Chap. 1. the. 3. Diuision.
Of this sorte of extraordinarie functions, are the Prophets also, which besides a singular dex∣teritie, and readinesse of expounding the Scriptures, had also the gifte of telling things to come, whiche, bicause it is not nowe ordinarily, I thinke there is none will denie, but it is an extraordi∣narie calling, for the other two of the Apostles and Euangelistes, it shall appeare more at large hereafter (by occasion giuen by M. Doctor) that they are but for a time.
If you meane Prophetes, in the respecte of the gifte of telling thinges to come,* 1.1 suche as Agabus was, then be they temporall, but yet ordinarie for the tyme wher∣in* 1.2 they were: But if you meane Prophets in respecte of their dexteritie and readi∣nesse in expounding the Scriptures, suche as Barnabas was, and Simon, Lucius,* 1.3 &c. and Saule. Likewyse suche as Iudas and Silas. Actes. 15. and suche as the A∣postle* 1.4 S. Paule speaketh of. 1. Corinth. 14. I sée no cause why eyther the calling* 1.5 should be extraordinary, or the ••ffice and gifte temporall, excepte you haue a libertie to make temporall and perpetuall, ordinarie and extraordinarie, what you please. But seeing you woulde haue all thinges proued by Scripture, I pray you proue this that you haue sayde, eyther of the Apos••les, Euangelis••s, or Prophetes by the Scripture, séeing you teache that of them, which seemeth to be contrary vnto the Scripture.