A harmony upon the the three Evangelists, Matthew, Mark and Luke with the commentary…A harmonie vpon the the three Euangelists, Matthew, Mark and Luke with the commentarie…

For what great honour is this whereunto God doth vouchsafe to extol miserable wretches, that they who are by nature nothing else but lying and vanity, should be accounted meet to approve with their subscription the holy trueth of God.

For what great honour is this whereunto God doth vouchsafe to extol miserable wretches, that they who are by nature nothing els but lying and vanitie, should be accounted meete to approoue with their subscription the holy trueth of God.

34 For whom God sent. He confirmeth the sentence next going before. For he showeth that we have truly to deal with God, when as we ⟨p. 78⟩receive the doctrine of Christ: for Christ came from none other save only from his heavenly father. Therefore it is God alone that speaketh by him. And truly we give less honour unto the doctrine of Christ, than we ought if we doubt to acknowledge it to be divine. Not by measure. This place is expounded two manner of ways: for some do extend it unto the common dispensation, that God, who is the fountain of all good things which can never be drawn dry, is not emptied when he poureth out his gifts upon men abundantly. They which take water out of any vessel to distribute it, do at length come unto the bottom: but we need not to fear any such thing in God: for the abundance of his gifts shall never be so large, but that he can exceed the same whensoever he will, with new liberality. This exposition seemeth to have some colour, because the sentence is indefinite, yet do I rather follow Augustine, who doth interpret this to be spoken of Christ. Neither ought this to be any let, that there is as yet no mention made of Christ in this member, seeing that the last member doth take away all doubtfulness, where that is restrained unto Christ, which might seem to be spoken generally of many. For without doubt these words are added expositively, that the father hath given the son all things into his hand because he loveth him: Therefore they are to be read in one text. And the word of the present tense doth signify a continual act. For although he was once endowed with the spirit according to the chiefest perfection, and yet notwithstanding he floweth continually as out of a fountain, far and wide, he is therefore not unfitly said even now also to receive of the father. But and if any man had rather expound it simply, the alteration of the tense is not strange in such verbs. Now the sense is manifest, that the spirit was not given Christ by measure, as if the faculty and store of that grace wherein he excelleth were limited by some measure as Paul teacheth