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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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In the mean space, ye may easily conceive a taste and feeling as it were of the trueth, by groping the shadows and prefigured tokens of the scriptures, except ye had rather wilfully and wittingly shut fast your eyes from so manifest demonstration of infallible certainty.
In the meane space, ye may easily conceiue a taste and feeling as it were of the trueth, by groping the shadowes and prefigured tokens of the scriptures, except ye had rather wilfully and wittingly shut fast your eyes from so manifest demonstration of infallible certainetie.
First, what one thing was of more royalty, then the kingdom of David? And yet what one thing was more entangled and straitened, whiles as yet like a silly moth he kept his fathers sheep? whiles he was tossed ⟨image 38⟩in turmoil with most cruel persecution? At what time Joseph being circumvented by the injury of his brethren, became carrion lean in a loathsome dungeon: when as Abraham was commanded to abandon his native country, and to become a banished outcast from his kindred and his fathers house: whiles Jacob was constrained to redouble his service under his uncle Laban: what time Moses was by Gods calling translated from an exiled outlaw to be a guide and leader of y• Israelites: from how great baseness and misery were all these advanced to wonderful estimation and dignity? And what was the meaning of the holy ghost else, then under the shadows and figures of those persons, to represent unto us the very pattern and image of the son of God? And yet if you duly consider the estate of Christs outward baseness, what wanted he at any time, to the necessary furniture of his livelihood, notwithstanding this show of extreme penury? Nay what want at all could molest him, who with a very few crusts could feed so great a crew of thousands in so desert a wilderness? Or how could he be termed poor, at whose beck and word of mouth, heaven and ⟨image 38⟩earth did obey, the seas and winds, life and death, finally all the degrees of creation were subject unto?