I. That There are Two Ways,--The One Natural, of Life, and the Other Introduced Afterwards, of Death; And that the Former is from God, and the Latter of Error, from the Snares of the Adversary.

The lawgiver Moses said to the Israelites, "Behold, I have set before your face the way of life and the way of death;"¹ and added, "Choose life, that thou mayest live."² Elijah the prophet also said to the people: "How long will you halt with both your legs? If the Lord be God, follow Him."³ The Lord Jesus also said justly: "No one can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other."⁴ We also, following our teacher Christ, "who is the Saviour of all men, especially of those that believe,"⁵ are obliged to say that there are two ways--the one of life, the other of death;⁶ which have no comparison one with another, for they are very different,⁷ or rather entirely separate; and the way of life is that of nature, but that of death was afterwards introduced,--it not being according to the mind of God, but from the snares of the adversary.⁸