The faith of the fathers, or, The articles of the true religion, all of them exhibited in the express words of the Old Testament : partly, to confirm those who do profess that religion of God, and His Messiah, but chiefly, to engage the Jewish nation, unto the religion of their patriarchs, and bring down the hearts of the fathers into the children, and the disobedient unto the wisdome of the Just, and to make ready a people prepared for the Lord /