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

¹I speak unto you Gentiles in as much as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I will magnify mine office, if by any meanes• may provoke them which be my flesh, and may save some of them, for if the casting away of them be the receiving of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? For if the first fruits be holy, the whole mass is holy also: And if the Root be holy, the branches will be holy also: And if some of the branches be broken of, and thou being a wild Olive tree, wast grafted in amongest them, and made partaker of the ⟨image 11⟩Root and fatness of the true and natural Olive tree, boast not thy self against the branches, for if thou do boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root beareth thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches are broken of, that I may be engrafted in. Thou sayest well: for unbelief sake they were broken of: and thou stoodest steadfast in faith. Be not high minded therefore, but fear, for if God spared not the natural branches: Take heed lest it come to pass, that he spare not thee. Behold the kindness & rigour of God: upon them which fell, rigour: but kindness towards thee, if thou persevere in kindness: Or else thou shalt be hewen of, & they, if they continue not still in unbelief, shall be engrafted in again. For God is of power to graft them in again. For if thou were cut out of a natural wild Olive tree, and contrary to nature were engrafted into the true Olive tree, how much rather shall the branches be grafted in again into their own Olive tree? For I would not have you ignorant (brethren) of this mystery, lest you should wax proud in your own conceits, that blindness is partly happened unto Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be accomplished, and so all