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A more sure word of Prophecy.] [Greek or Hebrew]. Why, was not the Apostolical Testimony sure enough? could there be more than ocular and articular witness? The Prophets foretold what they never saw, the Apostles saw what they told. Besides, did not one and the same God speak by them both? Hebr. 1.1. conferred with, Matth. 10.20. plainly demonstrates: that the same God who spake unto the Fathers by the Prophets; spakes also by the Apostles, For it is not yet that speak, but the spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. How then can this be Certior Sermo, a more sure word. Seeing the Prophets be a dark lantern, which himself here confesseth hard to be understood. This point hath troubled many expositors: it was some trouble to me to find it, let it be no trouble to you to read it.

A more sure word of Prophecie.] 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. Why, was not the Apostolicall Testimonie sure enough? could there be more than ocular and articular witnesse? The Prophets foretold what they never saw, the Apostles saw what they told. Besides, did not one and the same God speake by them both? Hebr. 1.1. conferred with, Matth. 10.20. plainely demonstrates: that the same God who spake unto the Fathers by the Prophets; spakes also by the Apostles, For it is not yet that speake, but the spirit of your Father which speaketh in you. How then can this be Certior Sermo, a more sure word. Seeing the Prophets be a darke lanthorne, which himselfe here confesseth hard to be understood. This point hath troubled many expositors: it was some trouble to me to find it, let it be no trouble to you to read it.

1 Some answer, that here a comparative is put for a positive; More sure, for Sure: or for a superlative: [Greek or Hebrew], for [Greek or Hebrew]; more sure, for Surest. A place is instanced,