A17218:73
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Now when the Lord had carried his people out of Egypt, and brought them through the red sea dry shod, and had drowned Pharaoh with all his people, he commanded his folk to prepare and cleanse themselves at mount Sinai. For he would bind himself unto them, receive them as his own people, and give them his law and ordinance.1 Which thing he also did, and appointed his law himself, spake it with his own mouth, and wrote it with his own fingers in two tables of stone. In the one and first table he ordained four commandments, concerning the worship and love of God;2 namely, that we should take him only for the true and right God, and none else beside or except him: That we should worship and honour him only, and in no wise to have any other God, comfort, or hope. Item, that we should in no wise make any image or picture of any ⟨p. 39⟩things, and neither to worship them nor serve them. Moreover, that we should not take the name of God in vain, or lightly. And that we should hallow the Sabbath day. In the other table ordained he six commandments concerning man. And like as the four first are comprehended in these words:3 Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, &c. Even so are the six contained in these words following:4 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self. The commandments are these: Thou shalt honour father and mother. Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not break wedlock. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt bear no false witness. Thou shalt not l•st. In all these commandments is comprehended all that serveth for a godly life, and that any where is written of God, of true serving of God, and of right virtue towards this world.
Now when the Lord had caried his people out of Aegypt, and brought them thorow the red sea drie shod, and had drowned Pharao with all his people, he commanded his folke to prepare and cleanse themselues at mount Sina. For he would binde himselfe unto them, receive them as his owne people, and give them his law and ordinance.