est ad eum c. Tu es sacerdos Hebr. 5. in aeternum secundùm ordinem Melchisedech Euen so Chryste also glorified not him self to be made the high pteist but he that said vnto him c. Thowe arte a preist for euer after the order of Melchisedech And declaring the great benefitte that came by him being the high preist to all beleuers he saieth again Et consummatus factus est omnibus obtemperantibus sibi causa salutis aeternae appellatus à Deo Pontifex iuxta ordinem Melchisedech And Ibid. he being perfight was the cause of eternall saluacion vnto all them that obeied him and ys called of God an high preist after the ordre of Melchisedech Likewise he calleth him in the VI. chapiter And the wholl VII chap. he occupieth in applieng Melchisedech to Chryst prouing by this prophecie the abrogacion of the preisthead of the lawe and so consequētlie of the lawe yt self Wherfore he saied Yf nowe therfore perfection came by the preistheade Hebr. 7. of the Leuites for vnder that preisthead the people receaued the lawe what neadeth further that an other preist shoulde rise to be called after the ordre of Melchisedech and not after the order of Aaron For yf the preisthead be translated then of necessitie must the lawe be translated also c. For after this maner dothe he testifie Thowe arte a preist for euer after the order of Melchisedech Then the commaundement that went before ys disanulled bycause of weakenesse and vnprofitablenesse And further declaring the excellencie of Chrystes preisthead aboue the preisthead of Aaron he saieth For these preistes were made withoute an othe but this preist with an othe by him that saied to him The Lorde sware and will not repent him Thowe art a preist for euer after the order of Melchisedech Thus as the lawe of nature hath in Melchisedech figured Chryste And the lawe of Moyses by prophecie forespoken yt So hath the lawe of the Gospell as ye haue nowe learned by sainct Paule fullfilled the same and most plainlie and euidentlie proued yt so to be Yf then Chryste be a preist after the order of Melchisedech we must seke what the order of the preistheade of Melchisedech ys and wherin yt consisteth And therbie shall we knowe the preistheade of Chryste wherin yt consisteth Sainct Paule generallie declareth the order of a preist when he saieth Omnis namque Pontifex ex hominibus assumptus pro hominibus constituitur in ijs Hebr. 5. quae sunt ad Deum vt offerat dona sacrificia pro peccatis Euery high preist that ys taken from amonge men ys ordeined for men in thinges perteining to God to offer giftes and Sacrifices for sinne By whiche description of saincte Paule yt dothe appeare that the order of preisthead standeth in two partes The first he teacheth when he saieth Ordre of preisthead standeth in two partes Pro hominibus constituitur in ijs quae sunt ad Deum He ys ordeined for men in thinges perteining to God Wherby ys ment the preaching to the people and teaching them the lawes of God and ministring the Sacramentes to them as yt was saied vnto Moyses Esto tu populo in ijs quae ad Exod. 18. Deum pertinent vt referas quae dicuntur ad eum ostendasue populo ceremonias ritum colendi viam per quam ingredi debeant opus facere Be thowe vnto the people to Godward that thowe maist bringe the causes vnto God And thowe shalt teache them ordinaunces and lawes and shewe them the waie wherin they must walke and the worke that they must doo The seconde parte of the order of preistheade standeth in offring giftes and sacrifices for the sinnes of the people Then they that be called of God as was Aaron and doo preach and teache one faith of God vnto the people and offer vnto God one maner of sacrifice they be one order of preistheade So that these two must concurre or ells yt ys not a perfight order For Elias the prophet of God and the 3. Reg. 18. preistes of Baall did offer one maner of thinge in sacrifice for they both offred oxen yet they differed in preisthead For Helias was the preist of God the other the preistes of Baall And why was this difference bycause they taught not one faithe in one God Melchisedech and Aaron taught one God and were bothe preistes of Gen. 14. Leuit. 8. Heb 5. God For Melchisedech was the preist of the most high God as the booke of Genesis wittnesseth and Aaron was called of God as the booke of Leuiticus and saincte Paule to the Hebrues testifie And yet they were not of one order of preisthead bycause their sacrifices were not of one maner By this then yt maie be taken for a trueth that Chryst not being a preist after the order of Aaron but after the order of Melchidech whiche two orders differed not in faith but in maner of sacrifice ys so called a preist after the order of Melchisedech for the maner of the sacrifice For he must agree with Melchisedech in that thing that maketh the difference betwixt the order of Aaron and the order of Melchisedech and that was and ys in the maner of sacrifice For Aaron offred in blood the other in bread and wine But here the Aduersarie will saie that Chryst ys not likened to Melchisedech for anie sacrifice by all the processe of saincte Paule But for Obiection that Melchisedech was Rex Salem kinge of Salem and withall the preist of God and for that he was with oute Father withoute Mother hauing neither beginning of daies nor ending in these pointes he ys the figure of Chryste who ys both king and preist hauing no Father in earth nor mother in heauen neither as concerning his Godhead anie beginning and as touching his Godhead and Manhead no endinge And so ys he a preist for euer To this I saie that the thing that saincte Paule principallie intended ys to be considered And then yt shall easilie be perceaued why he did not Principall entent of S. Paule in his epist to the Hebrues make rehersall of the maner of the sacrifice of Melchisedech nor mencion of the doing of the same in Chryste The principall entent of saincte Paule in this place was to proue and make manifest the excellencie of Chryst and his preisthead aboue Aaron and his preisthead Whiche excellencie in nothing more appeared then in that that Chryst was an euerlasting preist and his preisthead euerlasting and not in the maner of sacrifice For yf he had alleaged that Melchisedech did sacrifice in bread and wine The Hebrues wolde quickly haue saied that their sacrifices in that respecte moche excelled and had a moche more gloriouse shewe and cowntenance then the sacrifice of Melchisedech being but bread and wine And therfor saincte Paule omitted to make mencion VVhie S. Paule spake nothing of she sacrifice of Melchisedech in his epist
example of godlie liuing that God bothe in his pastours and people maie be glorified As cōcerning the second that the scriptures haue doubtes and difficulties Scriptures ful of doubres Yt appeareth by the expresse woorde of God when he saieth Yf ther rise a matter to hard for thee in iudgemēt c. Thow shalt get thee vppe to the preistes the Leuites But forsomoch as this matter ys allready sufficiētlie treacted of and proued yt ys enough here nowe to haue touched yt and so to passe to the third Which ys that the people must be taught and learn the lawes of god of the preistes Which thīg ys so manifestlie declared ād in so plain woordes Doubtes in the lawe of God must be dissolued by the preistes opened in the scriptures alleaged that I shal not nede to make any further declaraciō therof forasmuche as yt ys plainlie ther saied that the doubtes of the people in the lawe of God must be dissolued bi the preistes to whose sentēce and iudgemēt they must in any wise stande and not decline frō yt neither on the right hand nor on the left and that on the pain of deathe In the which saing of God yt ys euidēt howe moche God wolde that the determinaciō of his church in the doubtes of his lawe should be estemed ād reuerēced and his preistes in that respecte obeid Which howe moche yt ys nowe disdained and contēned and gods ordre and cōmaūdemēt neclected his holie faith and religion infringed and violated yt ys more with Sithes and teares to be lamented then beinge so manifest as yt ys nedefull to be opened and declared Of whose mouthe the people should learn the lawe AlmightieGod by his prophete Malachie telleth Likewise that of the preistes the people should aske People must learn of the preistes the lawe God by the Prophete Aggaeus cōmaundeth Who shoulde teach the people the newe Testamēt he also prescribeth Appointing some Apostles some Prophetes some Doctours or teachers who to theise offices are appointed to rule and instruct the people In ijs quae ad Deū pertinēt in those thinges that appertein to God But nowe al this ordre ys inuerted in manie places The people teache the preistes and not the preistes the people The people dissolue the doubts of the lawe the preistes not being asked for The people God his ordre inuerted speake the preistes holde their peace The people make lawes in religion the preistes are cōpelled to obeie The people take in hande the thinges that appertain to God the preistes are put to scilence A moch like state we finde in the time of Moyses emōge the children of Israel in the time when Moyses was in the moūt with God For they perceiuing him to be lōg absent and thinking that he wolde no more come they began to take the rule vpō thēselues And wheras Aarō before cōmaūded and taught thē the religiō of the true God nowe they taking the rule and inuerting the ordre cōmaunded Aaron and taught him soche Religion as lyked them of a false God When the people sawe saieth the booke of Exodus that yt was long er Moyses came downe oute of the Mountain they gathered themselfes togeather Exod 32. vnto Aaron and saied vnto him Vppe make vs Gods to go before vs. For of this Moises the felowe that brought vs oute of the lande of Aegypte we wote not what ys become Hereby maie yt be perceiued what religion shall be when the ordre that God appointed being broken they will teache and commaunde which in matters to godwarde shoulde be taught and commaunded But with all yt ys to be remembred that for this wickednes the wrathe of God waxed hote against the people and notwithstanding that ther was immediatelie Plaguesfor breaking Gods appoincted ordre in religiō and mynisterie a greate slaughter of the people aboute the nōbre of three thousand and that Moyses made intercession to God for the people Yet allmightie God in the ende saied Neuer the latter in the daie when I viset I will viset their sinne vpon them and the Lorde plagued the people bicause of the calfe whiche Aaron made Wherfore seinge that the moche like trangression ys committed emonge the Chrystian people yt ys to be feared that the wrathe of God will waxe hote against vs. But God graūte vs a Moyses that by earnest intercessiō maie yet mittigate the plague of God that shall come for this wickednesse The plague I feare me will be sore vpon Corah Dathan and Abiron and vpon the capitanes of the multitude whiche be the great and famouse mē in the Num. 16. congregacion which haue gathered thē selues together against Moyses and Aaron and cā not contēt thē selues with soche ordre as God hath put in his Church and which by hys pleasure hath so long continued But yet they come to Moyses and Aaron and saie ye make muche to doo seing all the multitude are holie euery one of them and the Lorde ys emonge them Whieheaue ye your selues vppe aboue the Congregacion of the Lorde I must staie my hand I shall ells be to tediouse to the reader in this matter in the whiche I thought not to haue writtē the fourth parte of that that ys written and for expedicion leaue vnto him to reade the strory in the booke of Nombres and so further to consider yt And wher ther be manie stories declaring the displeasures of God to haue commed vppon the people bicause they wolde not submitte them selues to the ordeinaunce of him and his ministres but wolde vsurpe vpon them both Yet I will speake but of one in the first booke of the kinges which ys that where God appointed Samuel his beloued and holie Prophet to be the ruler of the people they being a stiffnecked and disobedient people to gods 1. Reg. 8. ordre so long before vsed al the elders gathered themselues together and came to Samuel and saied vnto him Beholde thowe arte olde and thy Sonnes walke not in thy waies Nowe therfore make vs a king to iudge vs as al other nacions haue See their phantasticall prouidence and therwith their disobediēce They take in hande to prouide for their common wealth as though God coulde not prouide them as good a ruler after Samuel as he did in prouiding of Samuel And therfore the ruler whiche God appointed reiected make vs saie they a kinge But what saied Almightie God to Samuel Heare the voice of the people for they haue not cast thee awaye but me that I shoulde not reign ouer them 1. Reg. 12. And after that they had a kinge Samuel to cause them to vnderstand that their offence was great saied I will call vnto the Lorde and he shall send thunder and rain that ye maie perceaue and see howe that yower wickednesse ys great which ye haue doen in thee seight of the Lorde in asking yowe a king And they saied Praye for vs thy seruauntes vnto the Lorde thy God that
declareth were not onelie plagued by pestilence and famine at the hande of God and with swoorde and fire at the handes of their enemies without the walls but also they being with in the walls plagued them selues with great debates discordes insurrections and mortall warres So that the slaughter was as great within as yt was withoute Euen so this armie hath ben moche plagued at Gods hande yt hath raised moche sedicion and tumulte bothe in Germanie Frannce and Englonde euen within their owne walls yt hath bē from time to time persecuted with swoorde and fire and the heade capitaines haue not agreed among thē selues as in these our daies yt ys more then manifest that they doe not This armie therfor though yt be fuffred yet as touching the cause they are not to be feared For we standing with our Prophete our cause can not faill and when yt shall please owre Prophete the armie that was with Helizeus shall ioin with vs and deliuer vs whiche armie haue among them no diuision no discorde ther be amongest them no inwarde warres no insurrections no tumultes as be amongest the other but of them all ther ys one heart and one mouth What one saieth all saie what one denieth all denie On the other side looke howe manie citties howe manie contries so manie doctrines somanie faiths so manie religions yea almost howe manie heades so manie opinnions Howe doeth Luther agree with Oecolampadius howe doeth Melancthon with Bullinger yea howe doeth Luther agree with him self or Melancthon with himself As for their disagreinge with the holie fathers yt ys to manifest The holie fathers teache the presence of Chryst in the Sacrament they denie yt They teache that the sacrifice of Chrystes bodie ys to be offred for the quicke and the dead these denie yt They teache almose and praiers to be auailable to the dead these denie yt To this yf yowe adde the gates that they open to all licenciouse libertie as the taking awaie of Confession the contempt of penāce the mocking of fasting the common maner of diuorcing and marieng again the voluptuouse taking of women to preists without all discrecion be she maide or widowe yf no worse the indempnitie of vsurie yt were enough and to moche to offend an honest heart but to heare soche things Yt were to long a repeticion to reherse all the licenciouse doctrines that be settfurth against godlie and vertuouse liuing But yf ther were no more but these two euells last rehersed in them namelie their dissenting from the fathers and their geuing of libertie to viciouse liuing yt wer enough to geue anie man iust occasion to suspect yea and vtterlie to forsake their doctrine In the other side forasmoche as the Catholiques embrace the doctrine of the Fathers and teache vertueouse liuing as penaunce contricion confession and satisfactiō charitable lending chaist matrimonie in maried people pure chaistitie in preistes and religiouse persons fasting and soche other iust occasion ys geuen to credite them and to folowe them God nowe of his mercie open the eies of all his people that hauing a breif shewe of the teachers of trueth and vntrueth of verteuouse liuinge and of licēciouse liuinge maie by his grace take the one and leaue the other folowe the good and leaue the euell and so framing their lifes to liue in the true faith and good life maie by his mercie atteign to the euerlasting life with him to whome be all honoure and glorie worlde withoute ende Amen Volumen hoc ab eximio viro M. n. Thoma Heskins De praesentia corporis sanguinis domini Anglico idiomate conscriptum perlectum est a viris illius idiomatis sacrae Theologiae peritissimis quibus sicutipsi authori meritò id tribuendum esse iudico vt ad vtilitatem gentis anglicae euulgetur Ita testor et iudico Cunerus Petri de Brouwershauen Pastor sancti Petri Louanij 4. Iulij anno 1565. FINIS THE CHEIF AND MOSTE MATter 's conteined in this booke wher nomber of booke ys omitted ye be referred to the next before A. AArons garment wotn for a Bishoprick lib. 3. cap. 33. Abstinence from sinne honoureth God lib. 2. ca. 44. Adoracion of the B. Sacrament taught by S. Paule lib. 2. cap. 44. by Alexander cap. 43. by S. Augustin cap. 45. by S. Dionyse ca. 47. by Eusebius Emis ib. by S. Bernarde ibid. Adoracion practised by Angells lib. 2. ca. 45. by preist deacon and people in the Greke Church by S. Ambrose in the latin Churche by S. Austens mother ca. 45 by Erasmus and al chrysten people ca. 46. by Gorgonia cap. 27. Adoracion impugned and denied by I uther lib. 2. cap. 48. by the Proclamer cap. 46. by wicked doctrine ibid. Adoracion proued by the same doctours that the Proclamer alleaged against yt li. 2. cap. 45. Adoracion aught to be doen before we receaue ibid. Adoracion vsed in and before the time of S. Austen ibid. Adoracion in the primitiue Church infamed by infidells for idolatrie ibid. Adoracion ys to be alowed wher the presence ys admitted li. 2. cap. 46. Adoracion neuer by catholique writer denied cap. 47. Adoracion first denied about xl yeares past cap. 48. Adoracion not to haue ben vsed before the time of Honorius ys vntrue ibid. Aerius denieng the sacrifice of the Masse to auaill the dead condemned for an heretique aboue a thousand years agon lib. 3. ca. 39. Ale geuen in stead of wine in a Communion lib. 1. cap. 26. Alexanders authoritie approued li. 2. ca. 32. Alfonsus nombreth xiij heresies against the B. Sacrament in Prolog Algasia moued doubtes of scripture to S. Hierom. lib. 1. cap. 4. Aliud in the neuter gendre signifieth difference insubstance ca. 29. Almaricus a Sacramētarie condēned in Pro. S. Ambrose vnderstandeth S. Paule to speake of the verie bodie of Chryste li. 3. ca. 57 Ambrose corrupted by Oecolāpadius ib. ca. 5 Ambrose his doctrine compared with the Sacramentaries lib. 2. ca. 52. Ambrose commended the faith of his Brother Satyrus in the B. Sacramēt li. 1. ca. 24. Ambr. geueth three instruct li. 3. ca. 14. Ambr. offred sacrifice in the Masse cap. 37. he praied as the Church doth ibid. S. Andrewe offred the dailie sacrifice ca. 34. Angells attend vpon the preist in the time of sacrifice li. 2. ca. 45. Angells appoincted to euerie man and offre our praiers to God li. 3. ca. 38. Antichryste shall cause the dailie sacrifice to ceasse lib. 1. cap. 32. Appologie and proclamaciō both like bolts lib. 3. cap. 33. Apostles vnderstood not Chrystes owne woordes li. 1. ca. 1. Apostles learned of Chryste cap. 7. Apostles decreed that the dead should be praied for at Masse lib. 3. cap. 39. Argument of Chrysts ascension in the vi of S. Iohn proueth the reall presence in the Sacrament li. 2. ca. 35. Argument of Theophil to proue the bread made flesh lib. 3. cap. 20. Arrogancie mother of errour lib. 1. cap. 4. Ascension of Chryste improueth not the presence in the Sacrament