A17218:101
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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1David also was a man that suffered much through divers and long trouble, through miserable distress and vexation, and through sore persecution, without ceasing, being proved, tried and provoked, afore he was King. Whereof the books of Samuel and the more part of the Psalms beareth record. But after that he was promoted unto the kingdom, by God (which said,2 I have found a man after mine own heart) he advanced, set forth, and magnified the true faith right diligently. Here also to the honour of our Lord Jesus Christ, will I shortly and by the way declare, what knowledge and faith this noble King and Prophet had of our Lord Jesus. This will I do with the declaration of the 110. Psalm, whose words are these:3 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy foot-stool. In the first verse David knowledgeth the persons in the holy Trinity,4 the God-head also and the eternal kingdom of Christ. Thus likewise did our Lord Jesus Christ understand and allege this verse in the Gospel, Matth. 22. knowledging two of the Persons in the one only Godhead,5 for he saith, The Lord said unto my Lord. Now is it certain and undeniable, that he which speaketh, and he to whom ought is spoken, are not one, but two Persons. Yet is there but one Lord and God, and they both (the Father that speaketh, and the Son to whom is spoken) are the Lord, therefore are they one, of one substance and being, the very true God. Neither is the Son less than the ⟨p. 59⟩Father. There can also none be a father, except he have a son or a child. Now is the everlasting Father God, therefore is the Son also everlasting. There is also but one only everlasting without beginning. Both the Father and the Son are eternal without beginning, therefore are they one only true God with the holy Ghost. Like as John also saith, In the beginning, (that is to say, from everlasting) was the Word, and the Word was with God,