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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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1These old moth-eaten shadows had their time, and not their time only, but their lawful use also: that so under shadows, types, and figures, they might prefigure the certainty, and trueth of things to come. But after that he was once manifested, who was the true holy of holy ones, who was the true and lively Temple of God, who should display unto the world, the true righteousness, who should be of power to give everlasting salvation, and should be Lord and King of all Nations: what needed then any further shadows? or how could the Lord endure their blindness any longer, when as after the coming of their Lord, they not only ceased not to abuse the shadows of the Law,2 to other purposes then they were ordained for• but also of a vain and false persuasion, to the pernicious example of other nations, yea, not without the manifest peril of the utter overthrow of the whole world, did likewise teach, that true righteousness ought to be ascribed to the outward observances of those shadows and ceremonies? The which thing the ⟨image 21⟩mercy of God seemeth not only to have for• seen, but adjudged also by no means toler• ble: for otherwise it might have cone to pass, that the safety of the Jews might have bin an estoppel to the receiving of the Gentiles, & so have procured their uncoverable destruction, through false opinion of the doctrine of righteousness perdie. But sithence there was none other mean or way for the Gentiles, to have due access to true righteousness, but by cutting down that carnal thicket of ceremonial brambles & bloody briars, hereupon • pleased Almighty God, to dispose• the interchanges & alterations of times, acco••ing to his unsearchable counsel:3 That so the decay of the Jews might be the riches of the Gentiles: & the casting away of that froward generation, might be the reconcilement of the whole world. And thus much by the way of the cutting away of the Israelites in which albeit redounded to our inestimable benefit, may not therefore provoke us to swell, and […] put up with pride: whereof S. Paul doeth wisely forewarn us to be well advised.