How many sorts of signes be propounded to be consi∣dered in the scriptures?
Three sorts: some of Doctrine, or of the word, as the extraor∣dinarie and vniuersall worke of God, or miracles, which are seene with the eyes, where at the mindes of men doe wonder, which giue testimonie of the infallible trueth of the word, vnto the glo∣rie of God. As in the old Testament, Abrahams smoking furnace, and burning firebrand,a 1.1 the bush burning and not consumedb 1.2,* 1.3 Moses his rodc 1.4, the pillar of a cloud in the day, and that pillar of fire by nightd 1.5, the drying vp of the red seae 1.6, water flowing out of the rockef 1.7, the standing still of the Sunneg 1.8, the signe of the Prophet Ionah.
In the new, the healing of the sick, raising vp of the dead, ca∣sting out of Diuelsh 1.9, &c.
Some of Anger: and those either threatning with some fell iudgements to hang ouer mens heads for their sinnes, as namely wonders in heauen, comets, tempests, earthquakes, the signe of the sonne of mani 1.10: or else punishing, both temporal, as thunders, lightnings, famine, pestilence, wars, euill beasts: as also spirituall, to wit, heresies, corrupting of Doctrine, idolatry, schismes, which the Lord sendeth, that men being admonished and corrected by these might repent, and there be signes which God shall send be∣fore the day of Christs commingk 1.11.
Others be the signes of grace, which are added to the promi∣ses of God, and doe testifie of the grace of God toward vs. Wher∣fore they are not signes simply, which serue to shadow out, & sig∣nify only the things with God promiseth, but seales & pledges,