_Use._ This may serve to _informe us_, that in all those things that belong unto our salvation, we ought alwayes to looke upon God in Christ, and consequently alwayes to call upon and praise God in Christ. The solemne title, and as it were stile of God, that was used in the celebrating of his name, was not alwayes one and the same from the beginning of the world, but diverse: first, he was called by _Melchizedeck, the most high God, possessour of heaven and earth_, _Genesis 14.19._ Afterwards by reason of that singular covenant which he made with _Abraham_ and his posterity, he began to be called _the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Iacob_: then againe, after that wonderfull deliverance of his people out of Egypt, for the memory of that thing there was added to his title, _The God which brought the children of ♦Israel out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage_: so also in the Prophet, after his deliverance of them from the Babylonish captivity, he was called _The Lord which brought up his people out of the North countrey_, _Ieremiah 23.7,8._ But now under the New Testament, and the Sunne being risen, all his other workes and benefits being obscur’d by the comming of Christ, this title is most congruous and solemne, _God the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ_, _2 Corinthians 1.3._ _Ephesians 1.3._ ♦ “Israol” replaced with “Israel” Doctrine 3. _A wonderfull great mercy of God appeares in our regeneration._ _Reason_ 1. Because he frees us from the greatest misery, and makes us partakers of the greatest good. 2. Because he doth this of his meere goodnesse, not only without our deserts, but even contrary to our deserts: when we did not so much as seek or wish for any such benefits to our selves, but were altogether aliens from God, and enemies to him. _Vse_ 1. This may serve to exhort us to attribute all to the mercy of God alone, and to raise up our minds to the admiration of it. 2. To be heartily affected with these mercies of God, and to be stirred up to glorifie him, _Romans 12.1._ Doctrine 4. _Regeneration brings men a lively hope of eternall life._ _Reason_ 1. Because we are called and regenerated to salvation and eternall glory, _1 Peter 5.10._ 2. Because we have the covenant and promise of this thing confirmed to us in our very calling. ♦3. Because the Spirit wherewith we are quickned, lifts up our minds, and makes that hope to be lively. ♦ “3” misprinted two paragraphs below before “2.” _Use_ 1. This may serve to exhort us, highly to prize our calling and regeneration. 2. To endeavour by all meanes to cherish and increase this hope in our selves, and to take heed that it be not dead or languishing, but lively, quick, and operative. Doctrine 5. _The livelinesse of our hope depends upon the ♦resurrection of Iesus Christ from the dead._ ♦ “resursection” replaced with “resurrection”