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11 Moreover as concerning increase,¹ by an argument taken from the like, that Christ him self, and after him his Apostles taught the same properly to be in the outward word.

11 Moreouer as concerning increase,¹ by an argument taken from the like, that Christ him selfe, and after him his Apostles taught the same properly to be in the outward word.

1. 1Mat. 13.4. Luk. 8.15.

12 As touching the confirmation by an argument borrowed from the contrary, that many times when the Lord meaneth to take away the confidence of the very things that are by him promised in the Sacraments, he taketh away the Sacraments them selves. Last of all, if we give them such virtue, the glory of GOD must needs be derived to creatures: this also he answereth, when he spoiled and thrust away Adam from the gift of immortality, he sayeth,¹ Let him not eat of the fruit of life, lest he live for ever, not that the fruit could restore to Adam his uncorruption, from which he was now fallen, but least he should enjoy a vain confidence, if he kept still the sign of the promise, & therefore that was shaken away from him, which ⟨image 245⟩might bring him some hope of immortality, in this manner putteth the Ephesians in remembrance, that they were foreign guests of the Testaments strangers from the fellowship of Israel, without God, without Christ, whereby he signifieth by a figure of Transnomination, that they were excluded from the promise it self,