A Christian instruction, containing the law and the Gospel Also a summary of the…A Christian instruction, conteyning the law and the Gospell Also a summarie of the…

For what cause God doth make express mention in the preface of his Law, of the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt.

For vvhat cause God doth make expresse mention in the preface of his Lavve, of the deliuerance of Israell out of Egipte.

T. And why doeth he add yet, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt?

T. ANd why doeth he adde yet, which haue brought thée out of the lande of Egipt?

D. To put them in mind of the great benefit, the which not long before they had received of him, and whereby he had plainly declared unto them, that he was their God,¹ and that he esteemed them for his people, in an other sort than he did the Egyptians, wherefore they had good occasion to think that so good a God and so loving a father would not set forth unto them any doctrine, but such as should be greatly for their profit, and that they ought most willingly to receive and embrace the same, as well for the great good will and friendship that God did bear toward them, and had declared unto them, as for the right of Lordship which he had double over them: of their own part, ⟨p. 427⟩because of their creation: on the other, because of the deliverance, which was as a new conquest, by the which he had as it were conquered them a new, delivering them from the subjection of a most cruel tyrant, to make them a well beloved people to him self, and as the first borne of all people. And therefore he doth plainly say, which have brought thee out,