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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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What answer will you make now to these so notable and manifest testimonies? and whereupon dependeth the hope of that you look for, or in what points doeth it chiefly consist? Will ye flee back again to your rotten worm-eaten posies? we are the seed of Abraham, and were never subject to any other: well we may wander, but we can never perish. The holy Patriarchs are our progenitors: we are the issue of an holy root: we have a God in whom we do believe: we have the law wherein we are instructed, the temple, the priesthood: the sacrifices and ceremonies are committed unto our safe keeping, we have also Prophets, and promises of the Prophets, wherein we put our confidence. Nay rather you were once invested in all these, but now through your traitorous treachery you are bereaved, and despoiled of them all. You had sometime Abraham unto your father, upon whom you so gloriously vaunt your selves. Even so had Esau, Ismael, and Saul also as well as it. And even ⟨image 43⟩this self same so noble a gentleman whom you account for your father, if he were present now in these our days, or had lived then also when Christ was conversant upon the earth, and had seen all those your frantic outrages, and traitorous devises, conceived of such despiteful rancour, and cankered malice: if he had beholden your reproachful taunts, contum•li•us mockeries, and furious madness, yo• execrable injuries, and horrible tyrannies provoked by no desert of his: your unquenchable malicious cruelty, in deriding, scorning, and murdering that most mild son of God Christ Jesus, the most puissant and mighty Lord of glory, having in all respects so bountifully deserved of you: and had been present at that unspeakable mad outrage, and exclamation when ye cried out, Crucify him, Crucify him: his blood be upon us and our children: we have none other king but Cesar. Moreover if he had seen your unappeasable disorder without all remorse of mercy in persecuting his disciples:1 your intolerable Scorpion-like savageness, so furiously boiling against the innocent infants of the Christian Gentiles: and the rest of your heinous abominations, ⟨image 44⟩insatiable butcheries, treasons, frenzies, and madness: