CHAP. 1.
Of CHRIST.
THis is the summe of that Doctrine which we haue concerning GOD. The other fol∣loweth, concerning Emanuel, GOD with vs.
Emanuel (GOD with vs) is in one Person, the Sonne of GOD, and very Man, conceiued of a Virgin by the Holy GHOST: Who is also CHRIST, or Anoin∣ted; called of his Father, euer since the Fall of Adam, to be a Mediatour betweene GOD and Man; of a Couenant, to saue through Faith in him (that is, by apprehending of the Couenant) certaine few Men, whom GOD his Father hath chosen from Eternitie, and giuen vnto him, to set forth in them the prayse of his Mercie.
This Couenant is called the Couenant of Grace: And ratified by the Death of Him that made it, hath also the Name of a Testament.
Being alwayes one and the same in substance, it is ne∣uerthelesse distinguished, or distinctly to be considered in the Old and the New Testament.
The Old Testament was the Couenant, through CHRIST to come.