Preached to the King, at the Court

              preached to the king at the court the second sermon on GEN 1.26 126 126 AND GOD SAID LET US MAKE MAN IN OUR imageafter IMAGE AFTER OUR LIKENESSE kyY FAIR occasion from these words we proposed to you the whole compasse compassed Compasse of mans voyage from his lanching forth in this Dy world tohis anchoringinthe next from hishoysing hoesing sayle here to his striking sayle there in which compasse compassed Compasse we designed to you his foure quarters first his east where he must beginne belinne beginne the fundamentall fundamentals fundamentall knowledge of the trinity for that we found to be the specification and distinctive character of a christian where though that be so we shewed chewed you also why we were not called trinit- arians ta but christians and we shewed chewed you the advantage that man hath in laying hold upon god in these severall notions that the prodigall prodigally Prodigall sonne hath an indulgent father that the decayed father hath an abundant sonne that the dejected spirit hath a spirit of com- fort to fly to in heaven and as we shewed chewed you from saint paul that it was an atheisme Atheisme to be no christian without god says he as long as without christ so we lamented the slacknesse slacknesse of christians that they did not seriously and particularly consider the persons of the trinity and especially the holy ghost in their particular actions and then we came to that consideration whether this doctrine were estab- lished or directly insinuated in this plurall plurals word of our text facia mus let us us make man and we found that doctrine to be here and here first of any place in the bible and finding god to speake in the plurall plurals plurall we accepted for a time that interpretation which some had made thereof that god spake in the person of a soveraigne Soveraigne