All who believe and are assured that grace and truth were obtained through Jesus Christ, and who know Christ to be truth, agreeably to his own declaration, "I am the Truth," derive the knowledge which incites men to a good and happy life form no other source than from the very words and teaching of Christ. And by the words of Christ we do not mean those only which He spake when he became man and tabernacled in the flesh; for before that time, Christ the Word of God, was in Moses and the prophet. For without the Word of God, how could they have they been able to prophesy of Christ? And were it not our purpose to confine the present treatise within the limits of all attainable brevity, it would not be difficult to show in proof of this statement, out of Holy Scriptures, how Moses or the prophets both spake and performed all they did through bieng filled with the Spirit of Christ. And therefore I think it sufficient to quote this one testimony of Paul from teh Epistle to the Hebrews, in which he says: "By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter; choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of the Egyptians." Moreover, that after His ascension into heaven He spake in His apostles, is shown by Paul in the words: "Or do you seek a proof of Christ who speaketh in me?"
