Where is there any such comparison in that third Chapter of Iohn? If you meane these wordes, Et nem〈1 line〉〈1 line〉 ascendit in caelum, &c. Et sicut Moses exaltauit Serpentem. &c. As Moses* 1.1 lifted vp the Serpent in the wildernesse. &c. as you can meane no other, then I think you were not well aduised or little cared for your credite, when you abused them for this purpose, to proue that the worde of God is more effectuall when it is preached, than when it is read, Surely if you fetch your similitudes so farre, and imagine that which was neuer ment, and make the scripture a nose of ware as the Papists do, you may conclude what you list. For how hangeth this togither: No man ascendeth vp into heauen, but he that discended downe from heauen, the sonne of man which is in heauen. Ergo sayth commeth by preaching of the worde of God, and not by reading of it? Or this. As Moses lifted vp the Serpent in the desert, so must the sonne of man be lifted vp, that all that beleeue in him. &c: Therefore the worde of God hath more force when it is prea∣ched, than when it is read. This geare is to profound for me, I cānot vnderstand it, except I wil imagine that which is not: and it may be that you were in some other déepe me∣ditation when you wrote it, and so applied this text to a wrong matter: for in that place, Christ foretelleth of his death and passion, whereof the lifting vp of the Serpent* 1.2 in the wildernesse was a figure. And although I am not ignorant that some do alle∣gorie vpon this place, saying that Christ is lifted vp, by the preaching of the Gospell, yet that maketh nothing agaynst me, who no where denie this effect of preaching. And it is a verie harde collection to say: Christ is lifted vp by preaching, therefore reading letteth him lye on the grounde, as though by reading the Gospell, Christ is not also lifted vp, and made manifest vnto the eyes of the faythfull.
The defense of the aunsvvere to the Admonition against the replie of T.C. By Iohn VVhitgift Doctor of Diuinitie. In the beginning are added these. 4. tables. 1 Of dangerous doctrines in the replie. 2 Of falsifications and vntruthes. 3 Of matters handled at large. 4 A table generall.
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- The defense of the aunsvvere to the Admonition against the replie of T.C. By Iohn VVhitgift Doctor of Diuinitie. In the beginning are added these. 4. tables. 1 Of dangerous doctrines in the replie. 2 Of falsifications and vntruthes. 3 Of matters handled at large. 4 A table generall.
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- Whitgift, John, 1530?-1604.
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"The defense of the aunsvvere to the Admonition against the replie of T.C. By Iohn VVhitgift Doctor of Diuinitie. In the beginning are added these. 4. tables. 1 Of dangerous doctrines in the replie. 2 Of falsifications and vntruthes. 3 Of matters handled at large. 4 A table generall." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15130.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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Io. Whitgifte.
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* 1.1
Iobn. 3.
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* 1.2
Num. 21.