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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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But ye do believe in God, whom only you do worship and honour: so do the Turks, Saracens, Moors, and Scythians as well as ye. And where is there any one nation under the cope of heaven, so savage and beastly, that doeth not profess, confess, and worship one God only? And what is this to the purpose? Albeit ye esteem never so much of that your worshipping the great God, if yet in mean whiles ye persecute his messengers and Ambassadors whom he sendeth, if you kill his Prophets, ⟨image 44⟩if ye murder his Apostles, Martyrs, and Preachers: Finally if you put to the most slanderous death of the Cross the dear entirely beloved and only begotten son of God him self, being tormented with all kind of horrible tortures, to the unspeakable reproach of the same your own God, with what shameless visage can you brag that God to be your father, whose son you have so shamefully crucified? Yea, what were this to the purpose, or what might it avail you, to seem to your selves that the same God is your father, if he do not reknowledge you for his children? Take this for an undoubted trueth, that no kind of people can be adjudged to be the people of the living God, but in respect of his dear son Christ Jesus. Which if your blundered senses can not comprehend as yet: what mean those words of Hosea I beseech you? and of whom were they spoken? For ye be not my people, therefore will I not be yours. 1And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said unto them, you are not my people, it shall be said unto them, you are the sons of the living God. You do persist still obstinately ⟨image 45⟩in the opinion of Gods Law, and quite contrary to the Law of God, without all law, equity and conscience, hanged and racked upon tree the very same person of whom the whole Law did prophesy before, notwithstanding so many strange and wonderful miracles wrought by him, so many brotherly benefits employed upon you: yea, finding also no manner of cause worthy of death in him: You •o vaunt your selves lustily in speech of the circumcision of your fores kinnes, and your uncircumcised hearts overflow with spiderlike poison:2 you brag of keeping the Sabbath day whiles you take your bodily repast only: but the right use of the Sabbath of the Lord is to have a quiet mind, free from all jar of envy and malice.