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style, into Negative and Affirmative, Prohibitions and 

 Commandments. Sin, in the matter and subject thereof, 

 is divided according to the commandments; in the form 

 thereof, it referreth to the three persons in Deity : sins of 

 Infirmity against the Father, whose more special attribute 

 is Power ; sins of Ignorance against the Son, whose attri- 

 bute is Wisdom ; and sins of Malice against the Holy 

 Ghost, whose attribute is Grace or Love. In the motions 

 of it, it either moveth to the right hand or to the left ; 

 either to blind devotion, or to profane and libertine trans- 

 gression ; either in imposing restraint where God granteth 

 liberty, or in taking liberty where God imposeth restraint. 

 In the degrees and progress of it, it divideth itself into 

 thought, word, or act. And in this part I commend much 

 deducing of the law of God to cases of conscience ; for 

 that I take indeed to be a breaking, and not exhibiting 

 whole, of the bread of life. But that which quickeneth 

 both these doctrines of faith and manners, is the elevation 

 and consent of the heart ; whereunto appertain books of 

 exhortation, holy meditation, Christian resolution, and 

 the like. 



For the Liturgy or service, it consisteth of the recip- 

 rocal acts between God and man ; which, on the part of 

 God, are the preaching of the word and the sacraments, 

 which are seals to the covenant, or as the visible word; 

 and on the part of man, invocation of the name of God, 

 and under the law, sacrifices, which were as visible prayers 

 or confessions ; but now the adoration being in spiritu et 

 veritate, there remaineth only vituli labiorum, although the 

 use of holy vows of thankfulness and retribution may be 

 accounted also as sealed petitions. 



And for the Government of the church, it consisteth of 

 the patrimony of the church, the franchises of the church, 

 and the offices and jurisdictions of the church, and the laws 

 of the church directing the whole ; all which have two 

 considerations, the one in themselves, the other how they 

 stand compatible and agreeable to the civil estate. 



This matter of divinity is handled either in form of 

 instruction of truth, or in form of confutation of falsehood. 



