin, death, and damnation, prefigured unto us by our Prophets under the shadow of the foresaid captivities of Egypt and Babylon. Which things because our fathers understood not through ignorance of our scriptures, they did all those things which they wrought, against that holy one our only redeemer & saviour: & have by that means estranged them selves and their posterity from the common wealth in deed of Israel, that is to say, from the communion of the