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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

are delivered from the power of the devill and from everlasting death through Iesus Christ and brought into the land of promise even to eternall joy and salvation which God promised unto our fathers Adam Noe Abraham Isaac and Iacob Now when the Lord had caried his people out of Aegypt and brought them thorow the red sea drie shod and had drowned Pharao with all his people he commanded his folke to prepare and cleanse themselues at mount Sina For he would binde himselfe unto them receive them as his owne people and give them his law and ordinance Which thing he also did and appointed his law himselfe spake it with his owne mouth and wrote it with his owne fingers in two tables of stone In the one and first table hee ordained foure commandements concerning the worship and love of God namely that wee should take him only for the true and right God and none else beside or except him That wee should worship and honour him only and in no wise to have any other God comfort or hope Item that we should in no wise make any image or picture of any things and neither to worship them nor serve them Moreover that wee should not take the name of God in vaine or lightly And that wee should hallow the Sabboth day In the other table ordained he six commandements concerning man And like as the foure first are comprehended in these words Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart c. Euen so are the six contained in these words following Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy selfe The commandements are these Thou shalt honour father and mother Thou shalt not kill Thou shalt not breake wedlocke Thou shalt not steale Thou shalt beare no false witnesse Thou shalt not l●st In all these commandements is comprehended all that serveth for a godly life and that any where is written of God of true serving of God and of right vertue towards this world Who so now doth well ponder these ten chapters or commandements and compareth them to the doings and workes of the holy Patriarks and old Fathers which had no law in writing he shall finde that the Lord now with this his written law began no new thing neither ought that was not afore in the world but rather renewed the old and the law that he hitherto had written in the hearts of holy men now when the people had gotten them stony hearts he wrote the same in tables of stone For that wee ought to worship and serve God onely and to have none other Gods the same did the holy fathers so beleeve and keepe that all their conversation and doing beareth record thereof Concerning images or idols it is evident that Iacob buried the Idols of Mesopotamia under an Oke beside Sichem Gen. 35.4 We may perceive also by the oathes of Abraham Isaac and Iacob how the name of God was had in reverence among them of old and not taken in vaine The Sabbath did not the Lord ordaine here first but on the seventh day of the Creation Gen. 2.3 The same did the fathers keepe aright no doubt Iohn 7.22 Whereas Cham had not his father Noe in reverence he was cursed for it Gen. 9.25 Advoutry did the heathen rulers forbid under paine of death as we may see Gen. 26.10 11. Whereby it is easie to understand how the blessed friends of God kept holy wedlocke How contrary the holy men were unto theft and deceit it appeareth in the parting of Abraham and Loth Gen. 13.6 8 9. And in Iacobs faithfulnesse and handling with Laban his father in law Gen 29.37 30 33 31.6 Lying and false dealing was so farre from the holy fathers that for keeping their credit and truth they obtained very great commendation Notwithstanding they were tempted with evill as all men be but they resisted the wicked lusts For manifest is the chaste act of Ioseph which would not touch his masters wife nor desire her Wherefore in these commandements is nothing written or required that was not also required of the fathers afore the law and performed through true faith in Christ The Lord therefore began no new thing with his people when hee delivered them the tables of the law Only he would bring into a short summe and set in writing all the law that the Fathers had but not together nor comprehended in a summe to the intent that they should the lesse be forgotten of the people which through their dwelling in Aegypt among Idolaters and false beleevers were brought into sore offence and slander This must now be rectified againe after this manner As for all the lawes and ordinances which afterward were added unto these two tables they were not joyned thereunto as principall lawes but as by-lawes for the declaration and better understanding of the ten Chapters or Commandements For the perfect summe of all lawes the very right rule of godlinesse of Gods service of righteousnesse of good and evill conversation is comprehended alreadie in the two tables But here might some men make objection and say If all truth be contained in these ten Commandements how happeneth it that by no token there is mention made of the blessed seed promised unto the Fathers Hitherto is it declared and promised unto the holy Fathers that they shall be saved through the blessed seed out of the very grace of God and for none of their owne deservings but now are written lawes which command and forbid us as though we through our owne workes and deserving as namely if we keepe these Commandements should be saved and acceptable unto God Where is now Christ Where is the faith of the Patriarkes Here is nothing heard of faith but much yea only of workes Answer This objection hath deceived many that they have had no right opinion and faith of the grace of God and our righteous making Therefore will we now give no answer out of our selves but set forth holy Paul and let him answer that the answer may be the more sure and the better esteemed Paul in the third chapter to the Galathians writeth after this manner Deare brethren I will speake after the manner of men When a mans Testament is confirmed no man doth lightly regard or despise it nor addeth ought thereto Now were the promises made unto Abraham and to his seed He saith not In the seeds as in many but as in one And in thy seed which is Christ All these are Pauls words and the meaning of them is For as much as the Testaments or workes of men are of such reputation in the world that when they are made ordained and confirmed no man dare adde ought to them or minish any thing from them but every man must let them be as they are of themselves It is much more reason that Gods Testament or bequest remaine still and that nothing be added to it or

him and goe in his footsteps Out of all this is it easie to understand what faith and knowledge Adam had of our Lord Christ namely that he knew in him very Godhead and manhood and that he saw in faith his Passion and Crosse a farre off Moreover that the passion of Christ once done for all breaketh the kingdome of the devill and bringeth life againe to such as faithfully beleeve Secondly that it is to our living an example at the which wee ought to learne patience in adversitie and daily to die from all evill And hereto now serve all doctrines of patience of bearing the crosse of despising the world and mortifying or putting off the old Adam which thing is contained and with many and goodly words handled thorowout the Prophets and Apostles As for Adam and Eve they lacked none of these things though they had not the matter in writing For God spake it all to them himselfe and wrote it in their hearts Moreover our first Elders had no Church rites nor ceremonies save only the bodily offering a representation of the sacrificing of Christ and exercises or tokens of thankfulnesse For how should Cain and Abel else have knowne any thing of sacrifice if they had not received the same at the custome of their father who with his wife Eva the mother of us all was saved by none other worke or merit of man but only through and in the blessed seed our Lord Iesus Christ CHAP. V. That the holy Patriarks also were Christians and saved by Christ SUch faith in Christ Iesus as we now have spoken of did the holy father Adam no doubt teach his children that they also might plant in their children the promise of God his mercy and device concerning the Messias or Saviour that was for to come And truly Abel had such a notable faith in God that the holy Apostle Paul wrote of him after this manner Through faith did Abel offer a greater sacrifice than did Cain and thereby obtained he witnesse that he was righteous For God bare record to his gifts In as much then as it cannot be denied but that all they which are just and righteous be made righteous through the blessed seed And Abel was justified It followeth that he was made righteous through faith in Iesus Christ In that he did sacrifice it is a token and fruit of a heart that was thankfull and feared God It was no such enterprise that he would clense and make himselfe acceptable unto God through that outward sacrifice For certaine it is that no outward oblation purifieth man within But the grace of God granted unto us through Jesus Christ purifieth us aright And the outward sacrifices of the old fathers beside that they were tokens of thankfulnesse praise and magnifying of God as it is said afore were figures of the only perpetuall sacrifice of our Saviour Christ And in this behalfe they were even as much as sacraments of things to come Thus also and in like understanding have our first fathers done sacrifice as hereafter it shall follow more largely Now like as in Abel there is set forth unto us an example of Gods seed and of a regenerate true faithfull Christian man So is Cain a seed of the Serpent a childe of the Devill which despised the inspiration of God and harkened to the deceitfull Serpent And in these two brethren wee may see what God meaned when he said I will put enmitie betweene the seed of the woman and thy seed As though he would say There shall be two manner of people the one shall cleave unto Christ the blessed seed the other shall cleave unto the Devill And these two generations shall in no wise agree but be at variance in faith and religion I will endue my seed that they shall cleave only unto me feare me honour and worship mee seeke all salvation in me through the blessed seed live vertuously honestly and soberly Then shall the Serpent tempt their seed with hypocrisie not to love me nor serve mee aright not to hold of mee as they should not to trust in me but to love the world and to follow the lusts and temptations thereof All this finde wee here in these two brethren in whom beginneth the first difference of true and false beleevers For Abel was simple godly and of a constant faith in God And in as much as he tooke God for his refuge he brought him gifts of his best substance no doubt because he had first given over his soule and all his power unto God at whom alone hee sought all good without any hypocrisie He was also innocent vertuous and friendly and followed not his owne tentations And for this faiths sake did his sacrifice please God but Cains pleased him not for his heart was not right with God he was a dissembler greedie and vnfaithfull person which set his heart and minde upon earthly things alway despising Gods word and following his owne tentation Which thing was evident in this that he having no cause only of a wilfull heart and through the temptation of the serpent murthered his owne brother Whereby hee hath obtained to be the Arch-father of all murtherers which persecute and murther the seed of God that is to say the true beleevers only for their faiths sake Thus became Abel the first martyr and instrument of God and of Christ in the holy Church For these two brethren have set forth before us the whole battell and strife which the world the citie of the devill the children and citizens of the cursed citie wherein the Serpent is head and master and hath the dominion shall make against the citie and citizens in whom Christ is the head unto the end of the world The freemen of the citie of God and of Christ doe cleave only unto God serve him with all their heart build only upon Christ The citizens of the Serpent despise God and yet they boast of God to whom also they offer and doe service but not as they ought to doe Now when they perceive that their faith is not right and that their hypocrisie is espied and misliked then fall they to murthering to the which God is an enemie and forbiddeth it with his word For Cain also exhorted hee from his purpose and said Thou needest not to arme thee because of thy brother for thou hast none occasion to be angrie with him For if thou doest right thou shalt finde it and have joy thereof but if thou dost not right then is thy misfortune sinne and trespasse open and thou shalt shame and destroy thy selfe Thy brother goeth on without fault he shall doe thee no hurt nor harme he shall also not be Lord over thee nor minish thy right Yea he shall have respect unto thee and thou shalt have dominion over him and so keepe thy birth-right and still remaine the first borne although his sacrifice be acceptable unto mee and not thine Cease therefore

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

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

Prophets prophesied of him before thus to become the salvation of all faithfull beleevers even the Lambe of God which hath beene sacrificed since the beginning of the world that is this is he whose power and deliverance hath cleansed all them that ever put their trust in God through the blessed seed Herein now is the right true salvation this is the summe of the right and perfect religion Who so perverteth this from him shall God turne himselfe who so addeth ought unto this to him shall God adde his wrathfull hand who so taketh therefrō his life shall God minish But blessed are they which walk in this simplicitie cleannesse and continue so unto the end even they that heare Gods word and doe thereafter whose onely hope is Iesus Christ This only true and ever during salvation would hee to bee shewed and declared to all nations which came to save all nations but he would it should be declared by the preaching of the holy Gospell and through the ministration of the holy Sacraments And therefore by his life time hee did chuse Apostles whom he received to bee witnesses of all his doctrine and miracles informing them diligently and held nothing backe from them For hee saith unto them Yee are my friends if yee doe all that I command you I will henceforth call you no more servants for a servant woteth not what his Lord doth But I have called you my friends for all that I have heard of my Father have I opened unto you Ioh. 15. But for as much as they yet lacked understanding and were forgetfull and had ever strange imaginations of the kingdome of Christ therefore when hee now ascended unto heaven hee charged them not to depart from Hierusalem but to wait for the Holy Ghost whom he also gave unto them upon the fiftieth day after his resurrection that is upon the tenth day after his ascension even the fifteenth day of May by the which Holy Ghost they being illuminate spake with all manner of languages and were mindfull of all that the Lord had commanded them afore For the Holy Ghost did not endue them with a new doctrine but it that the Lord had taught them out of the Law and the Prophets the same did hee bring to their remembrance and illucidate all things and printed them more clearly in their hearts For so saith the Lord in the Gospell The Comforter even the Holy Ghost whom the Father will send in my name he shall teach you all things and bring all things to your remembrance that I have said unto you Therefore so long as the Lord was with them and told them all the matter of his passion they were sorrie and could not beare away all that he said unto them But after that he was taken up from the earth into heaven he sent the Holy Ghost even him whom the Prophets also had before and that led them into all Christian veritie So when they were endued with the Holy Ghost they began according to the Lords commandement to preach in all the world the foresaid matter of salvation purchased and obtained onely by Christ and gotten by true faith For hee had said Goe your way into all the world and preach the Gospell unto all creatures Whoso beleeveth and is baptized shall be saved c. And therewith comprehendeth he both the points which the Apostles used and practised even the preaching of the faith in Iesus Christ and of the ministration of the Sacraments And how the Apostles doctrine was it is manifest out of the Acts of the Apostles But shortly and in a summe they preached amendment of life and remission of sinnes through Iesus Christ That is to say how that the whole generation of man lay in the dominion of the Devill and in the bonds of sinne cursed and damned but God had mercie on us all and sent his Sonne into this world to die and with his death to restore us unto life and to wash us with his bloud that whosoever beleeveth in him should not perish but have eternall life All this declared they out of the Law and the Prophets and proved that Iesus Christ whom they preached is the blessed seed promised unto the fathers Whoso is desirous to have a perfect example of this declaration he findeth two Sermons of the famous Apostles Peter and Paul the one in the Acts of the Apostles the second chapter vers 14. the other in the 13. chapter vers 16. There doth the holy Apostle open the mysterie of our holy faith verie excellently declaring it from the time of Abraham unto David and from him unto Iohn the Baptist Thereupon sheweth he how Christ suffered died was buried and rose againe from death All this confirmeth hee with the Scriptures of the Prophets At the last he concludeth the Sermon after this manner Be it knowne unto you therefore ye men and brethren that through Iesus is preached unto to you forgivenesse of sinnes and that by him all they that beleeve are justified from all things from the which yee could not bee justified by the Law of Moses To this agreeth now also the sermon of Peter Yea all the Scriptures of the Apostles doe finally accord to the same effect Hereout also bring they the doctrine of repentance and amendment of life the rebuking of sinne consolations exhortations and drawing to all manner of good works that follow out of faith The speciall Sacraments which the Lord did chiefly institute and command the Apostles to practise in the Church are holy Baptisme and the blessed Supper of our Lord Iesus Christ Concerning the first hee saith thus To mee is given all power in heaven and in earth therefore goe your way and teach all people and baptize them in the name of the Father of the Sonne and of the Holy Ghost and teach them to keepe all that I have commanded you The other did hee institute at the last Supper For thus is it written in the holy Gospell When they were eating hee tooke bread and when hee had given thanks he brake it and gave them saying Take eat this is my bodie which shall be given for you this doe in the remembr●nce of mee So tooke hee also the cup when ●hey had supt and said Drinke yee all out of this this is my bloud of the new Testament which shall be shed for the remission of sinnes With such Sacraments through outward visible formes for our infirmities sake pleased it the Lord to shew and set before our eyes his heavenly and invisible grace not that we should continue still hanging in the visible thing but that wee should lift up our mindes and with a true beleefe to hold fast to print sure in our mindes to worship and to enjoy the things that faith sheweth us by the outward Sacraments With these outward Sacraments also hath it pleased him to open declare and shew unto us his grace and loving kindnesse Namely how