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

All which things being approved with the testimony of so many witnesses, viewed and ⟨image 33⟩beholden with so many eyes, practised by the daily experience of so many Jews, ensealed with so many hands and writings, published to us Gentiles by manifold reports of so many your Rabbins and great Doctors of your own nation, if all these things I say, shall yet seem to you but colourable, feigned and unworthy of credit: why do ye not with as good reason condemn for false liars, all, and every your own prophets, Patriarchs, your own Law, yea and the Psalms also, and raze them out of remembrance, because they did many hundred years before most expressly foreshow and prognosticate evidently, that all those things in general should come to pass, even in the same manner and order, as they have been already accomplished? Amongst whom let Isaiah the Prophet be adjudged a liar, because in the name of this Christ he promiseth health to the blind,^{1 2345}to the lame, to the halt, and to the maimed: because he comforteth the Ostriches and venomous beasts of the field with praise & glory that should happen unto them, because he prophecieth hope of freedom to them that were in chains, to prisoners liberty, plenty and fullness to the needy and hungry: light to ⟨image 33⟩them that sit in the shadow of death: bountiful fruit fullness to fields that were otherwise by nature barren, and through want of Tillage overspread with briars and brambles, uncomely, yea & filthy by reason of their huge desolation: to overflowing rivers, dryness and emptiness: finally, to the Jews them selves extreme blindness.

All which things being approued with the testimonie of so many witnesses, viewed and ⟨image 33⟩beholden with so many eyes, practised by the dayly experience of so many Iewes, ensealed with so many handes and wrytings, published to vs Gentiles by manifold reportes of so many your Rabbynes and great Doctours of your own natiō, if all these things I say, shal yet seeme to you but colourable, fayned and vnworthy of credit: why do ye not wt as good reason condemne for false lyars, all, and euery your owne prophets, Patriarches, your owne Lawe, yea and the Psalmes also, and rase them out of remembraunce, because they did many hundred yeres before most expressely foreshewe and prognosticate euidently, that all those thinges ingenerall shoulde come to passe, euen in the same maner and order, as they haue bene already accomplished? Amongst whome let Esay the Prophete be adiudged a lyar, because in the name of this Christ he promiseth health to the blynde,