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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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But Cain did as all ungodly do: For he went forth, and slew his innocent brother. And afterward when the Lord would have brought him into the knowledge of his great sin, and pardon him, he despised the voice of the Lord with cracking and facing.1 For the which cause the Lord was wroth with him, and cursed him. Then despaired he first, and went forth and became yet more wicked, dealt altogether ungodly, set first his mind upon earthly things, thought to exalt his name upon earth, and builded the first city, which he called Hanoch: he begat sons and daughters, but little fear of God was before their eyes, in so much that the Scripture saith,2 Adam lay with his wife again, and she bare a son, whom she called Seth. For God (said she) hath given me another seed for Abel, whom Cain slew. Seth also had a son, and he called him Enos. And then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. Out of the which words it is easy to understand, that as touching holy Adam, 3he held no more of Cain, than as though he never had had child. For Adam feared God: Cain with his progeny despised God, and became the Serpents generation. Wherefore when Adam had gotten another son, he was of a good hope, that in Abel's ⟨p. 26⟩stead God had given him another son, which should do right, and of whom the root of the blessed seed should spread out afterward. For the which cause also he called him Seth, which by us is called a plant,4 meaning, that God had set and planted him as a branch, out of which the Messiah should be borne. For as for Cain, he doubted of him. And from the same Seth proceeded the generation of the righteous until Noah, and from him to Abraham, and so unto David, and from thence forth unto Christ. This Seth repaired our holy faith, which received great hurt at the death of Abel. 5This did Seth (I say) for as much as he being taught inwardly of God, and by mouth or outwardly of Adam, learned his children and their seed, to put their trust in God, and to comfort themselves in the blessed seed, and to cleave unto the same.