Providence, to fik end, nempe ad gloria majeftatifas his Eternall Wisdome, que ipfius illuftrationem. Gudnes, and Justice hes

appoynted them, to the manifestatioun of his awin gloried.

II. Of the Creatioun of man. II. De creatione hominis.

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rentem Adamum, ad imaginem & fimilitudinem ipfius fuiffe creatum. Item ab eodem fapientia, imperio, juftitia, libertate arbitrit, & perfpicua ipfius

E confefle and ac-Redimus item & confiknawledge this temur ab hoc noftro our God to have crea- Deo, hominem, id eft, huted man, to wit, our mani generis primum pafirft father Adam, to his awin image and fimilitude, to whome he gave wisdome, lordship, ju ftice, free-wil, and cleir knawledge of himselfe,fa that in the haill nature cognitione donatum adeo of man, there culd be noted no imperfectioun. Fra quhilk honour and perfectioun, man and woman did bothe fal; the woman being decei

ut in universa hominis na→ tura nil animadverti posset, quod non omni ex parte fo¬ ret abfolutum. Ab hac au tem dignitate, & natura perfectione vir mulierque B 4 excide

Holy Ghofte. 1 John, s. 7. For there are thre whyche beare recorde in heaven, the Father, the Worde, and the Holy Ghofte. And thefe

thre are one.

d Gen. 1. 1. In the beginning God created heaven and erth Heb. 11. 3. Thorowe fayth we underftande that the world was ordeined by the worde of God, and that thynges whych are fene, were made of thynges whych were not fene Acts 17. 28. For in hym we lyve, move and have our beyng. Prov. 16. 4. The Lord doth all thynges for his own fake.

II. * Gen. 1. 26, 27, 28, &c. our ymage, after our lykeneffe,

And God fayd, Let us make man in and let them have rule of the fyfhe

of

ved be the Serpent, and exciderunt; vir a muliere, man obeying the voyce mulier aferpente decepta: vir of the woman, both con- mulieris voci obtemperans, fpyring against the Soveraigne Majeftie of GOD, who in expreffed words had before threatned deith, gif they prefumed to eit of the forbidden trevo

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uterque conjuratione inita adverfus Dei majeftatem, qui aperte antea mortem iis comminatus fuerat, fi de arbore vetita guftaffent.

III. De peccato originali.

HAC imperii contemptione, quod originale peccatum vulgo dici folet, ir

III. Of original finne. E quhilk tranfgreffioun, commonlie. called Original finne, wes the Image of GOD mago Dei in homine penitus utterlie defaced in man, and he and his pofteritie of nature become eni

obliterata fuit: eaque contemptio, ipfum hominem to tamque ejus pofteritatem ita Deo

of the fee, and foule of the ayre, and cattel, and all the erth, and of every crepynge thynge that crepeth upon the erth. And fo God created man in hys owne ymage, in the ymage of God created he hym, male and female created he them. And God bleffed them, and God fayde unto them, Growe and increase and replenyfhe the erth, and fubdue it: and have dominion of the fyfhe of the fee and foule of the ayre, and of every lyving thynge that moveth upon the erth, &c. Col. 3. 10. And have put on the newe man which is renewed into the knowlage and ymage of hym that made hym. Eph. 4. 24. And to put on that newe man, whych after God is fhapen in ryghteousneffe and true holyneffe.

Gen. 3. 6. And fo the woman (feyng that the fame tree was good to eate, and luftie to the eyes, and that the fame tree was pleafaunte to get wyfedom) took of the frute thereof, and dyd eate, and gave unto her husbande beynge wyth her, which dyd eate alto. Gen. 2. 17. But as touchyng the tre of knowlage of good and evel thou shalt not eate of it, els in what daye foever thou eateft thereof, thon fhalt dye the death,

& Pfal.

mies to God, flaves to Deo inimicam, Sathana Sathan, and fervandis mancipium, & peccato red

unto fin. In famekle didit obnoxiam, ut fempi that deith everlafting hes terna mors dominata fuerit, had, and fall have pow- atque adeo in pofterum doer and dominioun over minatura fit in omnes, qui all that have not been, non fuerint, funt, aut ear not, or fal not be re- runt divinitus regenerati, generate from above: Hæc autem regeneratio eft quhilk regeneratioun is actio Spiritus Janeti, qui wrocht be the power of in corda eorum quos Deus the holie Goft, working elegit, conftantem inferit fiin the hartes of the elect dem de promiffis, quae De of Gon,ane affured faith us verbo fuo nobis revelain the promife of GoD, vit: qua fide Jefum Chrireveiled to us in his ftum, omnemque gratiam word, be quhilk faith & beneficentiam in Chrifto we apprehend Chrift Je- nobis promiffam apprehenfus, with the graces and dimus. benefites promifed in him ".

IV. De

III. & Pfal. 51.5. Behold, I was fhapen in wyckedness, and in finne, hath my mother conceaved me. Ram. s. 10. For yf when we were enimyes we were reconcyled to God, by the death of hys Sonne." Rom. 7. s. For when we were in the fefhe the luftes of synne whych were ftered up by the lawe, raygned in our members, to brynge forth, frute unto death. 2 Tim. 2. 26. And that they maye come to themselves againe out of the fnare of the devel whyche are holden captyve of hym at hys wyll. Eph. 2. 1, 2, 3. And you hath he quyckened, wheras ye were dead in trepaffes and fynnes in the whych in tyme paffed ye walked, accordynge to the courfe of thys warld, even after the governer that ruleth in the ayre, the fprete that nowe worketh in the chyldren of unbelefe, amonge whome we all had our converfacion alfo in tyme paft, in the luftes of oure flelhe, and fullfylied the wyl of the fleshe, and of the mynde: and were by nature' the chyldren of wrathe, even as well as other.

Rom. S. 14, 21. Nevertheleffe deathe raigned from Adam to Mofes, even over them alfo that had not fynned with lyke tranfgref fyon as did Adam. That as fynne had raygned unto death, even fo

myghte

IV. Of the Revelatioun of IV. De revelatione pro

the promise.
OR this we con-

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mifforum.

Conftanter enim credimus, ftantlie beleeve,that quod poft fo midabilem GOD, after the feirfull illam atque horrendam hoand horrible defectioun minis ab obedientia Dei deof man fra his obedience, fectionem, rurfus Deus Adid feek Adam againe, damum requifierit, vocacall upon him, rebuke verit nominatim, accufave→ his finne, convict him of rit, convicerit: denique the fame, and in the end promiffione illa gaudii plemade unto him ane moft na eum fic confolans promijoyful promife, to wit, fit, Futurum ut femen That the feed of the wo- mulieris caput ferpentis man fuld break down the contereret, hoc eft, uniSerpents head, that is, he verfa diaboli opera deftrufuld deftroy the works of eret ac everteret. Hac prothe Devill. Qubilk pro- miffio, ut aliis atque aliis mife, as it was repeated, temporibus fæpe repetita fuand made mair cleare it, ac dilucidius explicata, from time to time; fo ita cum fumma lætitia rewas it imbraced with joy, and maist constantlie received of al the faithfull, from Adam to Noe,

cepta, & conftanter credita eft ab omnibus fidelibus, ab. Adamo ad Noam, a Noa ad Abrahamum, ab Abrahamo

myghte grace raygne thorowe ryghteoufnes, unto eternal lyfe by the help of Jesu Chryst, Rom. 6. 23. For the reward of fynne is death, but eternal lyfe is the gyft of God, thorowe Jesus Chryft our Lorde. John 3. 5. Jefus answered, Verely verely 1 laye unto the, Excepte a man be borne of water and of the fprete, he cannot enter into the kingedome of God. Ram 5. 1. Because therefor that we are juftifyed be faith, we ar at peace with God thorowe oure Lorde Jefus Chrift. Phil. 1. 29. For unto you it is geven for Chryfte, that not onely ye hulde beleve on hym: but also that ye fhulde fuffre for hys fake.

IV.

i Gen.

from Noe to Abraham, brahamo ad Davidem, ac from Abraham to David, reliquis deinceps patribus, and fo furth to the incar- qui vixerunt fub lege fidenatioun of Chrift Jefus, les ufque ad incarnationem all (we meane the faith- Chrifti. Hi inquam omnes full Fathers under the jucundiffimos Jefu Chrifti Law) did fee the joyfull dies viderunt,&gavifi daie of Christ Jefus, and Junt.

did rejoyce'.

V. Of the continuance, in- V. De perpetua fuccefficreafe, and prefervati- one, incremento & conoun of the Kirk.

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fervatione Ecclefia,

E maift conftant-Liud quoque conftanter ly beleeve, that GOD preferved, infttu

perfuafum habemus, quod Deus cunctis deinceps ata

tibns

IV. Gen. 3.9 And the Lord God called Adam, and fayde unto hym, Where art thou. Gen. 3. 15. I wyll alfo put enimitie bytwene the and the woman, betwene thy feed and her feed, the fame shall treade downe thy heade, and thou shalt treade upon hys heele. Gǝn, 12. 3. I wyll alfo bleffe them that bleffe the, and curse them that curfe the, and in the fhal al kynredes of the earth be bleffed. Gen. s. 5, 6. And he brought hym out, and fayde, Loke up unto heven, and tell the starres, yf thou be able to nombre them, and he fayde unto hym, Even fo fhall thy feed be. And Abram beleved the Lorde, and that counted he to hym for ryghteoufneffe. 2 Sam. 7. 14. Iwil be his father, and he fhal be my fonne. Efai. 7. 14. Beholde a vyrgyne fhal conceyve and beare a fogne, and (thou his mother) shalt call his name Emanuel. Efai, 9. 6. For unto us a chylde is borne, and unto us a fonne is geven, upon his fhulder doth the kyngdome lye, and he is called with his owne name Wonderful, the Gever of counfel, the myghtie God, the Everlastyng Father, the Prince of peace. He fhal make no end to encreafe the kyngdome and peace. Hag. 2. 7, 9. I wyl move al heathen, and the comforte of al heathen fhal come, and fo wyl I fyll this houfe with honoure, faith the Lorde of hooftes. Thus the glory of the laft houfe fhal be greater then the fyrft, faith the Lord of hooftes; and in this place wyl I gyve peace, fayth the Lorde of hooftes. John 8. 56. Your father Abraham was glad to fe my date, and he faw it and rejoyced.

k V. Gen.