Chapter 1. Of the Body of Scripture and Theology
A GOLDEN CHAIN
Chapter 1. Of the Body of Scripture and Theology The body of Scripture is a doctrine sufficient to live well. It comprehends many holy sciences of which one is principal, and the others are handmaids or attendants.
The principal science is Theology. Theology is the science of living blessedly forever. Blessed life consists in the knowledge of God. Joh 17.3, This is eternal life, that they know You to be the only true God, and the one you have sent, Christ Jesus. Isa 53.11, by his knowledge shall my righteous servant (namely, Christ) justify many. And therefore it consists likewise in the knowledge of ourselves, because we know God by looking into ourselves.
Theology has two parts: the first of God, the second of his works.