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Out of the old Testament we have heard that Christ should be born according to the holy scriptures. Now let us hear how the effect answereth to y• for more prophecies. In case the new testament should not in effect perform as much as the old testament figured by shadows and saw before by prophecy, they both might be justly ⟨image 12⟩suspected, and no force though both of the were denied. And for a probation, let us take the experience of it in this matter concerning the humanity of Christ, and that it toke his beginning in and of the holy virgin, by the operation of the holy Ghost. The Angel said unto the blessed virgin, Luce the first. Behold thou shalt conceive in thy womb, & bare a son, the which things S. Matthew expresseth thus. Thou shalt be great, and bare a son. Mark the whole state of the scripture, and the words here rehearsed, to conceive and bare a child: and ye shall always find, it is none other thing but that the mother shall be a very true and natural parent with participation of here ⟨image 12⟩own substance with her child. Therefore Saint Matthew in the first Chapter to help this doubt, among other things touching the genealogy and stock of Christ, saith thus speaking of the blessed virgin Mary, Of whom is born christ and doeth not say by whom or through whom Christ passed. The same word Of, useth S. Paul twice to the Romans, and ones to the Galatians, the which word he would not have used so many times, in case Christ hath taken no substance of his mother, but passed through her without participation of her nature as the water through a conduit. To the Romans in the first chapter he saith thus, which was borne of the seed of David as touching