A69076:1092
A treatise of Christian religion
A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole body and substance of divinity. By T.C.A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole bodie and substance of diunintie. By T.C.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1616
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Q. What learn you out of the 39. verse, where it is said, ⟨p. 121⟩that this second Table is like to the first?
Q. What learne you out of the 39. verse, where it is said, ⟨p. 121⟩that this second Table is like to the first?
A. First, that (according to our measure of profiting in the first Table) we profit also in this. In which respect we may try our sincerity and uprightness, in the duties of the first Table, by our forwardness in those which are required in the second.
A. First, that (according to our measure of profiting in the first Table) we profit also in this. In which respect we may trie our sinceritie and vprightnesse, in the duties of the first Table, by our forwardnesse in those which are required in the second.
Secondly, that out of our love to our neighbour, 1we draw all our duties to all men, reaching them even to the wicked (so far forth as we hinder not Gods glory, nor some great duty to other), but especially to the household of faith: for sometime it may so fall out, that that which men require, (and that otherwise of right) may not be given: as Rahab, though subject to the King of Jericho, might not reveal the Spies, but should have failed in her duty, if she had betrayed them at the Kings commandment; and therefore in this case she did well, in preferring the obedience she owed to God, before the duty she owed to man. In like case also, Jonathan revealing his fathers counsel unto