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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

forth children Subjection also and service with feare and obedience which she oweth to the man To man hee enjoyneth labour for the Lord cursed the earth and said With sorrow shalt thou get thy living all the dayes of thy life Yea in the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat thy bread Moreover he layeth temporall death upon them both and saith Earth thou art and to earth shalt thou returne Of the first doth Paul speake also 1 Tim. 2. The woman shall be saved by bearing of children if she continue in faith and in love and in holinesse or cleannesse and nurture Of the second speaketh the same Paul likewise to the Ephesians and Thessalonians Let no man undermine or deceive his brother in occupying and who so hath used falshood and deceit let him doe it no more but let him rather labour with his hands some honest thing that he may have to distribute unto such as have need And as touching death Paul also saith to the Hebrewes in the ninth Chapter How that it is appointed unto men once to die and that even so Christ Iesus was offered up and died once for all CHAP. IIII. Of the first faithfull Christians ADAM and EVE ANd hitherto I trust we have had in the first promise of God the foundation and the whole summe of our holy Christian faith namely that the whole generation of man was but lost through his owne fault and wickednesse and fallen into death and damnation so that there remaineth nothing in man but it is displeasant to God Hereof commeth it that there is nothing to be ascribed unto the power and deserving of man save sinne and malediction But God of his abundant mercy had compassion on us and of very grace promised he life unto us againe in his Sonne our Lord Iesus whom he would to become man and to suffer death in his flesh that thereby hee might tread downe the devill death sinne and hell Item he would put enmitie betweene the womans seed and the serpent that is he would endue us which are the seed that is to say the children of Adam if wee beleeve with another heart and power that we might become enemies unto the devils workes resist his suggestion and hold our selves fast by the blessed seed labouring and suffering whatsoever God enjoyneth us to worke and suffer Who is it now which seeth not herein all that is written in the whole Scripture of beleefe of love and innocencie that is to say of a Christian life and faith Who so is disposed let him looke upon the 2.3 and 4. chapters of Paul to the Romanes the first and second to the Ephesians let him compare those chapters toward this summe and he shall finde it none otherwise For as much then as Adam and Eve had faith in God and stood so toward God that they knowledged themselves to be sinners and trusted to be saved only through the blessed seed giving themselves over willingly into the discipline and nurture travell and trouble of this time No man can say contrary but it followeth that our first elders were Christians Neverthelesse we will declare the same yet more clearely by Moyses words following And Adam called his wife Heva because shee should be the mother of all living For as soone as he was now strengthned through the promise of God and beleeved that hee and his posteritie which else were children of wrath of the devill and of death should live through the blessed seed he turned his wives name and called her Heva for the remembrance of the matter and practising of his faith for he beleeved that shee now living in the power of the blessed seed should bring forth not only quicke men temporally as pertaining to this naturall life like as we call other creatures living but living that is to say children of salvation For Adam had lost eternall life from himselfe and from us his posteritie but the same is given unto us againe through Iesus Christ our Lord. Adam for as much as he beleeved changed his wives name like as we finde that for great weighty causes the names of certaine places cities and men were changed Thus was Iacob called Israel Simon Peter Luthz Bethel Eve had now a name of life for Haiah in Hebrew is as much to say as Life Afore was shee called Ischa that is to say Woman because shee was taken from out of the man which in the Hebrew is called Isch Gen. 2. And thus it is manifest what faith Adam had whereby we may well suppose that Eve had none other faith But God used his mercy and loving kindnesse yet furthermore even in the mids of all correction for when he would now expell man out of paradise into miserie he doth unto him in every condition even as a faithfull father which for some misdeed putteth his sonne away from him notwithstanding leaveth him not utterly comfortlesse but provideth him a garment and comforteth him with friendly words and then first sendeth him away from him Even thus doth God the father of heaven also For first he cloatheth Adam and Eve against the frost and tempest of weather in as much as by the meanes of sinne the weather the earth the aire and all creatures were no more so subject tame and obedient unto man as they were afore the fall Therefore even now at this present time whatsoever inconvenience and harme is in the good creatures of God it commeth by the meanes of our sinnes Afterward doth the Lord comfort the miserable wretched man with very loving words after this manner Behold Adam is become like one of us or Loe Adam shall be as one of us and it shall happen unto him as to one of us and he shall know good and evill This doth God speake which is one in substance and three in persons he prophesieth here unto Adam that he shall know or have experience of good and evill that is to say that upon earth he must feele prosperitie and adversitie miserie and trouble sowre and sweet and must suffer necessitie paine and affliction Yet in all this must he be constant and patient forasmuch as nothing shall happen unto him save even the same that shall happen to one of them And he meaneth the Sonne our Lord Iesus Christ the second person in the holy Trinitie With this his passion and through the same doth he comfort Adam As though he would say let the paine sorrow and trouble which thou must suffer upon earth not vex thee and consider that one of us also shall take upon him the kinde and nature of man and that the serpent as it is said afore shall tread him on the heele that is to say he shall die he shall be opprest and have much affliction and trouble all the daies of his life In the same meaning also did the holy Apostle Peter say Christ suffered for our sakes and gave us an example that we should follow

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

Prophets prophesied of him before thus to become the salvation of all faithfull beleevers even the Lambe of God which hath beene sacrificed since the beginning of the world that is this is he whose power and deliverance hath cleansed all them that ever put their trust in God through the blessed seed Herein now is the right true salvation this is the summe of the right and perfect religion Who so perverteth this from him shall God turne himselfe who so addeth ought unto this to him shall God adde his wrathfull hand who so taketh therefrō his life shall God minish But blessed are they which walk in this simplicitie cleannesse and continue so unto the end even they that heare Gods word and doe thereafter whose onely hope is Iesus Christ This only true and ever during salvation would hee to bee shewed and declared to all nations which came to save all nations but he would it should be declared by the preaching of the holy Gospell and through the ministration of the holy Sacraments And therefore by his life time hee did chuse Apostles whom he received to bee witnesses of all his doctrine and miracles informing them diligently and held nothing backe from them For hee saith unto them Yee are my friends if yee doe all that I command you I will henceforth call you no more servants for a servant woteth not what his Lord doth But I have called you my friends for all that I have heard of my Father have I opened unto you Ioh. 15. But for as much as they yet lacked understanding and were forgetfull and had ever strange imaginations of the kingdome of Christ therefore when hee now ascended unto heaven hee charged them not to depart from Hierusalem but to wait for the Holy Ghost whom he also gave unto them upon the fiftieth day after his resurrection that is upon the tenth day after his ascension even the fifteenth day of May by the which Holy Ghost they being illuminate spake with all manner of languages and were mindfull of all that the Lord had commanded them afore For the Holy Ghost did not endue them with a new doctrine but it that the Lord had taught them out of the Law and the Prophets the same did hee bring to their remembrance and illucidate all things and printed them more clearly in their hearts For so saith the Lord in the Gospell The Comforter even the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance that I have said unto you Therefore so long as the Lord was with them and told them all the matter of his passion they were sorrie and could not beare away all that he said unto them But after that he was taken up from the earth into heaven he sent the Holy Ghost even him whom the Prophets also had before and that led them into all Christian veritie So when they were endued with the Holy Ghost they began according to the Lords commandement to preach in all the world the foresaid matter of salvation purchased and obtained onely by Christ and gotten by true faith For hee had said Goe your way into all the world and preach the Gospell unto all creatures Whoso beleeveth and is baptized shall be saved c. And therewith comprehendeth he both the points which the Apostles used and practised even the preaching of the faith in Iesus Christ and of the ministration of the Sacraments And how the Apostles doctrine was it is manifest out of the Acts of the Apostles But shortly and in a summe they preached amendment of life and remission of sinnes through Iesus Christ That is to say how that the whole generation of man lay in the dominion of the Devill and in the bonds of sinne cursed and damned but God had mercie on us all and sent his Sonne into this world to die and with his death to restore us unto life and to wash us with his bloud that whosoever beleeveth in him should not perish but have eternall life All this declared they out of the Law and the Prophets and proved that Iesus Christ whom they preached is the blessed seed promised unto the fathers Whoso is desirous to have a perfect example of this declaration he findeth two Sermons of the famous Apostles Peter and Paul the one in the Acts of the Apostles the second chapter vers 14. the other in the 13. chapter vers 16. There doth the holy Apostle open the mysterie of our holy faith verie excellently declaring it from the time of Abraham unto David and from him unto Iohn the Baptist Thereupon sheweth he how Christ suffered died was buried and rose againe from death All this confirmeth hee with the Scriptures of the Prophets At the last he concludeth the Sermon after this manner Be it knowne unto you therefore ye men and brethren that through Iesus is preached unto to you forgivenesse of sinnes and that by him all they that beleeve are justified from all things from the which yee could not bee justified by the Law of Moses To this agreeth now also the sermon of Peter Yea all the Scriptures of the Apostles doe finally accord to the same effect Hereout also bring they the doctrine of repentance and amendment of life the rebuking of sinne consolations exhortations and drawing to all manner of good works that follow out of faith The speciall Sacraments which the Lord did chiefly institute and command the Apostles to practise in the Church are holy Baptisme and the blessed Supper of our Lord Iesus Christ Concerning the first hee saith thus To mee is given all power in heaven and in earth therefore goe your way and teach all people and baptize them in the name of the Father of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost and teach them to keepe all that I have commanded you The other did hee institute at the last Supper For thus is it written in the holy Gospell When they were eating hee tooke bread and when hee had given thanks he brake it and gave them saying Take eat this is my bodie which shall be given for you this doe in the remembr●nce of mee So tooke hee also the cup when ●hey had supt and said Drinke yee all out of this this is my bloud of the new Testament which shall be shed for the remission of sinnes With such Sacraments through outward visible formes for our infirmities sake pleased it the Lord to shew and set before our eyes his heavenly and invisible grace not that we should continue still hanging in the visible thing but that wee should lift up our mindes and with a true beleefe to hold fast to print sure in our mindes to worship and to enjoy the things that faith sheweth us by the outward Sacraments With these outward Sacraments also hath it pleased him to open declare and shew unto us his grace and loving kindnesse Namely how

they that in their estate are noted according to their generations to reckon backward from Abraham unto the first man though they had not the name of Christian men for at Antioch certaine yeeres after the ascension of Christ was that name given to the faithfull Acts 11. yet as pertaining to the religion and substance they were all Christians For if this word Christian be as much to say as one that putteth his trust in Christ and through his doctrine fastned unto faith unto the grace and righteousnesse of God doth cleave with all diligence to Gods doctrine and exerciseth himselfe in every thing that is vertuous then verily those holy men whom we spake of first were even the same that Christian men boast themselves now to be All these are the words of the foresaid old Christian Doctors But to the intent that no man shall thinke that we build upon men and upon a strange foundation therefore wee will first declare our minds out of the Scriptures and alleage somewhat more for the better understanding of the matter CHAP. II. Of the goodnesse of God and wickednesse of man GOd which hath ever beene sufficient to all perfection and needeth nothing of the creatures to his perfectnesse onely of his owne kinde and nature which is good that is to say of his owne grace and mercy yea even because he would doe good created man for himselfe But before he created him he provided first for him wonderfully and furnished him with unspeakable riches of his goodnesse For when he devised the creation of man and the time was now come which his godly wisdome and providence had ordained he first of all appointed a wonderfull lodging for man and garnished the same yet much more wonderfully At the beginning when the goodly and cleere light was made the Lord prepared the instruments which he afterward sundred one from another and ordained every one to some purpose Over the deepe that is over the water and earth which yet was in the water made he a firmament and spread out the heaven above as a pavilion Afterward out of the water he called and brought forth the earth as much as served for the habitation of men and appointed the water his bounds and markes which it may not overpasse And these three things the water the earth and the firmament that is to say the aire and clearenesse above us unto the height of heaven are the essentiall and substantiall parcels of the world and serve as an house for the habitation of men Neverthelesse as yet all this was but rough and unfinished and nothing garnished at all Therefore did the wise and faithfull master put forth his hand wider to performe and pleasantly to garnish that wonderfull worke yea not onely to garnish it but also to make it fruitfull and profitable for man which was the guest and inhabiter for to come And first in as much as man should inhabit the earth he garnished it aforehand and cloathed it with a goodly greene garment that is with a substance which hee deckt first with flowers and all manner of herbes which not onely are pleasant to looke upon and wonderfully beautified of a pleasant taste and goodly colour but also profitable for food and all manner of medicine To the same also did he first adde sundry trees and plants Then watered hee the earth with faire springs rivers and running waters And the ground made he not like on every side but in many places set it up pleasantly And hereof have wee the vallies plaines mountains and hills which things all have their due operation fruit and pleasantnesse After this also began he to garnish the heaven and firmament and set therein the Sunne and the Moone the Planets and Starres which things all are goodlier and more wonderfull than mans tongue can expresse As for their office and the cause why they are set in the heaven it is to give us light and with their up and downe going or motion to declare the times yeares moneths and daies dividing the daies and nights asunder Thirdly he laid his hand likewise in the water in the which hee had wrought no lesse wonders than in heaven and upon earth For in the water and especially in the sea doe the wonderfull workes of God appeare in the fishes and marvels of the sea if a man consider the nature and disposition of them And in the aire also hath hee created and ordained great tokens of his goodnesse power and wisdome even the fowles that pleasantly according to divers commodities doe sing unto man and refresh him At the last endued he the earth yet more richly and filled it with all kinde of profitable and goodly beasts and sundred one from another pleasantly When the Lord now had prepared this goodly and rich pleasure then first after these hee made man that he might bee Lord of all these things Him also endued he above all other creatures and created him after his owne image He made him of body and soule which should have endured for ever if he had not fallen into sinne Now hath he a fraile bodie and an immortall everlasting soule But the first man made he altogether perfect and without blemish so that verily he was called the image of God not without cause The Lord also was not sufficed in garnishing the earth goodly but first also builded upon the earth a speciall garden of pleasure even a Paradise and therein set he man his deare beloved creature And for as much as he being solitary and alone could not conveniently dwell without a mate he appointed him first to plant and keepe the Garden of pleasure and provided for him a wife even out of the bones of his owne body that she might bee the mans helpe Thus would the goodnesse of God finish and make man perfect to the intent that he should lacke nothing which served to a right wholesome and perfect life Therefore was it equall that man which was endued with reason and high understanding should shew thankfulnesse and obedience unto God for such high gifts Yea God himselfe which is not onely good but also righteous requireth the same of him and that by the meanes of the commandement That he might eat of all the trees of the Garden of pleasure Only he should eschew the fruit of knowing good and evill And this commandement was not grievous nor unreasonable Onely it required obedience and love of God the maker unto whom only the creature even man should have respect and looke for all good at his hand and not to take the forme of good and evill out of himselfe but onely to hold that for evill and forbidden which God inhibiteth as evill and to account that as good and righteous which God alloweth or forbiddeth not For a representation visible token and sacrament God shewed him a right visible and fruitfull tree in the Garden of pleasure and forbade him with earnest

that he giveth unto us himselfe and all his riches cleanseth us feedeth and moystureth our soules with his flesh and bloud that he is at one with us and wee with him so that wee use and practise the Sacraments with a true faith For the outward enjoying of the Sacraments of it selfe alone doth not reconcile us with God but if they bee used with faith then as S. Peter saith Acts 15. through faith doth God purifie the hearts With the Sacraments pleased it him to leave behinde him a remembrance of his gifts and benefits to the intent that wee should never forget them but praise and thanke him therfore Moreover with visible Sacraments was it his will to gather us together and to marke us in his Church and people and to put us in remembrance of our dutie how we are one bodie together and ought to apply our selves to all righteousn●sse All which things are found at length in the Scriptures of the Apostles As for the Apostles they ministred the Sacraments diligently purely and simply and so without any addition distributed them unto the people of God Touching Baptisme there are many examples in the Acts of the Apostles The Supper of Iesus Christ had the Corinthians somewhat altered And when Paul pointed them againe to the true ordinance and right use he taketh the simple words and institution of Iesus Christ without any more addition and layeth those before them commandeth them to follow the same and holdeth him therewith well content 1 Cor. 11. And thus did the holy Apostles gather together all the Heathen people through the preaching of the Gospell and ministration of the Sacraments in the Church whose head is Christ in whom they are builded and preserved Moreover they did not load them sore with any ceremonies For in the Acts of the Apostles the second chapter where as a perfect shape of a right Christian Congregation is described wee have first the sending of the Apostles among whom Peter did first preach the Gospell that is to say repentance and forgivenesse of sins in Christ Iesus Then baptized hee them that were become the people of God Afterward followeth it that they which were become Christians continued in the doctrine of the Apostles in prayer in breaking of the bread in the fellowship Here are the right substantial points of the Christian Church sufficiently expressed the doctrine of amendment of life and remission of sinnes Baptisme the continuing and increasing in Christs doctrine prayer the holy Supper of the Lord and the fellowship that is love kindnesse and workes of mercie Now whereas Acts 15. it is ordained that the Heathen should eat no blood nor strangled it endured but for a time their meaning was thereby to avoid offending of the weake Otherwise have the Apostles everie where especially Paul verie earnestly exhorted men to continue by the doctrine that was shewed and delivered them and to be at a point in themselves to avoid such learning as was new and brought up by men because they lead men farre from the truth as we finde Col. 2.6 Philip. 3.15 1 Tim 4.6 and 6.2 and Tit. 1.9 And thus it is manifest that the Apostles taught all nations no new nor strange thing but even the same that they had received of the Lord. CHAP. XII A conclusion that this faith is the right true old faith which alway shall stand sure THis holy undefiled faith which the Lord planted and set up in all nations by the Apostles immediatly after the Apostles decease was sore attempted by sundry uncleane persons which brought up false customes and misbeleefes and made perillous sects Beside this also was it sore persecuted with the sword of tyrants But in all such dangers the truth overcame and had the victory For though the citizens of the devils citie according to the disposition of their Patriarke Cain did murder and although false Prophets brought up evill counsell yet the citie of God triumpheth and the bloud of innocent Abel and his brethren speaketh yet But after that the persecution was somewhat ceased and the persecutors sore and horribly punished for their bloudshedding the heresies also being well brought downe by faithfull shepherds in the same rest also was our holy faith not a little hurt For rest put away feare brought idle felicitie voluptuousnesse and fleshly seeking of riches and dominion and so through covetousnesse and ambition there was powred great poyson into the Church whereby religion sore decaied For while the Ministers of the word laboured more after riches than to performe their of●●ce and charge and to edifie the Church they were pleased with superstitiousnesse in stead of true religion Of this then followed it farther that the singlenesse of faith was forgotten new lawes made the old rites and customes either perverted or else utterly overthrowne and abused whereby men came farre from the doctrine and Christian ceremonies from the way of truth into errour foolishly and partly into ceremonies of idolatry Hereof commeth it that we have now the abomination of the Popes power of Pardons of Masses for the dead and quicke of merits power and intercession of Saints in heaven of worshipping their bones upon earth of Idols and vaine ornaments pompe and pride of the Church of hired singing and praying in the Temple and of the whole swarme of idle religions All which things with other moe like fondnesse are nothing but new alterations pervertings and contrary to all old ordinances having no ground in Gods word and are cleane against God though many hardnecked people are yet in a fury and brawle for such things and will make all the world beleeve that this their foolishnesse alteration and perverting of Gods ordinance is the old faith And yet wote they or will not know that their babling hath very little ground and that they if they considered the matter as it is are very naked and miserable And though this papisticall religion hath endured prevailed and triumphed now certaine hundred yeares yet hath God alway sent his faithfull servants and had a little holy flocke of his owne like as afore-time in the dayes of the iudges of the Kings of Iuda and Israel and in the captivity of Babylon though it was almost at the worst afore and at the comming of Christ Like as it is also with us the nigher the second comming of Christ the worse it is in the world Neverthelesse as I said afore God alway set forth his word and doth yet Contrarywise the Pope with his multitude and Mahumet with his as it seemeth and becommeth very Antichrists have hitherto undertaken to suppresse the old religion and to set up his owne ordinance unknowne to our fathers of old time to bring it into possession and under the name of God and his holy Church to spread it upon all Christendome For out of the acts and statutes of the Pope and his wanton spiritualty and out of the lawes of

Mahumet it is manifest what the one hath taken in hand and done now more than 600. yeeres and the other upon a 900. yeeres It is evident yet also even now whereto his generall councels and parlamenrs doe extend But not regarding how he threatneth and faceth and how he garnisheth his new and wanton religions with false but dissembling titles boasting of many hundred yeeres many generall Councels Fathers holy men Doctors Vniversities Cloisters singing praying fasting almes-giving displying and telleth such like All his bragging set aside let us cast his religion from us and take upon us unfainedly the true old religion which hath endured since the beginning of the world by the which all holy men have ever loved worshipped and served God and knew nothing utterly of the Popes religion And if we must for this cause be hated and persecuted of the world well it hapned even so unto all holy Prophets before us likewise and specially unto Iesus Christ our Lord which shall come shortly to judgement and utterly destroy the kingdome of Antichrist whom he now killeth with the spirit of his mouth Our possession is not here upon earth the kingdome of heaven is our native country From thence looke we for the Saviour Iesus Christ our Lord which shall raise up our mortall and miserable body that he may make it like his excellent and glorified body according to the power whereby he may subdue all things unto himselfe To him be honour and praise for ever and ever AMEN FINIS The accustomed goodnesse of God God hath shewed no lesse kindnesse to us than he did to the old world They that follow Gods word are laughed to scorne The doctrine of Christ his faith is no new thing 1 Cor. 1.18 1 Cor. 1.14 None but reprobates deride the truth of Gods Gospell To us which are saved it is the power of God What faith is Hebr. 11.1 Rom. 3.28 Gal. 2.16 Ephes 2.8 Phil. 3.9 Iaco. 2.14 Heb. 11.6 Rom. 14.23 Act. 15.9 1 Pet. 1.9 Gala. 5.6 1 Cor. 10.3 Heb. 11.4 Heb. 11.4 5. Iames 1 21 Would to God we had many such as Iames the Apostle was Iames 1. O unthankefull world Iames 2.25 Saint Iames would not spare to rebuke such Iames 3 17. Iames 4.1 Against such grosse vices would not Saint Iames spare to speake Iames 4. Iames 5.19 Let every man take the paines to rebuke his owne fault Iames 3.17 We must put on the nature of Gods doctrine Let the workes of God which are past be a warning to us The Christian faith is elder than 1600. yeeres Eusebius Acts 11.26 The first creation of heaven and earth The garnishing of heaven and earth The office of t●e creatures in t●● firmament Fishes Fowles Beasts The creation of man The creation of the woman The request of the commandement The unthankefulnesse ●nd w●ckednesse of man The righteousnesse and mercy of God Gen. 2.17 The way of satisfaction before God is Christ Sinne. The frowardnesse of man Why God gave the woman unto man Grace We all are loth to knowledge our selves guiltie Punishment Genes 3.14 The promise Genes 3.15 The Serpents head The ●●re foundation of our faith Rom. 8.3 1 Cor. 1.30 The Gospell of Iesus Genes 3.15 Esay 7.14 Gal. 3.16 A praise of the virgin Marie Heb. 2.14 Genes 2.15 Christs heele 1 Pet. 4.1 Ioh. 12.31 32. Rom. 16.20 Object Answ Gen. 3.17 Gen. 3.19 1 Tim. 2.15 1 Thessal 4.6 Ephes 4.25 Heb. 5.17 Gen. 3.20 Adams faith Gen 2.23 Comfort helpe and loving kindnesse in the mids of correction Gen. 3.22 Comfort and patience in Christ 1 Pet. 2.21 Adams faith Heb. 11.4 Outward sacrifice was a token of thankfulnesse Cain the father of wickednesse The first division in rel●gion when it began Abel the first Martyr The world the citie of the Devill The difference of true and false faith The first decay of the faith was by cursed Cain Genes 4.25 Adam was not of the faith of Cain Seth the fir●● re●●●e● of the true faith The reparation of our fa●th Gen. 4.26 Adams life To call upon the name of God what it is Hebr. 11.5 The number of the wicked ever greatest The wrath of God upon the wicked Noes Floud The first triumph of faith in Noe. 1 Pet. 3.21 Genes 6.18 The sacrifice of Noe. Genes 8.20 Ephes 5.2 Outward sacrifice the figure of Christs oblation Matth 3.17 The Commandements given unto Noe. Through Noe was the world replenished C ham the first Idolater after the Floud The fa●th ●f Heathen ●s idolatry 〈…〉 Gen. 10. ● Gen. 11 ● Gen 11.10.27 Faith d●●kned after the floud Gen. 12.1 Genes 22.18 Galath 3.8 The promise renewed to Abraham Abrahams faith Iohn 8.56 Rom. 4.16 Galath 3.29 Abrahams Christian workes The f●i●● of the Iewe● Gen. 17 24. Gen. 15.6 Gal. 3.17 H● wold the Christian faith i● Exod. 19.20 Gen. 32.28 O● Israel came the Israe●●●●s Gen. 28. Iacob saw that Christ onely is the way to heaven Iohn 1.51 Gen. 35.2 Gen. 49.10 The faith of Ioseph Ioseph a figure of Iesus The continuance of faith before the Law Heb 11 24. The faith of Moses Gen. 15.13 The Easter lambe Iohn 1.29 The del●verance out of Aegypt a figu●● of our redemption by Christ The gi●ing of the law The first table Matth. 22.37.39 The second Table The law written in stone 〈◊〉 no n●w thing The first Commandement 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Gen. 39.8 The law written in stone was fulfilled afore The Lawes given after the ten Commandements were by-Lawes Objection Answer Galath 3 15 Gods Testament Galath 3.17 Salvation by grace not by desert or workes Objection Answer Galath 3.19 Why the Law was given The Law was given to further the promise Gal. 3.19 20 21 22 23 24. The Law is the rule to live by Wisdom 16.6 7. The brasen Serpent a figure of Christ Iohn 3.14 15. 1 Cor. 10.1 2. Christ is the rocke Question Answer One altar w●at i● signified Note this well Why the ceremonies of the Law were given The godly consideration of the fathers Question Answer W●y G●● 〈…〉 among the 〈◊〉 God tendreth our weaknesse Lawes iudiciall Rom. 13.9 Matth. 7.12 The five originall b●●kes of holy Scripture written by Moses The first b●oke of Moses Acts 7.22 The second booke of Moses The third booke The fourth booke The fifth booke The originall Scripture of our faith The Law written is no new thing Rom. 10.4 Gal. 3.23 The death of Moses Iosue was a figure of Christ Iosue fought at Gods commandement An heresie of the Anabaptists Heb. 11.32 Rulers must punish Matth. 26.52 Gen. 3.15 An errou● Of King David Acts 15.22 Psalm 110.1 The holy Trinitie Matth. 22.44 Iohn 1.1 Iohn 1.14 Matth. 22.24 The faith of David in Christ Iohn 20.20 Psalm 110.1 Marke 16.19 Psalm 110.2 The spirituall kingdome of Christ Acts 1.8.12 Psalm 110.3 A battell The birth of Christ Psalm 110.3 Psalm 110.4 The office of Christ Psalm 110.5 Christs cause shall forth Psalm 110.6 Christ shall destroy his enemies Psalm 110.7 Philip. 2.8 Psalm 133.6 The article of the holy Trinitie David was called Christs father Matth. 9.27 The waies of David 1 Kings 15.3 4 5. King Abia. 2 Kings 18.5 6. 2 Chro. 34.1 2 3. 1 Kings 6.1 The departing of Israel from Iuda King Iehu God alwaies 〈…〉 P●●phets The oldest Prophets The Prophets preached the old faith Rom. 3.20 21 22. The Law and the Prophets allow the righteousnesse of God that commeth by faith Act. 3.24 Act. 10.2 3. Matth. 21.4 The godhead and manhood of Christ Esay 7.14 Mich. 5.2 Esay 9. ● Ierem. 23.5 6. The righteous blossome Mala. 3.1 Iohn Baptist Mala. 4.5 Esay 61.1 The office of Christ Ezech. 34. Christ is called David The miracles of Christ Esay 2.2 Dan. 7.13 The kingdome of Christ Esa 62.2 Esay 62.10 Zach 9.9 The death of Christ Dan. 9.26 Esay 50.5 c. Esay 53.2 c. The sacrifice of Christ Zacha. 3.8 The buriall and resurrection of Chri●t Matth. 12.40 The Ascension The vocation of the Heathen 1 Pet. 1.9 c. The Prophets sought salvation in Christ A prophesie told unto Daniel The number of the yeeres Faith assailed and religion suppressed Antiochus God had eve● some vertuous men Zacharie Luk. 1.68 Simeon Luk. 1.29 All Gods elect were saved by Christ The old Testament is not to be refused Luke 24.13 The new Testament declareth the old The birth of Christ Luke 2.10 Tidings of Christs birth Luke 2.10 Genes 12.3 The grace of God Ierem. 31.33 Note well Chr●st the only salva●io● of all the w●r●d Luke 2. The dutie of us 1 Tim. 1.5 Iohn Baptist Iohn 1.29 Iohn 1.26 1 Iohn 3.36 Matth. 11.2 Matth. 3.13 Matth. 3.17 Note this similitude Matth. 4.1 2. Matth. 4.17 The substance of true religion The speciall points of Christs doctrine The patient suffering of Christ Iohn 29 30. Luke 13.46 The fruit of Christs death Water and bloud The time of Christs Passion The buriall of Christ The power of Christ saveth all Iohn 15.14 15. Christ held nothing back● from his Apostles The Holy Ghost b●ough● no new doctrine Iohn 14.26 Marke 16.15 Acts 13.38 Baptisme Matth. 28.18 19. The Supper of the Lord. Matth. 26.26 Acts 15.9 The fru●t of the Sacraments 1 Cor. 11.17 Acts 15 28. The Apostles did not overcharge the people with Ceremonies Acts 2.1 Acts 15.20.29 The Apostles would not offend the weake Note The decay of Christs religion What inconvenience followed Note The Pope and Mahumet strive against Christ Let us doe as our o●dest fathers have done long b●fore us Philip. 3.20 21.