A17218:86
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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1Out of all this is it easy to understand, how that these rites and ceremonies of the fathers were sacraments, and given to the people of God. Not that they with the letter and outward visible and corporal thing should sufficiently serve God which is a spirit, but that they should lift up their minds above the same to the spiritual things, pondering the mercy of God; out of the which he being moved, is become gracious unto us. And when he might have damned us for our sins and misdeeds, he spared us for his Sons sake, whom he gave unto death, and his innocent death hath he accepted for our sins. Such a faithful consideration (which is the true belief) pleaseth God, and with such a faith is God served, and such a faith would the Lord have taught and planted in us, with the foresaid rites and ceremonies. Therefore all they that pleased God among the old fathers, pleased him not for the letters sake, but by reason of the spirit.
1Out of all this is it easie to understand, how that these rites and ceremonies of the fathers were sacraments, and given to the people of God. Not that they with the letter and outward visible and corporal thing should sufficiently serve God which is a spirit, but that they should lift up their mindes above the same to the spirituall things, pondering the mercy of God; out of the which hee being moved, is become gracious unto us. And when he might have damned us for our sins and misdeeds, he spared us for his Sons sake, whom he gave unto death, and his innocent death hath he accepted for our sinnes. Such a faithfull consideration (which is the true beleefe) pleaseth God, and with such a faith is God served, and such a faith would the Lord have taught and planted in us, with the foresaid rites and ceremonies. Therefore all they that pleased God among the old fathers, pleased him not for the letters sake, but by reason of the spirit.
- 1Why the ceremonies of the Law were given.
When the sacrifice also and ceremony was executed after the ordinance of God in the congregation, the beloved friends of God had not only respect unto the outward thing, but much rather beheld they Christ with the eyes of faith, and thought thus: