Seeing that before Moses his time we reade not that there was any word of God written, how did God all that time reueale his will vnto men?
Either by oracles pronounced by the mouth and voice of God himselfe to his seruantsa 1.1, or else by Vrim and Thummim, that is, light and perfection, which God gaue to Moses to put it into the breast-plate of the high priestb 1.2: but what they were, and of what fashion no man knoweth. Or else by visions and resemblances, which the Lord offred to the eyes or mind of them that were wakingc 1.3: or else in dreames, sent of God to them that were asleeped 1.4: at the last God stirred vp Moses, that he should be the first pen-man of holy Scrip∣ture. Yea, and God himselfe writing the ten Commaundements with his owne finger, did as it were consecrate the Scripturee 1.5, and gaue Moses in charge to write the bookes of the Lawf 1.6. Afterwards he deliuered his word by the Prophetsg 1.7, by Christ God and manh 1.8. Last of all by the Apostles of Christ, both by word and writingi 1.9: but there was nothing deliuered by word of mouth, but that which is now extant in writing. For although there were moe things spo∣ken and done then are written: yet nothing contrarie: and these things which are written are sufficientk 1.10.