A17216:130
The old faith an evident probation out of the holy scripture, that the christen…The olde fayth an euident probacion out of the holy scripture, that the christen…
The old faith an evident probation out of the holy scripture, that the christen faith (which is the right, true, old and undoubted faith) hath endured since the beginning of the world. Herein hast thou also a short sum of the whole Bible, and a probation, that all virtuous men have pleased God, and were saved through the Christen faith. 1547. Myles Coverdale.The olde fayth an euident probacion out of the holy scripture, that the christen fayth (whiche is the right, true, old and vndoubted fayth) hath endured sens the beginnyng of the worlde. Herein hast thou also a short summe of the whole Byble, and a probacion, that al vertuous men haue pleased God, and wer saued through the Christen fayth. 1547. Myles Couerdale.
London : W. Hill, 1547?
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Somewhat yet will we now declare farther co•ernynge the times of the kings of Judah and Israel, which in a manner were even as the times of the Judges of Israel. For like as in the first years of Joshua, god gave great victory and honour, and afterward •est and peace. Even so were the Israelites very victorious and triumphant under David, & had great rest and peace under Solomon But like as after the death of1 Joshua the honour of Israel decreased and the departing away from God followed with one persecution upon another (though in the mean time they had peace and deliverers, as Othoniel, Ehud, Barack, Gedeon. Jephthah, Sampson. &c.) Even so did the worship of Israel decrease after Solomons time. For the ten •ryb•s of Israel fell away from the house of David, only Judah and Ben Jamin held Solomons son Rehoboam for their king: the other made Jeroboam king. And so of one kingdom were made two, the kingdom of Israel, and the kingdom of Judah. The kingdom of Israel (through the persuasion of Jeroboam) chose them another manner of serving God. Not that they utterly deny and refused the God of their fathers, but they served him after a strange heathenish manner of their own imagining. But afterward they fell the ⟨image 47⟩longer the more and farther in to gross idolatry, so long, till the Lord suffered them to be rotted out and carried away by the king of the Assyrians, and scattered abroad among all the Heathen. The kingdom and the kings of Judah were somewhat better, howbeit they had some also which excelled the kings of Israel and of the Heathen in ungodliness. For they likewise went forth so long in unrighteousness, till Nabugodonosor the king rotted them out, and carried them away unto Babylon. But afore, we see that there was a wonderful cumbrance in the evil police and in the religion Sometime was all righteousness and true religion oppressed, and violence and idolatry used. Sometime gat righteousness up again, & the right true faith had y• victory all unright and idolatry being put down. This came to pas also in Israel under Elijah and king Jehu. Yet was the idolatry2