I. Command. \Tpon the Commandements. Church, which hash euen from timeto tmie condemned them as heretickes, which faid there were anymo. And laf#ly, realon : for God is infinite, and there can be but oneinfinite. Therefore butone God, &c. é)ucll. How many perfons art there? Anfw.Threeperfons. As firflllearneby the third of Matrhert, , where the father fpeaketh from heauett, and faith, This is my belated Sonne, heave him. The Sonne is Math. 3 baptifed, and the holy CheIrk?a Doreedefcendeth, Secondly, by the word ofChrifl, Gee and to rdiall nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, of the Sonne, and of the holy Gheg. If there had beene any more perfons,Chritiwould haue named theta and hint commanded the fame to be done in their names alfo. Or eIi there is jot- qualitieintheGod- head: therefore wee knewe there are but three petfons and no mot. Qite(l. VVhatieGod? eflnfiv. No man is able to define fully what God is in his e(fence. But we mull content our felues to know him by his attributes, namely, that he is ftrong, mghrie; ,Wercifull, 'wife, flow to- anger, and ofgreat goodnes, and fofoetal, as hee is defcribed vnro vs byhimfelfe in his word. Quell. What is now the firftduetiethat fpringethof the knowledge of God? An fw. Of this knowledge of 3'od arifcth htft atrue loue of him before and aboue all things whatfoeuer. Which irwhenmy heart eueneffec`luallj feeling how great ly hee loued me firfl, in eleóling, creating, redeeming and iuflifying me in Chri(l Ie- fus, betides infinite benefices elfeïpeftowed in body and minde vpon me, doth euen burnt in atfeaion towards hím sg sint,'fubmitteth it felfe wholy to him, ferueth him vfi *_h cheertfulnes, and maketh iPs Iiìleth more account of him and his will, than of all the world, yea than turn of Mineeiwne. faluation, if they could come in compari- fon together. Mue1}. How prom' yon that latnthus bòund to lone God? aloft?). It isproutdbyChrifhöaSauiourswords, 11e that foo,oeth father or mother, Matt, 50,;7' ff%er or brother, wifeor ehilde, orany thing more than me, it not Wort hie of me, and by the praÓtife of theblefled Apalilt, rovtì& Hen he knewe Chrifl once, accounted chafe things tithich were vantage vntb hint, fo for ChrtI7 his fake, yea men ail things he ef?eemed lefe for the excellent knowledge fake of Chrtftlefas his Lord, and did lodge them to be ñothmgbotdurrg that he might wmrhrfft. And certainly, what hart of man or woman teener knowerh Gad indeed what be is in himfelfe, and to all men, and particularly to it many thoufand waies, -as hsipo1ìbIe it is, it lEould not loue God againe aboue all, and turn grone that it can loue him no more, as it is vnpoffible fire should want heat, or water moyflure. Luefl; what braupches$atht/iilsiiLof God fprisigingautof it o4nfw; Whofoeuërlouetk God, al fit has word, the mini(lers of the word, the p fd a 59 v. poore, and all that feare God, for thefe with fuch like are the braunches of the loue r o; of God, which if they bee not in man and woman, certainelle neither is the other in Luke so. them it Idle. And as chele all are commanded, fo are the contraries forbidden and 1.Xhefi.5. condemned by this îaw -e. What the contraries are betide that by chele they may bee P(a! t S.ii 7 knowne, they are etpreffed more fully in the examination of confcience couching the fame, annexed at end of thisCornmanderu tit. iefh. what is the fecondduetiethat followethof the k_norvledgeof God? sAttfw. To feare him aboue all. , uell. Whatos meant here? llnfw. Indeede in the Scripturethe feare of God dooth v£ually lign ifie all Religi- on, but here it fignifieth onely a part of the wotfhip we owe vnto God. Quell. And whatisit? anfw. This feare is a reuereht awe of God, whereby wee are loath to offend him, both becaufe we loue him, and becaufe he is able to punifbvs. Luefl. This feemetbtoimport orne drfferenceof feare. Anfm. Vetie tï acct ia; For tcare two ._.kìndes of feast of God, one a feruile care,
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