Graphautarkeia, or, The Scriptures sufficiency practically demonstrated wherein whatsoever is contain'd in Scripture, respecting doctrine, worship or manners is reduced to its proper head, weighty cases resolved, truths confirmed, difficult texts illustrated and explained by others more plain.

10thly. He is our great Prophet and Sheepherd, to teach, guide, and feed us.

The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the middest of thee, of thy brethren like unto me, unto him thou shalt hearken, &c. And the Lord said, they have well spoken, &c. I will raise them up a Prophet, &c. and I will put my words into his mouth, and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him: And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not heark∣en unto my words, which he shall speak in my name, I will require it of him, Deut. 18. 15, 16, 17, 18, 19. Act. 3. 22, 23. Act. 7. 37.

I will declare thy name unto my brethren, Psal. 22. 22.

I have preached righteousness in the great Congregation, &c. I have decla∣red thy faithfulness and thy salvation, &c. Psal. 40. 9, 10.

Thou hast received gifts for men, yea, for the rebellious also, Psal. 68. 18.

Unto us a son is given, &c. he shall be called wonderful Counseller, Isaiah 9. 6.

Behold, the Lord God will come, &c. He shall feed his flock like a Sheep∣herd, he shall gather the lambs with his arms, and carry in his bosom, and shall gently lead those who are with young, Isa. 40. 10, 11.

A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoaking flax shall he not quench: He shall bring forth judgment unto truth, &c. The Isles shall wait for thy law. I the Lord give thee, &c. a light of the Gentiles, to open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the Prison, them who sit in darkness out of the prison house, Isa. 42. 3, 4, 6, 7.

Behold, I have given him, &c. a leader and commander unto the people, Isa. 55. 4.

The Lord hath anointed me to preach good-tidings to the meek, &c. to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the Prison to them who are bound: To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, &c. To appoint unto them who mourn in Zion, to give unto them beau∣ty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, &c. Isa. 61. 1, 2, 3.

I will feed them in goodly pasture, &c. and they shall lye in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. I will feed my flock, and will cause them to lye down saith the Lord God. I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away: I will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick, &c. And I will set up one sheepherd over them, and he shall feed them, my servant Da∣vid he shall feed them, and he shall be their sheepherd, Ezek. 34. 14, 15, 16, 23. Luk. 19. 10.

Out of thee shall come a Captain, or Governour, who shall rule (or, feed) my people, Matt. 2. 6.

All things are delivered to me of my father: and no man knoweth the son but the father: neither knoweth any man the father save the son, and he, to whomsoever the son will reveal him, &c. Learn of me, Matt. 11. 27. Luk. 10. 22, 23.

The day-spring on high hath visited us, to give light to them who sit in darkness, and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace, Luke 1. 78, 79.

I will give you a mouth, and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gain-say nor resist, Luk. 21. 15. Matt. 10. 19, 20.

Jesus, beginning at Moses and all the Prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself, &c. Then opened he their un∣derstanding, that they might understand the scriptures, Luke 24. 26, 27, 45.

I am the light of the world: he who followeth me shall not walk in dark∣ness, but shall have the light of life, &c. If ye continue in my word, then are ye my Disciples indeed, and ye shall know the truth, &c. John 8. 12. 32.

I am the good sheepherd, the good sheepherd giveth his life for the sheep, &c. I know my sheep, &c. Other sheep I have which are not of this fold, and them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold, one sheepherd, John 10. 11, 12, 14, 16.

I have manifested thy name unto the men which thou gavest me out of the world, &c. I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me, and they received them, &c. While I was with them in the world I kept them, &c. I have given them thy word, &c. I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it, John 17. 6, 8, 12, 14, 26.

To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth: every one who is of the truth, heareth my voice, John 18. 37.

God who, &c. spake in times past to the fathers by the Prophets, hath in these last days spoke unto us by his son, &c. Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, &c. Heb. 1. 1, 2. chap. 2. 1.

Wherefore, &c. Consider the Apostle and high Priest of our profession, Je∣sus Christ, who was faithful to him who appointed him, as also Moses was faithful in all his house, &c. Christ as a son in his own house, whose house are we, &c. Wherefore, &c. to day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, Heb. 3. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8.

Our Lord Jesus Christ, that great sheepherd of the sheep, Heb. 13. 20.

Ye were as sheep going astray, but are now returned unto the sheepherd and Bishop of your souls, 1 Pet. 2. 25.