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CHAP. VI. Touching curiosities, Rash questions of those which are returned from the dead: Of the Divell who exhorted to repentance: Of the knowledge of evill.
MAn never saw the creation of any thing: when God would forme Eve, he made Adam sleep; So likewise he hath reserved to himselfe the judgement of three points; 1. of his councells; 2. of Scripture, 3. of consciences. To inquire of the Son, proceeds of the Father, as of the Intellect, and the holy Ghost as of the will. What had been the posterity of Adam, if he had not falne, and if in this case the Sonne of God would have cloathed himselfe with our flesh; or if the sacred body of Jesus Christ was perfectly organified from the first moment of his conception, if God could not have saved man by any other meanes, then by the death of his Sonne. And whether Jesus Christ by his sufferan∣ces hath merited his proper exaltation be∣sides