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A17218	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.; Alte Glaube. English	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568.	1624 (1624)	STC 4073; ESTC S108889	66,495	116

did the Lord not eat the meat that hee might have eaten but fasted fortie daies and fortie nights Afterward came hee among the people and began to preach salvation saying The time is fulfilled and the kingdome of God is at hand repent and beleeve the Gospell Herewith hath he healed all sores driven out Devils and raised up the dead testifying so by his acts that he is Lord of all things and the true Saviour And of them whom hee healeth asketh he nothing hee commandeth them not to build him a Temple neither to give him blocke or stocke hee requireth no bodily thing but onely stedfast faith and confidence And to them whom hee hath healed hee saith Goe thy way and sinne no more take heed that a worse thing happen not unto thee And herewithall doth hee teach in what thing the substance of true Religion lieth even in a right true faith and in an innocent life that in all our conversation wee keepe our selves from all filthinesse Yea the thing that some man taketh for Gods service refuseth hee as long babling prayers vaine-glorious fasting and like almes giving Hee nothing regardeth mens traditions diversities of sects long garments outward appearance their cleansing nor all their hypocrisie He goeth into the Temple overthroweth casteth downe powreth out every thing that is to bee sold in the Temple he driveth the buyers and sellers out of the Temple with a whip For the Temple was ordained for generall prayer thanksgiving and preaching and not for chopping and changing or other such like things These three points doth hee teach vs diligently to observe First that wee obtaine remission of sinnes true righteousnesse and everlasting life onely through him and by his Passion and death and else by none other meane For hee is the onely Mediatour Priest Intercessour Comforter the onely Righteousnesse Satisfaction Ransome Sanctifying the onely perpetuall Sacrifice the Suretie of grace and salvation Speciall testimonies hereof hast thou Iohn 3.6.14 and 16. Secondly that wee cannot serve and please God with exteriour sacrifices or any outward pompe but with such workes as proceed of love and mercie And thirdly that all the children of God are bound to keepe themselves from the workes of darknesse and to apply them to live in righteousnesse and in the light And herein also is comprehended all godlinesse that is all right good Christian workes So when hee had taught all righteousnesse and disclosed and overthrowen all hypocrisie in religion he offered up himselfe upon the crosse for the remission of all our sinnes For willingly and patiently put he himselfe into the hands of his enemies and of his betrayer suffered himselfe to be taken to be bound to be led from one Iudge to another to be laughed to scorne cried out upon to be spitted on and at the last to be adjudged unto death to be scourged and to be crowned with a crowne of thorne Hee himselfe bare his owne crosse to the place of execution where hee was crucified and hanged up betweene two murtherers Then lived hee in great paine from the sixth houre untill the ninth At the last he cried It is finished Father into thy hands commend I my spirit thus offered he himselfe for our sinnes and died that wee might live But soone after followed the things whereby the fruit of Christs passion might bee perceived For the vaile which in the Temple separated the holy from the most holy did rent from the top to the bottome whereby Christ testified that now with his death all ceremonies and figurative things were at an end and no more of value that the way to eternall salvation was opened that all things significative in the Tabernacle in sacrifices rites and observances were now fulfilled and abrogate that now the bare and onely crosse of our Lord Iesus Christ is altogether unto the faithfull that the heele of the Virgins seed is well trodden upon and his flesh well rent and slaine but that yet also in the meane season he hath trodden the serpent upon the head Therefore did the dead also arise and appeared vnto certaine at Hierusalem For the death of Christ is our life The earth quaked the stones burst asunder For the preaching of the death of the Sonne of God hath altered the whole world and many hard stonie hearts are moved to repentance faith and good works But when the side of the dead bodie of Christ was opened with the speare and the rocke as Zacharie saith was digged up there ran out water and bloud declaring manifestly thereby that unto us out of the death of Christ followeth life and purifying For water cleanseth in the bloud is the life of man And with the bloud of Christ is all bloud stanched and now is Christs bloud only available being sprinkled through faith in our hearts This oblation and passion of Christ the ransome for the sinne of the whole world was done in the 18. yeere of the Empire of Tiberius reckoning from the beginning of the world 4007. yeeres the 25. day of March. So the whole bodie of Iesus was taken downe from the crosse and honourably buried and on the third day after hee rose up againe so that his soule came againe to the bodie and his verie flesh was raised up from death howbeit now no more mortall and passible but glorified For hee is the first in the resurrection of the dead For like as by one man came death so by one man must come the resurrect on of the dead And like as in Adam wee all died in bodie and soule so shall wee be all together restored againe to life in Christ Iesus This hope unto life would the Lord print substantially in us with the resurrection And therefore after his resurrection hee continued fortie dayes with his Disciples that hee might well instruct them of his resurrection and that they should haue no doubt therein So when he had shewed and declared unto them his verie resurrection divers wayes and had performed al that the Father commanded him to finish hee ascended up unto heaven with bodie and soule from mount Olivet in the sight of his Disciples and is set at the right hand of God there to remaine corporally untill the last day in the which hee shall come againe bodily to judge the quicke and dead And all such as have walked in faith shall he take to him with bodie and soule into heaven like as hee himselfe is received into heaven And shall with bodie and soule condemne all them that have walked in the way of the old serpent and have no● converted from unrighteousnesse to the righteousnesse in Christ And thus shall salvation bee perfectly finished and Gods children shall live eternally with God through Iesus Christ To whom be praise for ever Amen CHAP. XI That also the elect Apostles preached this old faith and declared that all salvation is onely in Christ THus through Christ Iesus is all fulfilled that the

of his Epistle What would such an holy Apostle say to this wicked world wherein a great number pretending to be Christian men are given so to quarelling and fighting to voluptuousnesse and inordinate lusts to envie and indignation to unlawfull spending and consuming of that they may get to advoutrie to the despising of holy wedlocke to shamefull uncleannesse either not willing to marry or else putting away their wives for light occasions and for satisfying of their owne trifling lusts falling in love with the vaine friendship of this world taking part against God yea whereas by their profession oath and allegiance which they owe to their most high Soveraigne the King of heaven they should in a vertuous conversation maintaine all godlinesse are become even enemies suppressours and overthrowers thereof as well through their obstinate and cruell resisting of Gods word as by other wicked examples of their vicious and filthy living What would holy S. Iames say to such unthankfull bellies that knowing the truth live after such a sort Would he spare them though they were never so rich and wealthie Reade the fourth chapter of his Epistle and the first part of his fifth chapter and yee will judge the contrarie Wherefore most deare Readers whosoever of you hath beene slacke to follow the good life and godly conversation that S. Iames and all the other Scripture beside requireth to be in them which professe the old faith let them take better hold turne againe to the truth and follow that loving exhortation which holy S. Iames maketh in the latter end of his Epistle And if he hath at the first not enclined to Gods word nor received it unfainedly in meekenesse nor submitted himselfe to be ordered thereby and to cast away all uncleannesse c. But hath haply suffered it promoted it set it forth or taken a pretence of favour and love to it for some other purpose to obtaine any carnall profit gaines or libertie by it let him not put holy S. Iames or any other true messenger of God to the paines of rebuking him for so doing let him rather enter into himselfe reprove his owne fault and abuse in that behalfe abhorre it in any wise be angry displeased and discontent with himselfe sorie and repentant for it shame not to aske God mercie and by good workes from hence forward to labour that the glory of God and worship of his truth may be preferred and set up which he by such his unchristian living hath in times past caused to be hindred In conclusion Though there be never so many that recant and deny Gods holy word either in their living and conversation or in their words writing or preaching yet as many of us as are entered into the schoole of that wisdome which is from aboue let us be true scholers of the same and practise it both in our thought word and deed let us even enter into the nature and kinde thereof which as S. Iames saith Iam. 3. is pure peaceable gentle and easie to be intreated full of mercie and good fruits without judging and dissimulation Which thing if we doe then shall we follow no filthy doctrine nor counterfeited wisdome then shall we be no breakers of peace then shall we be as glad to forgive as we would be forgiven glad to be reformed rich and plentifull in the workes of mercie and good fruits of the old faith then shall we be no quarrell-pickers or dissemblers with any man Then shall wee not only be found the maintainers of peace and all good order but peaceably also and in all gentle manner shall we both in word and deed sow spread abroad and shew the fruit of that righteousnesse which commeth only of God through Iesus Christ If any of them that are gone of high or low estate pretending to be maintainers favourers setters forth or scholers of Christs doctrine hath in any condition dissembled therewith fallen from God misbehaved himselfe in the affaires of his Prince misgoverned his houshold maintained riot vice and sinne or brought the good word of God into any evill report by his ungodly conversation as I feare me it be too true let us beware by such mens fall Let us not receive the grace of God in vaine For like as they that harden their hearts at Gods word and spurne wilfully against it are sure of their damnation except they repent Even so they that dissemble withall shall finde their judgement Wherefore let us that have received the old true faith of Christ not only be content to abide any storme or trouble for it yea to be mocked scorned persecuted and put to death therefore if it so please God but also unfainedly every man to his power in his heart by fervent prayer in his mouth by good words and in all his bodie by vertuous conversation and good Christian workes helpe and labour that the blessed word of God may have the due honour belonging thereunto and that the same which it hath lost through ungodly behaviour of some may through the grace and goodnesse of God bee wonne againe in our good living That God may have of us better servants our Prince truer subjects and our neighbours more unfained lovers than many have been before us Amen AN EVIDENT DECLARATION OVT of the Holy Scriptures that the Christian faith hath endured since the beginning of the world and that through it only all vertuous men pleased God and were saved CHAP. I. I SVPPOSE plainly that many simple Christian men will not a little wonder at this mine enterprise they are so perswaded and thinke the Christian faith did first beginne under Tiberius the Emperour for as much as out of the Gospell of Luke it is certaine that in the fifteenth yeere of Tiberius Iohn Baptist beganne to preach the Gospell and all histories say with one accord that in the xviij yeare of Tiberius Iesus Christ did suffer Now it is true that all the Prophecies were then first fulfilled and the true salvation performed yea from that time forth were all the glorious treasures of Christ so richly declared and powred out among all people as they never were afore Notwithstanding the same salvation in Christ Iesus was promised long afore and so opened to the holy old Fathers that they have no lesse sight of Christ Iesus in the spirit than we and put their trust in him as well as we though among us it be cleere and open or performed and fulfilled that among them was somewhat darker and therefore looked for with hearts desire as a thing for to come Moreover it is not I that first bring forth this meaning concerning the antiquitie or oldnesse of our Christian faith for the holy Bishop Eusebius Cesariens which lived above eleven hundred yeeres agoe and likewise many other Christian Doctors hath also taught and written the same more cleerely before me For Eusebius in the first booke De Ecclesiastica historia saith plainly All

threatning that in what houre soever he did eat of the same tree he should die an everlasting death But untruly dealt man with his faithfull God transgressed his commandement and gave more credit to the perswasion of the woman and of the serpent than to the true word of God which was nothing else but even as much as to take the forme of good and evill out of themselves or elsewhere rather than of God and not to cleave and be obedient onely unto him as to such an one as wisheth good unto every man For man being deceived through the woman and the Serpent did beleeve that God was not indifferent and that hee had withdrawne from him some of his godly wisdome And for as much as the minde now was departed from God through infidelity and looked not for all good at his hand therefore tooke the hand the noisome apple and the mouth did eat the forbidden meat And thus thought hee to helpe himselfe to Gods Majesty by another meanes rather than by God and so to repaire his necessitie which he thought hee had And so with infidelity unfaithfulnesse disobedience and unthankfulnesse he wrought life and died the death that is he offended against God and fell into the punishment of everlasting damnation Yea he made himselfe bound unto the devill whom he was so diligent to beleeve to follow and to serve Contrariwise he forsooke God and so came he utterly into the bondage of the devill and darknesse And thus have we now the goodnesse and faithfulnesse of God Againe the wickednesse and great unfaithfulnesse of man CHAP. III. The first and right foundation of our holy Christian faith HEre now had the just God occasion and right to expell man to destroy him to damne him and to leave him utterly to the devill And the same also did his righteousnesse and truth require For he had said In what day soever thou eatest of the fruit thou shalt die the death Contrariwise the goodnesse and mercy of God required not utterly to suppresse man a poore and naked creature In the meane season was there found a way whereby the righteousnesse and truth of God should be satisfied and in the which the mercy of God should specially be exercised and declare it selfe that is to say Christ Iesus which is given us by the manifest grace of God was offered for our sinnes satisfied and recompenced the righteousnesse of God and so delivered us out of the bonds of the Devill For hee died for us all in as much as God said In what day soever thou eatest thereof thou shalt die the death Therefore died Christ for us all that through his death we might live and be taken out of the kingdome of darknesse and be set in the kingdome of the deare beloved Sonne of God This device of Gods wisdome which no doubt was determinate from everlasting was also directly opened unto Adam after the fall in manner following When man had eaten of the fruit of the forbidden tree immediatly his eyes were opened in so much that he was ashamed when he saw that he was naked Hitherto had hee lived in innocencie therefore began he now to cover himselfe but with simple clothing which they trusted not much to like as it is all unprofitable that man of himselfe will cover his sinne withall saving that they fled from the Lord and hid themselves from him But the Lord followed upon the fugitive put him in minde of his decay miserie and the life that hee was fallen from and said Adam where art thou Or knowest thou what miserie thou art fallen into from great felicitie Now should man have acknowledged his fault but hee shewed himselfe stiffe-necked And the Lord moveth him still to see if he will acknowledge his sinne and said Who told thee that thou art naked Yea to helpe him in the matter and to make him confesse his sinne hee saith moreover Hast thou not eaten of the tree of the which I forbad thee that thou shouldest not eat But man was loth to knowledge his sinne and laid it first upon the woman his companion and the same did he with so froward and unadvised words that a man may easily see that secretly in his heart he wickedly and unreasonably laid the fault upon God For hee said not onely The woman gave me of the tree to eat but added proudly thereto The woman which thou gavest me c. As though he should say Thou thy selfe art in the fault if thou haddest not given mee the woman I had not beene deceived And yet the righteous God gave him not the woman to deceive him but to bee an helpe to him Therefore appeareth it here againe that the sinne of man was the more wilfull grievous Yet for all this did the gracious God proceed further and would prove whether hee might finde any knowledge of the sinne with the woman the beginning and occasion of the sinne But nothing at all could he finde The one person was as the other and they both had no power Therefore like as Adam put all the fault to the woman even so laid the woman all the fault upon the Serpent that is upon the Devill Which nature doth yet to this day cleave in man But what man which hath well considered this foresaid matter by himselfe would now say or durst thinke that any part of the promise of righteousnesse and salvation of man were to bee ascribed to his owne power and deserving For as much as it is so manifest how unable and lost a creature man is of himselfe which doth nothing but heape sinne upon sinne and disobedience upon disobedience Againe who is so blinde but he seeth that all salvation is to be ascribed to the onely meere grace and mercie of God For now followeth it first how God handled this matter Now when all the complaint was made upon the Serpent the Lord asketh and examineth the Serpent nothing at all for the deed was open neither was the Serpent created of God to speake and with the Devill was there no truth Therefore doth the Lord righteously curse the Serpent the Devill Unto the bodily serpent also whom the Devill used as an instrument he giveth a sore curse and saith Vpon thy belly shalt thou goe and earth shalt thou eat all the dayes of thy life When this was done it was ordained now first for man that according to the righteousnesse and truth of God he should bee punished also with the curse and with eternall death but for the causes expressed in the beginning of this chapter the curse was directed unto Christ who also with cleare words was promised and so was life in him promised likewise Therefore saith not the Lord now And cursed bee thou man because thou hast done against my Commandement but And I will put enmitie betweene thee and the woman betweene thy seed and her seed the same shall tread thee on

victorie even in the middest among his enemies It is he that with the spirit of his mouth slayeth the Antichrists This his word also and preachings of the Gospell came forth first from Sion or Hierusalem as Esay Micheas and Luke doe testifie Now followeth the third verse In the day of thy battell or armie shall thy people be well willing the dew of thy birth is unto thee in an holy maiestie out of the wombe of the cleare morning Herewith doth David describe the glorious and victorious faith of the Christian For when the Gospell is preached there ariseth a conflict betweene faith and infidelitie betweene the seed of Christ and the Serpent between idolatrie and true godlinesse And the unbeleevers persecute the Lord Christ in his members that is to say the faithfull but they are well content utterly to give over bodie honour and goods their bloud and life for Gods truths sake For the martyrs and they in the Primitive Church being gathered together of the Apostles and after the Apostles time have thus kept truth and faith toward the Lord Christ and were willing to die for knowledging him Afterward describeth he also in the foresaid verse the pure and holy conception and birth of our Lord Iesus Christ And this doth he with a goodly similitude and saith Thy birth shall be holy and very excellent not uncleane as the birth of other men For like as the dew out of the cleare heaven and out of the faire morning is borne as it were out of a mothers wombe even so also shalt thou be borne holy and cleane of an undefiled virgin Whereof thou findest more instruction Luk 1.31 The Lord hath sworne and it shall not repent him thou-art a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech In this fourth verse describeth he the office of Iesus Christ how that he is ordained of God to be one only Priest for ever which should offer up himselfe for the sinne of the world and alway appeare in the sight of God the Father and to pray for us All this doth holy Paul declare at large to the Hebrewes in the 5 7.8·9 and 10. chapters And specially in this verse is grounded all that is read thorowout the Scripture of the merits of Christ of the forgiving of sinnes of righteous making of being Mediatour and that he alone is the only Salvation Advocate Satisfaction and Righteousnesse of the faithfull The Lord is at thy right hand he in the time of his wrath shall wound even Kings This fifth verse teacheth how God will ever more and more stand on his Sonnes side further his cause and bring downe and destroy those Kings Princes and Lords that will not amend and beleeve in Christ but will rather provoke his wrath than desire his grace Which thing Herod Nero Domician Maximine and Iulian have proved Yet followeth the sixt verse declaring the fifth He shal iudge among the Heathen and fill all full of dead bodies and smite the head on the wide ground Christ is also preached unto the Heathen and reigneth among them but many withstand Christ and them doth he judge And like as a King overcommeth his enemies with a battell and covereth the whole plaine with dead bodies visiteth also and smiteth the head of the warre and the head citie of the enemies Even so doth Christ to his enemies and destroyeth their power and kingdome All which things wee have seene in the old unchristian Empire of Rome and in many other potentates and powers But specially he breaketh the head of the old Serpent according to the promise Gen. 3.15 And at the last shall he come to judge the quicke and dead and destroy his enemies for ever Out of the brooke in the way shall he drinke therefore shall hee also lift up the head Finally and in the seventh verse he describeth the passion of Christ and his glorie In the way saith he that is in his life while he is in this misery He shall drinke out of the brooke that is he shall suffer and be overcome For to drinke out of the cup is as much as to suffer But to drinke out of the brooke is to be altogether full of trouble to be vexed and tormented without victorie and utterly to be overwhelmed with a brooke and strong streame of troubles Thus was it his minde to declare the Passion of Christ After the Passion followeth the glory with the Resurrection and Ascension Paul Philip. 2. speaketh of both and saith Christ humbled himselfe and became obedient unto death even the death of the Crosse Wherefore God hath exalted him and given him a name which is aboue all names c. Thus much be spoken of this Psalme and of Davids understanding which hee had of Christ Iesus and of the Christian faith Upon this I marvell if after so evident testimonies there be yet any man which perceiveth not that Davids faith and understanding of Christ was even one faith and understanding with the faith that we knowledge and say I beleeve in one God Father almightie c. as it is in the twelve Articles of the Christian faith For the holy Trinitie in one God-head doth he knowledge not only here but also in the 33. Psalme saying Through the word of God were the heavens made and all their power through the spirit of his mouth For certaine it is that there is but one only God maker of heaven and of earth but here is the Trinitie called Lord or God Word and Spirit Neither is there any thing in the Articles of the Beleefe concerning the God-head and Man-hood of Christ of his conception birth passion crosse and death of the resurrection ascension and judgement but it is cleerely comprehended here in this Psalme The articles of the holy Church of forgiving of sinnes resurrection of the flesh and an everlasting life are contained in this Psalme and are treated upon yet more clearely and with many mo words very substantially in other Psalmes of David Therefore had he our holy faith and knowledged the same was saved therein and of all holy men was called the Father of Christ with high commendation because of the promise that was made unto him Moreover all the holy Prophets following had respect unto David as to another Moses and tooke many things out of his writings For there is scarce any other that so clearely wrote of the cause of Christ as this Prophet David and therefore hath he honour and praise aboue other in Israel Of whom thou readest also Eccles 47.2 Such faith and confidence in God through Iesus Christ had David out of the holy Ghost and out of the doctrine of his Prophets Samuel Nathan and Gad and of other his Priests which also had the same of God and of the holy Fathers specially of Moses And no doubt hee desired the honour of God and of his Sonne not to keepe it only himselfe but also much