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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

seed promised afore may hereafter be borne of thee in his generation To this did Noe trust and was preserved of God through Christ Moreover when he was come out of the Arke he did sacrifice and thereby declared the thankfulnesse of his heart and beleeved how that he knew that he had all good of God which should also give him a seed that with sacrificing of himselfe should reconcile and pacific God For thus saith the Scripture Noe builded an Altar unto the Lord and tooke of all manner of cleane beasts and fowles and offered burnt sacrifice unto the Lord and the Lord smelled the sweet savour and said in his heart I will no more curse the earth for mans sake c. So saith Paul in the fifth to the Ephesians Walke yee in love like as Christ hath loved us and gaue himselfe for us an offering sacrifice of a sweet savour unto God Whereby every man may learne and see that the sweet smell of the outward sacrifice of Noe did not chiefly pacifie God and was pleasant but rather that through the bodily sacrifice was figured the sacrifice of Christ and for his sake he was mercifull unto the world For over Christ he said at Iordan when Christ was baptised This is my deare beloved Sonne in whom I am pacified or reconciled Besides this the Lord gave unto Noe certaine lawes but none other than even such as he had given to his fore-fathers and written in their hearts The first pertaineth to mariage and bringing up of children in the which is comprehended all that is written concerning nurture cleanlinesse and temperance of care and bringing up of children in the feare of God vertue obedience and learning The second forbiddeth violence and deceit namely that no man shall eat bloud For it is a figurative precept commanding that no man get his living by murther by oppressing the poore by usurie by extortion by falshood and deceit Moreover all things living were subdued unto him and all meats were permitted him In conclusion whatsoever concerned the love of God and their neighbour the same is here renued unto Noe and his children and required of them Of Noe came afterward all people yea among his three sonnes Iaphet Sem and Cham he had both the seed of God and of the froward serpent that is such as had respect unto God and them also that regarded the devill Of Cham came the Aegyptians Assyrians Babylonians by and from whom sprang idolatry offering to images and from whom false religion came up first and was brought in among other nations by the helpe of the old serpent as among the Greekes Romanes and other people By this it is good to understand that our holy Christian faith is elder than any other For here may we see clearely that after a thousand and certaine hundred yeeres almost in the eight hundreth or nine hundreth yeere came up the first beginning of the Heathens beleefe and offering to Images and yet came it of wicked cursed men For cursed Cham was the beginning of the Egyptians and Nimroth the ungodly extortioner and tyrant was the first founder of the kingdom of Babylon which kingdome with the building of a mighty tower set forth his pride Neverthelesse the hand of God declared it selfe immediatly as it is read in the eleventh chapter of Genesis Finally in the generation of Cham had the serpent great power howbeit in the posteritie of Iaphet also of whom the Almaines come and in the posteritie of Sem he had his issue likewise Of the progenie of Sem were borne Abraham Isaac and Iacob Gen. 11. And as it is said afore the sincere faith was somewhat darkned in Chaldea therefore did God call Abraham out from the idolatrie and renued with him the old true Christian faith begun with Adam and said Gen. 12. Get thee out of thy country and from thy kinred and from thy fathers house unto the land that I will shew thee and I will blesse thee and make a great nation of thee And in thee shall all the nations of the earth be blessed Item in the 22. chapter speaketh God yet more clearely and saith In thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed This doth Paul declare in the third to the Galathians and saith In thy seed which is Christ Therefore was the same now another renewing of the promise of Christ the blessed seed For first was he promised unto Adam afterward was the promise renewed with Noe and now with Abraham And all this now is but one promise one Saviour and one faith Abraham also beleeved in Iesus Christ and was saved by faith For Iesus Christ saith himselfe in the eighth chapter of Iohn Abraham saw my day and rejoyced What is now the day of Christ but the clearnesse of the holy Gospell This light had he not bodily but saw it with the eyes of faith and the same made him joyfull and saved him For Christ is the true joy of troubled consciences Thus became Abraham the Father of all faithfull beleevers Rom. 4. And if we beleeve and doe as Abraham did then are we Abrahams children and shall rest with him in his bosome even in the kingdome of God Luke 13.28.16.22.19 Mat. 8.11 Paul also to the Galathians in the third chapter saith If ye be Christs then are ye Abrahams seed and heires according to the promise Out of this faith in Christ did Abraham Christian workes for with a good will left he his owne native country all Idols and all Images all misfortune hunger and miserie tooke he patiently he was not hard against Loth his nephew but did jeopard his body and life for the oppressed he was liberall mercifull and harborous he praied fervently unto God for the poore sinners he suffred oppression violence and wrong and for Gods sake also he thought to sacrifice and offer up his owne most dearely beloved sonne Isaac Finally there is no reasonable good christian worke but thou seest it in the life of Abraham Therefore to us also for an example of our faith and conversation he is set forth of the Lord himselfe his Apostles throughout the New Testament Here also is it manifest that our holy faith is elder than the Iewish faith For the Iewes doe boast themselves of the Circumcision and because they are called Iewes and Israel and that the Law the Priesthood and Gods service was given unto them And yet Gen. 15.6 and 17.1 and Rom. 4.18 it is evident that Abraham was Gods friend and justified or made righteous or ever he was circumcised For when he was circumcised he was 99. yeere old Gen. 17. Now was the promise made unto him many yeeres afore The Scripture also saith plainly Abraham beleeved God and the same was counted unto him for righteousnesse Gen. 15. So was it many yeeres after or ever Israel and Iuda was borne of

whom they have taken their name The Law also was given 430. yeeres after the promise as Paul made the reckoning Gal. 3. It followeth therefore that our Christian faith is 2048. yeeres elder than the Circumcision and 2449. yeeres elder than the Law the Priesthood and ceremonies of the Iewes For from Adam unto the Floud were 1656. yeeres And from the Floud untill the departing of Abraham out of Caldea 363. yeeres From that time are reckoned 430. yeeres untill the departing of Israel out of Aegypt And on the 50. day after the departing was the Law given unto Israel upon Mount Sin● Exod. 19.20 And after certaine daies was the Priesthood and ceremonies appointed them Whereas God then made a covenant with Abraham when he ordained the Circumcision it serveth more to the confirmation of our holy Christian faith than to the maintenance of the Iewish ceremonies Isaac and Iacob were Abrahams children not only after the flesh but also after the spirit For they had the saith of their father and grandfather Abraham put their trust only in God through Iesus Christ and lived a sober and vertuous life Of this doth the Scripture beare them record thorowout Yea Iacob whom the Lord also called otherwise Israel of whom afterward all the people of God received the name Israel had many visions of the Lord Christ as with the ladder that stood upon the earth the top reaching to heaven on the which the Angels of God went up and downe For herewith was represented unto him the Lord Iesus which is the way unto heaven the truth and life without whom no man commeth unto the Father Upon the vision of Iacob saith he also himselfe Iohn 1. Verily I say unto you henceforth shall yee see the heaven open and the Angels of God going up and downe upon the sonne of man And so constant was Iacob in remembring the same that afterward at the commandement of the Lord he set up in the same place an Altar no doubt as it is said before for a figure of the crosse and sacrifice of Christ and there honoured he and worshipped the Lord he commanded all his people also that they should forsake strange gods and give him the Idols that they had brought with them out of Mesopotamia and he buried them under an Oke that stood beside Sichem Gen. 35. And when he would now die he prophesied very clearely of the Lord Christ how he should be borne out of the kinred of Iuda and that hee should be borne the same time that the kingdome should be taken from Iuda Which thing also came to passe in Herods time For in the 32. yeere of the reigne of Herod was CHRIST borne at Bethleem in Iewry Whereof the words of Iacob are these The scepter shall not be taken away from Iuda nor a Ruler from his fe●t till Schilo come that is to say the Saviour and he in whom all nations shall be blessed and the people shall fall unto him This stedfast faith of Iacob did Ioseph follow also which mortified his owne flesh declared patience in adversitie and prison and exercised great justice and equitie in his governance He was a figure of our Lord Iesus Christ who also being sold of his owne unto the Heathen preserved his brethren alive So that from the beginning of the world untill the death of Ioseph the right Christian faith endured 2300. yeeres And thus all holy Patriarks before the Law were sawed not through the Law nor by their owne strength and deserving but through the blessed seed our Lord Iesus Christ CHAP. VI. The law of God given by Moses leadeth unto Christ and maketh mention of all his doings THe Israelites after the death of Ioseph untill their departing and deliverance out of Aegypt were in the land 140. yeeres And like as before in the time of Noe the dwelling among the wicked became occasion of falling unto the righteous Even so now did the Israelites learne idolatry and all unhappinesse of the Aegyptians For the which cause also they were sore oppressed a long season howbeit there remained yet many excellent men which kept still the old faith and hated the abhominations of the Aegyptians For of Moses which was borne 60. yeeres after the death of Ioseph saith Paul Moses through faith when he grew up and was great refused to bee called the sonne of Pharaos daughter and chose rather to suffer adversity with the people of God than to enioy the pleasures of sinne for a season and esteemed the rebuke of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Aegypt for he had respect to the reward Heb. 11. Now can no man desire to suffer with Christ except hee have knowledge of Christs suffering Therefore Moses in the midds of all persecution had knowledge of Christ and the faith in Christ So is there no doubt but more vertuous people had this true faith which were all oppressed and vexed in Aegypt like as afterward the right faithfull beleevers were somewhat more persecuted as among the heathen in the time of the Iudges and Kings of Iuda and Israel under king Antiochus under the Emperors Nero Tra●●n●s Domitianus Maximianus Iulianus and other As for the unbeleevers they in such miserable times received the reward of their unthankfulnesse disobedience idolatry and blasphemie But when the appointed time came which God had foreseene opened unto Abraham Gen. 15. he brought the people of Israel by Moses out of Aegypt with and through great wonders and tokens By the which he first declared his power then his loving kindnesse and mercy toward his owne and his terrible justice and vengeance against his enemies whereby all the world might know that there was none other just and true God save the God of Israel in whose hand only consisteth all things which also of his meere mercie preserveth his owne and with right judgement rewardeth his enemies Specially this is most wonderfull that in this great businesse and worke hee hath so mightily set forth the redemption performed by our Lord Iesus Christ yea and expressed it to be a very mighty redemption For the same night when they should depart away and be dispatched in the morning the Lord commanded them to kill a lambe and with the bloud thereof to sprinkle the doores and posts of the house So when the Angell that in the same night slew the first borne of the Aegyptians saw the bloud hee should doe no harme and slay no man therein Exod. 12.3 Now testifieth Paul 1 Cor. 5.7 that Christ Iesus is our Easter Lambe and Passeover So saith Saint Iohn Behold the Lambe of God which taketh away the sinnes of the world Therefore were not the Israelites spared because of the bloud of beasts but for the blouds sake of the blessed seed that was promised for to come And thus the whole deliverance out of Aegypt was a figure of the true redemption by the which we

are delivered from the power of the devill and from everlasting death through Iesus Christ and brought into the land of promise even to eternall joy and salvation which God promised unto our fathers Adam Noe Abraham Isaac and Iacob Now when the Lord had caried his people out of Aegypt and brought them thorow the red sea drie shod and had drowned Pharao with all his people he commanded his folke to prepare and cleanse themselues at mount Sina For he would binde himselfe unto them receive them as his owne people and give them his law and ordinance Which thing he also did and appointed his law himselfe spake it with his owne mouth and wrote it with his owne fingers in two tables of stone In the one and first table hee ordained foure commandements concerning the worship and love of God namely that wee should take him only for the true and right God and none else beside or except him That wee should worship and honour him only and in no wise to have any other God comfort or hope Item that we should in no wise make any image or picture of any things and neither to worship them nor serve them Moreover that wee should not take the name of God in vaine or lightly And that wee should hallow the Sabboth day In the other table ordained he six commandements concerning man And like as the foure first are comprehended in these words Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart c. Euen so are the six contained in these words following Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selfe The commandements are these Thou shalt honour father and mother Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not breake wedlocke Thou shalt not steale Thou shalt beare no false witnesse Thou shalt not l●st In all these commandements is comprehended all that serveth for a godly life and that any where is written of God of true serving of God and of right vertue towards this world Who so now doth well ponder these ten chapters or commandements and compareth them to the doings and workes of the holy Patriarks and old Fathers which had no law in writing he shall finde 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 For that wee ought to worship and serve God onely and to have none other Gods the same did the holy fathers so beleeve and keepe that all their conversation and doing beareth record thereof Concerning images or idols it is evident that Iacob buried the Idols of Mesopotamia under an Oke beside Sichem Gen. 35.4 We may perceive also by the oathes of Abraham Isaac and Iacob how the name of God was had in reverence among them of old and not taken in vaine The Sabbath did not the Lord ordaine here first but on the seventh day of the Creation Gen. 2.3 The same did the fathers keepe aright no doubt Iohn 7.22 Whereas Cham had not his father Noe in reverence he was cursed for it Gen. 9.25 Advoutry did the heathen rulers forbid under paine of death as we may see Gen. 26.10 11. Whereby it is easie to understand how the blessed friends of God kept holy wedlocke How contrary the holy men were unto theft and deceit it appeareth in the parting of Abraham and Loth Gen. 13.6 8 9. And in Iacobs faithfulnesse and handling with Laban his father in law Gen 29.37 30 33 31.6 Lying and false dealing was so farre from the holy fathers that for keeping their credit and truth they obtained very great commendation Notwithstanding they were tempted with evill as all men be but they resisted the wicked lusts For manifest is the chaste act of Ioseph which would not touch his masters wife nor desire her Wherefore in these commandements is nothing written or required that was not also required of the fathers afore the law and performed through true faith in Christ The Lord therefore began no new thing with his people when hee delivered them the tables of the law Only he would bring into a short summe and set in writing all the law that the Fathers had but not together nor comprehended in a summe to the intent that they should the lesse be forgotten of the people which through their dwelling in Aegypt among Idolaters and false beleevers were brought into sore offence and slander This must now be rectified againe after this manner As for all the lawes and ordinances which afterward were added unto these two tables they were not joyned thereunto as principall lawes but as by-lawes for the declaration and better understanding of the ten Chapters or Commandements For the perfect summe of all lawes the very right rule of godlinesse of Gods service of righteousnesse of good and evill conversation is comprehended alreadie in the two tables But here might some men make objection and say If all truth be contained in these ten Commandements how happeneth it that by no token there is mention made of the blessed seed promised unto the Fathers Hitherto is it declared and promised unto the holy Fathers that they shall be saved through the blessed seed out of the very grace of God and for none of their owne deservings but now are written lawes which command and forbid us as though we through our owne workes and deserving as namely if we keepe these Commandements should be saved and acceptable unto God Where is now Christ Where is the faith of the Patriarkes Here is nothing heard of faith but much yea only of workes Answer This objection hath deceived many that they have had no right opinion and faith of the grace of God and our righteous making Therefore will we now give no answer out of our selves but set forth holy Paul and let him answer that the answer may be the more sure and the better esteemed Paul in the third chapter to the Galathians writeth after this manner Deare brethren I will speake after the manner of men When a mans Testament is confirmed no man doth lightly regard or despise it nor addeth ought thereto Now were the promises made unto Abraham and to his seed He saith not In the seeds as in many but as in one And in thy seed which is Christ All these are Pauls words and the meaning of them is For as much as the Testaments or workes of men are of such reputation in the world that when they are made ordained and confirmed no man dare adde ought to them or minish any thing from them but every man must let them be as they are of themselves It is much more reason that Gods Testament or bequest remaine still and that nothing be added to it or

him onely calling upon him and honouring him according to his word casting away strange worshipping of God service of Idols that shamefull blasphemous and ungodly living Then sent he them his helpe and delivered them in his power by the ministration of his appointed Captaines And such warring delivering and punishing was no fleshly unfaithfull worke whom no man ought to follow as some being wrapped with the unstedfast spirit of the Maniches and Anabaptists doe meane For Paul expresseth cleerely And what shall I say of Gedeon Barach Sampson and Iephtha David and Samuel and the Prophets which through faith subdued Kingdomes wrought righteousnesse obtained the promises stopped the mouths of Lions quenched the violence of fire escaped the edge of the sword of weake were made strong became valiant in battell turned to flight the armies of the Aliants Heb. 11. All which works the holy Apostle praiseth and commendeth as excellent works of faith Therefore are they no works of the flesh neither is it now contrarie to the holy faith if Christian rulers deliver their innocent people whom God hath subdued unto them from wrongfull violence and defend their libertie righteousnesse house and land or punish the shamefull blasphemers Idolaters and persecuters of the holy faith and not suffer them to have all their malicious will Neverthelesse this must be done by them to whom God hath committed the sword For thus saith the Lord Who so taketh away the sword shall perish through the sword Matth. 26. But specially in the battels of Gods people and of the unfaithfull it commeth to passe and is expressely set before our eyes that God said to the serpent at the beginning Gen. 3. I will put enmitie betweene thy seed and the womans seed For the righteous are the seed of Christ the unrighteous and unfaithfull are the seed of the Devill Betweene these now see we great discord but specially this that the faithfull doe alway tread the serpent on the head though they themselves also be bitten in the heele For the right faithfull beleevers afore the birth of Christ in the time of the promise had no lesse trouble and persecution not onely because of sinne but also for righteousnesse and faiths sake than the faithfull after Christs birth in the time of grace and perfectnesse Therefore have they small knowledge of the doings of the faithfull which say that the people of old were a victorious people and governed corporally but that the people after Christs comming are borne to suffer and to no victorie or governance Neverthelesse in these wonderfull times in the which Gods people had no victorie and anon were subdued and oppressed the true faith continued upright and unblemished from Iosue forth throughout all the Iudges untill the time and reigne of David David also was a man that suffred much through divers and long trouble through miserable distresse and vexation and through sore persecution without ceasing being proved tried and provoked afore he was King Whereof the bookes of Samuel and the more part of the Psalmes beareth record But after that he was promoted unto the kingdom by God which said I have found a man after mine own heart he advanced set forth and magnified the true faith right diligently Here also to the honour of our Lord Iesus Christ will I shortly and by the way declare what knowledge and faith this noble King and Prophet had of our Lord Iesus This will I doe with the declaration of the 110. Psalme whose words are these The Lord said unto my Lord Sit thou at my right hand till I make thine enemies thy foot-stoole In the first verse David knowledgeth the persons in the holy Trinitie the God-head also and the eternall kingdome of Christ Thus likewise did our Lord Jesus Christ understand and alleage this verse in the Gospell Matth. 22. knowledging two of the Persons in the one only Godhead for he saith The Lord said unto my Lord. Now is it certaine and undeniable that hee which speaketh and he to whom ought is spoken are not one but two Persons Yet is there but one Lord and God and they both the Father that speaketh and the Sonne to whom is spoken are the Lord therefore are they one of one substance and being the very true God Neither is the Sonne lesse than the Father There can also none be a father except he have a sonne or a childe Now is the everlasting Father God therefore is the Sonne also everlasting There is also but one only everlasting without beginning Both the Father and the Sonne are eternall without beginning therefore are they one only true God with the holy Ghost Like as Iohn also saith In the beginning that is to say from everlasting was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God And immediatly thereafter saith he that the Word is Jesus Christ our Lord. For it followeth The Word became flesh Therefore doth David also call the Son of God specially his Lord saying The Lord said unto my Lord. And therefore calleth he Christ his Lord because hee confesseth and beleeveth that he is his very naturall Lord and God as Thomas also did knowledge My Lord and my God Ioh. 20. Afterward calleth he him his Lord because that after the nature of man he should be borne out of his loynes For thorowout all the Scripture is our Lord Iesus called the Sonne of David And thus doth David knowledge two natures in Christ the nature of God and the nature of man That the kingdome of Christ shall last for ever and that the kinde and nature of man shall be exalted aboue all heavens as Paul saith Hebr. 2. David testifieth with these words Sit thou at my right hand till I make thine enemies thy foot-stoole For Marke saith in the sixteenth chapter The Lord was taken up into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God Of this also finde we 1 Cor. 15.15 Now must he needs be very God indeed which reigneth for ever and to whom all enemies must be subdued yea cast utterly unto his feet Now followeth the second verse The Lord shall send thy mightie staffe out of Sion thou shalt be Lord even in the middest among thine enemies Here speaketh he of the preaching of the holy Gospell and how the world should be converted unto Christ and Christ to reigne in the middest of the world In the first verse is spoken of the eternall kingdome that he is very God living and reigning for ever not only in this time but also after this time eternally But here speaketh hee specially of the kingdome whereas hee reigneth here beneath through the Gospell For the Staffe the Scepter the Rod of Christ is the holy Gospell even the power of God which saveth all that beleeve Rom. 1.16 Which maketh Christs enemies friends and smiteth them downe that will not convert so that Christ hath dominion and

Lord even to the house of the God of Iacob that he may shew us his way and we will walke in his paths For the Law shall come forth from Sion and the word of God from Hierusalem In the 7. of Daniel it is written thus I saw a vision in the night and behold there came one in the clouds of heaven like the sonne of man which came to the old aged and they brought him before his presence And he gave him power glory and the kingdome and all people nations and tongues must serve him his power is an everlasting power which shall not be taken from him and his kingdome shall not perish Esay saith in the 62. chapter And the heathen shall see thy righteousnesse and all kings thine honour and he shall call thee by a new name O Sion and the mouth of God shall give thee the name And thou shalt be a crowne of glory in the hand of the Lord ad a royall crowne of the kingdome in the hand of thy God And soone after it followeth Make ready make ready the way gather up the stones out of the street and hang out the banner unto the people behold the Lord hath caused it to be proclaimed unto the end of the world Tell the daughter Sion behold the Saviour commeth loe his treasure and his reward bringeth he with him and his deeds goe before him And they that are redeemed of the Lord shall be called the holy people Zacharie saith in the ninth chapter Reioyce O daughter Sion be glad O daughter Hierusalem behold thy king commeth unto thee even the righteous and Saviour meeke and simple is he he rideth upon an asse and upon a young colt of the shee asse He shall preach peace unto the heathen his kingdome also shall reach from the one sea to the other and from the river unto the uttermost part of the earth Of the death and passion of Christ speaketh Daniel in the ninth chapter after this manner And after two and sixtie weekes shall Christ be slaine and put to death and yet shall they have no true testimony that he is guilty of death Esay in the 50. chapter saith thus The Lord God opened mine eare and I refused it not neither went I backward I gave my bodie to the smiters and my cheeks to the nippers and my face have I not turned from their shamefull intreating and spitting upon me The Lord God also shall helpe me therefore shall I not be confounded And therefore have I hardned my face like a flint stone and am sure that I shall not be confounded In the 53. chapter there is written of Christ after this manner He shall have neither beauty nor fairenesse we shall looke upon him but we shall have no desire unto him He is despised and contemned of men a man of trouble and one that hath had experience of infirmitie He is so despised that we shall hide our faces from him and have him in no estimation And yet hath he borne our unperfectnesse and felt our sorrowes We also thought that he should be wounded smitten and punished of God But he was wounded for our sinnes and slaine for our wickednesse sake And the punishment whereby we have peace is laid upon him and through his wounds are we made whole All we have gone astray like sheepe every one of us hath had respect unto his owne way and the Lord hath laid all our sinnes upon him Violence and wrong was done unto him he hath beene evill intreated and yet opened he not his mouth He shall be lead as a beast to be slaine and as a sheepe dumbe before the shearers so shall he not open his mouth c. The whole chapter describeth all the cause of Christ so clearely that holy Hierom said not in vaine Esay is not only a Prophet but also an Euangelist Zacharie describeth the Priesthood and sacrifice of Christ and testifieth that with the same only oblation he hath obtained grace for all sinne and therefore seven that is to say all eyes shall have respect unto him and shall seeke peace and rest of their consciences in him and shall finde it Heare now O Iosue thou high Priest thou and thy companions that sit before thee seeing yee are men of examples For loe I will bring my servant even the blossome For behold the stone which I have laid before Iosue will I bring To the same only stone shall seven eyes looke Behold I will digge it up and disclose it saith the Lord Zabaoth and the sinne of the earth will I take away in one day And in that day shall every man call his neighbour under his vine and figge tree The buriall and resurrection of our Lord Iesus Christ hath the Prophet Ionas figured very excellently For thus saith our Lord Christ himselfe Like as Ionas was three daies and three nights in the whales belly so shall the sonne of man be three daies and three nights in the heart of the earth Of the ascension of Iesus Christ and sending of the Holy Ghost hath Ioel also written in the second chapter and it is alleaged of S. Peter Act. 2. Of the calling and gathering together the Heathen and of every thing pertaining to the holy Church doth Esay write in the 49. chapter and so forth to the end of his prophecie Thus hast thou that the Prophets also in their time did preach Iesus Christ and pointed not the people to trust unto the works of the law and their owne deserving but unto Christ of whom they prophesied every thing that followed after Therefore did Peter speake right 1 Pet. 1. saying Ye shall receive the end of your faith even the salvation of your soules After which salvation have the Prophets inquired and searched which prophesied of the grace that should come unto you searching when or what time the spirit of Christ which was in them should signifie which spirit testified before the passions that should happen unto Christ and the glory that should follow after Vnto the which Prophets it was also declared that not unto themselves only but unto us they should minister the things which are now shewed unto you by them which have preached unto you the Gospell through the Holy Ghost that was sent unto them from heaven c. In the which testimonie the holy Apostle Peter had a speciall respect to the prophecie of Daniel which did not only record the passion and glory of Christ but also pointed to the time in the which Christ should come For like as God in greatest perils dangers and alterations hath alway renued and more clearely expressed his promise concerning the blessed seed as in the time of Noe when the world was destroyed in the time of Abraham when God would prepare himselfe a new people in the time of Moses when God received his people and caried them out of Egypt to bring them into the