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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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Thus through Christ Jesus is all fulfilled, that the Prophets prophesied of him before,1 thus to become the salvation of all faithful believers, even the Lamb of God, which hath been sacrificed since the beginning of the world; that is, this is he, whose power and deliverance hath cleansed all them that ever put their trust in God through the blessed seed. Herein now is the right true salvation, this is the sum of the right and perfect religion. Who so perverteth this, ⟨p. 91⟩from him shall God turn himself: who so addeth ought unto this, to him shall God add his wrathful hand: who so taketh therefrom, his life shall God minish. But blessed are they, which walk in this simplicity & cleanness, and continue so unto the end; even they that hear Gods word, and do thereafter, whose only hope is Jesus Christ. This only true and ever during salvation would he to be showed and declared to all nations, which came to save all nations: but he would it should be declared by the preaching of the holy Gospel, and through the ministration of the holy Sacraments: And therefore by his life time he did choose Apostles, whom he received to be witnesses of all his doctrine and miracles, informing them diligently, and held nothing back from them. For he saith unto them; Ye are my friends, 2if ye do all that I command you, I will henceforth call you no more servants, for a servant wotteth not what his Lord doth. 3But I have called you my friends, for all that I have heard of my Father, have I opened unto you, Joh. 15. But for as much as they yet lacked understanding, and were forgetful, and had ever strange imaginations of the kingdom of Christ, therefore when he now ascended unto heaven, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the Holy Ghost: whom he also gave unto them upon the fiftieth day after his resurrection; that is, upon the tenth day after his ascension, even the fifteenth day of May:4 by the which Holy Ghost they being illuminate, spake with all manner of languages, and were mindful of all that the Lord had commanded