Master Bezaes sermons upon the three chapters of the canticle of canticlesMaster Bezaes sermons vpon the three chapters of the canticle of canticles

4 Let us come now to the 2. point which we called his state & office of being a Prophet, taking this appellation not strictly as being given to certain personages to prophecy & foretell such things as should come to pass touching our Lord Jesus Christ, & the particular application of the threats & promises of the law (such as were the 15. Prophets whose writings we ⟨p. 116⟩have, & many others mentioned in the holy scriptures) but taking this word of prophet generally, for a declarer of the will of god touching our salvation, in which sense Jesus Christ is called the Prophet whom we must hear under pain of extermination, Deut. 18.15. as the same is expounded, Act. 3.22. Joh. 1.18. I say then that as Jesus Christ alone is properly the foundation of the Church, 1. Cor. 3.11. And by the Lord himself, Isaiah. 28.16. as it is also in him alone, in whom the church was elected before the foundation of the world, Ephe, 1.4. so also it is he alone which hath been ordained from everlasting by the father to declare his will unto men. And that this is so, behold S. Paul who witnesseth in express terms, that it was he which guided the people in the desert, 1 Cor. 10.9. as also it was he whose glory Isaiah saw, Joh. 1.41. In a word S. Peter speaking of the time it self of Noah, saith that it was he that came then in spirit & preached to the unbelievers of that time, 1. Pet. 3.19. finally it is he which came in flesh, to manifest the will of the father, & to make the world altogether inexcusable, Joh. 15.22