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Show / ' . I Of the aduancement of /e,:rrning · but h~ue in thcm!clues noton'cly torally .. 7 or co lie .. ~ ttiu.cly; but di!tributiucly in cla_ufes a~d wordes, .. · . . infinite fprings and firea!nes Qf dottnne to warer the Church in euc.rie p_art~ aod rher~fore as.the liter all fcnfe is as it were the maine.fireame .. or Ria .. . ·. uer:Sot eM rall f~n'fechiefc-ly , and fi)m ctimes ., ihe A.tJe~DrJc~/1 or 1)fitttiJ are they .w.herc:of the · ClJurch hath rnofi vfe: .nor that I w·Jfh men robe : . bold In AlltgtJrJes, .. or lndulgent.or light in.}\JJufions-: - but rh;at I·doe much condcmne that Interprerarion ... . of the Scripture, \yhich is onely after the manner as .. . M n vJe to intcrpretca prophane booke. .,_ Jn this part touching-the expofition of the Scrip~ . rur~. ,I can report noe deficience? bur by~\vay ofre~ . m ~ nbrance t'his I \viH ad de, In peruli~g Bookes . ofDiuini ~ e,l fin de marry Bookcsof aonrrouerfies, . . aod' na~y ofcomrnon places and treatifcs, a malfel ·of pofi itl D · uinir.ie') as it is·made an Arte: anum- . btTofScrmcins anq Lectures , .. and many pro fixe · ~otn{nenr~rics vpon the Scriptures wirh hannonics .. an9 . concordanc.~~= ou~ that forme of \vt iting in Di-u .·.oj ri~, w:hich it) rn~ I udgen1cnr is of all others mofl: · · · --ri.ch and precious.; is pofitiue Diuinitie col eded -~ ' vpon particular Texts of Scriptures in briefe obfer., · · ~cltions; n0t di~ e4 into common places:not chafe .. i1~g fc~rrconrtouerfi~s, n9t-reduccd.in to Methode · 9 Ai·r,a J.h~ng abou : tiing·in Setitnons, \vhich 'vill : vanHlt;bur .defectiue in .. Bookes \Vhich \viJ r.fm:aine, . a.t)d a·-th1ng\r;herin thisagcc:xcelletf;i. For I am per. · fw~~d , ~ and I ma>!:fpea· ~it) \Vitb an f!bfit invidi4 ::·-· . V({~'"..J) · · ~ Thej~conilbOo!(:. JI6·df 'T>trhl, and no waies in derogation ofAntiqnitie . b.utas in a good emulatio~ betwern·e the vine and rhe oJioC', That if the ehoile, and bell of rhofe obfer., .. uations vp.on fexts ofScriptures \~hich hane beene Emanatio- . made difperfcdly in Seunons \vithin this your. . Maiefiies· Ilands ·of Brittanie by the fpace of thele nes Scrt~~ f0rtie yeares and more ( leauing out the largeneffe turarunt,tn 0f exhortations and applications·thereupon ) ha_d doElrinar .. berne fetd~wn.ei.n ~ ~onrin~ance,ir. had been~ the Po}itruas •. befiworke 1n Dnflnttle , vth1ch had beenc wrnten . fince the ApofiJes times • The matter informed by Diuinitie is of two kinds, matter of beliefe,and truth of opinion: and matter- · of feruice, .and adoration ; which is a1Jo iudged · · · and direet.cd by the former : . The one being as the intern all foule of Religion~& the other as the cxter .. nail body thereof:& therfore the heathen Religion ·was-not on ely a \vodh~p ·.of Idol.ls. ~ · but the vv ~o1~ - R.eligion w.as a.n I.do11tn ~~ felfe., for tt had noe louie -· that is no certatntte 9fbrl1ef or confeffion,as a man J may ~ell tbinkr, .confideringthechiefe Dodors of .:· the it Church \Vere the Pt)C"ts, and rhe reafon was, becauferhc heathen Gods \Vere noe Iealous Gods,. · . but "·ere glad to be ad1nitte6 intp parr., as they had r~a!o. Neither did rhcy refpeet the JtHenclft: ?fharr, .. fo they moughr haue cxtcrnall honour a~d. nres. · But out of thrfe nvo doe refult and t!Tue foure ~aine branches ot Diuinitie; Faith,l.ll1arJnerJ.,Ly·· · . · ,.,gie, and G6t~ernment : Faith cor: rai~cth. the Do .. ~ine of the Natun.(l of G O·.Dj::_of the attnbu~ec; of · _ J$S ·God |
