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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

and serveth altogether for the declaration of the six commandements of the second Table and is comprehended in the words of Paul Rom. 13. Love thy neighbour as thy selfe And in the words of Christ That thou wouldest not have done unto thee doe not thou to another Matth. 7. Such lawes and rules to live in peace in a civill order and in vertue have also the good holy fathers had from the beginning of the world written in their hearts by God himselfe Now hath God also caused all to be comprehended in writing by Moses to the intent that the world might have all more clearely and perfectly and that no man might excuse himselfe of ignorance CHAP. VII The originall of the holy Scripture and faith thereof THis matter which I have hitherto treated upon have I not fained of my selfe but taken it out of the mouth and word of God For God stirred up Moses to write and leave behinde him all the matter for our learning and knowledge This did now Moses with great faithfulnesse and comprehended all in foure bookes The first is called the booke of the creation from the beginning of the world unto his time of the creation of the world beginning of all nations and of the Patriarks and old righteous servants of God of their faith and conversation of the promises and works of God The same wrote hee as hee was inspired of the Holy Ghost and as he had received of old fathers and somewhat as he found in the bookes of the Aegyptians For Moses was excellently well learned in all wisdome of the Aegyptians as Steven doth witnesse of him Act. 7. The other three bookes wrote he of his owne time according as he himselfe was present saw and knew And specially the second booke concerning the departing out of Aegypt how the people of God were oppressed in Aegypt how the Aegyptians were punished how Israel was delivered received the Law and set up a Tabernacle with a gorgeous serving of God In the third booke which is called Leviticus are written the spirituall Lawes namely such as concerne the Priests and the Priesthood their office living knowledge sacrifices solemne feast dayes rites ceremonies and such like In the fourth which is called Numeri hee writeth at length how they went thorow the wildernesse and came to Iordan with a rehearsall of their order and number of their murmuring also and punishment and of certaine victories with a remembrance of certaine lawes and statutes Beside all this hee made yet an Enchiridion and summe of all the acts of his time and of the Law of God which is called Deuteronomium the same commanded hee to bee laid in the Arke at the motion of God and that it should be read unto all the people as it is mentioned Deut. 31. And in these five bookes given us of God by Moses is the whole ground of our holy faith For all the Prophets afterward grounded themselves upon the same and wrote thereout like as afterward our Lord Iesus and the Apostles point unto Moses Neither did ever any righteous man of understanding and that feared God doubt any thing or blaspheme such Scriptures And from such true servants of God have wee hitherto received our matters in writing Thus much have I said concerning the Law how it is no new thing but even the onely will of God but now comprehended in writing Moreover that all the Law pointeth unto Christ and that all men of right understanding which lived under the Law were Christians For manifest is it that Paul said Rom. 10. Christ is the end of the Law to justifie everie one that beleeveth And Galat. 3. Or ever faith that is to say Christ came we were kept and shut up under the Law unto the faith which should afterward be declared Thus was the Law our schoole-master unto Christ that wee might bee made righteous by faith All this I suppose will bee new and strange in many hearts neverthelesse I trust that all they which have understanding doe see and knowledge that this is the true old right and godly Divinitie and Theologie which ascribeth all honour unto God the Father through our Lord Iesus Christ in the Holy Ghost To whom be glorie and praise for ever Amen CHAP. VIII All vertuous Kings and the people of Israel trusted unto Christ and not to the Law AFter that the Law was given and Gods service set up Moses the servant of God died being an hundred and twentie yeeres old and at the commandement and commission of God he left Gods people to bee ruled and guided by the faithfull valiant Iosue which also was a figure of our Lord Iesus For like as it was not Moses but Iosue that brought the people into the land of promise Even so are we brought into the eternall rest not by the works of the Law nor through our owne deserving but by grace through Iesus Christ like as it is also with many words expressed of holy Paul Heb. 4.3 c. This Iosue no doubt did keepe maintaine and defend Gods faith and religion with the spirit and understanding thereof and taught other to keepe the same like as he through Gods inspiration received it of the fathers by Moses Which thing though it bee evident in many points yet is it manifest specially by this that hee would not suffer the children of Ruben and Gad and the halfe Tribe of Manasse to set up and have another altar beside the onely altar that the Lord had appointed them For herein as it is mentioned afore was figured the vertue and perfectnesse of the onely crosse death and sacrificing of Iesus Christ Therefore would not Iosue that any thing should be set cheeke-mate with the crosse and oblation of Iesus Christ but that all honour of cleansing and forgivenesse of sinnes should bee ascribed onely unto him Whereas Iosue now and other Iudges Rulers Princes and Kings of Israel after him used sore and great warre stroke many horrible battels destroyed much land and people and shed mens bloud without measure he did it as a chiefe head and as an instrument and vessell of God at the commandement of God which would so punish the Idolatrie the great sinne and blasphemie of the ungodly which he had long suffered and exhorted them to amendment but for all his patient abiding they would not convert Those now did hee root out through the sword of his beloved friends sometime delivered he his people with the sword of the righteous and saved them from the hand of their enemies For because of the sinnes of his people he gave them over sometime into the hand of their enemies to nurture and correct them with the rod then fell the people of God and fled before their enemies and were subdued and opprest of the ungodly till they knowledged their sinnes called upon God and amended putting their trust in God onely through the blessed seed worshipping

rather to require it of all his people Wherefore no doubt he set up and furthered this his faith and religion among all his men of warre kinsfolke in all his court dominion before the whole congregation and all his kingdome so diligently earnestly and fervently that afterward certaine hundred yeeres they which beleeved right and lived well were praised for walking in the waies of David their Father They also that did evill set not forth the true faith of them is it written they walked not in the waies of David their Father Of this hast thou many examples in the bookes of the Kings and in the Chronicles Many things also were forgiven the Kings and all the people of Iuda for Davids sake that is for the promise sake made unto David even for Iesus Christs sake whom Ezechiel calleth David In the first booke of the Kings the fifteenth chapter it is written thus The heart of Abia was not right toward his Lord God as was the heart of David his father And for Davids sake did the Lord give him a light at Hierusalem so that at Hierusalem he set up his sonne and preserved him For David did that that was right in the fight of the Lord and all the daies of his life did not he shrinke from any thing that he commanded him except in the matter of Vrias the Hethite Thus readest thou also of Ezechias 2 Reg. 18. Afore Iosias was there no King that was like him which turned himselfe so unto the Lord with all his heart with all his soule and with all his power according to all the law of Moses And afterward came there none like him But in the second booke of the Chronicles the 34. chapter standeth the declaration of the foresaid place after this manner Iosias reigned at Hierusalem one and thirtie yeeres and did that which pleased the Lord and walked in the waies of his Father David and declined neither to the right hand nor to the left For in the eighth yeere of his reigne while he was yet but young even sixteene yeeres old hee began to seeke the God of his Father David Thus much be spoken concerning this that Israel and all the vertuous Kings of Iuda trusted unto Christ and not to the Law of Moses Who so desireth the number of the yeeres he findeth 1 Reg. 6. even 480. yeeres from the departing out of Aegypt untill the fourth yeere of the reigne of Salomon And from that time untill the captivitie of Babylon are reckoned 419. yeeres or thereabouts All together make 899. yeeres CHAP. IX All holy Prophets doe point unto Christ and preach salvation only in him SOmewhat yet will we now declare further concerning the times of the Kings of Iuda and Israel which in a manner were even as the times of the Iudges of Israel For like as in the first yeeres of Iosue God gave great victorie and honour and afterward rest and peace Even so were the Israelites very victorious and triumphant under David and had great rest and peace under Salomon But like as after the death of Iosue the honour of Israel decreased and the departing away from God followed with one persecution upon another though in the meane time they had peace and deliverers as Othoniel Ehud Barack Gedeon Iephtha Sampson c. Even so did the worship of Israel decrease after Salomons time For the ten Tribes of Israel fell away from the house of David only Iuda and Bejamin held Salomons sonne Roboam for their King the other made Hieroboam King And so of one kingdome were made two the kingdome of Israel and the kingdome of Iuda The kingdome of Israel through the perswasion of Hieroboam chose them another manner of serving God Not that they utterly denied and refused the God of their Fathers but they served him after a strange heathenish manner of their owne imagining But afterward they fell the longer the more and further into grosse idolatrie so long till the Lord suffered them to be rooted out and carried away by the King of the Assyrians and scattered abroad among all the Heathen The kingdome and the Kings of Iuda were somewhat better howbeit they had some also which excelled the Kings of Israel and of the Heathen in ungodlinesse For they likewise went forth so long in unrighteousnesse till Nabuchodonosor the King rooted them out and caried them away unto Babylon But afore we see that there was a wonderfull combrance in the civill policie and in the religion Sometime was all righteousnesse and true religion opprest and violence and idolatrie used Sometime gat righteousnesse up againe and the right true faith had the victorie all unright and idolatrie being put downe This came to passe also in Israel under Helias and King Iehu Yet was the idolatrie and wrong rather punished than any amendment following Like as it came also to passe after the birth of Christ that there were vertuous Kings and Emperours which according to the prophecie of Esay in the 49. chapter verse 23. did all righteousnesse set up the faith of Christ and put downe all idolatrie Againe there came other that set up all unrighteousnesse and idolatry persecuted the truth and at the last receiued their reward convenient So weightie a matter is it to have good or evill Rulers But in these wonderfull alterations and thorowout all the time of these governances of both the kingdomes God alway sent his servants the holy Prophets to rebuke wrong and idolatry and to teach all righteousnesse and true serving of God And first after the time of David and Salomon under whom there was a great multitude of learned and holy Prophets for David also and Salomon were excellently endued with the spirit of wisdome and prophecie above other men these were the chiefe most famous and oldest Prophets of whom the Bible maketh mention with worship Semeias which lived under Roboam King of Iuda Ahias the Silonite under Hieroboam Azarias the sonne of Obed which lived under Asa King of Iuda and Iehu the sonne of Anani whom Baasa the King of Israel slew Helias the great Prophet and Micheas the sonne of Iema lived under Achab and Iosaphat Now like as in the time of David there was a great number of learned men even so testifieth the second booke of the Chronicles in the 17. chapter that in the time of Iosaphat there were many learned Levites and Prophets Heliseus was in the time of King Iehu and Zacharias the sonne of Ioiada was under Ioas under whom also he was stoned Neverthelesse we have no bookes written and set forth by these only we have the prophecie of Abdias which wrote his prophecie under Achab. Afterward under Vzzia Iothan Achas and Ezechias Kings of Iuda lived the most part of them whose bookes are abroad For under these preached and wrote Ionas Oseas Isaias Ioel Nahum Amos and Micheas Afterward under King Manasses wrote Abacuck Vnder the holy King Iosias wrote Sophonias