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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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Therefore saith not the Lord now; And cursed be thou man, because thou hast done against my Commandment; but, And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, 1between thy seed and her seed: the same shall tread thee on the head, and thou shalt tread him on the heel. Which is thus much to say; Thou hast used the woman to the destruction of men, so that from henceforth they bring death, and by kind and nature are damned when they are borne. Therefore will I also use the woman, but to salvation: for of the woman shall a seed or ⟨p. 12⟩child be borne,2 which shall break thy head, power and kingdom, sin, damnation and death: howbeit in his manhood he shall be trodden down and bitten. That is, Man with his transgression hath deserved eternal death, so that (after the rigour of my justice) he should perish and belong to the Devil for ever: nevertheless I Will have mercy upon him, and receive him to grace again. But to the intent that my truth and righteousness may be satisfied, I will cause my Son to take the very nature of man upon him. Then will I, that he take upon himself the curse and damnation, and die, and with his innocent death to take away that noisome death and curse, and so to set the generation of man out of death into life, out of the dominion of the Devil into his own kingdom, out of darkness into light.3 Thus the right foundation or ground of our holy faith continueth fast and unmoved: in so much as all the generation of man is whole and cleansed from sin, and delivered from the curse, from the Devil and everlasting damnation, only through the mercy and mere grace of God by Jesus Christ.
Therefore saith not the Lord now; And cursed bee thou man, because thou hast done against my Commandement; but, And I will put enmitie betweene thee and the woman, 1betweene thy seed and her seed: the same shall tread thee on the head, and thou shalt tread him on the heele. Which is thus much to say; Thou hast used the woman to the destruction of men, so that from henceforth they bring death, and by kinde and nature are damned when they are borne. Therefore will I also use the woman, but to salvation: for of the woman shall a seed or