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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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Moreover, the enmity between the children of God and of man (that is, the issue of the Serpent) grew ever more and more: so that on the one side the multitude of God increased, and on the other side the multitude of the devil:1 Yet at the last the multitude of the wicked was greatest. For when the children of God withheld not themselves from the children of the world, but took wives and husbands among them, they begat rough people, which had no faith at all, and lived only after their own lust and temptation, forgot God utterly, and regarded not the hundred and twenty years which God gave them to amend. Therefore was ⟨p. 28⟩God constrained, so to punish the unfaithful world once,2 that all posterities unto the end of the world might have a terrible example of the just wrath of God: whereby they might learn, how ungodliness and unrighteousness displeaseth God. Thus the Lord brought the flood upon all the earth,3 overthrew all that stood up, and destroyed every thing that had life, when the world had stood now a thousand six hundred and six and fifty years. For so many years find we in the fifth and seventh of Genesis, where it is written, that Noah was six hundred years old, when the flood came upon the earth. Now if we reckon the years of the old Fathers in the fifth chapter until Adam, we shall find the foresaid sum. And thus the issue of the Serpent had an end, and all ungodly and unrighteous living was mightily supperest and destroyed of God.
Moreover, the enmitie betweene the children of God and of man (that is, the issue of the Serpent) grew ever more and more: so that on the one side the multitude of God increased, and on the other side the multitude of the devill:1 Yet at the last the multitude of the wicked was greatest. For when the children of God withheld not themselves from the children of the world, but tooke wives and husbands among them, they begat rough people, which had no faith at all, and lived only after their owne lust and temptation, forgat God utterly, and regarded not the hundred and twentie yeeres which God gave them to amend. Therefore was