The governance of virtue teaching all faithful christia[n]s, how they ought daily to lead…The gouernaunce of vertue teaching all faythful christia[n]s, how they oughte daily to leade…

IN another place the Prophet saith,¹ there shall come a rod forth of the kindred of Jesse, and a flour shall flourish out of his root.

IN another place the Prophete sayth,¹ there shall come a rodde foorth of the kyndred of Iesse, and a floure shall florishe out of hys roote.

1. 1Isaiah. 11.Esay. 11.

☞ In this place the Prophet doth so openly declare Christ to be true man and the natural son of Mary the virgin, that it is won der that any Heretic can have so whorish a forehead once to deny i•. This rod and flour, which springeth out of rod and kint• ⟨image 31⟩[…] Jesse, is Christ the Lord▪ The root out of the which flour undefiled virgin Marye. Christs mother, which came of the kindred of Jesse, king Davids father. Can any man deny, but that the flour is of the same nature and substance that the tree is of, which beareth the flour? If we grant the flour to be of the nature and substance of the stock that beareth the flour, why are the Anabaptists more wicked and cruel against Christ the flour and fruit (by Gods ordinance) of the holy virgin, then unto the stock and root of every flour of the field? Can the flour of an Orange spring out o• an Oak? No more can the humanity of Christ which is the blossom and flour of Mary, take his original of the air, of heaven, or of such other matter they know not what. But as the flour of the Orange springeth out of the Orange tree, and is of the very same nature and substance that the Orange tree is, so likewise Christ being the flour of the most blessed Virgin took his beginning of her, and is of the very same substance and nature that she is. Let God therefore be true, and all heretics liars.