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THey shal be al docible of God.a 1.1
1. Point. Consider how Al∣mighty God, from the first crea∣tion of things, hath proposed al his perfections to be openly read in the book of creatures.b 1.2 For by the ample spaces of Heauens, he hath manifested his immensnes; by the diuersity of celestial influences, the variety of his guifts and graces; by the splendour of the sunne & moone,
his beauty; by the admirable vicisci∣tude of the seasons of the yeare, his prouidēce; by the immoueable firm∣nes & stability of the earthly globe, his constancy and immutability, by the plenty of his benefits wherewith he hath most copiously endowed vs, his goodnes; Lastly in the huge vastnes and depth of the seas, he hath left the inexhaustible abysse of his essence expressed as it were in a paincted cloth.
2. Point. Consider besides by what meanes the same God heretofore hath explicated his mysteries to vs, with diuers Oracles of Prophets, & with the manifold shadowes and figures of the old law.c 1.3 So the greene bushd 1.4 vntouched in the flames, signified the virginity and ••ecundity of the Virgin-Mother. The brazen Serpente 1.5 with whose aspect, erected in the wildernes, were
cured the wounded, slung with ser∣pents, expressed the Crosse, & death of the sonne of God, to be the hol∣some remedy of miserable mortals. The mariage solemnized betweene Salomon & the Egyptian, womāf 1.6 & represented the hypostatical vnion of the eternal Word with the hu∣mane nature.
3. Point. But while these things seemed but smal to the great immen∣sity of his loue, he himself being made man, came downe vnto vs; and taking possession of the hart; and assuming to him the office of a Teatcher, instructs it, and deliuers the art, not of working miracles, nor of building new worlds, but imbuing it with new precepts and altogeather vnheard of hitherto. Learne saith he of me, because I am meek, and humble of hart.g 1.7
4. Point. I wil endeauour to giue
my mind very frequently and se∣riousl••y to learne this lesson by hart, wherein consists the summe of al Christian perfection, and I wil exa∣mine my self how diligētly hitherto I haue behaued my self therein, and what method I wil afterwards keep to be exact.
Ioan. 6.
Sap. 13. Rom▪ 1.
1. Cor. 10. Heb. 11.
Exod. 3.
Num. 21.
2. Reg. 11.
Mat. 11.