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Of Doctrine.
OUR sauiour Gods sonne Iesus Christ, which cam into this world to the intent to open that wonder ful, and hyd wil of God concer∣nyng the saluation of mankynd, after this sort spake to his disciples, and to all them that are called to the ministery of his Gos∣pel: As the father hath sente me, so I sende * 1.1 you. And in another place: Go into all the world, and preach the Gospel to euery cre∣ature, teachyng theim to kepe all thynges that I haue cōmaunded you. Further God eternal, the father of our Lord Iesu Chryst, * 1.2 spake thus from heauen of hys sonne: Him heare ye. Wherefore, let vs constitute hym a Doctoure of authoritie, and iudge of all writinges. Peruse Cypriās boke. ij. Epistle iij. And that Christ ought only to be heard, the father witnesseth also from heauen, say∣ing: this is my sonne, in whom I am well pleased, heare hym. Wherfore, if Christ on∣ly oughte to be hearde, we must not looke, what any mā before vs hath thought good to bee doone, but what Christe fyrste dyd, whych is before all. * 1.3
Forasmuch as thā this doctrine of God the father, and of oure Lorde Jesus Chryst is taught in no wrytinges, but in the wry∣tynges of the Propheies, and the Apostles,