SECTION I.
VVHerein I demonstrate,* 1.1 first, what Name above every Name cannot be; and secondly what it is: and first I say it is not to be understood of a bare proper name which makes Mr. Barton very snuffe,* 1.2 and tels me that my disease is Melancho∣lia, & tends to 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and layes to my charge ignorantia Elenchi, in saying that they doe not devest the name above every name to bare letters, and syllables, and that they doe not take the name without the sense: but what if himselfe doe utterly mistake the question? for by a bare name I intend not any name simply debarred of sense, but first a proper name considered Seorsim and apart by it selfe. And secondly such a name that is not answe∣rable in a true relative sense to names subjected to it. My first reason, Sir, you needed not to have been offended with, for I ex∣cept it as you see from a reason infallible, but take it as probable, and as an introduction to those reasons that are more sure. My second and third Reasons taken from the analogie of the Scrip∣tures you take to be nothing, and include them in the former, but you are mistaken, and where can you finde these phrases, A great Name, or Name above another, taken from a proper namein this sense in any part of Scripture? My fourth reason you frivo∣lously slight, you deny that if the Name above every Name be a pro∣per Name, the subjected Names must be proper Names also; this is to deny evident plaine reason, for is there not a manifest relation betweene a proper Name, and proper Names? But you say, if I meane a Name in the sense of it, the Name Jesus is above every Name whatsoever, yea above the Name of God, which is a feare∣full assertion, for if you meane the Name of God considered by it selfe as a name, then because it is plaine by the Text that every Name below this highest Name must bow knees to that Name, then it will follow, that besides the Names of the Creatures the