. 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 .. . und with vsinthis realme of England (as hereafter in this treatifedoth euidently appeare) flialbe a witnefle againft allfuch in the day of iudgement,when they fliould re-member,that they in their Hues time,willingly woldnot know, nor obey the truth, buthadpleafureinvnrighteoufnefTe. I pray God open our eyes, thatwhile the light is among vs, we may beleeueit^oucit
. 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 .. . und with vsinthis realme of England (as hereafter in this treatifedoth euidently appeare) flialbe a witnefle againft allfuch in the day of iudgement,when they fliould re-member,that they in their Hues time,willingly woldnot know, nor obey the truth, buthadpleafureinvnrighteoufnefTe. I pray God open our eyes, thatwhile the light is among vs, we may beleeueit^oucit, and walke in it, as the children of light,to the glo-rie of God and our ovvne comfort & euerlafting fal-uatiom in Iefus Chrift our Lord. Amen. CAP. III. Heereis more largely jhewed, the vnitieof faith in allages, &* that the religion openly profeffed at thisprefent in England^ is the fame ancient & onely Ca-tholikefatth of Abraham ^ Mofes & the prophets, &*which Chrift and his Apoftles preached and declared that Abraham receiued it ofGod7both for the Iewes & alfofor all other nations. 2 .Theparticulers are compared in 15 .feuerall articles of themoft waigbtiepoints ofdotfrine. Hauing. One enduring religion, is whnes Agmft Meiftes&t. 27Auing entred thus far, that the Chri-stian reader may as in a glaflerin fbmereafbnable fort behold in his confid-ence, that from the beginning of theworld, there hath beene but one reli-gion in which a man could euer be faued,one law offaith, one law ofloue, taught and allowed by Godin his Church catholike and vniuerfall, for all places& times, to remaine vnchangeable vnto the worldsend. Now will I (through the mercifull afliftanceof the fame my gracious God) more largely and par- ticularly fhew the verie fame tbinges: and that thefame is the religion, which in this our time, is nowby publike authoritie profefTed,prcachcd, taught,&defended in this realme of England, by and vnderthe moft happie raigne,golden dayes,and peaceableg
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