ed apostle and Euangelist Iohn commend vnto vs sayinge.

[[1. Ioan. 4.]]

Dearly beloued / beleue not euery sprit / but proue the
sprites / whether they are of Godd or not. For many false
prophetes are gone out into the worlde. Hereby shall ye know the
spirite of Godd: Euery sprite that confessith that Iesu Christe
is comme in the flesh / is of Godd. And euery sprite which
confessith not that Iesu Christe is come in the fleshe is not of
Godd. And this is that spirite of Antichriste / of whome ye haue
herde / howe that he shuld comme and euen now alreadi is he in
the worlde. Furthermor this true and catholike confession / doth
so attribute all out whole lyfe and saluacion vnto the lorde
Christe / that it doeth take the same from al other meanes and
thinges with which mans doctrine hathe ony part: wherfor it is
not sufficient only to haue confirmed the part affirmatiue (as
they call it) except thow do also expres the negatiue / and dost
so ascribe vnto Christe our lorde all the thinges of our lyfe
and saluacion / that all men may vnderstond that thow dost clyme
to him al the partes of our saluacion / and that thow dost not
gyue ony part therof to ony other. For we do fynd that the lord
Iesus did teache such a confession / and that his apostles made
the lyke. For when the lorde in the gospell of Iohn speaking
plainly inough hadd sayed.

[[Ioan. 10.]]

I am the dore / by me if any man entre in / he shall be safe and
shall go in and oute / and finde pasture. A thefe commith not but
for to steale / kyll / and to destroye: I am come that they
might haue lyfe / and that they might haue it more abundantly:
I am the goode shepeherd / a goode shepeherd gyueth his lyfe for
the shepe. Yet was he not content with theis though thy be most
playne wordes / but he ioyned also a Negatiue / with a most
pitthie asseueracion / saying: Verely verely I saye vnto yowe he
that enterith not in by the dore into the shepefolde / but
clymbeth vp some other waye / the same is a theife and a
murtherer. He likewise saith playnly in the same chapter /
A goode shepeherd goeth before his shepe / and the shepe folowe
hym bicause they knowe his voice. Yea forthewith he addith this
also / A straunger will they not folowe / but wil flie from him /
for they know not the voice of straungers. Agayn in an other
place /

[[Ioan. 14.]]

I am the waye (saithe he) the truthe and the lyfe: Yet he not
being content wyth this so playn a doctryne doth ad