Whereofthere be twoparts. One that con- cerneth God, the other con- cerning 1m4- cerel, Godwith vs. t 48.13.26. and 26.18. 1.Pet.4.1 6. at Co1.3.16. Thefrfi Booke of .Diuinitie, CHAP . Y, Heauen preachingotherwife, were to bee held accurfcd, for doe I now (faith he) f perfwademen or God? tendeth my preaching to fet vp man, or topull downe the pride ofall flefh, that God alone may be exalted ? Two parts we make ofall thisholy Do&rive :one pro:. perly concerningGod theCreator, the other concerning Chrifl the Redeemer,the true Emantael,God with vs. For fo our Sauiour in that whichwee call the Lords Prayer, loth diuide it , fpcaking in the three former Petitions : firff, ofthe Nature,Perfons , and properties of the God- head , thenof his foueraigntie and command , together NNith the dutie of Allegeance, which wee owe vtato him, which if men were able to performe as the Lawof their Creation not cniovneth onely , but inabled themvnto, and as the Angels doe iii Heauen, they nee de goe no far.. ther,but fhould be bleffed in the doing ofit.But becaufe that is a path whichno foot ofman can tread,hepropoun_ deth in the otherthree,to miferable man fainenow away, the bleffedSonneofGod,that peerleffe Pearle and ine(ti- mable treafure, of the world , Iefias Chrili the righteous, who hath gone the tracke for vs, and regeneration, righ- teoufi:effe and fan6lification through him : more briefly, ¡oh.17.3. he noteth the perfeé}dißributi6la of Diuinitie, 2"o know thee,the ones trite God,andhimwhom thou hafi tent, lefty Chrifi. Thefe two parts lacking apt names to expreffe them,you may perhaps (till we light vpon force better) not altoge- ther vnfitly call Theolooie and Chrifiianitie, for fo Theolo- gie Both in his proper and naturall fignificatiou found : a Speech of or concerningGod. The name of Chriflianitie, taking it for theDoClvine of Chri.íiianitie (as is vfuall in words of arte) may aptly be deduced fromdiuerst places ofholy Writ,and is the fame in fenfe,which the u Apoflle calleth ó A&yos xpar; the Word of Chrifi. But till thefe termes by cuflamc and vfe be wornc andmade familiar, and our caresbetter acquainted with them, I think it nor arniffs to forbears the names,let the thing be vnderflood. To
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