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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.
There be an infinite number of the like prophecies in Isaiah,1 concerning the Messiah that should be slain for the sy•nes of the people and rejected of you: of his long lasting seed,2 and unspeakable generation: of the casting away of your whole race, and engrafting the Gentiles in your place:3 ⟨image 51⟩of blinding the eyes of them that did see:4 of the book delivered to the ignorant and unlettered:5 of healing the blind and the lame: of Ostriches and Dragons glorifying God: of floods to be translated into the wilderness: of the salvation of God to be proclaimed from Zion to the uttermost parts of the world: of the small portion of Jews that shall be saved: Finally of the rooting out of your nation, together with the exchange of your name also. And you shall leave your name (sayeth he) as a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord shall slay you, and call his servants by an other name. And again, My servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty: Behold, my servants shall rejoice, and you shall be ashamed. I am not very inquisitive here to learn, with what juggling after your wonted guise and determined malice, ye will corrupt and deprave those places, as you do all other for the most part. Nay rather I will give you full scope to wreathe & wrest them with whatsoever crabbed cavillations ye can suggest, & after whatsoever sensual interpretation ye can devise: yet shall ye never prevail so far forth against the manifest trueth, but that she will be able to ⟨image 51⟩stop your mouth, and convince your shameless impudency, considering that the very orderly course of natural causes, will not permit these sayings to be tossed and tumbled else where, then into the person of Christ Jesus, whom you have crucified.