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they beheld that whereat men and angels are astonished, they understood in the beginning what should come to pass in the last days. God, which lightened thus the eyes of their understanding, giving them knowledge by unusual and extraordinary means, did also miraculously Himself frame and fashion their words and writings, insomuch that a greater difference there seemeth not to be between the manner of their knowledge, than there is between the manner of their speech and ours. . . . We have received,' saith the Apostle, 'not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are given to us of God: which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost doth teach.' This is that which the prophets mean by those books written full within and without; which books were so often delivered them to eat, not because God fed them with ink and paper, but to teach us, that so often as He employed them in this heavenly work, they neither spake nor wrote any word of their own, but uttered syllable by syllable as the Spirit put it in their mouths, no otherwise than the harp or the lute doth give a sound according to the discretion of his hands that holdeth it and striketh it with skill "."

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And in the following paragraph he shows that though prophecy has a principal intent, yet that there is nothing which is not profitable :-" On this manner were all the prophecies of Holy Scripture. Which prophecies, although they contain nothing which is not profitable for our instruction, yet as one star differeth from another in glory, so every word of prophecy hath a treasure of matter in it; but all matters are not of like importance, as all treasures are not of equal price; the chief and principal matter of prophecy is the promise of righteousness, peace, holiness, glory, victory, immortality unto every soul that believeth that Jesus is Christ, of the Jew first, and of the Gentile." So much for Hooker.

JEWEL.

22. But why did Mr. Stephen jump from the Reformers and compilers of the Articles to Hooker, or why did he select him above others of his generation? He must have known that there were some whose writings come nearer to authoritative documents, who were fellow-workers with those who finally settled the Articles in 1571; others of great authority, who immediately followed; and some of Hooker's contemporaries who were not to be ignored. Thus he knew of Jewel's Apo

logy, and of its grave authority at the time of its publication and ever since. Could Mr. Stephen have quoted Jewel to show that the Word of God is contained in Scripture, or that all Scripture is not inspired and not the Word of God, or that its authority was and is indefinite? Let us hear what Jewel says, first in his Apology. "We receive and embrace all the canonical Scriptures, both of the Old and New Testament; and we give our gracious God most hearty thanks that He hath set up this light for us, which we ever fix our eyes upon lest by human fraud or the snares of the devil, we should be seduced to errors or fables. We own them to be the Heavenly voices by which God hath revealed and made known His will to us. In them only can the mind of man acquiesce : in them all that is necessary for our salvation is abundantly and plainly contained, as Origen, St. Augustine, St. Chrysostom, and St. Cyril have taught us. They (not the Word of God in them) are the very might and power of God unto salvation; they are the foundations of the Apostles and prophets upon which the Church of God is built; they are the most certain and infallible rule by which the Church may be reduced (brought back) if she should happen to stagger, slip, or err; by which all ecclesiastical doctrines

ought to be tried; no law, no tradition, no custom, is to be received or continued if it be contrary to Scripture. No; though St. Paul himself, or an angel from heaven, should come and teach otherwise." But in Bishop Jewel's works 6 is found "A Treatise of the Holy Scriptures," where we read the following declaration :—

"St. Paul, speaking of the Word of God, saith: The whole Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable to teach, to reprove, to correct, and to instruct in righteousness' Many think the Apostle's speech is hardly true of the whole Scripture, that all and every part of the Scripture is profitable. Much is spoken of genealogies, and petidegrees, of lepers, of sacrificing goats and oxen, &c. These seem to have little profit in them, but to be vain and idle. If they show vain in thine eyes, yet hath not the Lord set them down in vain. The words of the Lord are pure words as the silver tried in a furnace of earth fined seven times. There is no sentence, no clause, no word, no syllable, no letter, but it is written for thy instruction; there is not one jot but it is sealed and signed with the blood of the Lamb. Our imaginations are idle, our thoughts are vain: there is no idleness, no

vanity in the Word of God.

These oxen and

goats which were sacrificed teach thee to kill the uncleanness and filthiness of thine heart: they teach thee that thou art guilty of death, when thy life must be redeemed by the death of some beast they lead thee to believe the forgiveness of sins by a more perfect sacrifice, because it was not possible that the blood of bulls or goats should take away sins. That leprosy teacheth thee to know the uncleanness and

leprosy of thy soul. These genealogies and petidigres lead us to the birth of our Saviour Christ. So that the whole Word of God is pure and holy. No word, no letter, no syllable, nor point or prick thereof, but is written and preserved for thy sake."

23. Next, perhaps even greater, in authority is the Catechism of Dean Nowel, set forth with the authority of the Lower House of Convocation.

Here we read: "M." "Unde eam [religionem Christianam] discendam esse putas? A. Non aliunde profecto, quam ex cœlesti Dei ipsius Verbo, quod nobis sacris literis descriptum tradidit." Here Mr. Stephen would perhaps discern a difference between Scripture and Word of God written in it. But the next question and answer show how false would be the inference: "Quænam sunt ea scripta, quæ Verbum Dei et sacras literas nun