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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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1Of the ascension of Jesus Christ and sending of the Holy Ghost, hath Joel also written in the second chapter, and it is alleged of S. Peter, Act. 2. Of the calling and gathering together the Heathen,2 and of every thing pertaining to the holy Church, doth Isaiah write in the 49. chapter, and so forth to the end of his prophecy.
1Of the ascension of Iesus Christ and sending of the Holy Ghost, hath Ioel also written in the second chapter, and it is alleaged of S. Peter, Act. 2. Of the calling and gathering together the Heathen,2 and of every thing pertaining to the holy Church, doth Esay write in the 49. chapter, and so forth to the end of his prophecie.
- 1The Ascension.
- 2The vocation of the Heathen.
1Thus hast thou, that the Prophets also in their time, did preach Jesus Christ, and pointed not the people to trust unto the works of the law and their own deserving, but unto Christ, of whom they prophesied every thing that followed after. Therefore did Peter speak right, 1 Pet. 1. saying: Ye shall receive the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls. 2After which salvation have the Prophets inquired and searched, which prophesied of the grace that should come unto you, searching when or what time the spirit of Christ (which was in them) should signify: which spirit testified before, the passions that should happen unto Christ, and the glory that should follow after. Unto the which Prophets it was also declared, that not unto themselves only, but unto us they