A04920:217
An Answer to a Great Number of Blasphemous Cavillations
An answer to a great number of blasphemous cavillations written by an Anabaptist, and adversary to Gods eternal predestination. And confuted by John Knox, minister of Gods word in Scotland. Wherein the author so discovereth the craft and falsehood of that sect, that the godly knowing that error, may be confirmed in the trueth by the evident Word of GodAn answer to a great nomber of blasphemous cauillations written by an Anabaptist, and aduersarie to Gods eternal predestination. And confuted by Iohn Knox, minister of Gods worde in Scotland. Wherein the author so discouereth the craft and falshode of that sect, that the godly knowing that error, may be confirmed in the trueth by the euident Worde of God
Geneva: printed by John Crespin, 1560Geneva: printed by Iohn Crespin, 1560
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.
and in hearing that most joy full and comfortable voice: I am the God of Abraham thy father & of Isaac: the land whereupon thou sleepest, I will give to thee,1 and to thy seed &c. and lo I am with thee and will keep the whether so ever thou goest, and will bring the again into this land. In seeing and hearing these things. I say, did Jacob understand, that the benediction of God ⟨p. 135⟩extended further then to temporal things, yea that rather it did extend to that union & conjunction, which was betwixt God and man in that blessed seed promised, then to the possession, of the land of Canaan. for the one did neither Abraham, Isaac, nor Jacob possess in their lives, neither yet their posterity many years after: but the joy of the other, did all the elect feel, and see and did rejoice as Christ Jesus doeth witness, of our father Abraham.
ād in hearing that most ioy full and comfortable voice: I am the God of Abraham thy father & of Isaak: the lād whereupō thow slepest, I will giue to the,1 and to thy sede &c. and lo I am with the and will kepe the whether so ener thow goest, ād will bring the againe into this land. In seing and hearing these thinges. I say, did Iacob vnderstand, that the benediction of God ⟨p. 135⟩extended further then to temporall thinges, yea that rather it did extend to that vnion & coniunction, which was betwext God and man in that blessed sede promised, then to the possession, of the land of Canaan. for the one did neither Abraham, Isaak, nor Iacob possesse in their liues, neither yet their posteritie many yeares after: but the ioy of the other, did all the elect fele, and see and did reioyce as Christ Iesus doeth witnes, of our father Abraham.
- 1Gen. 28.