Answer. I gather out of other places of the scripture, that this is not a proper proposition. For as often things unlike are attributed to the same subject, it must needs be that some of these be taken properly, and some figuratively, which I set forth by examples thus: The Gospel is called the power of God to salvation. Rom. 1. 16. And in the beginning of the same chapter it is called the doctrine revealed from above, concerning the Son of God: which two forasmuch as they are diverse, it must needs be understood that one be spoken properly and the other figuratively.
⟨image 145⟩It is gathered not darkly out of John the 17. 3. that Faith is the knowledge of the true God & of Jesus Christ, whereby we are saved. The same is defined also to be the ground of those things which are not. Therefore one of these1 must needs be spoken properly, the other figuratively.
John is not Elijah: John. 1. 21. And he is that Elijah that shall come. Mat. 11. 14. Therefore in one of those we must needs grant, that there is a figure.
It is plain that Herod was properly a man. The same also is called a Fox, one of these therefore must be understood to be spoken figuratively. Of which, infinite examples might be alleged: & yet notwithstanding these are not alleged by me, as though they were, to be expounded by the same figure, but to show that that I have said is true: to wit, as often as unlike things are spoken of the same Subject, the one of them must be a proper attribution, the other figurative.
⟨image 146⟩But the cup, that is to say, the wine contained in the cup, is sometime said to be blood, sometime said to be the Testament in blood: and yet notwithstanding it is plain that the self same is properly the liquor of the Wine, as it is called of Christ. It is not therefore properly mans blood, and much less also it is properly the last Testament of ones will that shall dye: but it is called blood, because it is the Sacrament of his blood, whereby that same covenant or Testament of the remission of sins and of everlasting life, is stricken with us: the same also is the Testament in blood, because it is the pledge of his Testament which is sealed and ratified by the blood of the Lord As the Lord also in Moses in the same place when had called Circumcision the covenant, himself doeth afterwards interpret it too be the sign of the covenant.
Answeare. I geather out of other places of the scripture, that this is not a proper proposition. For as often thinges vnlike are attributed to the same subiect, it must needes be that some of these be taken properly, and some figuratiuely, wc I set foorth by examples thus: The Gospell is called the power of God to saluation. Rom. 1. 16. And in the beginning of the same chapter it is called the doctrine reuealed from aboue, concerning the Sonne of God: which two forasmuche as they are diuerse, it must needes bee vnderstoode that one bee spoken properly and the other figuratiuely.
⟨image 145⟩It is geathered not darkely out of Iohn the 17. 3. that Fayth is the knowledge of the true God & of Iesus Christ, whereby we are saued. The same is defined also to be the groūd of those things which are not. Therefore one of these1 must needs be spoken poperly, the other figuratiuely.
Iohn is not Elias: Iohn. 1. 21. And he is that Elias that shal come. Mat. 11. 14. Therfore in one of those we must needs grant, that there is a figure.
It is playne that Herode was properly a man. The same also is called a Foxe, one of these therefore must be vnderstoode to be spoken figuratiuely. Of which, infinit examples might be alleaged: & yet notwithstāding these are not alleaged by me, as though they were, to be expounded by the same figure, but to shew that that I haue sayd is true: to wit, as often as vnlike thinges are spoken of the same Subiect, the one of them must bee a proper attribution, the other figuratiue.
⟨image 146⟩But the cup, that is to say, the wyne conteyned in the cup, is sometime saide to be blood, sometime saide to bee the Testament in blood: and yet notwithstanding it is plaine that the selfe same is properly the licoure of the Wine, as it is called of Christe. It is not therefore properly mans blood, and much lesse also it is properly the last Testament of ones wyll that shall dye: but it is called blood, because it is the Sacrament of his blood, whereby that same couenaunt or Testament of the remission of sinnes and of euerlasting life, is stricken with vs: the same also is the Testament in blood, because it is the pleadge of his Testament which is sealed and ratified by the blood of the Lord As the Lorde also in Moses in the same place when had called Circumcision the couenant, himselfe doeth afterwardes interprete it too bee the signe of the couenant.
- 1Heb. 11. 1.
