MOſes in effect declareth the things, which are here chiefly to be conſidered: Firſt, that the worlde & all things therein were created by God, & that man being placed in this great tabernacle of the worlde to beholde Gods wonderful workes, & to praiſe his Name for the infinite graces, wherewith he had endued him, fel willingly from God through diſobedience: who yet for his owne mercies ſake reſtored him to life, & confirmed him in the ſame by his promes of Chriſt to come, by whome he ſhulde ouercome Satan, death and hel. Secondely, that the wicked, vnmindeful of Gods moſte excellent benefites, remained ſtil in their wickednes, & ſo falling moſte horribly from ſinne to ſinne, prouoked God (who by his preachers called them continually to repentance) at length to deſtroye the whole worlde. Thirdly, he aſſureth vs by the example of Abrahám, Izhák, Iaakób & the reſt of the Patriarkes, that his mercies neuer faile them, whome he chuſeth to be his Church, and to profeſſe his Name in earth, but in all their afflictions and perſecutions he euer aſſiſteth them, ſendeth comforte, & deliuereth them. And becauſe the beginning, increaſe, preſeruation and ſucceſſe thereof might be onely attributed to God, Moſes ſheweth by the examples of Káin, Iſhmaél, Eſaú and others, which were noble in mans iudgement, that this Church dependeth not on the eſtimacion and nobility of the worlde: and alſo by the fewenes of them, which haue at all times worſhiped him purely according to his worde, that it ſtandeth not in the multitude, but in the poore and deſpiſed, in the ſmale flocke: and litle nomber, that man in his wiſdome might be confounded, & the Name of God euer more praiſed.