) ----·--------- ·- ---·-------·--------- Book. IV. 4c9 the world: be en'ightens every beleever, not only with a common natural light, but w rh a fpecial fupernatural lighr, offaving, fpiricual, ,and effec'tual knowledge ; now ~here is no Prophet can do this !~lVe only Jefus Chn!l:, ht! only ts able to c~ufe our hearrs to beleeve, and to under!l:ai1d the matter wh ch he doth teach and reveale; other Prophets may plant, and wa~er, Paul may plant, 11nd Ap;l/o may welter, but he, and only he can giveth~ - ' encreafe. e'ther Prophets may te.<ch and bapti.u, but unleffe Chri!l: c~me in by the powerful pre fence of his Spirit, they can neyer be able to fave any one poore foui,we as lively ftones are built ~tp a [piritual houfe, fatth Petrr; but except the Lord do b:~ild this 1 _Pe•, 1 • ) . houfe, rhq labour in vaine that build it. 0 alas, who i> able to Pial. H7 • 1 ' breathe the Spirit of life into tbefe dead fiones, but he ofwhom it is written the hour h· coming, and now is, when the de.Jdjha!l heare J b , .thevoyc,eoftheSonneD(God,andtheythafheareir(h,l{!live? who 0 nr.:r. can awaken a dead foul o:Jt of a dead fleep? and who can give light unto thde b!ind eyes ofours, but he of whom it is'wrirten, awt~l{f thou that jleepeft,af!d arife from the dead, and Chrift /hall give B h , h . h p .~ 14· t ee hg t? , · , · 3 ·' The excellencies of Chrifi above all other Prophets are in - thefe refpects.- I. Other Prophets were but types and !badows of this great Prophet; even tJ'v[ofes himfelfe was but a figure of him; a Prb· A& phet fhall the. Lord God r11.i[e up unroyou ~f your brethrm Lib,e unto 1 ' p. me. Saith c..Mtifes; thefe words /ikf unto me J do plainly lbew that M ofes was at the befi but an image and fbadow of C_hrifr; now as fub!l:ances do far excell fhadows, fo doth Chnfi far excel! all the Prophets; they were but ihadows and fore-runners to him. 2. Other Prophets revealed but fome part of Gods will, and only at fometimes. God(faith the Apofile) at [unary tim:·s, and H:b, l· 1 , in divers manners JP61~ in time-paft unto the Fazhrr.r bJ the Prophtt.r; (i.) he lee out his light by little and little, till the dayftar 3nd Sun of righteoufne1fe arofe; but in thefe !aft dayes he hat_h fpok.!_n by _his Sonne, (i.) he hath fpoken more fully and ver; 1 ,· plamly; 111 thts refped fa1th the Apofrle, the heires of life and falvation were but children before Chrifis incarnation. As now Gal. 14. t, 2: we fee but through a gla1fe darkly, cowards what we fhall do in the life to come; fo did they ofold in comparifon ofus. their G gg ' light
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