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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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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.
After this also began he to garnish the heaven and firmament, and set therein the Sunne and the Moone, the Planets and Starres: which things all are goodlier and more wonderfull than mans tongue can expresse. 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 downe going, or motion) to declare the times, yeares, moneths, and daies, dividing the daies and nights asunder.
- 1The office of t•e creatures in t•• firmament.
Thirdly, he laid his hand likewise in the water,1 in the which he had wrought no less wonders, than in heaven and upon earth. For in the water (and especially in the sea) do the wonderful works of God appear in the fishes and marvels of the sea, if a man consider the nature and disposition of them.2 And in the air also hath he created and ordained great tokens of his goodness, power, and wisdom, even the fowls that pleasantly (according to divers commodities) do sing unto man, and refresh him.
Thirdly, he laid his hand likewise in the water,