1 ! The diuinitie, humanitie, & office of Jesus Christ.
1 / Or, before the beginning.
1 a Christ is God before all time.
2 b The Sonne is of the same substance with the Father.
3 c No creature was made with out Christ.
4 d Whereby all things are quiekened and preserued.
4 e The life of man is more excellent then of any other creature, because it is joyned with light and vnderstanding.
5 f Mans minde is ful of darkenes because of the corruption thereof.
10 g Because they did not worship him as their God, {Ro. 1,21 act. 14:15}
11 h To the Israelites who were his peculiar people.
12 i Meaning priuiledge, or dignitie.
14 k He was formed and made man by the operation of the holie Gost without the operation of man.
14 / Or, proceding from the Father.
15 ! The testimonie of John.
15 / Or, more excellent then I.
16 l More abundant grace then by Moses.
18 m Meaning he is moste deare, and straictly joyned to his father, not onely in loue, but also in nature and vnion.
18 n And so God that before was inuisible, was made, as it were, visible in Christ.
21 o Whome thei loked for to be suche one as Moses was, {Deut. 18,15}
29 p Signifing the original sinne, which is the fountaine of all sinnes & there with all other sinnes.
31 q That is, by sight, but onely by the reuelation of God.
33 r Who giueth the vertue and effect to baptisme, accomplishing that thing which is thereby represented.
36 f He alludeth to the Paschal lambe, which was a figure of Christ.
38 t Or where is thy lodging? or whither goest thou? For he dwelled in Nazaret, and was there as a stranger.
39 ! The calling of Andrewe, Peter, &c.
39 u That was, two houres before night.
40 x How John said, that Jesus was the lambe of God.
46 y Those things which are contemptible to the worlde, are estemed and preferred of God: and those things which the worlde preferreth, God abhorreth.
51 z Christ openeth the heauens, that we may haue accesse to God, and maketh vs felowes to the Angels.