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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 when the appointed time came which God had foreseen & opened unto Abraham, Gen. 15.1 he brought the people of Israel by Moses out of Egypt, with and through great wonders and tokens. By the which he first declared his power, then his loving kindness, and mercy toward his own, and his terrible justice and vengeance against his enemies: whereby all the world might know, that there was none other just and true God save the God of Israel, in whose hand only consisteth all things, which also of his mere mercy preserveth his own, and with right judgement rewardeth his enemies. Specially this is most wonderful, that in this great business and work he hath so mightily set forth the redemption performed by our Lord Jesus Christ, yea and expressed it to be a very mighty redemption. For the same night (when they should depart away and be dispatched in the morning) the Lord commanded them to kill a lamb,2 and with the blood thereof to sprinkle the doors and posts of the house: So when the Angel that in the same night slew the first borne of the Egyptians saw the blood, he should do no harm, and slay no man therein, ⟨p. 38⟩Exod. 12.3. Now testifieth Paul, 1 Cor. 5.7. that Christ Jesus is our Easter Lamb and Passover. So saith Saint John, 3Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world. Therefore were not the Israelites spared, because of the blood of beasts,4 but for the bloods sake of the blessed seed that was promised for to come. And thus the whole deliverance out of Egypt was a figure of the true redemption, by the which we are delivered from the power of the devil and from everlasting death through Jesus Christ, and brought into the land of promise, even to eternal joy and salvation, which God promised unto our fathers Adam, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.