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Other promises made god unto Abraham and unto Jacob of the same seed. To Abraham Gene. 22. In thy seed shall they say all the nations of the earth to be blessed. Unto Jacob, Gen. 26. God saith thus: In thy seed shall all the people of the world be blessed. Here again see we Christ called the seed: for none other purpose doubtless, but only to take away all suspicion & doubt, that the world might have of his humanity. And lest the world might have said, as now a day (the more pity) many doth say, we believe that Christ is of the seed of the fathers, but he brought that seed with him from heaven, or else ⟨image 7⟩wrought the same seed, and made it not out of the sinful nature of the fathers, but some other ways, unknown unto man. The scripture in these promises, and in other that shall follow putteth expressly, this pronoun, Thine, Saying, thy Seed. In thy seed, not in the seed that Christ shall bring from heaven shall be the blessing of all people. Howe can that be Abraham's, or Jacobs seed, that never toke any of their substance, but came from heaven, and was made of an other kind of nature, then Abraham and Jacob was of. Who is able by good authority of the scripture to warrant Christs humanity, in case it be unknown of whom he should take it. As these men knoweth not that denieth Christ ⟨image 7⟩to take the nature of man of the blessed virgin. Unto David God made the like promise of Christ to be borne of his seed. 2. Samuel. 7. When thy days be paste, and thou sleepest with thy fathers, I will suscitat thy seed after thee, that shall come out of thy belly. The same have ye. 1. Paral. 17. and also Psalm. 132. The Lord swore a trueth unto David, and will not go from it. I will set upon thy seat (one) of the fruit of thy belly. Nothing is more clear, then these words. No man doubteth but all these places appertain unto Christ, the Son of the holy virgin. Who is called here the seed of David. Also that it should come out of his own belly, concerning his posterity. Then is Christ called the fruit ⟨image 8⟩