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SHewe me nowe what euery one of these offices importeth, and begin by his office of Prophete.
As concer∣ning hys office of Prophete, hée is not onely a Prophete, as those whiche in the Scriptures are called by that name, but of an other sorte muche more excel∣lent.
What is the difference that thou
there puttest?* 1.1
I finde there difference chiefly in two points.
Whiche is the firste?
It is that God hathe not spoken in his Church in the person of Ie∣sus Christe onely, in the manner that he hath heretofore spoken by his Prophets, in sundry sortes more couert and darke:* 1.2 but hath spoken by his owne Sonne, plainly and with an open face, and hathe shewed vnto vs by him ye doctrine of sal∣uatiō, so fully and perfectly, that we may not attende any other perfection in thys worlde, as touching that pointe.
Thy meaning is then, that seeing Iesus Christ is come vppon earth, he hath brought the doctrine requisite in his Churche, so per∣fecte, that no man may adde any thyng more therevnto, and that none ought frō that time foorth to loke for any more am∣ple and perfecte reuelation and manife∣station of the wil of God.
Sainct Iohn doth witnesse it vnto vs, when he saithe that no man euer sawe God, but the sōne which is in the bosom of the Father, hath declared him vnto vs. For this cause Ie∣sus Christe him selfe hath saide that he hath declared to his disciples,* 1.3 all that whiche he hath hearde of his Father.
Hebr. 1. ••
Iohn. 1 c. 7. b. Math. 17. a. 2. Cor. 3. d
Iohn. 1. c. Iohn. 15. c.