Applic.
Which that his Kingly power may be a terror and astonishment to the wicked, a comfort and encouragement to the god∣ly, that God fights against the one i 1.1, de∣fends and supports the other k 1.2.
Then his priestly office may encourage us to lay fast hold of our Christian pro∣fession l 1.3 as being assured of grace by him m 1.4 And then that his propheticall office may teach our hearing of him, and adhering to him, it being not only comfortable to do so, but dangerous if we doe it not n 1.5 The hearing of, and adhering to whom is our hearing of, and adhering to his Word and Sacraments, by the administration of his Ministers: they being as St Paul saith o 1.6 the Ambassadors for Christ: and the despising of whom is no lesse then the both despising and despiting of Christ: