We Zwicers terme such signes gi∣uen or receiued in confirmation of faith and trueth, Wortzeichen, bee∣cause they are added to the woordes, and doe as it were seale them, and Warzeichen also, because by them we doe as it were giue wittnesse that in good faith, and without all fraude or guile we will performe that in déede, which we promised in word.Nowe these kinde of signes are of diuers sortes. For some are mute or The diuer¦sitie of signes giuen of man. dumbe, and perteine to the sense of the eyes, of which sort are ye standards vsed in warre, crosses, banners, fla∣ming fiers, whereof mention is made Num. 2. Psal. 73. &c. Neither is any man able to reckon vp all of this sort: for euer & anon new come in as plea∣seth men. Iudas gaue a signe vnto his companie, Whomesoeuer (sayeth he) I shall kisse, that same is hee, takeMatth. 26.him. The ioyning of right handes, whiche pertayneth to the sense of fée∣ling, is a signe of faithfulnes, helpe, and fellowshipp, yea, it is a dumbe signe, whiche signe Paule calleth the Right hand of fellowship. Hitherto Gal. 2. belong diuers mouings and gestures. Some of them are pertayning to the voice, which are conceiued by hearing, and are vttered by mans voice, or by the sound of things which haue no life. By mans voyce are vttered woords, whistling, & whatsoeuer other things are of this kinde, wherevnto watch∣woords vttered by the voice, maye be added, as Schiboleth in the 12. Chap. Iudg. 2. of the Iudges.Moreouer, voices without life are they whiche are made by trumpets, flutes, hornes, gunnes, drumbes, by ringing of bells and sounding instru∣mentes, which also extend very farre and largely. Now signes are giuen of Signes giuen of God. God to this end, to teach & admonishe vs of thinges to come, or of thinges past, either that they may after a sort lay before the eyes of the beholders, & represent in a certaine likenesse the thinges themselues whereof they are signes: or else that they maye (as it were) seale the promises and woords of God with some visible ceremonie celebrated of men by Gods instituti∣on: to be short, that they might ex∣ercise oure faith, and gather together those whiche are scattered into one as∣semblie or companie. And these are not all of one sort, but do much differ betwéene themselues. For some haue The di∣uersirie o Signes giuen by God. their beginning of naturall causes, and yet neuerthelesse are giuen as signes of God, to put vs in minde of things past, or to renue his promises, and to teache men thinges that haue béene done, of which kind is the raine∣bowe, mentioned by Moses Gen. 9. For when the floud ceassed, that God made a newe league with Noah, and ordeined the rainebowe for a signe of his couenaunt, he made it not a new, but beeing made long afore, & appea∣ring by natural causes, by a newe in∣stitution he consecrated it, to the in∣tent it might cause vs to call to our re∣membrance the floud, and as it were renue the promise of God, that is to say, that it should neuer come to passe againe, that the earth should be drow∣ned with water. Now this signe hath not any ceremonie ordeined, wherby it might bée celebrated amonge men, neither doth it gather vs together in∣to the societie of any bodie or fellow∣ship. But this signe is referred chiefly to God, saying: I will sett my raine∣bowe in the clouds, that when I see it, I may remember the euerlasting co∣uenant made betweene mee and you. Not much vnlike to this are signes & Signes & wonders. wonders, signes & say in the Sunne, 0