A17218:103
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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That the kingdom of Christ shall last for ever, and that the kind and nature of man shall be exalted above all heavens (as Paul saith, Hebr. 2.) David testifieth with these words: Sit thou at my right hand, till I make thine enemies thy foot-stool. 1For Mark saith in the sixteenth chapter:2 The Lord was taken up into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God. Of this also find we 1 Cor. 15.15. Now must ⟨p. 60⟩he needs be very God indeed, which reigneth for ever, and to whom all enemies must be subdued, yea cast utterly unto his feet. Now followeth the second verse:3 The Lord shall send thy mighty staff out of Zion: thou shalt be Lord, even in the middest among thine enemies. Here speaketh he of the preaching of the holy Gospel, and how the world should be converted unto Christ, and Christ to reign in the middest of the world. In the first verse is spoken of the eternal kingdom, that he is very God, living and reigning for ever,4 not only in this time, but also after this time eternally. But here speaketh he specially of the kingdom, whereas he reigneth here beneath through the Gospel. For the Staff, the Sceptre, the Rod of Christ is the holy Gospel, even the power of God, which saveth all that believe, Rom. 1.16. Which maketh Christs enemies friends, and smiteth them down that will not convert: so that Christ hath dominion and victory even in the middest among his enemies. It is he, that with the spirit of his mouth slayeth the Antichrists. This his word also and preachings of the Gospel,5 came forth first from Zion or Jerusalem, as Isaiah, 6