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V
E
R.
3.
EpbeJuanf,
Chap.
I.
19
can
be no fight without
fome
matter
vifible
propounded,
fo no act
of
religious
worlhip,without this
objed,in
fome wife conceived.
3.
Mark,
that
it
is
lawfull when we name perfons,
to
name one
onely,
two,
or
all
the three, providedthat
we name
not one,
as
excluding
the other two,
nor yet two,as excluding the third
:
for
thus calling on one,we invocate
all, and
as
naming
no
perfon diftindrly, we doe not dilhonour the per
-
fons,
fo
naming
one
and
not others,doth not breed
any
inequality
of
ho-
nour
in
our worlhip. And laltly
note, that
we
may
name
the Spirit
be-
fore
the Son,
and
fo
by proportion, the
Son before the
Father;
fee
Rev.'.
For
as
that
precedency feemeth derived from priority
of
order
and inequality
of
office,
which
is
found
amongft the perlons by volun-
tary agreement
; fo this
later naming
of
them,
feemeth to be
grounded
in
the
equality
of
their natures.
Let
us
then hence learne whither
to
flie,
that
our
foules may
be felled
in
true Peace,
fuch
as
the world cannot
take from
us
;
Come
and
feek
to
him,
who
if
he
quiet, nothing
can
difturb thee. Many men when they
aredifquieted
in
minde or
body, they
flye ro fuch meanes
as
may
Rill
thofepaines which they
feele
fmart upon them,
and
when they have
with
Coins
City
building,and
Saals
mufrck,with company, good-cheat,
mufick,
imployments, tables, cards,
&c..
quieted the
melaucholick
fpi
rit,then
they think their
peace
is
well reftored.
God
fetteth thefe things
upon us,
to
arreft us,
as
it
were
;
we leek
to
frill
them,
never looking to
God, that
he
would, through
his
Chrift,
be reconciled to us:
Now
what
is
this but extreame folly
e
If
a
Creditor
fhould let a Sergeant
up-
on
our backs, were
it
wildome
in
thedebtor to compound with him,and
corrupt him,
and
to think
all fafe,
while the Sergeant winketh at
him
e
Every body would account this folly
;
for he
is
never
a
whit the more
out
of
danger,till the
Creditor
be agreed with,Thus
it
is
likewife
in leek
-
ing our Peace, by
frilling
our evils, not by quieting Gods anger, which
isjuftly kindled
againft us.
Thsra
hock
of
the
Preface.
THe
matter
of
the
Epiftle
followeth, partly
refpec%ng
Do-
Caine,
partly
Exhortation:
DoCrrine
to
the
beginning
of
the
fourth Chapter
;
Exhortation,to the
z
r.
Verfe
of
the
frxt
Chap.
ter.
In
the
Doarinall
part
two
things
chiefly are
to
be marked. Firfr,he
propoundeth Doctrine
concerning
the
benefits
wherewith
we are blef-
fed in
Chrift,
which
is
done more
indefinitely
in
the
firft
Chaprer,appli-
ed from companion
of
their former
efrates
in
the fecond. Secondly
;
the fcandall which
his
Crolfe
might
caufe,and
the
impediment which it
might put
CO
the
fruitful receiving
of
thefe things,
is
prevented,
Chap.3.
In the
more abfolute handling
of
thefe benefits, we
mutt mark, that
firlt
in
this
third
verfe,
they
are
fummarily propounded, thenmore particu-
larly
from their
feverall
kinder expounded.
Now
in
this third
verfe,
the
Apoftle doth not barely propound
them, but
breaketh out into thank
f.
giving,
bsfore
he
maketh mention
of
them. Three things
being
to
be
obferved
in
this
Verfe.
I.
His praife,Bleffed.
z.
The
perfon praifed,
that
Vs
as
E.
3.
.