RELIGIOUS.

THE SCRIPTURE.
The Scripture hath . body without, and within, . soul, spirit, and life. 1t hath without bark, a shell, and as it were an hard bone, for the tieshy mind ed to gnaw upon. And within, it hath pith, kernel, marrow and all sweetness, for Gods elect which he hath chosen, to give them his spirit, and to write his law, and the faith of his son in their hearts.

 if'ihe Scripture containeth three things init; first, the Law, to condemn ali flesh !; |seeondarllYz the Gospel, that is to say, promises of mercy, for all that repent andacknowledge their sins at the preach ing of the Law, and consent in their hearts that the Law is good, and submit themselves to be scholars to learn to keep the Law, and to learn to believe the mercy that Is promised them; and thirdly, the stories and lives of those scholars, both what chances fortuned them, and also by what means their sehooImaster taught them and made them perfect, and how he tried the true from the false.