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A01136	A sermon preached at the christening of a certaine Iew at London by Iohn Foxe. Conteining an exposition of the xi. chapter of S. Paul to the Romanes. Translated out of Latine into English by Iames Bell.; De oliva evangelica. Concio, in baptismo Judæi. English	Foxe, John, 1516-1587.; Bell, James, fl. 1551-1596.	1578 (1578)	STC 11248; ESTC S108651	98,886	236

redeemer and attaine eternall saluation of bodie and soule together with vs in thy euerlasting kingdom through thee our Lord and Sauiour Amen FINIS Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker Printer to the Queenes Maiestie ANNO. 1578. The confession of faith which Nathanael a lewe borne made before the Congregation in the Parish church of Alhallowes in Lombard streete at London whereupon he was according to his desire receiued into the number of the faithfull and so baptized the first of April 1577. MEn and brethrē to whom God hath reuealed in these later dayes the secrete of his sonne which was hidden from you many ages it is not vnknowen vnto you how that in the dayes of our forefathers God chose vs to be a precious people vnto himself aboue all the people that are vpon the earth and he loued vs and chose vs not because we were mo in number then anie people for we were the fewest of all people but hee chose vs onely because hee loued vs and because he would keepe the othe which he had sworne vnto our fathers Abraham Isaac Iacob By vertue of which promise the same our Lord and God whose name is Iehouah brought our fathers by a mightie hande and deliuered them out of the house of bondage from the hande of Pharaoh King of Egypt that they might knowe that the Lorde their God is the God in deede the faithfull God which keepeth couenant and mercie vnto thē that loue him and keepe his cōmandements euen to a thousand generations According to which great vnspeakeable louing kindnesse he kept and preserued our fathers in the land of Israel which he had giuen them vnder the obedience of his Lawe in such seruice of sacrifices and other rites as he had appointed them to be done and practised all the dayes of their liues in the citie of Ierusalem where was his Temple built vpon the mount Sion so long as they kept them selues in obedience to the same Lawe and ordinances But when they forsaked the Lord their God and cleaued vnto false gods he rewarded them to their face because they hated him and brought them to destruction by deliuering them into the handes of manie enemies as into the hands of Nabuchadnezer by whom they were caried into captiuitie to Babylon and there remained the dayes foretolde them by our Prophet Ieremie Fulfilling thereby the wordes of our Prophet Moseh foretelling vs that it should so be if we forsooke the Lord our God and leauing vs their posteritie an example thereby that if we followed like iniquitie like seueritie of punishment should ouertake vs As it came to passe and is fulfilled in the eyes of all the world by this captiuitie which we are now in and haue been in we and our forefathers euer since the death of that righteous man Iesus Christ whome the Scribes and Pharisies and Elders of our people deliuered into the handes of Pontius Pilate to be put to death being before betrayed into their handes by one of his owne disciples that sonne of perdition Iudas Ishcarioth As our forefathers then pronoūced against them selues Let his bloud be vpon our heads and vpon our children so it is come to passe by the righteous iudgement of that mightie dreadfull god For euen from those dayes vnto this present the whole house of Israel that is wee that come of the stocke of Abraham after the fleshe is are strangers out of the land of Israel our owne countrie without Lawe or Prophets without all exercise of his statutes and ordinances concerning his worshippe prescribed vnto vs by the hande of his seruant Moseh This long and weariesome captiuitie hath consumed a great number of our forefathers ●nd hath caused some of vs frō time to time through the grace and loue of God wherewith hee loueth vs for the promise sake to thinke vpō our promised Messhiach conferring these dayes of sorowe calamitie with our former captiuities of our fathers which were nothing so many in number of yeres nor so grieuous for want of our Prophets These fiftene hundreth yeres haue we bene strangers these fiftene hūdreth yeres haue we lacked our Prophets a thing not seen at any time before whē we our fathers were caried into a strange land For in Egypt they had Mosheh Aaron and in Babylon they had Ieremie Daniel besides Ezra Nechemiah and manie other onely in this captiuitie is Israel left desolate and our Prophets cleane gone Whereof when it pleased God I should haue consideration I was lead to thinke that our Messhiach is come and that our long looking for an other was but in vaine And that rather for that I see the wordes of Iacob our father accomplished where hee sayeth The Scepter shall not depart from Iudah nor a lawegiuer from betweene his feete vntill Shiloh come and the people shal be gathered vnto him For the Scepter and gouernement was continued in the house of Iudah as our fathers accord vntill the comming of this man Iesus in whom if it were not continued according to the woordes of our scriptures it hath failed and wanted euer since For since the dayes of that iust man there hath bene no Scepter amongest vs neither haue we or do we runne for iudgements vnto Ierusalem So that if the wordes of our father Iacob be true That the Scepter should not depart from the house of Iudah vntill Shilo came and there is no Scepter nor Lawegiuer nowe in that house then must it needes be that this man Iesus whō you confesse and beleeue is that Shilo which was to come and is that childe of whom one or our Prophetes sayeth Unto vs a childe is borne and vnto vs a sonne is giuen and the gouernement is vpon his shoulder And hee shall call his name Wonderfull Counseller The mightie God The euerlasting Father the Prince of peace the increase of his gouernement and peace shall haue none end he shall sitte vpon the throne of Dauid and vpon his kingdome to order it to stablish it with iudgement and iustice from henceforth euen for euer The zeale of the Lord of hosts will performe this This man then no doubt is that Messhiach which was looked for according to promise and our fathers and people acknowledge not fulfilling in them selues the wordes of their owne mouth His bloud be vpon our heads In deede it seemed strange to me and doth to the rest of my brethren according to the flesh euē vnto this daye in whome this blindnesse and hardnesse of heart is in part continued through occasion giuen by them that professe the name of this man Iesus And not onely in vs which are of the house of Israel but in other as the Turkes and Mahomets which are of the race of Ishmael For had it not bene for the great and manifolde Idolatrie that is committed and vsed amongst the Christians almost in all places where his Name is professed manie of our nation had repēted in

inestimable Iewel of faith which only enricheth to the inheritaunce of eternall life or at the least are not so diligent searchers of the same as they ought to be To clime vnto honour what attemptes and toyle do some vndertake howe filthily do others turmoyle them selues in raking riches together how dayntily some men besmeare them selues in perfumes and pleasures who because they knowe they can not lyue here for euer do determine to liue godly neuer yeeld them selues wholly to liue delicately wantonly To be aduaunced in Court to aspire to prelacie and ecclesiasticall dignitie to be a magistrat ouer the multitude who doth not accōpt it matter most honorable who adiudgeth not that man to be most fortunate that by hooke or crooke hath cratcht wonderfull possessions together who thinketh not that man to be most happy that lyueth most pleasurably And what shal I say of those artes sciences which procure gaineful lucre estimation of the world wherin whyles wee sweate and swinke all our lyues long scarse one minute can bee spared no thought employed to the things which lead vnto christ I speake not of them who seme to sauour of no sappe of religion nor are endued with one drop of faith who resembling rather Diagoristes and Protagoristes then Christians are so vtterly fallen from Christianisme to Atheisme that measuring this life with the present pleasures thereof they doe beleeue nothing holy good or worthy to be embraced but those plausible workes obiects of nature wherewith our eyes senses are delyghted most There is also an other crewe company not much vnlike to these other who perceyuing Christian religion assaulted rackt and rent in sonder as they say with sects schismes and contrarieties of opinions do persuade them selues that religion to be best that will acquaint it selfe with no religion at all What shall I say of them wherof the nomber is exceeding great who with full mouth do professe true religion it selfe and will not deny but that they do beleeue in Iesu Christ but beyng demaunded wherefore they doe beleeue in him what the will of God the father in Christ is what Grace is what how great promises are layde vp in stoare for vs in Christ howe glorious the Maiestie royaltie of Christes kingdome is how inestimable the glorie of his riches be what is the breadth the length the depth the heyght thereof howe woonderfull the loue of his knowledge is how great the force power of faith is and vpon what principal pillers foundations it is buylded they can render scarse any reason at all For as much therfore as the infallible certeintie true vnderstanding of these thinges can be attayned vnto rightly from no where els then from the holy closets of sacred Scriptures it shal be very requisite and needefull that euery of vs employ al our senses povvers of the mind continually exercised in the same For howsoeuer Christian diuinitie is tossed and turmoyled to fro with innumerable intricate entangled and wandering questions yet remayneth faith one selfe same neuerthelesse both pure simple and as it is but one so ought all men necessarily be endued therewith wholly● That is to say that we all know Christ that we repose all our ankerholde of affiaunce in Christ that we imprint Christ in the bowels of our soule as wee are commaunded by the mouth of God the father seeing there is no name besides this name giuen vnder heauen in whome the treasure hope of mans felicitie may safely shroude it selfe Let Princes therefore learne to know this Christ Let subiects attend vpon him let auncient fathers take hold of him Let yong men embrace him Let the riche enlarge their treasury with this precious Iewel let the poore seek their reliefe to be refreshed by him who in deed cā els where by no meanes be found more easily then in the very sacred wellspringes of the propheticall Scriptures notwithstanding who so is desirous to procure this ioyfull Iewel must first of necessitie make earnest and diligent searche therfore For this precious pearle is not allotted to any but vnto them that vvill searche for it nor doth this heauēly Manna feede any but the hungry The soule must be very thirstie that must taste of this liquour that gusheth frō out the cōduyte pipes of eternal life This gate is not opened to the lazy slouthfull droane but vnto him that wil knocke Knocke sayth he and it shal be opened vnto you Seeke and ye shall finde All persons without exception are graunted free accesse to the treasurie of this kingdome It is layde open for all estates but all catch it not except such as scratche and offer force for it for what I beseeche you is more forcible then fayth what more mightie if it be true faith if it be liuely faith yea if it be true Christian fayth as that which displaying banner vnder his captaine Christ doeth fight in heauen and combat in the ayre against the princes and powers of the ayre against spiritual wickednesses from aboue doeth keepe continuall warres against infinite hazards in the earth and in hell agaynst Beelzebub agaynst the furies gates of the hells yea against death fighteth for eternall life against the Law for righteousnes and against horror of conscience for freedome and peace Therefore considering this faith is of such power and efficacie yea so necessarie to be frequented in all the actions of mans lyfe what remayneth from henceforth but that all and euery of vs crye out vnto the same Christ and beseeche him to impart vnto vs the true knowledge and vnderstanding of him selfe to enlighten the glimmering sight of our dazeled fleshly eyes with the most bryght and orient beames of this gladsome saith and that he wil vouchsafe at length to bring that to passe in vs that he vsed sometimes with his Apostles when as he discouered vnto them vpon the way as they trauayled the holie Scriptures For so we reade And he beganne at Moses and at all the Prophets and interpreted vnto them in all the scriptures the things which were written of him And immediately after Then opened hee their vnderstanding that they might know the Scriptures said vnto them Thus it is written Whereby appeareth playnly the duetie and office that is required in the expositours of the holy Scriptures To witte that omitting all superfluous circumlocutions and vnprofitable quiddities of questions they instruct the people in those principles rules of the Scriptures chiefely which auaile most to the nourishment and encrease of faith In which kinde of argument forasmuch as in this sermon behoued me to frame my simple skill according to the estate of the present matter and opportunitie of time and that it seemed good to my friendes to haue this litle treatise published in print to the viewe of the common people as not altogether vnworthy the reading I haue yeelded to their request that it myght be