CHAP.I. coscerning G oD. SI and Lord. Whereupon, u `Pool worthily eletef+eth it to haue beetle thought,as ifhee baptized any into hisowue Name, God x onely is to bee worfhippcd. But thisho- nour Chrif+ alf®bath : For both Stephen giueth it vnto hire, when hee faith, r Lord lefsu receiue my firit. And it is the Epithete ofal theChurch,that they z calupon the Name ofChrirl. I o H N likewife, in the a Reuelatiorr ma- keth theLord godAImighj,& theLaenbe,alike the Tem- ple of that ho'y Citie, the heauenly lerufalem : meaning, that hee is equally to be worfhipped, and with the fame honour : Faith doth onely ref+ vpon God , but wee are commanded to beleeue in Chr'tft :Yeah, b beletue inGod, beleeue alfo in rne. Further, it is thepleafurecof G o D, that vvhofoeuer glorieth,fhould glorie onely ita this,T'hat be knoweth him to be I a x o v A H.But Paul doubteth not, to profetfe that he d gloried enelr in the Croft ofCbriff,and neither preached nor chofe to know any other thing, foie e one) him alone. Chrif+ f alto hinifelfe coupleth thrfe two together: This to euerlaflinglrfe,toknowthee the only trueGod,andhimwhom thou halffent,Iefits Chriff.But what flay I hereupon , when tef+imonies are fo cleere ? vpon the markcs and notes, when the things themfelues are fo euident and expref e:his God -head being cucry- where tobe found in mofi plaine and manifef+ termes? Which, that it may the better appeare, I vvill fort all he tef+imonies ofthis kind into three Orders or Rankes.The firf+ is,of fuch as attribute the#iris vnto him : Not as the fpirit or foule of a man, but Co as it appearethplaincly by the Epithetes adioyned,to be the Diuine Spirit,or Go D himfelfe,',Cora 5.45 The firlt man AD A M w t malt a lining foule,the latter AD A ivr a quickeningJ irit. As he 'o- teth out in Adam the wholeman, by the more excellent part the Soule; fo Both he in Corti'', the whole Perfon, by that tnof+ excellent Nature of the God-head, bodily dwelling in him , calling him another Adam : for that as E 2 Adam u L.Cor.L.14;' x àíat.4.1o, Y Nt7.Sß z A61.9.r4. L.Cor.r.a. a Rektl,sr.as: b lobnL6.L. c ler.9.:4. d Ga;6.r4. e z .Cor.ss, f lohn173.
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