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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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CHAP. IX. All holy Prophets do point unto Christ, and preach salvation only in him.
CHAP. IX. All holy Prophets doe point unto Christ, and preach salvation only in him.
Somewhat yet will we now declare further, concerning 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 rest and peace: Even so were the Israelites very victorious and triumphant under David, and had great rest and peace under Solomon. 1But like as after the death of 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, Gideon, Jephthah, Sampson, &c.) Even so did the worship of Israel decrease after Solomons time. For the ten ⟨p. 67⟩Tribes of Israel fell away from the house of David, only Judah and Benjamin 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 denied 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 longer the more and further into gross idolatry, so long, till the Lord suffered them to be rooted 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 Nebuchadnezzar the King rooted them out, and carried them away unto Babylon. But afore, we see that there was a wonderful cumbrance in the civill policy, and in the religion. Sometime was all righteousness and true religion oppressed, and violence and idolatry used. Sometime gat righteousness up again, and the right true faith had the victory, all unright and idolatry being put down. This came to pass also in Israel under Elijah and King Jehu.