. Abraham's faith : that is the olde religion, wherein is taught, that the religion now publikely taught and defended by order in the Church of England, is the onely true catholicke, auncient, and unchangeable faith of Gods elect .. . amp; enioying ™ rgne ofthe fweet goodnes & rauor of God hmod kindly /hewing it felfe,and mining into our harts, byhis molt blelTed and loy full nation euer vnderheauenhath had more caufe of loy, and comfortable en-couragement vnto godlmefle and honeftie, then we Eng-limmen, all thefe yeares: when God moft miraculouflyby a maiden Queene, (the weaker veiT
. Abraham's faith : that is the olde religion, wherein is taught, that the religion now publikely taught and defended by order in the Church of England, is the onely true catholicke, auncient, and unchangeable faith of Gods elect .. . amp; enioying ™ rgne ofthe fweet goodnes & rauor of God hmod kindly /hewing it felfe,and mining into our harts, byhis molt blelTed and loy full nation euer vnderheauenhath had more caufe of loy, and comfortable en-couragement vnto godlmefle and honeftie, then we Eng-limmen, all thefe yeares: when God moft miraculouflyby a maiden Queene, (the weaker veiTell) hath made hisname knowen, and his Saintes glorious by deliueraunce:when mightie potentates could not ftand in battaile, heehath raifed health by a woman, and made die weake toconfound the ftrong. No nation euer vnder heauen,hathhad more fure and perfect experience of the truth of Godand his worde, and of the certainc knowledge of the holyfaith and pure religion, then we Englifhmen (whofe eyesthe God of this world hath not blinded) moft abundantlyhaue had, that we might glorie in our God, and magnifiethe rich grace of Iefus Chnft, and the effecluall power ofhis holy and blelTed fpirit. For we haue feene the breath of. vnder the hap-neof naieftie* To the holy and Christian of Gods mouth, mightie to confume Antechnft, and the light of his word to make all things mamfeft: that it might be faid ofvs, as by prerogatiue it was once fpoken of lira- Pf I 10 c ^ ^e fieryeth hts worde vnto Iacobi his flat utes & his tudgc- ments vnto Ifraeljic hath notfo dealt with euerie nation, &c»The entrance There was a day of darkenefle,a day of great blackncsof her Maie- & forrow,when the people of this land were made llaues, (?e/ vnder the thraldome of fpintuall ifeipt and Babilon:molt blciled . . r . o r . day vnto En^- when they knew not aright the true and lining God, norland. the power & grace of our Lord Iefus Chrilt, but were led after vaine things, in whom there was no help
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