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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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Yet shall we not therefore cast away the old Testament (as some ignorant, unlearned and foolish people do) but have it in greater reputation, for as much as we know now through Christ, what every thing signifieth, and wherefore every thing was thus and thus ordained, used, and spoken: Now shall every man first have a courage to read the Law and the Prophets, when he seeth whereupon every thing goeth. And thus also at the beginning did the holy Apostles preach Christ unto the Jews, out of the Law and the Prophets, as it is oftentimes mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. And our Lord himself, when he went with the two Disciples toward Emmaus,1 and preached so unto them, that their hearts burnt within them, he began at Moses, and went through all the Prophets, and opened unto them the old Scriptures, and showed them, that so it behoved Christ to suffer, and to enter into his glory. This is the cause also that the Scriptures of the New Testament hang altogether, and refer themselves to the Scriptures of the old Testament: so that these cannot be rightly understood without the other, no more than the gloss without the text. The text is the Law and the Prophets,2 the exposition are the Evangelists and the Apostles. Now will we see what the work of grace of the new Testament is.
Yet shall we not therefore cast away the old Testament (as some ignorant, unlearned and foolish people doe) but have it in greater reputation, for as much as wee know now through Christ, what every thing signifieth, and wherefore every thing was thus and thus ordained, used, and spoken: Now shall every man first have a courage to reade the Law and the Prophets, when he seeth whereupon every thing goeth. And thus also at the beginning did the holy Apostles preach Christ unto the Iewes, out of the Law and the Prophets, as it is oftentimes mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. And our Lord himselfe, when hee went with the two Disciples toward Emaus,1 and preached so unto them, that their hearts burnt within them, he began at Moses, and went thorow all the Prophets, and opened unto them the old Scriptures, and shewed them, that so it behoved Christ to suffer, and to enter into his glory. This is the cause also that the Scriptures of the New Testament hang altogether, and referre themselves to the Scriptures of the old Testament: so that these cannot be rightly understood without the other, no more than the glosse without the text. The text is the Law and the Prophets,