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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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This Sabbath you do profane continually, but then chiefly most wickedly, when ye murdered the Lord him self, neither seem as yet satisfied therewith, nor ye will relent any jot at all from your cankered contumacy: you profess in words the letter of the law, but utterly disclaim from the spiritual meaning of the law in your deeds. You cry •ut, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord: and yet you ⟨image 45⟩abhor the Church of Christ, being the true Temple of the Lord: you challenge to your selves a wonderful haughty prerogative of the blood offerings, of the Priesthood, of the Sacrifices and ceremonies of the Law, which in deed carry a certain gallant resemblance of true religion.
This Sabboth you do prophane continually, but then chiefely most wickedly, when ye murthered the Lord him selfe, neither seeme as yet satisfied therewith, nor ye will relent any iote at al from your ca•ckred con•umacie: you professe in wordes the letter of the lawe, but vtterly disclayme from the spirituall meaning of the lawe in your deedes. You crye •ut, The Temple of the Lord, the Temple of the Lord: and yet you ⟨image 45⟩abhorre the Church of Christ, being the true Temple of the Lorde: you challenge to your selues a wonderful hautie prerogatiue of the blood offrings, of the Priesthoode, of the Sacrifices and ceremonies of the Law, which in deede carry a certaine gallaunt resemblance of true religion.
But these outward shadows and ceremonies had their time and place long ago, and were not instituted to the end they should continue irrevocable, but for a season, to represent as it were a superficial view unto us of more excellent things. Even as the kingly Throne of David, and all that politic government of the Israelites did prefigure nothing else unto us, but the everlasting kingdom of Christ, and were as certain principles, wherewith the minds of the beholders might be raised up to a more deep consideration of far high mysteries: in so much that the very same, which was but figured in king David, we plainly perceive to have been expressly discovered in the king of the new Jerusalem, which is the Church of Christ. The same which was prefigured in Abel, in Noah, in Abraham, Melchizedek, Joseph, Moses, Aaron, Joshua, Sampson,