A17218:74
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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Who so now doth well ponder these ten chapters or commandments,1 and compareth them to the doings and works of the holy Patriarchs and old Fathers which had no law in writing, he shall find, that the Lord now with this his written law began no new thing, neither ought that was not afore in the world, but rather renewed the old: and the law that he hitherto had written in the hearts of holy men, now when the people had gotten them stony hearts, he wrote the same in tables of stone.2 For that we ought to worship and serve God only, and to have none other Gods, the same did the holy fathers so believe and keep, that all their conversation and doing beareth record ⟨p. 40⟩3thereof. Concerning images or idols, it is evident, that Jacob buried the Idols of Mesopotamia 4under an Oak beside Shechem, Gen. 35.4. We may perceive also by the oaths of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, how the name of God was had in reverence 5among them of old, and not taken in vain. The Sabbath did not the Lord ordain here first, but on the seventh day of the Creation, Gen. 2.3. The same did the fathers keep aright no doubt, John 67.22. Whereas Ham had not his father Noah in reverence, 7he was cursed for it, Gen. 9.25. Adultery did the heathen rulers forbid under pain of death,