Notes and Thoughts On The Analogy Of Faith 2

Here are some additional notes and thoughts on the Analogy of Faith.

John 5
39 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me.

In John 5, Jesus first heals a certain man who had an infirmity thirty and eight years at the sheep pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem.  Jesus then speaks to the Jews. And verse 39 of this chapter is part of the basis for the Analogy Of Faith. Here is John Calvin's comment:

From Calvin's Commentaries on John 5
We ought to believe that Christ cannot be properly known in any other way than from the Scriptures; and if it be so, it follows that we ought to read the Scriptures with the express design of finding Christ in them.

Stated in another way, we can find Jesus' explicit presence in the Bible, in both the New Testament and the Old Testament. Moreover, each passage of the Old Testament, contains divine Gospel truth, messages to church-age Christians about the saving grace of Jesus Christ.

I think we can also add this. Divine Gospel truth is God's one, timeless message to all of mankind, to Noah, to Abraham, to Moses, to the Apostles and to all poor Church-age Christians.