Footnotes

1. John 3:1 There are none sometimes more unlearned, than the learned: but as well the learned as the unlearned must desire wisdom of Christ only.
2. John 3:1 A man of great estimation, and a ruler amongst the Jews.
3. John 3:2 We know that thou art sent from God to teach us.
4. John 3:2 But he in whom some part of the excellency of God appeareth. And if Nicodemus had known Christ aright, he would not only have said that God was with him, but in him: as Paul doth, 2 Cor. 1:19.
5. John 3:3 The beginning of Christianity consisteth in this, that we know ourselves not only to be corrupt in part, but to be wholly dead in sin: so that our nature hath need to be created anew, as touching the qualities thereof: which can be done by no other virtue, but by the divine and heavenly, whereby we were first created.
6. John 3:3 That is, go in, or enter, as he expounded himself afterward, verse 5.
7. John 3:3 The Church: for Christ showeth in this place, how we come to be citizens, and to have ought to do in the city of God.
8. John 3:4 How can I that am old, be born again? for he answereth, as if Christ’s words belonged to none but to him.
9. John 3:6 That is, fleshly, to wit, wholly unclean and under the wrath of God: and therefore this word (Flesh) signifieth the corrupt nature of man: contrary to which is the Spirit, that is, the man ingrafted into Christ through the grace of the holy Ghost, whose nature is everlasting and immortal, though the strife of the flesh remaineth.
10. John 3:8 With free and wandering blasts, as it listeth.
11. John 3:9 The secret mystery of our regeneration which cannot be comprehended by man’s capacity, is perceived by faith, and that in Christ only, because that he is both God on earth, and man in heaven, that is to say, in such sort man, that he is God also, and therefore almighty: and in such sort God, that he is man also, and therefore his power is manifest unto us.
12. John 3:11 You handle doubtful things, and such as you have no certain author for, and yet men believe you: but I teach those things that are of a truth and well known, and you believe me not.
13. John 3:13 Only Christ can teach us heavenly things for no man ascendeth, etc.
14. John 3:13 That is, hath any spiritual light and understanding, or ever had, but only that Son of God, which came down to us.
15. John 3:13 Whereas he is said to have come down from heaven, that must be understood of his Godhead, and of the manner of his conception: for Christ’s birth upon the earth was heavenly, and not earthly, for he was conceived by the holy Ghost.
16. John 3:13 That which is proper to the divinity of Christ, is here spoken of whole Christ, to give us to understand that he is but one person, wherein two natures are united, and this kind of speech men call, the communicating of proprieties.
17. John 3:16 Nothing else but the free love of the Father, is the beginning of our salvation, and Christ is he in whom our righteousness and salvation is resident: and faith is the instrument or mean whereby we apprehend it, and life everlasting is that which is set before us to apprehend.
18. John 3:16 It is not all one to believe in a thing, and to believe of a thing, for we may not believe (in anything) save only in God, but we may believe (of anything) whatsoever, this saith Nazianzene in his oration of the Spirit.
19. John 3:17 Not Christ, but the despising of Christ doth condemn.
20. John 3:17 That is, to be the cause of the condemning of the world, for indeed sins are the cause of death, but Christ shall judge the quick and the dead.
21. John 3:17 Not only the people of the Jews, but whosoever shall believe in him.
22. John 3:19 Only wickedness is the cause, why men refuse the light that is offered them.
23. John 3:19 That is, the cause of condemnation, which sticketh fast in men, unless through God’s great benefit they be delivered from it.
24. John 3:21 That is, he that leadeth an honest life, and void of all craft and deceit.
25. John 3:21 That is, with God, God as it were going before.
26. John 3:25 Satan inflameth the disciples of John with a fond emulation of their master, to hinder the course of the Gospel: but John being mindful of his office, doth not only break off their endeavors, but also taketh occasion thereby to give testimony of Christ, how that in him only the Father hath set forth life everlasting.
27. John 3:27 What mean you to go about to better my state? this is every man’s lot and portion that they cannot better themselves one iota.
28. John 3:31 Is nothing else but man, a piece of work and of the slime of the earth.
29. John 3:31 Savoreth of nothing but corruption, ignorance, dullness, etc.
30. John 3:32 What he knoweth fully and perfectly.
31. John 3:32 That is, very few.
32. John 3:35 Committed them to his power and will.
33. John 3:36 Shall not enjoy.