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A17216	The olde fayth an euident probacion out of the holy scripture, that the christen fayth (whiche is the right, true, old and vndoubted fayth) hath endured sens the beginnyng of the worlde. Herein hast thou also a short summe of the whole Byble, and a probacion, that al vertuous men haue pleased God, and wer saued through the Christen fayth. 1547. Myles Couerdale.; Alte Glaube. English	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568.	1547 (1547)	STC 4071; ESTC S111672	65,283	130

Jordan whā Christ was baptysed Thys is my deare beloued sonne in whome I am pacified or reconcyled Besydes thys the Lord gaue vnto Noe certayne lawes but none other then euen soche as he had geuen to hys fore fathers and written in their hertes The first pertayneth to mariage and bringynge vp of chyldren in the whiche is comprehended all that is written concernyng nurtour clenlynesse and temperaunce of care and bryngynge vp of chyldren in the feare of God vertue obedience and lerninge The seconde forbybddeth violence and diseate namely that no man shall eate bloude For it is a figuratyue precepte commaundynge that no man get hys lyuynge by murthur by oppressyng the poore by vsury by extorcion by falshode and disceate Moreouer all thynges lyuynge were subdued vnto hym and all meates were permitted hym In conclusion what soeuer concerned to loue God and their neyghboure the same is here renewed vnto Noe and his chyldren and requyred of them Of Noe came afterwarde all people yea amonge hys thre sonnes Japhet Sem and Cham he had both the sede of God of the froward serpent that is soche as had respecte vnto God and them also that regarded the deuell Of Cham came the Egipcians Assyrians Babylonians by and frome whome sprange ydolatrye offryng to ymages and frome whome false religion came vp first and was brought in amonge other nacions by the helpe of the olde serpent as amonge the Grekes Romaynes and other people By this is it good to vnderstande that our holy Christen faith is elder then anye other For here maye we se clearly that after a thousand and certayne hundreth yeares almoost in the eight hundreth or nyne hundreth yeare came vp the first begynnynge of the Heithens beleue offrynge to ymages and yet came it of wicked cursed men For cursed Cham was the begynnynge of the Egipciās and Nimroth the vngodly extorcioner and tyraūte was the first founder of the kingdome of Babilon which kyngdome with the buyldinge of a mightie tower set forth his pryde Neuerthelesse the hande of God declared it selfe immedyatly as it is red in the eleuenthe chapter of Genesis Summa in the generation of Cham had the serpent great power howebeit in the posterite of Japhet also of whome the Almaynes come and in the posterite of Sem he had hys ys●ue lykewyse Of the progenie of Sem were borne Abrahā Isaat and Jacob. Gene. xi And as it is sayd afore the syncere fayth was somewhat darkyned in Caldea therfore dyd God call Abraham out from the ydolatrie and renewed wyth hym the old true Christen fayth begonne wyth Adam and sayde Genesis .xii. Get the out of thy coūtre and from thy kynred in to a lāde that I wyll shewe the and I wyll blesse the and make a greate nacyon of the. And in the shall all the nacion of the earth be blessed Item in the. xxii Chapter speakethe God yet more clearly and sayeth In thy sede shall all the nacyons of the earthe be blessed Thys dothe Paull declare in the iii. to the Galathiaus and sayeth In thy sede whyche is Christe Therfore was the same now an other renewyng of the promesse of Christe the blessed sede For fyrst whā he promised vnto Adam afterwarde was the promes renewed wyth Noe and now wyth Abraham And al thys now is but one promes one sauioure and one fayth Abrahā also beleued in Jesus christ and was saued by fayth For Jesus christ sayeth hym selfe in the eyghte Charter of Johan Abraham sawe my daye and reioysed What is now the daye of Chryste but the clearnesse of y e holy gospell This lyght had he not bodely but sawe it wyth the eyes of fayth and the same made hym ioyfull and saued hym For Chryste is the true ioye of troubled consciences Thus became Abraham the father of all faythfull beleuers Roma iiii And yf we beleue and do as Abrahā dyd then are we Abrahams chyldren and shall rest wyth him in hys bosome euē in the kyngdome of God Luke .xiii. xvi xix Mat. viii Paull also to the Galathians in the .iii. chapter sayeth Yf ye be Chrystes then are ye Abrahams sede and heyres accordynge to the promes Out of thys fayth in Christ dyd Abrahā Christē workes For with a good wyl left he hys own natyue countre all ydols and all ymages all mysfortune honger miserye toke he paciently he was not harde agagynst Loth hys neuye but ioparde his body and lyfe for the oppressed he was liberall mercyfull harberous he prayed feruēty vnto God for the poore synners he suffred oppresion violence wronge and for Gods sake also he thought to sacrifice and offre vp hys own moost dearly beloued sonne Isaac Summa there is no reasonable good Christen worke but thou seyst it in y e lyfe of Abrahā Therfore to vs also for an ensample of oure fayth and conuer●acion he is set forthe of the Lorde hym selfe and hys apostles thorow out the new Testament Here also is it manifest that our holy faith is elder then the Jewish faith For the Jewes do boaste them selues of the Circumcision and because they are called Jewes and Israel and that the lawe the presthode and the gods seruyce was geuen vnto them And yet Gene xv and .xvii. and Roma iiii is it euydent that Abrahā was gods frende and iustified or made righteous or euer he was circūcysed For whan he was circuncysed he was 99. yeare old Gene. xvii Nowe was the promes made vnto hym many yeares afore The scripture also sayeth planely Abraham beleued God the same was coūted vnto him for righteousnesse Genesi xv So was it many yeares after or euer Israel Juda was borne of whome they haue taken their name The lawe also was geuen 430 yeares after the promes as Paull made the rekenynge Gala. iii. It foloweth therfore that oure christen fayth is 2048. yeares elder then the Circūcision and. 2449. yeare elder then the lawe the presthode ceremonies of the Jewes For from Adam vnto the floud were 1656. yeares And frō the floude vntill the departynge of Abraham out of Caldea 363. yeares From that tyme are rekened 430. yeares vntyll the departynge of Israel out of Egipte And on the. 50. daye after the departinge was the lawe geuen vnto Israel vpon mounte Sina Exo. 19. 20. And after certayn dayes was the presthode ceremonies appoynted them Where as God then made a couenaunt with Abrahā whan he ordeyned the circuncision It serueth more to the cōfirmacion of oure holy christen faith then to the mayntenaunce of the Jewish ceremonyes Isaac and Jacob were Abraham chyldren not onely after the flesh but also after the sprete For they had the fayth of their father and graundfather Abraham put their trust onely in god thorow Jesus Christ and lyued a sober vertuos lyfe Of thys doth the scripture beare them recorde thorow out Jea Jacob whome the Lorde also called otherwyse Israell of whome

despysed God and became the serpentes generacion Wherfore whan Adam had gotten another sonne he was of a good hope that in Abels steade God had geuen hym another sonne whiche shulde do right and of whome the ro●e of the blessed sede shulde sprede oute afterwarde For the which cause also he called hym Seth which by vs is called a pl●●●● meanynge that God had set hym plāted hym as a braunche out of the which Messias shulde be borne For ●s for Cain he douted of hym And from the same Seth ▪ proceadeth the generation of the ryghteous vntyll Noe and from hym to Abrahā and so vnto Dauid and from thēce forth vnto Christ This Seth repayred our holy fayth ▪ which receyued great hurt at the death of Abell Thys dyd Seth I say for asmuche as he beynge taught inwardlye of god by mouth or outwardly of Adam lerned hys chyldren and theyr sede to put theyr truste in God and comforte them selues in the blessed sede and to cleaue vnto the same For it is wryten manifestly And than beganne men to call vppon the ●ame of the Lorde Tyll thys tyme was Adam wyth Heue hys wyfe onely a true frende and seruer to god The generation of Cain was now well spred abrode and come to two hundreth and fyftye yeares aboue but the more parte lyued wythoute the feare of God vnrepentaunt and vngodly Wherfore in asmuche as the generation of Seth now increased the feare of God and right beleue was among thē the scripture sayeth well And than beganne men to call vpon the name of the lorde And by thys callynge vppon dothe the Scripture meane the true ryghte beleue and Gods seruice that he mooste aloweth Of the progenie therefore of ryghteous Seth sprange the seruauntes of god and presidentes of our Chrysten fayth As for the cursed generation of Cain and of the vngodly it was destroyed and drowned wyth the floude To the holy genealogie of the true beleuers pertayneth the Patriarke Enoch of whome it is wrytten that he walked before god that is he ordred hys lyfe and conuersation altogyther after the wyll of God beynge constante and vpryghte no doute in all that whych God hadde spoken vnto Adam Therfore became he also an ensample of the immortalite of the soule and resurrection of the bodye and that all goddes seruauntes shalbe saued after thys lyfe For thus sayeth the scripture And in asmuche as he aplyed hym selfe to walke after god god toke hym away and he was nomore sene The holye Apostle Paule also in the xi chapter to the Hebrees speakethe very excellently of Enochs fayth so that no man may doute but that he had respecte to the blessed sede pleased god thorow Christ Moreouer the enemyte betwene the children of god and of man that is the yssue of the serpent grew euer more and more so that on the one syde the multitude of god increased on the other syde the multitude of the deuyll Jet at the last the multitude of the wycked was greatest ▪ For whan the chyldren of god wyth helde not them selues from the chyldren of the worlde ▪ but toke wyues and husbandes amonge them they begat roughe people which had no fayth at all and lyued only after theyr owne luste and tentatiō forgat God vtterly and regarded not the hundreth twentye yeares which God gaue them to amende Therfore was God constrayned so to punishe the vnfaithfull worlde ones that all posterities vnto the ende of the worlde myght haue a terrible ensaple of the iust wrath of God whereby they myght lerne how vngodlynesse vnrighteousnesse displeaseth God Thus the Lorde brought the floude vpon all the erth oaerthrew all that stode vp and destroyed euery thynge that had lyfe whan the worlde had stonde now a thousande sire hundreth and sixe and fyftye yeare For so many yeares fynde we in the fi●th and seuenth of Genesis where it is written that Noe was ▪ 600. yeare olde whan the floude came vpon erth Now yf we reken the yeares of the olde fathers in the fifth chapter vntyll Adam we shal fynde the forsayde summe And thus the yssne of the serpent had an ende and all vngodly and vn righteous lyuynge was myghtely supprest and destroyed of God And in thys horrible destruction of the vngodly was faithfull Noe saued he beynge the eight and preserwed in the Arke thorow the grace and mercy of God Here oure holy true Christē faith had the victory and triumphed For Noe was of oure fayth euen of the sede of God put hys trust in the blessed sede oure Lorde Jesus Yee the Arke or shyppe of Noe was a figure of Christ as we maye easely vnderstande by the wordes of saynt Peter i. Petri. iii. Seynge then that Noe was preserued thorowe the Arke it foloweth that he was saued by Jesus Christe therfore is it manifeste that he fyrste beleued in Christ Noe also was he with whome God first renued the couenaūt made with Adam For it is but ●one couenaunt onely euen the foresayde promesse ende made by God vnto Adam Howe beit the same couenaunte was afterwarde at certayne tymes renewed by reason of certayne occasions Here myght Noe haue thoughte that all the worlde and all men shuld vtterley haue bene vndone for as moche as the Lorde sayde I am determyned to destroye all flesh Therfore immediatly he addeth moreouer and sayeth But with the will I set vp my couenaunt that is to saye what soeuer pertayneth to my couenaunt and what I haue promysed Adā already the same wyll I surely and constantly make good and thoughe I nowe destroye the worlde yet wyll I perfourme my trueth thorow the. For I wyll preserue the alyue that the blessed sede promysed afore maye here after be borne of the in hys generation To thys dyd Noe trust was preserued of God thorow Christ Moreouer whan he was come out of the Arke he dyd sacryfice and therby declared the thankfulnesse of hys hert and beleue how that he knew that he had all good of hod which shuld also geue him a sede that with sacrificinge of him self shuld recōcyle pacifie god For thus saieth the scripture Noe buylded an altare vnto the Lorde and toke of all maner of cleane beastes foules and offred brent sacrifice vnto the Lorde and the Lorde smelled the swete sauou●e and sayde in hys herte I wyll nomore curse the erth for mans sake c. So sayeth Paul ●n the fifth to the Ephesians Walke ye in loue lyke as Christe hath loued vs and gaue hym selfe for vs an of frynge and sacrifice of a swete sauour vnto God Wherby euery man maye lerne and se that the swete smel of the outward sacrifice of Noe dyd not chefely pacifye God and was pleasaunt but rather that thorow the bodely sacrifice was figured the sacrifice of Christ and for hys sake was he mercifull vnto the worlde For ouer Christ he sayd at

name of god in vayne or lightly And that we shuld halow the Sabbath daye In the other table ordeyned he sixe commaundementes concerninge man And lyke as the soure first are comprehended in these wordes Thou shalt loue the Lord thy God with all thy hert c. Euen so are the sixe conteyned in these wo●des folowynge Thou shalt loue thy neyghboure as thy selfe The commaundementes are these Thou shalt honoure father mother Thou shalt not kyll Thou shalt not breawedloke Thou shalt not ●●eale Thou shalt beare no false witnesse Thou shalt not lust In all these commaundementes is comprehended all that serueth for a godly lyfe and that any where is written of God of true seruynge of God and of right vertue towarde thys worlde Who so now doth well pondre these ten chapters or commaundementes compareth them to the doynges and workes of the holy Patriarkes and olde fathers whiche had no lawe in writtynge He shall fynde that the Lorde now with thys hys written law beganne no new thing nether oughte that was not afore in the worlde but rather renewed the olde and the lawe that he hytherto had wryttē in the hartes of holy men now whā the people had gotten them stony hartes he wrote the same in tables of stone For that we oughte to worshyppe and serue God onely and haue none other goddes the same dyd the holy fathers so beleue kepe that all theyr cōuersacion doyng beareth recorde therof Cōternyng ymages or ydols it is euydēt that Jacob buryed the ydols of Mesopotamia vnder an Oke besyde Sichem Genesis .xxxv. We may perceyue also by the dothes of Abrahā Jsaac and Jacob how the name of god was had in reuerence among thē of olde not takē in vayne The Sabboth dyd not the Lorde ordeyne here first but on the seuēth day of the creatiō Gen. i. The same dyd the fathers kepe a ryght no doute John̄ vii Where as Cham had not hys father Noe in reuerēce he was cursed for it Gene. i● Aduoutry dyd the Heythē rulers forbyd vnder paine of death as we may se Gen. xxvi Wherby it is casye to vnderstande how the blessed frendes of God kepte holy wedlock Howe contrary the holy men were vnto theft and dysceate it apeareth in the parting of Abraham and Loth Gen. xiii And in Jacobs faithfulnesse handlyng wyth Laban hys father in law Gene. xxix xxx xxxi Lyenge false dealynge was so farre from the holy Fathers that for kepynge theyr credence and trueth they opteyned very great commendacion Notwithstondynge they were tempted with euell as all men be but they resisted the wicked lustes For manifest is the chaist acte of Joseph which wolde not touch hys maisters wyfe nor desyre her Wherfore in these commaundementes is nothynge written or requyred that was not also requyred of the fathers afore the lawe perfourmed thorow true fayth in Christe The Lorde therfore beganne no new thyng with his people whan he delyuered them the tables of the law Onely he wolde brynge in to a shorte summe and set in wrytynge all the lawe that the feathers had but not together ner comprehended in a summe to the intent that they shuld the lesse be forgotten of the people which thorow their dwellynge in Egipte amonge ydolaters false beleuers were brought in to sore offence and slaunder Thys must now be rectified agayne after thys maner As for all the lawes and ordinances whiche afterward were added vnto these two tables they were not ioyned ther vnto as principall lawes but as by lawes for the declaracion and better vnderstondynge of the ten chapters or commaundementes For the perfecte summe of all lawes the very righte rule of godlynesse of god seruyce of righteousnesse of good and euell conuersacion is comprehended already in the two tables But here might some men make obieccion and saye Yf all trueth be conteyned in these ten commaundementes how happeneth it that by no token there is menciō made of the blessed sede promised vn to the fathers Hitherto is it declared and promysed vnto the holy fathers that they shal be saued thorow the blessed sede out of the very grace of God and for none of their owne deseruinges but now are written lawes which commaunde and forbyd vs as though we thorow oure owne workes and deseruinge as namely yf we kepe these commaundementes shulde be saued and accepte vnto God Where is nowe Christ Where is the faith of the Patriarkes Here is nothinge heard of faith but moche yee onely of workes Answere This obiection hath disceaued many that they haue had no right opinion and faith of the grace of God oure righteous making Therfore wyl we now geue no answere out of our selues but set forth holy Paul let hym answere that the answere maye be the more sure the better estemed Paul in the .iii. chapter to the Galathians wryteth after this maner Deare brethren I will speake after the maner of men whan a mans testament is confirmed no man doth lightely regarde or despyse it ner addeth oughte therto Now were the promises made vnto Abraham and to hys sede He sayeth not In the sedes as in many but as in one And in thy sede which is Christ All these are Pauls wordes and the meanyng of them is For asmoche as the testamentes or wor kes of men are of suche reputacion in the worlde that whan they are made ordeyned and confyrmed no man darre adde oughte to them or mynyshe any thyng frō them but euery man muste let them be as they are of them selues It is muche more reason that gods Testamēt or bequest remayne styll and that nothyng be added to it or taken from it Now dyd God make a testament or bequest wyth Abrahā and promised hym therin that he woulde geue hym a sede in whom he hys childrē shuld be saued And the same saluatiō dyd he expresly appoynte in one and not in many Wherfore we must adde nothynge vnto gods bequest seyng he hath promysed vs saluation in Christ only and not in many that is to saye in no creature not in our owne power and workes of the law nether must we thinke that the law was afterwarde added to the intent as thoughe Chryste were not able to saue vs or as though we myghte opteyne saluation by oure owne workes oute of the lawe For thus foloweth it in Paull word to word Thys testamēt I saye whych afore was confyrmed to Christward is not dysanulled or made of none effecte by the Lawe whyche was geuen beyonde foure hundreth yeares ther after For yf the enheritaunce be gotten by the Lawe then is it not geuen by the promes But God gaue it frely vnto Abraham by promes These are Pauls wordes out of the which euery man maye vnderstande that to the generacion of man saluacyon is geuen onely o● the grace of God thorowe the promes and thorow no deseruyng at all And that the