,• I' ' T .o the Reader. I ------~--------------------------- ----! choppingt~namincingofthe word by D ichotamies, D ivi._ {ion.r,and sub-divijisns,(too ordinarie in··thefo dayes) but (aJ the meaning of the word if, and the syriacke verjion co#rme.r it) tohandle~tndp~eAch the word aright, i. as JnJtet, Bt'{,. in M. Bcr:_aexpounds it well; For the DoCtrine it felfe lofum. to omit nothing that m'ake~ for the clearing ofit; roadde nothingofhis owne,to diminilh nothing, eo manglenothing, to wre!l: nothing; Iaft:Iy,to con.. fider diligently what the capacitie .of the hearers · is able to beare, and whatfoever may tend to cdifi– Full.Mifc.Sacra cation; or,a.r let~rned Fullerexpounds it,to fct open · 1.3·'·•6· or make plaine as it were the right way of the . Word of Truth. so.thuworthy Author hath done; he - h~tth trac,edout anil opened ·the right 11'AJ oftruth and ho– , linejle out ofthe holy scriptures. Hif Writing.r.J may juflly commend for three.orfoure not&ble exee/Jencies.(tonAme nom~re.) Firfl, For their cleare liflo1Jerint. ofJinne, and their exaHftarching itndfifting ofaChrijli11ns het~rt,toplucke ' qffthe.Yizard~faUfortJ~fHypocrites, and to bring tq , light, 11nd lay open ~o the eyu of the.World, by the TtJuch– i {JIJneofTruth,theircounterfeit ~tndunfound Gracu,and ' tofind out·the endleffe winding 1 andlabyrinths ofJPiritu– ): a!/guile in folfdeceivinJ hearts. Thif hedoth exceUently by-the clcare light ofG'fJdJ word,rrhich hath lln4dmir~th!e ; xt~nxo1 ~~~~- · -c;ertue thif tray, Heb. 4· 'I 1. heinga.difcerner of the . p.nQl~»v. thoughts & intents ofthe bearr,andputting 4 cl~are difference hetweene the pruioiu and the vile. · Seco~;~dly,for the Sti,le,as heing:fuUofdivinedoquence, hiiLifi and Pen dropping abundance of the fweeteHDf that word, which if fweeter than the Honey or the dropping Honey-combes, Pfa!. I 9. I o• . ~. Thirdly, ·-----~--------------------------------------------------~·
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