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The word of Prophecy.] There are four sorts of Prophets. 1. Some write of things past, as Moses. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth: penning an Hexameron many years after the world was made. The Samaritan woman hearing Christ relate unto her the things which he had done, concluded; Sir, I perceive that thou art a Prophet, Joh. 4.19. 2. Some prophesy of things to come. As God foretold by the mouth of his holy Prophets. Those did Dicere facta, these Praedicere facienda: the one was a relation, the other a prediction. 3. Some prophesy of things present: such a Prophet was old Simeon, whose eyes saw that present salvation. Thus John the Baptist was a Prophet, and more than a Prophet. A Prophet, because he did point him out with the finger that was all the Prophets aim: Behold the Lamb of God. More than a Prophet, because he baptised Dominum Prophetarum, the Lord of the Prophets, Jer. 4. Those that expound the Prophets: an Evangelical Preacher is called a Prophet. 1 Cor. Chapter 14. Verse 1. Desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy. Chap. 13.9. We know in part, and we prophesy in part. He that interprets the Prophets, is called a Prophet, Aquin. But here the Apostle intends principally that sort, which foretold future things. Some of their words were more dark, some more plain. Daniel and John wrote darkly: the reason is given, because they wrote in times of persecution. So that if they had done otherwise, themselves and their books had been burned. The events were the clearest expositions of them. It is the property of a Prophecy, Compleri priusquam intelligi, to ⟨p. 336⟩be fulfilled before it be understood, Augustine.

The word of Prophecie.] There are foure sorts of Prophets. 1. Some write of things past, as Moses. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth: penning an Hexameron many yeares after the world was made. The Samaritan woman hearing Christ relate unto her the things which he had done, concluded; Sir, I perceive that thou art a Prophet, Ioh. 4.19. 2. Some prophecie of things to come. As God foretold by the mouth of his holy Prophets. Those did Dicere facta, these Praedicere facienda: the one was a relation, the other a prediction. 3. Some prophecie of things present: such a Prophet was old Simeon, whose eyes saw that present salvation. Thus Iohn the Baptist was a Prophet, and more than a Prophet. A Prophet, because he did point him out with the finger that was all the Prophets ayme: Behold the Lambe of God. More than a Prophet, because he baptised Dominum Prophetarum, the Lord of the Prophets,