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

And what hath he committed at any time,¹ worthy of this so monstrous rancour & cankered despite? Was it because he did profess him self to be the Son of God? Albeit he did never speak any thing in his own commendation without singular modesty, neither boasted in his speech further of him self, then that he was the son of man: yet if this ⟨image 32⟩same he, were not the very true undoubted son of God, do ye then nominate some one man upon •arth, whom you may justify was his father, and condemn the whole history of the new Testament to be lies, if you can. What trow you, would his Apostles, & other his disciples, being daily and hourly conversant with him self, his mother, & his mothers husband, so throughly accompanied, & acquainted with all the actions of his life, have bin so wilfully, and foolishly blinded, as to give such credit unto him, & to believe in him? would they have settled the whole affiance of their salvation in him? would they so courageously have undertaken so many perilous hazards of life?² would they so constantly have yielded their carcasses to all manner of horrible tortures, not in words only, but with loss of life also, ratifying and testifying the thing, whi•h they knew to be in him most assured, and that with effusion of their blood, if they had seen nought else in him beyond the natural substance of man, and not rather conceiving throughly in him a secrete divinity,³ that was hidden under the veil of the flesh bodily? But if these things shall be but of small credit with you, what will you answer ⟨image 32⟩to those so great and manifold tokens of wonderful virtue, to such supernatural and prodigious wonders of his? what say ye to so great force of his divine operation, to so great power of his miracles, not wrought by him alone, but by his Apostles also through the virtue of his name only,⁴ yea, and long sithence now and then openly wrought in his Church, through the effectual operation of his glorious name? What will you say to his so great majesty in word, innocency of life, certainty in prophesying? And besides all these, his marvellous signs & tokens expressed in his own person? What will you say to that his incomprehensible glorious resurrection, his unspeakable ascension into the heavens: lastly, to those his most gracious gifts of the holy Ghost poured upon us from the heavens?