Use 1 Seeing there is none other god besides the Lord, we should fix this principle in us, 1and labour to strengthen it by this other medium also. When more candles are brought into a place, the light is greater, and you may see the objects the better. Therefore, add this to the other, that there is no other god; for this expresseth not only that the Lord is God, but that it is he whom we worship: for if there be a God that made Heaven and Earth, he would have revealed himself to the sons of men, but there hath never been any other revealed. Remember the former things, and you shall see that there was never any other. Make this chain, and every link of it is exceeding strong: see if ever there hath been any god besides him: For, if there was ever any God revealed to the sons of men, it was the God of the Jews, that was revealed by Moses, and the Prophets. For all the dunghill gods of the Gentiles, they were but vanity, and they appeared to be so; and if it was the God of the Jews, then of the Christians, (because the New Testament is builded upon the Old;) and then surely, he is that God, whom the Protestants worship, and not whom the Papists worship. For, if you take all those things, wherein they differ from us; as in their worshipping of Images, their Purgatory, their Indulgences, their ⟨p. 86⟩Prayers to, and for the dead; their Prayers in an unknown tongue, and so all other points of difference, and you shall find that they were added, and taken in, in continuance of time, now one, then another; and there are many that have taken pains to show the pedigree of them, when they came in; and therefore they that have not seduced hearts, whose eyes the god of this world hath not blinded, may see, that what our devices cut off, is nothing but that which they have added before; the Papists agree in all with what we teach, only the difference is between the additions which have come in from time to time. Therefore you must learn from hence to confirm your faith, by that argument which Peter useth, Joh. 6.68.2 Whither shall we go, thou hast the words of eternal life. There are two things which make us cleave to any thing:
Vse 1 Seeing there is none other god besides the Lord, we should fix this principle in us, 1and labour to strengthen it by this other medium also. When more candles are brought into a place, the light is greater, and you may see the objects the better. Therefore, adde this to the other, that there is no other god; for this expresseth not only that the Lord is God, but that it is he whom we worship: for if there be a God that made Heaven and Earth, he would have revealed himselfe to the sonnes of men, but there hath never beene any other revealed. Remember the former things, and you shall see that there was never any other. Make this chaine, and every linke of it is exceeding strong: see if ever there hath beene any god besides him: For, if there was ever any God revealed to the sons of men, it was the God of the Iewes, that was revealed by Moses, and the Prophets. For all the dunghill gods of the Gentiles, they were but vanitie, and they appeared to be so; and if it was the God of the Iewes, then of the Christians, (because the New Testament is builded upon the Old;) and then surely, he is that God, whom the Protestants worship, and not whom the Papists worship. For, if you take all those things, wherein they differ from us; as in their worshipping of Images, their Purgatory, their Indulgences, their ⟨p. 86⟩Prayers to, and for the dead; their Prayers in an unknowne tongue, and so all other points of difference, and you shall finde that they were added, and taken in, in continuance of time, now one, then another; and there are many that have taken paines to shew the pedegree of them, when they came in; and therefore they that have not seduced hearts, whose eyes the god of this world hath not blinded, may see, that what our devices cut off, is nothing but that which they have added before; the Papists agree in all with what wee teach, only the difference is betweene the additions which have come in from time to time. Therfore you must learne from hence to confirme your faith, by that argument which Peter useth, Ioh. 6.68.2 Whither shall we goe, thou hast the words of eternall life. There are two things which make us cleave to any thing:
- 1To believe that our God is God alone, and to cleave to him.To beleeve that our God is God alone, and to cleave to him.
- 2John. 6.68.Iohn. 6.68.
