A17218:63
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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1Of Noah came afterward all people, yea among his three sons Japheth, Shem and Ham, he had both the seed of God and of the froward serpent, that is, such as had respect unto God, and them also that regarded the devil.2 Of Ham came the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, by and from whom sprang ⟨p. 31⟩idolatry, offering to images, and from whom false religion came up first, and was brought in among other nations by the help of the old serpent, as among the Greeks, Romans, and other people.
1Of Noe came afterward all people, yea among his three sonnes Iaphet, Sem and Cham, he had both the seed of God and of the froward serpent, that is, such as had respect unto God, and them also that regarded the devill.2 Of Cham came the Aegyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, by and from whom sprang ⟨p. 31⟩idolatry, offering to images, and from whom false religion came up first, and was brought in among other nations by the helpe of the old serpent, as among the Greekes, Romanes, and other people.
- 1Through Noah was the world replenished.Through Noe was the world replenished.
- 2Ham the first Idolater after the Flood.Cham the first Idolater after the Floud.
By this it is good to understand, that our holy Christian faith is elder than any other. For here may we see clearly, that after a thousand and certain hundred years (almost in the eight hundred or nine hundred year) came up the first beginning of the Heathens belief and offering to Images,