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Look from Adam, and behold the Protestants faith and religion evidently proved out of…Looke from Adam, and behold the Protestants faith and religion evidently proued out of…
Look from Adam, and behold the Protestants faith and religion evidently proved out of the holy Scriptures against all atheists, papists, loose libertines, and carnal gospellers: and that the faith which they profess, hath continued from the beginning of the world, and so is the true and ancient faith. Herein hast thou also a short sum of the whole Bible, and a plain manifestation, that all holy men who have pleased God, have been saved through this Christian faith alone.Looke from Adam, and behold the Protestants faith and religion evidently proued out of the holy Scriptures against all atheists, papists, loose libertines, and carnall gospellers: and that the faith which they professe, hath continued from the beginning of the world, and so is the true and ancient faith. Herein hast thou also a short summe of the whole Bible, and a plaine manifestation, that all holy men who have pleased God, have beene saved through this Christian faith alone.
London: printed by John Haviland for Thomas Pavier, 1624London: printed by Iohn Haviland for Thomas Pavier, 1624
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Therefore are they no works of the flesh, neither is it now contrary to the holy faith, if Christian rulers deliver their innocent people (whom God hath subdued ⟨p. 57⟩unto them) from wrongful violence, and defend their liberty, righteousness, house and land, or punish the shameful blasphemers, Idolaters, and persecutors of the holy faith, and not suffer them to have all their malicious will. Nevertheless,1 this must be done by them, to whom God hath committed the sword. For thus saith the Lord:2 Who so taketh away the sword, shall perish through the sword, Matth. 26. But specially in the battles of Gods people and of the unfaithful, it cometh to pass, and is expressly set before our eyes, that God said to the serpent at the beginning, Gen. 3.3 I will put enmity between thy seed and the woman's seed. For the righteous are the seed of Christ, the unrighteous and unfaithful are the seed of the Devil. Between these now see we great discord; but specially this, that the faithful do alway tread the serpent on the head, though they themselves also be bitten in the heel. For the right faithful believers afore the birth of Christ in the time of the promise, had no less trouble and persecution, not only because of sin, but also for righteousness and faiths sake, than the faithful after Christs birth in the time of grace and perfectness.4 Therefore have they small knowledge of the doings of the faithful, which say, that the people of old were a victorious people, and governed corporally, but that the people after Christs coming are borne to suffer, and to no victory or governance. Nevertheless in these wonderful times (in the which Gods people had no victory, and anon were subdued and oppressed) the true faith continued upright and unblemished ⟨p. 58⟩from Joshua forth throughout all the Judges, until the time and reign of David.