Christs eternal existence, and the dignity of his person asserted and proved in opposition…

2. How he Taught. There is a twofold way of teaching; one Humane, by the mouth, and sound of words striking the Ear; the other Divine, opening and affecting the Heart. Christ used both ways: As the humane nature was necessary to the one, so the divine to the other. As the Organs of speaking cannot be without the humane nature, so the other way of teaching cannot be without a Divine Power. When the Disciples came to Christ, Lord increase our Faith, Luk. 17.5. he did not answer as Jacob did to Rachel, (when she said, Give me children or I dye) Am I in the place of God? Christ after his Resurrection, did not only open the Scriptures as was said before, ⟨p. 205⟩but Luk. 24.45. He opened their understandings, that they might understand the scriptures. And he opened the heart of Lydia, Acts 16.14. And poured the Holy Spirit on the Apostles, on the day of Pentecost; Acts 2. and by the same efficacy teacheth the Church, wherever it is scattered.

2. How he Taught. There is a twofold way of teaching; one Humane, by the mouth, and sound of words striking the Ear; the other Divine, opening and affecting the Heart. Christ used both wayes: As the humane nature was necessary to the one, so the divine to the other. As the Organs of speaking cannot be without the humane nature, so the other way of teaching cannot be without a Divine Power. When the Disciples came to Christ, Lord increase our Faith, Luk. 17.5. he did not answer as Iacob did to Rachel, (when she said, Give me children or I dye) Am I in the place of God? Christ after his Resurrection, did not onely open the Scriptures as was said before, ⟨p. 205⟩but Luk. 24.45. He opened their understandings, that they might understand the scriptures. And he opened the heart of Lydia,