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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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Of the progeny of Shem were borne Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Gen. 11. And as it is said afore,1 the sincere faith was somewhat darkened in Chaldea: therefore did God call Abraham out from the idolatry, and renewed with him the old true Christian faith begun with Adam, and said, Gen. 12.2 Get thee out of thy country and from thy kindred, and from thy fathers house unto the land that I will show thee, and I will bless thee, and make a great nation of thee. And in thee shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. ⟨p. 32⟩Item in the 22. chapter speaketh God yet more clearly,3 and saith, In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed. This doth Paul declare in the third to the Galatians, and saith, In thy seed which is Christ. 4Therefore was the same now another renewing of the promise of Christ the blessed seed.5 For first was he promised unto Adam, afterward was the promise renewed with Noah, and now with Abraham. And all this now is but one promise,6 one Saviour, and one faith. Abraham also believed in Jesus Christ, and was saved by faith. For Jesus Christ saith himself in the eighth chapter of John, 7Abraham saw my day, and rejoiced. What is now the day of Christ but the clearness of the holy Gospel? This light had he not bodily, but saw it with the eyes of faith, and the same made him joyful and saved him. For Christ is the true joy of troubled consciences. Thus became Abraham the Father of all faithful believers,8