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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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And first, in as much as man should inhabit the earth, he garnished it aforehand, and clothed it with a goodly green garment, that is, with a substance, which he decked first with flowers and all manner of herbs, which not only are pleasant to look upon, and wonderfully beautified, of a pleasant taste and goodly colour, but also profitable for food and all manner of medicine. To the same also did he first add sundry trees and plants. Then watered he the earth with fair springs, rivers ⟨p. 5⟩and running waters. And the ground made he not like on every side, but in many places set it up pleasantly: And hereof have we the valleys, plains, mountains and hills: which things all have their due operation, fruit, and pleasantness.
And first, in as much as man should inhabit the earth, he garnished it aforehand, and cloathed it with a goodly greene garment, that is, with a substance, which hee deckt first with flowers and all manner of herbes, which not onely are pleasant to looke upon, and wonderfully beautified, of a pleasant taste and goodly colour, but also profitable for food and all manner of medicine. To the same also did he first adde sundry trees and plants. Then watered hee the earth with faire springs, rivers ⟨p. 5⟩and running waters. And the ground made he not like on every side, but in many places set it up pleasantly: And hereof have wee the vallies, plaines, mountains and hills: which things all have their due operation, fruit, and pleasantnesse.
After this also began he to garnish the heaven and firmament, and set therein the Sun and the Moon, the Planets and Stars: which things all are goodlier and more wonderful than mans tongue can express. As for their office,1 and the cause why they are set in the heaven, it is to give us light, and (with their up and down going, or motion) to declare the times, years, months, and days, dividing the days and nights asunder.