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Show :22 OFA CHRISTIAN P4rl.3. COMMON-WEALTH. Chdpgé. 223 AlfoE Mitt. I 3. I 9.] Vlr'heh (my one hearcth the VI/ord ofth: King- dom; that is,the Doctrine ofthe Kingdome taught by Chrift.Again, the fame W 0rd: is {aid [Au't'r 12. 24.. jtagran; and to he Mil/[iP/yed; which to underfiand ofthe Evangelicall Doctrine is eaiie> but ofthe Voice,or Speech ofGod, hard and flrange. In the fame fenfe the Doflrme ofDe'Ui/J‘, fignifleth not the Words of any DCVIll,' but the CHAP. XXXVI. Office WORD OF GOD, and of Paopnsrg WW "'7‘" [Doctrine ofHeathen men concerning Demons, and thofe Phantafins Hen there is mention of the VFW! of God, or ome, it K} R] doth not fignifie a part of Speech , fuch as Graminarians call a Nown,or a Verb,or any iiinple voicepvithout a con- texture with other words to make it fignificativqbut a perfect Speech or Difcourfe, whereby the fpeaker ziffirmeth3 denieth, hammer/(fem, promi/eth, threameth, wi/heth, or interrogateth. Inwhich fenfe it 18 not Voezzhulum, that fignifies a Word; but Sermo3 (in Greek 4579) that is,fome Speech, lecourfcpr Saying. The word: Again> ifwe fay the Word of G051', or ome, it may bee underIFW" 1‘) Gad: flood fornetimes ot‘the Speaker, (as the words that God hath {pelt-en, 7'" "mm‘ or that a Man hath fpoken : In which fenfe, when we fay,thc Gofpel :17% Chi/1dbm' ofSt.Matthew, we underfiand S-t.Matthew to be the Writer of it: God! 17m] in and fometimes of the Subject : In which fenfe, when we read in the Snifmrc. Bible,The ward: of the days ofthe King: oflfmel, or I"6145)le meant, that the acts that were done in tliofe days, were the Subietft of thole Words; And in the Greek,which (in the Scripture ) retaineth many Hebraifmes, by the Word of God is oftentimes meant, not that which is fpoken by God, but concerning God, and his government; that is to fay, the Doctrine ofReligion : Infomuch j as it is all one, to fay A3319" 599, and Theolog/t1;_ which is, that Doc‘ti‘ine which we: ufually call Dwim'ty, as is manitei't by the places following [At]: 14;. 46.] Then Paul/ind Barnahrtrzmxea' hold, and III/d) 1t w."- llfffj].n', that the Word af‘Gm'j/mt/a' fzrfl have hem/poker: to you, hi/tfiremsr 7'th 1m: it fromyattj and judipyour fehvc: umvarthy 0f (tier/Iulnig lifr',‘ lac) we turn to the Gentiles. That which is here called the \Voi d Of God, was the Doctrine of Chrifiian Religion-ms it appears evidc ntly by that which goes before. And [Acts 5.20 .3 where it is laid to the Apoflles by 1m Angel , Go flaw! and/peril: m the Temple, .I/1 the VVordr pf rhzk life; by the \Nords of this life , is mean the Doctrine of the Goipel 3 as is evident by what they did in the lem- pleJ and is expreiled in thelafi verie ot‘the fiune Chap. Int/y m I Tern [e> and In every hatrje they cat/ed not ta zenith enriprmch CW 9‘ Iefm : In which place it is manifeil , that jeiiis (Ei‘tl‘li‘t was. t' fubjee‘t of this Word (if/1ft; or (whichis all one) the iubjec‘t or :?.c Vl'ord: oft/m life eterm/I, that OUI‘SLH‘lOUl‘ ohl red them. So[ 4 15- 7-]thc Word of God, is called the 11'02',:'tf"‘"~' (ho/Fla b-tf‘" ‘ which they worfliipped as Gods. . Confidering theie two figniflcations of the Worm or GOD,‘ as it is taken in Scripturej it is manifeit in this later fenfe (where it is taken for the Dofil‘ine ofChriflian Religion,) that the whole Scripture is the Word of God :but in the former fenfe not {0. For example; though thcfe words, 147» the Lard thy God, (9:. to the end of the Ten Commandements, were fpoken by God to Moks; yet the Pre- facefiad/pehethcfe word: and [)mlds to be underflood for the Words of him that wrote the holy Hifiory. The Word efGod, as it is taken for that which he hath fpoken , is underflood‘ foinetimes ProEarl] , ionietimes Memphorzm/ly. Proper/y, as the words , he hath jpoken to his Prophets: Metaphorim/ly, for his Wifdome,‘ Power, The [Vordnf Ged metepkae. rimll} ujed, and eternail Decree, in making the world; in which fenl‘e,thofe Finn, firfl, for the Let thezr, he lighthet there he ‘1 firmrtmem,Let I»; make mam,&'e, [Gem Decree! and 1.] are the Word ofGod.And in the fame fenfe it is faid£10hh 1.3.] l'omrofGoJ. A/l thmgr n't‘rL'MJa/c‘ h} 1! , and without it my nothing made that WM made: And [Heh.1.'3.] l-Ie upholdeth All th'ihg: h] Fewer; that is3 by the Power of his Word -, that the VVard of hi! is, by his Power :‘ and [ Heh. I I. 3. The world: werefmmedhy the VVare! of God. and many other places to the fame {em}: : As alfo amongft the Ijatines' the name or Ft1te,whicli iignitieth preperly The Word/poke» is takeri in the lame lenie. ' » Secondly, for the ePrEe": ofhis Word; that is to (W, for the rhino it iclt, which by his Word is Affirmed, Secotidly , for Commanded, Threatnedo the eflefi of or l'ronuied; as I; Pfa/m r 05. 19. j where jofeph is laid to have beeri hi: Word, kept in priion, mt hi5 VVom'nm come; that is, till that was come to paile which he had [Gem 40. I 3.] foretold cerning his being reltoted to his OifiCC:ibl‘ to Pharaohs Butler conby he} wardme: home is meangthe thing it lelt'was come to pafle.there So allbfi 1 Kim 18 i 6 j Ithiih iazth to (iod,1h.we alone 12/! thefe thy VVordr in ficqabéfjiiflé, dive: .1// {ht/e zhmgmt thy Wont/pr coaninandeiiientiand tier 1 r 3 i; hm" :‘I‘Ih? l'l‘orer/Vof the Lard, is put for, VI/here is the-£911.52): 19:25::qu r a ‘ . i, :ilprt: ['E geh. 122218.] There flmll hoheo‘fmy VVam]; he p704 _4 . y war 5 are underflood thoie thmgrjwhreh God Epfihutu‘go his people. ‘And in the New Teftament [Man 24. 33.] NH" " W W m plfle. And It," this {Ct { p o e or: Oietold, I tiiinkjsn John 0nd n i it} 15" that St. john that [hall not come the Evangelift, and, it containeth the Doctrine ot‘the Kingdonie ot‘Chriii -, and the id): V")?! of God \Vord [Ram.io.8,9.] is called the II'm-a' trf‘I‘KIzth-i that is, :is is tlitre the W Li exprefl'ed, the Doctrine oi‘Chrifl come ‘ and mind from flit-egg. m' "9 If" 4"" I tomife that Chrifl fliould come into the world e A _io I 717714," by ca tt 1 our Sayiour liiinfelfas in the fleih the PS If) .I . 14.] the Wartime made F/e/h-7 thatis to fay nth; {gm/1mg HMS lvzth Gad; that is to fay ) it was in the P"typical}? of I" 3 God |