A17218:104
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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For the martyrs and they in the Primitive Church, being gathered together of the Apostles, and after the Apostles time, have thus kept truth and faith toward the Lord Christ, and were willing to die for knowledging him. Afterward describeth he also in the foresaid verse, the pure and holy conception and birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. And this doth he with a goodly similitude, and saith:1 Thy birth shall be holy and very excellent, not unclean as the birth of other men: For like as the dew out of the clear heaven, and out of the fair morning, is borne as it were out of a mothers womb: even so also shalt thou be borne holy and clean, of an undefiled virgin. Whereof thou findest more instruction, Luk 1.31. The Lord hath sworn, and it shall not repent him: 2thou-art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. 3In this fourth verse describeth he the office of Jesus Christ, how that he is ordained of God to be one only Priest for ever, which should offer up himself for the sin of the world, and alway appear in the sight of God the Father, and to pray for us. All this doth holy Paul declare at large to the Hebrews in the 5.7.8·9. and 10. chapters. And specially in this verse is grounded all that is read throughout the Scripture, of the merits of Christ, of the forgiving of sins, of righteous making, of being Mediator, and that he alone is the ⟨p. 62⟩only Salvation, Advocate, Satisfaction and Righteousness of the faithful.4 The Lord is at thy right hand: he in the time of his wrath shall wound even Kings. 5This fifth verse teacheth, how God will ever more and more stand on his Sons side, further his cause, and bring down and destroy those Kings, Princes, and Lords, that will not amend and believe in Christ, but will rather provoke his wrath, than desire his grace. Which thing Herod, Nero, Domitian, Maximin and Julian have proved. Yet followeth the sixth verse declaring the fifth: He shall judge among the Heathen, and fill all full of dead bodies,