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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.
But this one thing perhaps doth raise up your ⟨image 31⟩crests,1 and puff you up with pride, because you do convey unto your selves so long a descent of your genealogies and kindred from so famous Ancestors: because ye fetch your pedigree and families from Abraham, and the holy Patriarchs, and in that respect you do reproachfully disdain all other nations, as though God had created them to no purpose at all. But let us see by what reason, with what conscience you are induced hereunto. If you judge this a matter of so great importance, that ye can rehearse in a long •eadroll of names, your Generations descended out of the loins of Abraham: what? And can not Ismael, Esau, Saul, can not Dathan and Abyron, and all that other rascal rabble of Hebrews, who made insurrection against Moses: finally, can not many wicked kings amongst you, false prophets, horrible church robbers, & Idolaters even amidst amongst you, vaunt upon the self same race and parentage, whereupon you brave your selves so gloriously? Whereupon appeareth plainly, that this outward descent of blood, and fleshly progeny, doth not avail so much for your challenge: but that there is some other thing that maketh a kindly generation, and ⟨image 31⟩the true offspring of Abraham, in the sight of God. Moreover if it may be lawful to glory in the ancient stock, what may be thought of Christ him self, whom we do worship? in whom if ye require who was his father, he came not in deed from man, but descended from God. But if you demand of his mother: he is on the mothers side a Jew borne, according to the flesh, the son of Abraham, an issue of the same seed that you are, whose children you challenge your self to be according to the flesh. And wherefore then do you so cruelly detest him? Why do your brethren so hatefully envy and malign your natural brother? And being Jews borne your selves, why do you so villainously persecute your natural kinsman, being likewise a Jew borne, and why have you slain him so cruelly?
But this one thīg perhaps doth raise vp your ⟨image 31⟩crestes,