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As they did most sincerely and plainly without all glosses or additions of there own invention and were as testimonies of the truth and not the authors thereof Act 1. 1. Joan. 1. So doth ⟨image 12⟩Paul teach with gravity and manifest words what is to be judged of him self and all other ministers. Deus erat in Christo inquit, mundum reconcilians sibi, non imputans ei precata sua, & posuit in nobis sermonem reconciliationis. Itaque nomine Christi legatione fungimur tanquam deo hor tante uos per nos. Rogamus pro Christo reconciliemini deo. Always in there doctrine they taught the thing that Christ first taught and God's holy spirit inspired them Gale. 1. 2. Cor. 3. holy Apostles never toke upon them to be Christs vicar in the earth nor to be his leave tenet. But said sic nos estimet homo ut ministros Christi ac dispensatores mysteriorum dei. 1. Cor. 4. in the same Epistle he bindeth the Corinthians to follow him in nothing but where as he followed Christ 11. cap. Imitators mei estote sicut & ego Christi. They ministryd not in the ⟨image 13⟩church as though Christ were absent although his most glorious body was departed corporally into the heavens above. But as Christ present that all ways governed his church with his spirit of truth as he promised Matt. ult. Ecce ego uobiscum sum usque ad consummationem saeculi in the absence of his body, he hath commended the protection and governance of his church unto the holy ghost the same god and one god with the father and his divinae nature. Whose divinae puyssanc and pour over machithe the force of the devil so that hell it self can not take one of Christs flock out of God's protection Joan. 10. and this defence dury the not for a day nor here but shall demoure for ever till this church be glorified at the resurrection of the flesh Joan. 15. it was no little pain that Christ suffered in washing away the sins of this ⟨image 13⟩church. Therefore he will not commit the defence thereof unto man: it is no less glory to defend. And keep the thing won by force then it is by for see to obtain the victory. Adam, Abel, Abraham Moses nor Aron cold, not win this church out of the devils tyranny. No more can they defend it delivered.