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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

because we may not describe it after our owne judgement we will rehearse the words of the Apostle which writing to the Hebrewes saith after this manner Faith is a substance of things to be hoped for an evidence or certaintie of things which doe not appeare By the which definition it is manifest that when we set forth or teach this faith we meane no vaine faith no false opinion of faith no fond imagination of faith no dead faith no idle faith but a substantiall thing even a sure beleefe of things that are to be hoped for and a proofe experience or knowledge of things that are not seene This faith then is the instrument whereby we feele and are certaine of heavenly things that our corporall eye cannot see Now because none other vertue can so apprehend the mercy of God nor certifie us so effectually of our salvation as this living faith doth therefore hath the Scripture imputed our justification before God only unto faith among all other vertues not without other vertues following but without any other worke or deed justifying This is the faith of Christ which all the Scripture speaketh of This is the faith that S. Paul preacheth to justifie in the sight of God as S. Iames teacheth that works justifie in the sight of men and that it is but a dead faith which hath no works This is the faith without the which it is impossible to please God and of the which whatsoever proceedeth not is sinne This is the faith whereby God purifieth our hearts and whose end is salvation This is the faith that worketh by charitie or godly love is of value before God This is the faith whereby the holy fathers which were afore Christs incarnation did in spirit eat and drinke enjoy the same mercy of God in Christ that we are partakers of To be short this is the same faith whereby God saved those his elect of whō S. Paul maketh mention in the foresaid epistle to the Hebrewes and rehearseth many godly fruits of the same in their conversation This then is no new-fangled faith no strange faith no faith invented by mans braine but even the same that Gods holy spirit teacheth in the infallible truth of his Scripture and that Adam Abel Enoch and all the other servants of God were saved in Why doe men therefore either call it a new-fangled faith or report evill of us for setting it forth Why I feare me this is one cause The old faith that all those servants of God had whom the Apostle nameth in the eleventh to the Hebrewes had a life and conversation joyned unto it which was rich and full of all good works Therefore seeing there be so many bablers and pratlers of faith and so few that bring forth the worthy fruits of repentance it giveth the world occasion to report of us that our faith is but new-fangled They see us not fall to labour and taking of paines as Adam did They see not the righteousnesse and thankfulnesse in us that was in Abel They see us not walke after the word and will of God as Enoch did They see us not take Gods warning so earnestly as Noe did They see us not so obedient to the voice of God nor so well willing and content to leave our friends to forsake our owne wils our owne lands and goods at Gods calling and dwell in a strange country to doe Gods pleasure as Abraham did they see that wee chuse not rather to suffer adversitie with the people of God than to enioy the pleasures of sinne for a season They see us not esteeme the rebuke of Christ or trouble for his sake to be greater riches than all the treasures of this world as Moses did To be short they see not in our garden those sweet flowers and fruits of Gods holy Spirit which were in them that had the old faith Ashamed may wee be therefore as many of us as either write teach preach speake or talke of the old faith if wee endevour not our selves to have those old heavenly vertues that were ever plentifull in all Gods true servants in every one I meane according to his calling Not that it is evill to teach or talke of the true old faith but this I say because that according to the doctrine of S. Iames they are but deceivers of themselves that are not doers of Gods word as well as hearers thereof And through such slender receiving of Christs holy Gospell it is now come to passe that like as we haue need of such an Apostle as was holy S. Paul to rebuke this vaine confidence that men put in their workes and to tell us that no worke of our doing but faith of Gods working doth justifie us in his sight Even so have wee no lesse need of such another Apostle as was holy S. Iames to rebuke this horrible unthankfulnesse of men that professing themselves to bee Christians and to hold of Christs old faith are yet dead unto all good workes receive not the word of God in meekenesse cast not away all uncleannesse and malitiousnesse are swift to speake to talke to jangle and to take displeasure are forgetfull hearers of the Word and not livers thereafter boasting themselves to be of Gods pure and undefiled Religion and yet refraine nor their tongues from evill visit not the poore the friendlesse and the desolate in their trouble neither keepe themselves undefiled from this world Reade the first chapter of his Epistle What an occasion might such an Apostle as holy Iames was have to write another yea a sharper Epistle seeing so many pretending to be of Iesus Christs old faith are yet so partiall have such a carnall respect of persons are not rich in faith despise the poore practise not the law of godly love talke and jangle of faith not having the workes thereof clothe not the naked helpe not the poore to their living regard not their necessitie have but a dead faith declare not by good and godly workes the true and old faith of Christ are but vaine beleevers have not the eflectuous the working and living faith that Abraham and Rahab had Reade the second chapter of his Epistle How would holy Iames reprove these bringers up of strange doctrines blasphemers backbiters belie●s of good men false teachers against Gods truth dissemblers with the same cary fire as they say with the one hand and water in the other pretend to be learned and yet bring not forth the workes of good conversation in meekenesse out of Gods wisdome but in frowardnesse and out of carnall doctrine How would he take up these that delight in malice and strife belie Gods truth are given to earthly fleshly and devillish wisdome are unstable full of all evill workes are not in the schoole of Gods wisdome and learning are not given to unfainednesse of heart are not peaceable are churlish uneasie to be intreated c. Reade the third chapter

from thy wicked purpose and offend not against thy brother But Cain did as all ungodly doe For he went forth and slew his innocent brother And afterward when the Lord would have brought him into the knowledge of his great sinne and pardon him he despised the voice of the Lord with craking and facing For the which cause the Lord was wroth with him and cursed him Then despaired he first and went forth and became yet more wicked dealt altogether ungodly set first his minde upon earthly things thought to exalt his name upon earth and builded the first citie which he called Hanoch hee begat sonnes and daughters but little feare of God was before their eyes in so much that the Scripture saith Adam lay with his wife againe and shee bare a sonne whom shee called Seth. For God said shee hath given me another seed for Abel whom Cain slew Seth also had a sonne and he called him Enos And then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. Out of the which words it is easie to understand that as touching holy Adam hee held no more of Cain than as though he never had had childe For Adam feared God Cain with his progenie despised God and became the Serpents generation Wherefore when Adam had gotten another sonne he was of a good hope that in Abels stead God had given him another sonne which should doe right and of whom the root of the blessed seed should spread out afterward For the which cause also he called him Seth which by vs is called a plant meaning that God had set and planted him as a branch out of which the Messias should be borne For as for Cain hee doubted of him And from the same Seth proceeded the generation of the righteous untill Noe and from him to Abraham and so unto David and from thence forth unto Christ This Seth repaired our holy faith which received great hurt at the death of Abel This did Seth I say for as much as he being taught inwardly of God and by mouth or outwardly of Adam learned his children and their seed to put their trust in God and to comfort themselves in the blessed seed and to cleave unto the same For it is written manifestly And then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. Till this time was Adam with Heva his wife only a true friend and server of God The generation of Cain was now well spread abroad and come to two hundred and fiftie yeeres and aboue but the more part lived without the feare of God unrepentant and ungodly Wherefore in as much as the generation of Seth now increased and the feare of God and right beleefe was among them the Scripture faith well And then began men to call upon the name of the Lord. And by this calling upon doth the Scripture meane the true right beleefe and Gods service that he most alloweth Of the progenie therefore of righteous Seth sprang the servants of God and presidents of our Christian faith As for the cursed generation of Cain and of the ungodly it was destroyed and drowned with the Floud To the holy genealogie of the true beleevers pertaineth the Patriarke Enoch of whom it is written that he walked before God that is he ordered his life and conversation altogether after the will of God being constant and upright no doubt in all that which God had spoken unto Adam Therefore became he also an example of the immortalitie of the soule and resurrection of the bodie and that all Gods servants shall be saved after this life For thus saith the Scripture And in as much as hee applied himselfe to walke after God God tooke him away and he was no more seene The holy Apostle Paul also in the eleventh chapter to the Hebrewes speaketh very excellently of Enochs faith so that no man may doubt but that hee had respect to the blessed seed and pleased God through Christ Moreover the enmitie betweene the children of God and of man that is the issue of the Serpent grew ever more and more so that on the one side the multitude of God increased and on the other side the multitude of the devill Yet at the last the multitude of the wicked was greatest For when the children of God withheld not themselves from the children of the world but tooke wives and husbands among them they begat rough people which had no faith at all and lived only after their owne lust and temptation forgat God utterly and regarded not the hundred and twentie yeeres which God gave them to amend Therefore was God constrained so to punish the unfaithful world once that all posterities unto the end of the world might have a terrible example of the just wrath of God whereby they might learne how ungodlinesse and unrighteousnesse displeaseth God Thus the Lord brought the floud upon all the earth overthrew all that stood up and destroyed every thing that had life when the world had stood now a thousand six hundred and six and fiftie yeeres For so many yeeres finde wee in the fifth and seventh of Genesis where it is written that Noe was six hundred yeeres old when the floud came upon the earth Now if wee reckon the yeeres of the old Fathers in the fifth chapter untill Adam wee shall finde the foresaid summe And thus the issue of the Serpent had an end and all ungodly and unrighteous living was mightily supprest and destroyed of God And in this horrible destruction of the ungodly was faithfull Noe saved he being the eighth and preserved in the Arke through the grace and mercie of God Here our holy true Christian faith had the victorie and triumphed For Noe was of our faith even of the seed of God and put his trust in the blessed seed our Lord Jesus Yea the Arke or ship of Noe was a figure of Christ as we may easily understand by the words of S. Peter 1 Pet. 3. Seeing then that Noe was preserved through the Arke it followeth that hee was saved by Iesus Christ therefore is it manifest that hee first beleeved in Christ Noe also was hee with whom God first renued the covenant made with Adam For it is but one covenant onely even the foresaid promise and end made by God unto Adam Howbeit the same covenant was afterward at certaine times renued by reason of certaine occasions Here might Noe have thought that all the world and all men should utterly have beene undone for as much as the Lord said I am determined to destroy all flesh Therefore immediately he addeth moreover and saith But with thee will I set up my covenant that is to say whatsoever pertaineth to my covenant and what I have promised Adam alreadie the same will I surely and constantly make good and though I now destroy the world yet will I performe my truth through thee For I will preserve thee alive that the blessed

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

Mahumet it is manifest what the one hath taken in hand and done now more than 600. yeeres and the other upon a 900. yeeres It is evident yet also even now whereto his generall councels and parlamenrs doe extend But not regarding how he threatneth and faceth and how he garnisheth his new and wanton religions with false but dissembling titles boasting of many hundred yeeres many generall Councels Fathers holy men Doctors Vniversities Cloisters singing praying fasting almes-giving displying and telleth such like All his bragging set aside let us cast his religion from us and take upon us unfainedly the true old religion which hath endured since the beginning of the world by the which all holy men have ever loved worshipped and served God and knew nothing utterly of the Popes religion And if we must for this cause be hated and persecuted of the world well it hapned even so unto all holy Prophets before us likewise and specially unto Iesus Christ our Lord which shall come shortly to judgement and utterly destroy the kingdome of Antichrist whom he now killeth with the spirit of his mouth Our possession is not here upon earth the kingdome of heaven is our native country From thence looke we for the Saviour Iesus Christ our Lord which shall raise up our mortall and miserable body that he may make it like his excellent and glorified body according to the power whereby he may subdue all things unto himselfe To him be honour and praise for ever and ever AMEN FINIS The accustomed goodnesse of God God hath shewed no lesse kindnesse to us than he did to the old world They that follow Gods word are laughed to scorne The doctrine of Christ his faith is no new thing 1 Cor. 1.18 1 Cor. 1.14 None but reprobates deride the truth of Gods Gospell To us which are saved it is the power of God What faith is Hebr. 11.1 Rom. 3.28 Gal. 2.16 Ephes 2.8 Phil. 3.9 Iaco. 2.14 Heb. 11.6 Rom. 14.23 Act. 15.9 1 Pet. 1.9 Gala. 5.6 1 Cor. 10.3 Heb. 11.4 Heb. 11.4 5. Iames 1 21 Would to God we had many such as Iames the Apostle was Iames 1. O unthankefull world Iames 2.25 Saint Iames would not spare to rebuke such Iames 3 17. Iames 4.1 Against such grosse vices would not Saint Iames spare to speake Iames 4. Iames 5.19 Let every man take the paines to rebuke his owne fault Iames 3.17 We must put on the nature of Gods doctrine Let the workes of God which are past be a warning to us The Christian faith is elder than 1600. yeeres Eusebius Acts 11.26 The first creation of heaven and earth The garnishing of heaven and earth The office of t●e creatures in t●● firmament Fishes Fowles Beasts The creation of man The creation of the woman The request of the commandement The unthankefulnesse ●nd w●ckednesse of man The righteousnesse and mercy of God Gen. 2.17 The way of satisfaction before God is Christ Sinne. The frowardnesse of man Why God gave the woman unto man Grace We all are loth to knowledge our selves guiltie Punishment Genes 3.14 The promise Genes 3.15 The Serpents head The ●●re foundation of our faith Rom. 8.3 1 Cor. 1.30 The Gospell of Iesus Genes 3.15 Esay 7.14 Gal. 3.16 A praise of the virgin Marie Heb. 2.14 Genes 2.15 Christs heele 1 Pet. 4.1 Ioh. 12.31 32. Rom. 16.20 Object Answ Gen. 3.17 Gen. 3.19 1 Tim. 2.15 1 Thessal 4.6 Ephes 4.25 Heb. 5.17 Gen. 3.20 Adams faith Gen 2.23 Comfort helpe and loving kindnesse in the mids of correction Gen. 3.22 Comfort and patience in Christ 1 Pet. 2.21 Adams faith Heb. 11.4 Outward sacrifice was a token of thankfulnesse Cain the father of wickednesse The first division in rel●gion when it began Abel the first Martyr The world the citie of the Devill The difference of true and false faith The first decay of the faith was by cursed Cain Genes 4.25 Adam was not of the faith of Cain Seth the fir●● re●●●e● of the true faith The reparation of our fa●th Gen. 4.26 Adams life To call upon the name of God what it is Hebr. 11.5 The number of the wicked ever greatest The wrath of God upon the wicked Noes Floud The first triumph of faith in Noe. 1 Pet. 3.21 Genes 6.18 The sacrifice of Noe. Genes 8.20 Ephes 5.2 Outward sacrifice the figure of Christs oblation Matth 3.17 The Commandements given unto Noe. Through Noe was the world replenished C ham the first Idolater after the Floud The fa●th ●f Heathen ●s idolatry 〈…〉 Gen. 10. ● Gen. 11 ● Gen 11.10.27 Faith d●●kned after the floud Gen. 12.1 Genes 22.18 Galath 3.8 The promise renewed to Abraham Abrahams faith Iohn 8.56 Rom. 4.16 Galath 3.29 Abrahams Christian workes The f●i●● of the Iewe● Gen. 17 24. Gen. 15.6 Gal. 3.17 H● wold the Christian faith i● Exod. 19.20 Gen. 32.28 O● Israel came the Israe●●●●s Gen. 28. Iacob saw that Christ onely is the way to heaven Iohn 1.51 Gen. 35.2 Gen. 49.10 The faith of Ioseph Ioseph a figure of Iesus The continuance of faith before the Law Heb 11 24. The faith of Moses Gen. 15.13 The Easter lambe Iohn 1.29 The del●verance out of Aegypt a figu●● of our redemption by Christ The gi●ing of the law The first table Matth. 22.37.39 The second Table The law written in stone 〈◊〉 no n●w thing The first Commandement 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Gen. 39.8 The law written in stone was fulfilled afore The Lawes given after the ten Commandements were by-Lawes Objection Answer Galath 3 15 Gods Testament Galath 3.17 Salvation by grace not by desert or workes Objection Answer Galath 3.19 Why the Law was given The Law was given to further the promise Gal. 3.19 20 21 22 23 24. The Law is the rule to live by Wisdom 16.6 7. The brasen Serpent a figure of Christ Iohn 3.14 15. 1 Cor. 10.1 2. Christ is the rocke Question Answer One altar w●at i● signified Note this well Why the ceremonies of the Law were given The godly consideration of the fathers Question Answer W●y G●● 〈…〉 among the 〈◊〉 God tendreth our weaknesse Lawes iudiciall Rom. 13.9 Matth. 7.12 The five originall b●●kes of holy Scripture written by Moses The first b●oke of Moses Acts 7.22 The second booke of Moses The third booke The fourth booke The fifth booke The originall Scripture of our faith The Law written is no new thing Rom. 10.4 Gal. 3.23 The death of Moses Iosue was a figure of Christ Iosue fought at Gods commandement An heresie of the Anabaptists Heb. 11.32 Rulers must punish Matth. 26.52 Gen. 3.15 An errou● Of King David Acts 15.22 Psalm 110.1 The holy Trinitie Matth. 22.44 Iohn 1.1 Iohn 1.14 Matth. 22.24 The faith of David in Christ Iohn 20.20 Psalm 110.1 Marke 16.19 Psalm 110.2 The spirituall kingdome of Christ Acts 1.8.12 Psalm 110.3 A battell The birth of Christ Psalm 110.3 Psalm 110.4 The office of Christ Psalm 110.5 Christs cause shall forth Psalm 110.6 Christ shall destroy his enemies Psalm 110.7 Philip. 2.8 Psalm 133.6 The article of the holy Trinitie David was called Christs father Matth. 9.27 The waies of David 1 Kings 15.3 4 5. King Abia. 2 Kings 18.5 6. 2 Chro. 34.1 2 3. 1 Kings 6.1 The departing of Israel from Iuda King Iehu God alwaies 〈…〉 P●●phets The oldest Prophets The Prophets preached the old faith Rom. 3.20 21 22. The Law and the Prophets allow the righteousnesse of God that commeth by faith Act. 3.24 Act. 10.2 3. Matth. 21.4 The godhead and manhood of Christ Esay 7.14 Mich. 5.2 Esay 9. ● Ierem. 23.5 6. The righteous blossome Mala. 3.1 Iohn Baptist Mala. 4.5 Esay 61.1 The office of Christ Ezech. 34. Christ is called David The miracles of Christ Esay 2.2 Dan. 7.13 The kingdome of Christ Esa 62.2 Esay 62.10 Zach 9.9 The death of Christ Dan. 9.26 Esay 50.5 c. Esay 53.2 c. The sacrifice of Christ Zacha. 3.8 The buriall and resurrection of Chri●t Matth. 12.40 The Ascension The vocation of the Heathen 1 Pet. 1.9 c. The Prophets sought salvation in Christ A prophesie told unto Daniel The number of the yeeres Faith assailed and religion suppressed Antiochus God had eve● some vertuous men Zacharie Luk. 1.68 Simeon Luk. 1.29 All Gods elect were saved by Christ The old Testament is not to be refused Luke 24.13 The new Testament declareth the old The birth of Christ Luke 2.10 Tidings of Christs birth Luke 2.10 Genes 12.3 The grace of God Ierem. 31.33 Note well Chr●st the only salva●io● of all the w●r●d Luke 2. The dutie of us 1 Tim. 1.5 Iohn Baptist Iohn 1.29 Iohn 1.26 1 Iohn 3.36 Matth. 11.2 Matth. 3.13 Matth. 3.17 Note this similitude Matth. 4.1 2. Matth. 4.17 The substance of true religion The speciall points of Christs doctrine The patient suffering of Christ Iohn 29 30. Luke 13.46 The fruit of Christs death Water and bloud The time of Christs Passion The buriall of Christ The power of Christ saveth all Iohn 15.14 15. Christ held nothing back● from his Apostles The Holy Ghost b●ough● no new doctrine Iohn 14.26 Marke 16.15 Acts 13.38 Baptisme Matth. 28.18 19. The Supper of the Lord. Matth. 26.26 Acts 15.9 The fru●t of the Sacraments 1 Cor. 11.17 Acts 15 28. The Apostles did not overcharge the people with Ceremonies Acts 2.1 Acts 15.20.29 The Apostles would not offend the weake Note The decay of Christs religion What inconvenience followed Note The Pope and Mahumet strive against Christ Let us doe as our o●dest fathers have done long b●fore us Philip. 3.20 21.