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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

sackcloth and ashes and had come to this man Iesus their brother after the flesh from whom they are nowe estranged and go astraye But wel is it written in your Law Woe be vnto him by whom offence commeth according as it is written in our Lawe Cursed be the man that layeth a stumbling block in the waye of his neighbour and all the people shall saye Amen But when it pleased God to bring me into this land which I must for the same cause call a blessed land and I sawe therein no such impedimēt as holdeth our eyes blinded in other places It was a meanes I must needes confesse that made mee more deepely to enter into the former consideration of our long captiuitie better to thinke of the wordes of our Prophets and the promises set downe by them touching our Messhiach For the wall that maketh a separation betweene our nation the stocke of Abraham and you the Gentiles is in your respect and in your behalfe broken downe so that I can not iustly say of you as we our fathers and Elders saye of all other vsing in all our bookes and writings to call and accompt of them by no other name but Baale abodazara Idolatrous masters and lords of strāge worshippe A thing so detestable vnto vs as nothing more concerning our Lawe being in deede the first and chiefest of our commandements giuen vs by the hand of Mosheh and so often repeated vnto vs as no one thing more in all our scriptures Besides the manifest anger of God shewed against it in punishing the trespasse therein committed by our forefathers in the absence of Mosheh when he was gone vp into the mount to fetche the Lawe When our fathers were to enter into the lande of promise the first and principall point required of them was this When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possesse it shall roote out many nations be●ore thee the Hittites and the Girgashites the Ammonites and the Canaanites and the Perizzites and the Hiuites and the Iebusites seuen nations mightier and greater than thou the Lorde thy God shall giue them before thee then shalt thou smite them thou shalt vtterly destroy them thou shalt make no couenāt with them nor haue compassion on them neither shalt thou make mar●ages with them neither giue thy daughter vnto his sōne nor take his daughter vnto thy sonne for they will cause thy sonne to turne away from me to serue other gods then will the wrath of the Lord waxe whotte against you and destroy thee sodainly But thus you shall deale with them you shall ouerthrowe their altars and breake downe their pillers and you shall cut downe their groues and burne their grauē images with fyre The seueritie of this Lawe and the false worshippe that we and our fathers behold in them that professe the name of this man Iesus withholdeth vs from comming to make any couenāt of peace with you from ioyning hands with you and entring into that familiaritie with you which should be betweene them that worship one God. We are commanded in our Lawe not to plowe with an oxe and an asse neither to weare any garmēt of linsie wolsie we vnderstande it so that we may not ioyne God and Idols together we may not serue our Lorde otherwise than he hath commanded vs saying Turne not aside to the right hand nor to the lefte For he is a iealouse God and we are chosen to be an holie people vnto him which we are taught we can not be vnlesse we keepe this commandement Thou shalt haue none other Gods but one and this Thou shalt not make to thy selfe any grauen image nor the likenesse of any thing And because they do so we haue bene withholden by the commandement of our God from making any couenant with them or hearkening vnto any of their Prophets teachers for that were but to make Israel to sinne and to prouoke the holy one to anger When they talke with vs they saye they are not such as our Prophets speake of who worshipped beasts and other creatures as the sunne the moone but they worship onely the creature of man who was made to the image of God and by whome God hath wrought great and marueilous workes vpō the earth To whom we answere by the words of our Lawe that all idolatrie is forbiddē vs the commaundement forbiddeth not one thing more than an other neither giueth greater libertie for one thing than for an other but saith in these wordes Thou shalt not make the likenesse of anie thing that is in heauen aboue or in the earth beneath or in the water vnder the earth thou shalt not bowe downe to them nor serue thē Whatsoeuer it be it is forbidden by our commandement And if anie creature might be worshipped reason would the sunne moone should haue that honour done them for they serue vs to greatest purposes by them we reape daily profit Abraham Isaac and Iacob Mosheh Samuel and Elizahu with the rest of the Prophets were good men and by them God wrought wonderfull things and yet we neuer worshipped any of them And we can not thinke that this wisedome was or should haue bene hidden from all them and all our fathers if it had bene so great wisdome in the sight of our god They say vnto vs oftentimes that they do not worshippe them as Gods but they worship God in them Neither are the Heathen we say that are rounde about vs so blinded with the imagination of their heartes as that they thinke that the stockes stones carued or the tables which they paint them selues to be God but they are persuaded that the liuing God may bee worshipped and serued in them And as for the creature that is worshipped or in whome the liuing God is worshipped whether it be better than an other and more to be accompted of than an other that is not it that maketh false worship but the commandement which sayeth Thou shalt not make the likenesse of any thing And yet those common Christians go verie farre for the Christians of Spayne Portugal haue it written in their bookes as in one which they call Contemplationes del Idiota ala virgen Maria That that virgin is the Lordes treasure and that she bestoweth giftes and graces vpon hir seruantes to make them worthy dwelling houses for hir blessed sonne and the holy Ghost that hir mercie often time pardoneth them whome the iustice of hir sonne might condemne that she doth plentifully enriche thē that serue hir with the holy Ghost and defendeth them most mightily from the enemie to witte from the world the f●esh and the deuill and that our saluation lieth in hir hands But our Lawe teacheth vs that our God Iehouah is all sufficient and that all treasures are in his handes he giueth to whom he listeth and from whom he listeth he holdeth backe He saieth he will

imprinted And although my meaning was at the first to haue the same directed to the behoof of the Iewes chiefely yet I trust it vvil not be altogether vnprofitable to the Christian readers First because it may so be yea I feare me may also iustly be feared lest amongst the nomber of thē which say that they beleue in Christ some happely vvil be found in vvhose lippes onely this faith rolleth at large and hath not yet pearced any deeper nor taken roote in their heartes nor are as yet so sufficiently learned as if matter come to tryall and proofe they can render a true and vndoubted reason of this their faith Moreouer admitte that a man stande assured and stedfast in the certeintie of his faith yet vvhat faith is there so sure constant and vnuanqui●●able but may be made more stable and perfect For if S. Paul did see sometime as in a darke ryddle if the Apostles notvvithstanding so many miracles vvrought in their sight needed yet the interpretation of Scriptures if those vvhich receaued the vvoorde by the preaching of Paul did neuerthelesse cōferre his doctrine vvith the Scriptures to see whether they agreed together● as is recorded in the Actes of the Apostles vvhat shoulde let vs to doe the like that by this meanes vve also myght encrease dayly from fayth to faith Finally for as much as our auncient deadly enemie doeth not more cruelly maligne nor more outragiously assaile any one thing so much as this our faith in Christ surely I iudge this aboue all other most requisite that euery of vs haue especial regard to be as much as is possible armed and garded vvith this target of faith that vve may couragiously encounter all attempts and assaults of the deuill vvhereunto hovve auaylable this litle Sermon vvill be I knovv not that let Christ our Lorde him selfe see vnto and giue his mercifull ayde therein I for my slender capacitie haue perfourmed vvhat I vvas able and as much as the Lorde graunted me vvhome I most heartily beseeche to blesse and encrease thy holy studies godly Reader and to direct the same to the honour glory of his name Amen A Sermon of the true and gladsome Oliue tree mentioned in the Epistle of Sainct Paul to the Romanes chap. xi preached at London by a faithfull Minister of God Iohn Foxe at the christening of a certaine Iewe translated out of Latine into Englishe FIrst as duetie requireth I do yeeld most humble thāks to our Lorde and Sauiour Christ Iesu whome it hath pleased of his vnsearcheable mercie and bountifull loue towardes vs to minister so notable an occasion of our assembly this present day place and so fruitefull an argument for mee to empart vnto you all Secondly I doe no lesse heartily thanke then woorthily commend in the Lord all you that are present who according to your accustomed maner are so willingly and ioyfully gathered together enduced hereunto not through any vayne delight of fonde noueltie but of a seryons and studious zeale of godlinesse not as gazers of friuolous fantasticall fables but as willing witnesses of this great and inestimable benefite of almightie god Lastly I do from the bottome of my heart reioyce in the behalfe of this person for whose cause we are as nowe mette here together who being transported from out the vttermost parts of Barbarie into England and conuersant amongest vs by the space of sixe whole yeeres renouncing nowe at the last the naturall contumacie of his natiue country doth with so earnest bent affection of voluntarie wil chearefully desire to become a member of Iesu Christ and to be made partaker of his holye congregatio● through faith and Baptisme And withall I most humbly beseeche Almightie God that he will not onely vouchsafe his gracious encrease to this glorious worke begunne with this Israelite stranger but also to allure the whole remnant of the circumcised Race by this his example to be desirous of the same communion So that at the length all nations as well Iewes as Gentiles embracing the faith and Sacramentes of Christ Iesu acknowledging one Shephearde vnited together in one sheepefold may with one voice one soule and one generall agreemēt glo●ifie the only begotten sonne our sauiour Iesus Christ be glorified againe of him And that it may please him of his singular clemencie to graunt the same as also to blesse these our dayes with quiet calme and ioyfull tranquillitie which we doe nowe enioy vnder the gouernmēt of our most gracious Souereigne and her most honorable Magistrates I beseeche you of your charitie to ioyne with me in heart and minde vnto the eternall God father of vs all with the same prayer which his onely begotten sonne taught vs in the Gospell The Prayer Our father c. Forsamuch as in the administration of the Sacraments of the Church I doe well perceiue that both by the word of God and by an auncient and solemne custome amongst many it hath bene an vse to haue somewhat for the better instruction of their auditories read and expounded out of the bookes of holie scripture and deliberating likewise with my selfe what course I might best keepe at this present as well to serue the offred opportunitie as also to satisfie the publique commodity of you al chiefly I could not determine vpō any one text of the whole scripture to be opened vnto you more profitable for your learning more effectuall for exhortation more applyable to our age and more agreeable for this present occasion then the sentence of S. Paul the Apostle not very long but of wōderfull force taken out of the xi chapter of his Epistle written to the Romanes And to the ende you may receiue the same to your greater comfort it behoueth you to yeeld earnest and heedefull attention not with your bodily eares onely but with the eares of your minde also to these things which I shal vtter vnto you Hearken ye therefore to the words of the Apostle euen as him selfe hath spoken them To the Romanes the 11. chapter I speake vnto you Gentiles in as much as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles I wil magnifie mine office if by any meanes● may prouoke them which be my fleshe and may saue some of them for if the casting away of them be the receyuing of the worlde what shal the receyuing of them be but life frō the dead For if the first fruits be holy the whole masse is holy also And if the Roote be holy the braunches will be holye also And if some of the braunches be broken of and thou beyng a wilde Oliue tree wast graffed in amongest them and made partaker of the Roote and fatnesse of the true and naturall Oliue tree boaste not thy selfe agaynst the braūches for if thou do boaste thou bearest not the roote but the roote beareth thee Thou wilt say then The braunches are broken of that I may be engraffed in Thou sayest well for vnbeliefe sake they were broken of and thou stoodest