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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
After the same sort was the blood of Abel spilt by the embrued hand of his bloody brother Cain:1 Joseph entrapped and sold by the sinister practise and procurement of his brother Judah:2 The lamb of the passover slain and devoured piecemeal in the houses of them, which were delivered by the blood of the same:3 So was Moses oftentimes contemptuously entreated,4 and disdainfully railed upon amongst his own kinsfolks:5 King David cruelly assaulted not of Saul only,6 but (which is more horrible) of the folk of his own family, of his neighbours, citizens and subjects. What else doeth the several calamities of all these purport, then that Messiah should be slain by the butchery of his own people? What doeth that stone of offence mentioned in Isaiah,7 and that Rock to fall upon to both houses of Israel, and as a snare and a net to the inhabitants of Jerusalem signify other, then that the Lord him self should suffer death by the murderous practise of his own nation? Otherwise why is he called a rock to fall upon and stone of ⟨image 42⟩offence, if there were nothing in him whereupon the adversaries might stumble at? And to pass over other sharp and horrible prophesies uttered directly against this viperous generation by the mouth of their own Prophets in the book of Deuteronomy the xxxi. and xxxii. Chapters, so likewise in the 65. and 66. of Isaiah, and many others besides of their own Prophets, peruse who listeth the books of Malachi and Zechariah with diligence and heedfulness,8 what doeth Malachi else in all that his preaching almost, then explain the order, and manner of Christs passion, yea, and that so lively, that scarce any portion seemeth overskipped, that may seem to appertain to the sum and argument of all that whole Tragedy?