The Preface. -ramus qu.e Junt Dei niji Magifler nofter cverbum exiflens,' homo faElus fuijJet, Neque enim alius poterat enarrare nobis ·qu.e Junt Patris, nift proprium ipjius cverbum. Q!!_is enim • a!ius cognovit fenfum 'Domini ? aut quis alius e jus confiliae: rius faBus eft ? Neque rurfus nos aliter _difcere poteramus, nift Magijlrum noflrum cvidentes, (:; .... per auditum noflrum cvocem ejus percipientes , uti imitatores quidem operum, fa~ Bores autem {ermonum ejus foEti, communionem habeamus cum ipjo. We could not otherwi(e /;a.-ve learned the things · of God, unleft our Mafler being and continuing _the ( eter~ nal ) Word, had been made Man. bar no other could de"' clare unto U5 the things of God, but hi5 o1l!n proper Word. For ~vho elfe hath known the mind of the Lord? or wl)(J elfe _hath been his Counfellor ? Neither on the other fide could we other1l!ife ha--oe learned, unleft we had feen our Mafter, .. and heard his cvoice, ( in his Incarnation and MiniG:ry ) whereby following his works, and .yielding obedience un– to his Doctririe,- we may have communion \'Vith him-– felf. I ·do perceive that if I fi1ould proceed \Vith the fan1e kind of Attefl:ations unto the Doctrine of aH the Chapters in . the enfl1ing Difcourfe, this Pref2 ..ce would . be dravvn forth unto a greater length than was ever defigned unto it, or is convenient for it. I iliall there– fore chufe out one or two Infb.nces n1ore to give a Spe::: cimen of the concurrence of the Antient Church in the Dod:rine declared in·rhein, and o put a clofe unto it. Chap. 9~
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