The works of the reverend and faithful servant of Jesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…The workes of the reuerend and faithfull seruant af Iesus Christ M. Richard Greenham,…

He was only the means to confirm it, and to make it more easily to be understood, for he delivered it in plainer manner than it was delivered unto the Fathers. The Prophets did expound it more plainly then he▪ and as every Prophet was more near the time of Christ, so did he bring greater light to that which went before. John Baptist had clear ⟨p. 824⟩revelations than any of the Prophets. For our Saviour doth prefer him before them, not in respect of his person, but in respect of his office and calling: but the Lord Jesus even our God and Saviour, & our only Prophet of all others, hath brought most clear light, which he hath revealed and made known unto the world, both by himself, and the Apostles: whose Epistles and writings are by many degrees more plain and manifest than the writings of the Prophets which were before them. And do we not see, that since the time that¹ the Lord began to renew the light of the Gospel, and to deliver us (as it were) from the darkness, wherewith we were well near oppressed? Do we not see, I say, that greater light doth more and more appear, & that many things are now more manifest than they have been in former times and ages? Moreover, the law had testimony from the covenant made with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. The Prophets did prove their doctrine by the law, and the covenants, and our Saviour hath his witness out of the law and the Prophets: and his Apostles did draw their proof from all. The law is in the Gospel, and the Gospel in the law: and therefore whosoever shall not make their doctrine agreeable to the law & the Gospel, they may, nor ought not to be received: but in the boldness of Gods good spirit, we may say with S. Paul, Let them be accursed. For the Lord is not contrary, nor unlike to himself. As the spirit spake in old time in the Patriarchs and Prophets, so spake he in the Apostles of our Saviour Christ, and so will he speak in his true servants and ministers to the end of the world: there is with him no variableness nor shadow of change, but he abideth ever the same, most like unto himself: and so doth his word, which is of the same nature. Whosoever then shall b•ing unto us any doctrine not warranted by Gods word, or contrary to that which before hath been delivered:

He was only the means to confirme it, and to make it more easily to be vnderstood, for he deliuered it in plainer māner than it was deliuered vnto the Fathers. The Prophets did expound it more plainly then he and as euery Prophet was more nere the time of Christ, so did he bring greater light to that which went before. Iohn Baptist had cleere