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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. II. Of the goodness of God, and wickedness of man.
CHAP. II. Of the goodnesse of God, and wickednesse of man.
God which hath ever been sufficient to all perfection, and needeth nothing of the creatures to his perfectness, only of his own kind and nature, which is good, (that is to say, of his own grace and mercy, yea even because he would do good) created man for himself: But before he created him,1 he provided first for him wonderfully, and furnished him with unspeakable riches of his goodness. For when he devised the creation of man, and the time was now come, which his godly wisdom and providence had ordained, he first of all appointed a wonderful lodging for man, and garnished the same yet much more wonderfully. At the beginning (when the goodly and clear light was made) the Lord ⟨p. 4⟩prepared the instruments, which he afterward sundered one from another, and ordained every one to some purpose. Over the deep, that is, over the water and earth (which yet was in the water) made he a firmament, and spread out the heaven above as a pavilion. Afterward out of the water he called and brought forth the earth, (as much as served for the habitation of men) and appointed the water his bounds and marks, which it may not overpass. And these three things, the water, the earth, and the firmament, (that is to say, the air and clearness above us unto the height of heaven) are the essential and substantial parcels of the world, and serve as an house for the habitation of men: Nevertheless as yet all this was but rough and unfinished, and nothing garnished at all: Therefore did the wise and faithful master put forth his hand wider,2 to perform and pleasantly to garnish that wonderful work; yea not only to garnish it, but also to make it fruitful and profitable for man, which was the guest and inhabiter for to come.