Considering these two significations of the “word of God,” as it is taken in Scripture, it is manifest in this latter sense, where it is taken for the doctrine of Christian religion, that the whole Scripture is the word of God: but in the former sense, not so. For example, though these words, “I am the Lord thy God,” etc. , to the end of the Ten Commandments, were spoken by God to Moses; yet the preface, “God spake these words and said,” is to be understood for the words of him that wrote the holy history. The “word of God,” as it is taken for that which He hath spoken, is understood sometimes “properly,” sometimes “metaphorically.” “Properly,” as the words He hath spoken to His prophets: “metaphorically,” for His wisdom, power, and eternal decree, in making the world; in which sense, those fiats, “Let there be light,” “Let there be a firmament,” “Let us make man,” etc. ( Gen. 1), are the word of God. And in the same sense it is said (John 1:3), “All things were made by it, and without it was nothing made that was made”: and (