A17218:85
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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1I answer; Such outward rites of the people of God were sacraments and tokens of heavenly invisible good things, and were not the heavenly riches themselves. Wherefore they neither served nor pleased God, that used and did such service without faith and lifting up of the mind. But they that put their trust in God, cleaving only unto ⟨p. 47⟩him, and lifting up their hearts higher, and remained not in the visible thing, those pleased God. Whereas they had but one Altar and one place appointed where they should do sacrifice;2 it signified the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, and that he should be offered up but once, (and that in one place) for the sin of the world. Therefore whereas the high Priest also every year went into the inward Tabernacle with blood; it signified, that our Lord Jesus should come into this world, and shed his blood once for all, to forgive and cleanse our sins, and so to ascend unto heaven. Yea all oblations and all sheddings of blood in the sacrifices of the old fathers, signified the death of our Lord Jesus Christ. Nothing was cleansed among them without blood; which signifieth,3 that all the purging of our uncleanness is done by the blood of Jesus Christ. And all the Priesthood which was ordained for to teach, to pray, and make intercession, to offer and do sacrifice, represented the office of our Lord Christ, which came into this world, to teach us the truth and righteousness: then to offer himself to the Father for our sins, and after the sacrifice done, to rise up again from death, to ascend unto heaven, there to sit at the right hand of God, and even there as a true high Bishop to appear alway in the presence of God, and to pray for us. This is the sum of the rites and ceremonies of the old fathers, the understanding of the figures, and the spirit of the letter: whereof holy Paul hath written much in the most excellent epistle to the Hebrews.
1I answer; Such outward rites of the people of God were sacraments and tokens of heavenly invisible good things, and were not the heavenly riches themselves. Wherefore they neither served nor pleased God, that used and did such service without faith and lifting up of the minde. But they that put their trust in God, cleaving only unto