but by Christes warrant and authoritie and by such as he hath placed to rule his Church of whom he saith He that heareth you heareth me he that despiseth you despiseth me They are made by the Holy Ghost ioyning with our Pastors in the regiment of the faithful they are made by our Mother the Church which whosoeuer obieth not we are warned to take him as an Heathen But on the other side al lawes doctrines seruice and iniunctions of Heretikes how soeuer pretended to be consonant to the Scriptures be commaundements of men because both the things by them prescribed are impious and the Authors haue neither sending nor commission from God 11. Not that which entereth The Catholikes doe not abstaine from certaine meates for that they esteeme any meate vncleane either by creation or by Iudaical obseruation but they abstaine for chastisment of their concupiscences Aug. li. de mor. Ec. Cath. c. 33. 18. Defile a man It is sinne only which properly defileth man and meates of them selfe or of their owne nature doe not defile but so farre as by accident they make a man to sinne as the disobedience of Gods commaundement or of our Superiours who forbid some meates for certaine times and causes is a sinne As the apple which our first parents did eate of though of it self it did not defile them yet being eaten against the precept it did defile So neither flesh nor fish of it self doth defile but the breach of the Churches precept defileth CHAP. XVI The obstinate Pharisees and Sadducees as though his foresaid miracles were not sufficient to proue him to be Christ require to see some one from heauen 5 Wherevpon forsaking them he warneth his disciples to beware of the leauen of their doctrine 〈◊〉 and Peter the time now approching for him to goe into lewrie to his Passion for confessing him to be Christ he maketh the Rocke of his Churche geuing fulnes of Ecclesiastical power accordingly 21 And after he so rebuketh him fordissuading his Crosse and Passion that he also affirmeth the like suffering in euery one to be necessarie to sâ—luation verse 1 AND there came to him the Pharisees and Sadducees tempting and they demaunded him to shevv them a signe from heauen ✠verse 2 But he ansvvered said to them when it is euening you say It vvil be faire-vvether for the elemeÌ„t is redde ✠verse 3 And in the morning This day there vvil be a teÌ„pest for the element doth glovve and lovvre The face therfore of the element you haue skil to discerne and the signes of times can you not ✠verse 4 The * naughtie and aduouterous generation seeketh for a signe and there shal not a signe be giuen it but the signe of Ionas the Prophet And he left them and vvent avvay ✠verse 5 And * vvhen his disciples vvere come ouer the vvater they forgot to take bread ✠verse 6 Who said to them Looke vvel and bevvare of the leauen of the Pharisees Sadduces ✠verse 7 But they thought vvithin them selues saying Because vve tooke not bread ✠verse 8 And IESVS knovving it said why do you thinke vvithin your selues O ye of litle faith for that you haue not bread ✠verse 9 Do you not yet vnderstand neither do you remember * the fiue loaues among fiue thousand men and how many baskets you tooke vp ✠verse 10 neither the * seuen loaues among foure thousand men and hovv many maundes you tooke vp ✠verse 11 Why do you not vnderstand that I said not of bread to you Bevvare of the leauen of the Pharisees Sadducees ✠verse 12 Then they vnderstoode that he said not they should bevvare of the leauen of bread but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees ✠verse 13 And * IESVS came into the quarters of Caesarea Philippi and he asked his disciples saying ″ whom say men that the Sonne of man is ✠verse 14 But ″ they said Some Iohn the Baptist othersome Elias and others Hieremie or one of the Prophets ✠verse 15 IESVS saith to them But vvhom do you say that I am ✠verse 16 Simon Peter ansvvered said Thou art Christ the sonne of the liuing God ✠verse 17 And IESVS ansvvering said to him ″ Blessed art thou Simon bar-Iona because flesh bloud hath not reuealed it to thee but my father vvhich is in heauen ✠verse 18 And ″ I say to thee That ″ thou art * Peter and ″ vpon this ″ Rocke vvil I ″ build my Church and the ″ gates of hel shal not preuaile against it ✠verse 19 And I * vvil giue ″ to thee the ″ keies of the kingdom of heauen And ″ vvhatsoeuer thou shalt binde vpon earth it shal be bound also in the heauens and vvhatsoeuer thou shalt loose in earth it shall be loosed also in the heauens ⊢ ✠verse 20 Then he commaunded his disciples that they should tel no body that he vvas IESVS CHRIST ✠verse 21 From that time IESVS began to shevv his disciples that he must goe to Hierusalem suffer many things of the Ancients Scribes cheefe-Priestes and be killed and the third day rise againe ✠verse 22 And Peter taking him vnto him began to rebuke him saying Lord be it farre from thee this shal not be vnto thee ✠verse 23 Who turning said to Peter Goe after me Satan thou art a scandal vnto me because thou sauourest not the things that are of God but the things that are of men ✠verse 24 Then IESVS said to his disciples If any man wil come after me let him denie him self and take vp his crosse and follow me ✠verse 25 For he that will saue his life shal lose it and he that shal lose his life for me shal finde it ✠verse 26 For what doth it profite a man if he gaine the vvhole vvorld and sustaine the damage of his soule Or vvhat permutation shal a man giue for his soule ✠verse 27 For the Sonne of man shal come in the glorie of his father vvith his Angels and then vvil he render to euery man according to his ″ vvorkes ⊢ ✠verse 28 Amen I say to you * there be some of them that stand here that shal not taste death til they see the Sonne of man comming in his kingdom ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XVI 13. Whom say men Christ intending here to take order for the founding regiment and stabilitie of his Church after his deceaâ—e and to name the person to whom he meant to geue the general charge thereof would before by interrogatories draw out and namely out of that one whom he thought to make the cheefe the professioÌ„ of that high and principal Article That he was the sonne of the liuing God Which being the ground of the Churches faith was a necessarie qualitie and condition in him that was to be made Head
of the same Church and the perpetual keeper of the said faith and al other points thereon depending 14. But they said When Christ asked the peoples opinion of him the Apostles al indifferently made answer but when he demaunded what them selues thought of him then loe Peter the mouth and head of the whole felowship answered for al. Chrys ho. 55. in Mat. 17. Blessed art thou Though some other as Nathanael Io. 1 49 seeme to haue before beleued and professed the same thing for which Peter is here counted blessed yet it may be plainely gathered by this place and so S. Hilarie and others thinke that none before this did further vtter of him then that he was the sonne of God by adoption as other Saincts be though more excellent then other be For it was of congruitie and Christes special appointment that he vpon whom he intended to found his new Church and whose faith he would make infallible should haue the preeminence of this first profession of Christes natural diuinitie or that he was by nature the very sonne of God a thing so farre aboue the capacitie of nature reason flesh and bloud and so repugnant to Peters sense and sight of Christes humanitie flesh and infirmities that for the beleefe and publike profession there of he is counted blessed as Abraham was for his saith and hath great promises for him self and his posteritie as the said Patriarche had for him and his seede According as S. Basil saith Because he excelled in faith he receiued the building of the Church committed to him 1â— And I say to thee Our Lord recompenseth Peter for his confession geuing him a great reward in that vpon him he builded his Church Theophilactus vpon this place 1â— Thou art Peter Christ in the first of Iohn v. 42 foretold and appointed that this man then named Simon should afterward be called Cephas or Petrus that is to say a Rocke not then vttering the cause but now expressing the same videlicet as S. Cyril writeth For that vpon him is vpon a firme rocke his Church should be builded Wherevnto S. Hilarie agreing saith O happie foundation of the Church in the imposing of thy new name c. And yet Christ here doth not so much call him by the name Peter or Rocke as he doth affirme him to be a rocke signifying by that Metaphore both that he was designed for the foundation and ground worke of his house which is the Church and also that he should be of inuincible force firmitie durablenes and stabilitie to sustaine al the windes waâ—es and stormes that might fall or beate against the same And the Aduersaries obiecting against this that Christ only is the Rocke or foundation wrangle against the very expresse Scriptures and Christes owne wordes geuing both the name and the thing to this Apostle And the simple may learne by S. Basils wordes how the case standeth Though saith he Peter be a rocke yet he is not a rocke as Christ is For Christ is the true vnmoueable rocke of him self Peter is vnmoueable by Christ the rocke For Iesus doth communicate and impart his dignities not voyding him self of them but holding them to him self bestoweth them also vpon others He is the light and yet 2 You are the light he is the Priest and yet he 3 maketh Priests he is the rocke and he made a rocke 18. And vpon this rocke Vpon that which he said Peter was wil he build his Church and therfore by most euident sequele he foundeth his Church vpon Peter And the Aduersaries wrangling against this do against their owne conscience and knowledge specially seing they know and confesse that in Christes wordes speaking in the Syriake tonge there was no difference at al betwene Petrus and Petra yea and that the Greeke wordes also though differing in termination yet signifie one thing to wit a rocke or stone as them selues also translate it Io. 1 42. So that they which professe to follow the Hebrew or Syriake and the Greeke and to translate immediatly out of them into Latin or English should if they had dealt sincerely haue thus turned Christes wordes Thou art a rocke and vpon this rocke or Thou art Peter and vpon this peter wil I build my Church For so Christ spake by their owne confession without any difference Which doth expresly stoppe them of al their vaine euasions that Petrus the former word is referred to the Apostle and petra the later word either to Christ only or to Peters faith only neither the said original tonges bearing it nor the sequele of the wordes vpon this suffering any relation in the world but to that which was spoken of in the same sentence next before neither the wordes folowing which are directly addressed to Peters person nor Christes intention by any meanes admitting it which was not to make him self or to promisse him self to be the head or foundation of the Church For his father gaue him that dignitie and he tooke not that honour to him self nor sent him self nor tooke the keies of heauen of him self but al of his father he had his coÌ„mission the very houre of his incarnation And though S. Augustine sometimes referre the word Petra to Christ in this sentence which no doubt he did because the terminations in Latin are diuers and because he examined not the nature of the original wordes which Christ spake nor of the Greeke and therefore the Aduersaries which otherwise flee to the tongs should not in this case alleage him yet he neuer denieth but Peter also is the Rocke and head of the Church saying that him self expounded it of Peter * in many places and alleageth also S. Ambrose for the same in his hymne which the Church singeth And so do we alleage the holy Councel of Chalcedon Act. 3 pag. 118. Tertullian de praescript Origen Ho. 5 in Exo. S. Cyprian De vnit Ec. S. Hilarie Can. 16 in mat S. Ambrose Ser. 47. 68. li. 6 in c. 9. Luca. S. Hierom Li. 1 in Iouin in c. 2 Esa in c. 16 Hier. S. Epiphanius In Anchor S. Chrysostom Ho. 55 in Mat. S. Cyril Li. 2 c. 12. com in Io. S. Leo Ep. â—9 S. Gregorie Li. 4 ep 32 ind 13. and others euery one of them saying expresly that the Church was founded and builded vpon Peter For though sometimes they say the Church to be builded on Peters faith yet they meane not as our Aduersaries do vnlearnedly take them that it should be builded vpon faith either separated from the man or in any other man but vpon faith as in him who here confessed that faith 1â— Rocke The Aduersaries hearing also the Fathers sometimes say that Peter had these promises and prerogatiues as bearing the person of al the Apostles or of the whole Church deny absurdly that him self in person had these prerogatiues As though Peter had been the proctor only of the Church or
of the Apostles confessing the faith and receiuing these things in other mens names Where the holy Doctors meane only that these prerogatiues were not geuen to him for his owne vse but for the good of the whole Church and to be imparted to euery vocation according to the measure of their callings and that these great priuileges geuen to Peter should not decay or die with his person but be perpetual in the Church in his successors Therfore S. Hierom to Damasus taketh this Rocke not to be Peters person only but his successors and his Chaire I saith he folowing no cheefe or principal but Christ ioyne my self to the communion of Peters chaire vpon that rocke I know the Church was built And of that same Apostolike Chaire S. August saith That same is the Rocke which the proud gates of Hel do not ouercome And S. Leo Our Lord would the Sacrament or mysterie of this gift so to pertaine vnto the office of al the Apostles that he placed it principally in blessed S. Peter the cheefe of al the Apostles that from him as from a certaine head he might poure out his giftes as it were through the whole body that he might vnderstand him self to be an aliene from the diuine mysterie that should presume to reuolt from the soliditie or stedfastnes of Peter 1â— Build my Church The Church or house of Christ was only promised here to be builded vpon him which was fulfilled Io. 21 1â— the foundation stone and other pillers or matter being yet in preparing and Christ him self being not only the supereminent foundation but also the founder of the same which is an other more excellent qualitie then was in Peter for which he calleth it my Church meaning specially the Church of the new Testament Which was not perfectly formed and finished and distincted from the Synagogue til whitsunday though Christ gaue Peter and the rest their commissions actually before his Ascension 18. Gates of hel Because the Church is resembled to a house or a citie the aduersarie powers also be likened to a contrarie house or towne the gates wherof that is to say the fortitude or impugnations shal neuer preuaile against the citie of Christ And so by this promis we are assured that no heresies nor other wicked attempts can preuaile against the Church builded vpon Peter which the Fathers call Peters see and the Romane Church Count saith S. Augustine the Priests from the very See of Peter and in that order of fathers consider vvho to vvhom hath succeeded that same is the rocke vvhich the proud gates of Hel do not ouercome And in an other place that is it which hath obtained the toppe of authoritie Heretikes in vaine barking round about it 19. To thee In saying to thee vvil I geue it is plaine that as he gaue the keies to him so he builded the Church vpon him So saith S. Cyprian To Peter first of al vpon vvhom our Lord built the Church and from vvhom he instituted and shevved the beginning of vnitie did he geue this povver that that should be loosed in the heauens vvhich he had loosed in earth Wherby appeareth the vaine cauil of our Aduersaries which say the Church was built vpon Peters Confession only coÌ„mon to him and the rest and not vpon his person more then vpon the rest 19. The keies That is The authoritie or Chaire of doctrine knowledge iudgement and discretion betwene true and false doctrine the height of gouernement the power of making lawes of calling Councels of the principal voice in them of confirming them of making Canons and holesom decrees of abrogating the contrarie of ordaining Bishopes and Pastors or deposing and suspending them finally the povver to dispense the goods of the Church both spiritual and temporal Which signification of preeminent power and authoritie by the vvord keies the Scripture expresseth in many places namely speaking of Christ I haue the keies of death and Hel that is the rule And againe I vvil geue the key of the house of Dauid vpon his shoulder Moreouer it signifieth that men can not come into heauen but by him the keies signifing also authoritie to open and shut as it is said Apoc. 3. of Christ who hath the key of Dauid he shutteth and no man openeth By which wordes we gather that Peters authoritie is maruelous to whom the keies that is the power to open and shut heauen is geuen And therfore by the name of keies is geuen that supereminent power which is called in comparison of the power graunted to other Apostles Bishops aud Pastors plenitude potestatis fulnes of power Bernard lib. 2. de considerat c. 8. 19. Whatsoeuer thou shal bind Al kind of discipline and punishment of offenders either spiritual which directly is here meant or corporal so farre as it tendeth to the execution of the spiritual charge is comprised vnder the word bind Of which sort be Excommunications Anathematismes Suspensions degradations and other censures and penalties or penances enioyned either in the Sacrament of Confession or in the exterior Courtes of the Church for punishment both of other crimes and specially of heresie and rebellion against the Church and the cheeâ—e pastors therof 19. Loose To loose is as the cause and the offenders case requireth to loose them of any the former bandes and to restore them to the Churches Sacraments and Communion of the faithful and execution of their function to pardon also either al or part of the penances enioyned or what debtes so euer man oweth to God or the Church for the satisfaction of his sinnes forgeuen Which kind of releasing or loosing is called Indulgence finally this whatsoeuer excepteth nothing that is punishable or pardonable by Christ in earth for he hath committed his power to Peter And so the validitie of Peters sentence in binding or loosing whatsoeuer shal by Christes promis be ratified in heauen Leo Ser. de Transfig Ser. 2. in anniuers-assumpt ad Pontif. Hilar. can 16. in Matth. Epiph. in Ancherato prepe initium If now any temporal power can shew their warrant out of scripture for such soueraine power as is here geuen to Peter and consequently to his successors by these wordes whatsoeuer thou shal binde and by the very keies wherby greatest soueraintie is signified in Gods Church as in his familie and houshold and therfore principally attributed and geuen to Christ * who in the scripture is said to haue the key of Dauid but here coÌ„municated also vnto Peter as the name of Rocke if I say any temporal potestate can shew authoritie for the like soueraintie let them chalenge hardly to be head not only of one particular but of the whole vniuersal Church 27. Workes He saith not to geue euery man according to his mercie or their faith but according to their workes August de verb. Apost Ser. 35. And againe How should our Sauiour reward euery one according to their workes if
made truely man and conuersing with men â—2 The Spirit Here is an euident testimonie of the third Person in Trinitie which is the Holy Ghost so that in this one Chapter we finde expresly against al Heretikes Iewes Pagans set furth the truth of the Churches doctrine concerning the whole Trinitie 42. Looking vpon him This beholding of Simon insmuateth Christs designement and preferring of him to be the cheefe Apostle the Rocke of the Church and his Vicar and therfore vpon that Diuine prouidence and intention he accordingly changeth his name calling him for Simon Cephas which is a Syriake word as much to say as Rocke or Stone And S. Paul commonly calleth him by this name Cephas whereas other both Greekes and Latines call him altogether by the Greeke word Peter which signifieth the self same thing vvhereof S. Cyril saith that our Sauiour by foretelling that his name should no more novv be Simon but Peter did by the vvord it self aptly signifie that on him as on a rocke and stone most firme he vvould build his Church CHAP. II. At the request of his mother he vvorketh his first miracle turning vvater into vvine at a mariage in Galilee although the time of his manifestation be not yet come 1â— Then in Hierusalem at Pasche being but one and yet obseure he throweth out of the Temple most miraculously al the marchantâ—s 28 And being yet of the blind Ievves asked a signe he signifieth so long before that they should kill him but he vvil rise againe the third day 2â— Vvhich also presently they vvould doe but that he knovving their falses hartes though many beleeue in him vvil not tâ—riâ— among them verse 1 AND the third day there vvas a mariage made in Cana of Galilee and the mother of IESVS vvas there ✠verse 2 And ″ IESVS also vvas called and his Disciples to the mariage ✠verse 3 And the vvine failing the mother of IESVS saith to him ″ They haue no vvine ✠verse 4 And IESVS saith to her Vvhat is to me and thee vvoman my houre commeth not yet ✠verse 5 His mother saith to the ministers ″ Vvhatsoeuer he shal say to you doe ye ✠verse 6 And there were set there sixe vvater-potters of stone according to the purificatioÌ„ of the Ievves holding euery one tvvo or three measures ✠verse 7 IESVS saith to them Fil the vvater-pottes vvith vvater And they filled them vp to the toppe ✠verse 8 And IESVS saith to them Dravv novv and carie to the cheefe stevvard And they caried it ✠verse 9 And after the cheefe stevvard tasted the vvater made vvine and knevv not vvhence it vvas but the ministers knew that had dravvne the vvater the cheefe stevvard calleth the bridegrome ✠verse 10 and saith to him Euery man first setteth the good vvine and vvhen they haue vvel drunke then that vvhich is vvorse But thou hast kept the good vvine vntil novv ✠verse 11 This beginning of miracles did IESVS in Cana of Galilee and he manifested his glorie and his Disciples beleeued in him ⊢ ✠verse 12 After this he vvent dovvne to Capharnaum him self and his mother and his brethren and his disciples and there they remained not many daies ✠verse 13 And the Pasche of the Ievves vvas at hand and IESVS vvent vp to Hierusalem ✠verse 14 and he found in the temple them that sold oxen and sheepe and doues and the bankers sitting ✠verse 15 And vvhen he had made as it vvere a vvhippe of litle coardes he ″ cast them al out of the temple the sheepe also and the oxen and the money of the bankers he powred out and the tables he ouerthrevv ✠verse 16 And to them that sold doues he said Take avvay these things hence and make not the house of my father a house of marchandise ✠verse 17 And his Disciples remembred that it is vvritten The zeale of thy house hath eaten me ✠verse 18 The Ievves therfore ansvvered and said to him Vvhat signe doest thou shevv vs that thou doest these things ✠verse 19 IESVS ansvvered and said to them * Dissolue this temple and in three daies I vvil raise it ✠verse 20 The Ievves therfore said In fourtie and sixe yeres vvas this temple built and vvilt thou raise it in three daies ✠verse 21 But he spake of the temple of his body ✠verse 22 Therfore vvhen he vvas risen againe from the dead his Disciples remembred that he said this and they beleeued the scripture and the vvord that IESVS did say ✠verse 23 And vvhen he vvas at Hierusalem in the Pasche vpon the festiual day many beleeued in his name seeing his signes vvhich he did ✠verse 24 But ″ IESVS did not commit him self vnto them for that he knevv al ✠verse 25 and because it vvas not needeful for him that any should giue testimonie of man for he knevv vvhat vvas in man ⊢ ANNOTATIONS CHAP. II. 2. IESVS also vvas called By his vouchsauing to come with his to the Mariage he approueth the custome of the Faithful in meeting at honest fostes and recreations for maintenance of loue peace and amitie among them selues he reproueth the heresie of Tatian Marcion and such like condemning wedlocke lastly as S. Cyril saith he sanctifieth and blesseth the Mariage of the Faithful in the new Testament making it a new creature in him and discharging it of the manifold maledictions and disorders wherein it was before By which benediction the often diuorces remariages and pluralities of wiues and the womens seruile subiection and imparitie in that case be redressed and reduced to the primitiue institution and so Christian mariage made a Sacrament See S. Aug. de nupt concup li. 1 6. 10 21. li. 1 de adult coniug c. 8. 3. They haue no vvine Our Lady many vvaies vnderstood that now the time approched of manifesting him self to the world by miracles and preaching and nothing doubted but that he would now being at her request Whereby we learne that Christ ordinarily giueth not his graces but humbly asked and requested there vnto and that his mothers intercession is more then vulgarly effectual and that he denieth her nothing 4. What is to me and thee Because this speach is subiect to diuers senses we keepe the wordes of our text left by turning it into any English phrase we might straiten the holy Ghosts intention to some certaine sense either not intended or not onely intended and so take avvay the choise and indifferencie from the reader vvhereof in holy Scripture specially al Translatours must bevvare Christ then may meane here what is that woman to me thee being but straÌ„gers that they want wine as some interpret it or which is the more proper vse of that kinde of speach in holy write what haue I to doe with thee that is why should I haue respect to thy desire in this case In matters touching my charge
increased by persecution 316 marg Peter Cephas Rocke al one 218 marg 44. 47. 216. Christ by giuing him this name designed him before hand to be the rocke foūdation of his Church ibidem 47. nu 18. p. 79. nu 75. He promiseth to build his Church vpon him that is his person 46. 47. at large He praieth that his faith shal not faile 206. The Church vvas builded vpon him he receiueth the Primacie 279. 516. nu 20. pag. 654. Vpon him not vpon his faith only or confession 45. 46. 47. Peters manifold dignitie preeminence 27. 40. 50. 52. nu 1. p. 94. 128. 131 m. 150. 154. 161 m. 206. nu 31. 224 m. 497. 500. nu 7. p. 278 m. 326. 442. m. S. Paul submitteth his doctrine to his approbation 499. The keies giuen to him what authoritie is signified by them 47. His authoritie to bind and loose 47. He doth practise his primacie 292. 293. 303. marg 337. 499. 501. nu 9. pag. 654. His successors the Bishops of Rome haue the same primacie authoritie 45. nu 17. p. 46. 47. 206. 280. 337. 499. 501. By the Rocke is signified not only Peters person but his Chaire and See the Church of Rome 46. 47. He breaketh the Churches vnitie that forsaketh this See or Chaire 501. 520. Christ is the Rocke foundation and head of the Church on vvay Peter an other way 46. 514. 515. 516. Peters ship signifieth the Church 150. He gouerneth and protecteth the Church continually 304. 668. The Protestants and Puritans disagree about his preeminence or primacie 280 marg They denied it before and now confesse it 280 marg They derogate from Peter as much as is possible 501. Beza thinketh the Greeke text of the scripture falsified in fauour of Peters primacie 27. Their folish argumēts against Peters primacie 312. 421 m. 501. Their impudent assertion that he was neuer at Rome 422. 500. 665. For this purpose only they deny that Babylō signifieth Rome 665. Their wrangling about the time of his being there 665. Their folish and greatest reason against his being there 421 marg 422. He and S. Paul planted the Church at Rome 288. 500. 383 marg 421 mar 370. He wrote from Rome 665. He vvas crucified there 280. A table of S. Peters Actes 374. Pilgrimage pag. 6. 311 marg to the holy land in the primitiue Church 49. to the holy Sepulchre 85. to the memories of Saincts 231. The deuotion of Pilgrimes and the maner of their deuotion in holy places 158. nu 44. pag. 85. See Relikes Pope The succession of Popes is an argument vsed by the Fathers against Heretikes 520. Popes 33 Martyrs pag. 654. and pag. 556. Their roome and dignitie called an Apostleship 520. Their supremacie 280. 515. 572. The practise thereof by S. Leo the great and S. Gregorie the great 280. Hovv they refused the name of vniuersal Bishop 280. The Councel of Chalcedon called the Pope vniuersal Bishop 280. They write them selues Seruos seruorum Dei 280. He is the ministerial head of the Church vnder Christ 515. S. Peters successor 280. 520. Not to communicat vvith him is to be against Christ or vvith Antichrist 33. nu 30. See Antichrist The Pope can not be Antichrist 71. nu 22. 29. pag. 231 marg 554 marg See Antichrist He may erre personally not iudicially 206. 253. 266. nu 13. pag 388 m. p. 502. nu 11. Vve may not respect the Popes person but the priuileges of his office 66. 67. 206. The priuileges and dignities of his office See Roman Church and Peter Praier See Canonical houres Long praier not forbidden pag 16. nu 7. To pray alwaies 190 marg The Churches collectes breife 16. nu 7. Seruice praier in the Latine tōgue much better then in the vulgar 461. at large S. Augustine our Apostle brought vs the seruice in the Latine tongue 461. It vvas alwaies in Latine through out the vvest Church 463. Our people at their first conuersion sang Alleluia not praise ye the Lord. 463. Sursum corda Kyrie eleison ibidem See Masse The peoples priuat praiers in Latine 462. It is not necessarie that they vnderstand either publike or priuate praiers 461. 463. They vnderstand them not being in the English tong neither are they any thing the more edified 461. 463. Their intētion deuotiō is as great acceptable in the one as in the other 462. 463. 43. hu 8. pag. 61. They are edified and take profite of the Priests fūctions though they neither heare nor see what he doth 134. and 135 m. They are taught the meaning of ceremonies and seruice and doe knovv them perfectly in al Cath. countries 461. 462. Latine praiers are and may be translated 462. S. Paules place falsely alleaged against the latin seruice or praier explicated at large and that he speaketh of no such thing much lesse against it 460. 461. 462. 493. An other obiection answered and vvhat it is to pray vvith the lippes only 43. num 8. Faith in praier 643. Vvhat is to pray vvithout intermission 382 marg 551 marg Our Lords praier or the Pater noster 15. 170. It is the first and last in al the Churches praiers and said most often The Aue Maria. See L. our B. Ladie Praier for the dead 361. 480. 687. The Saducees seeme to haue denied it 361. Aërius an old condemned Heretike denied it Other mens praiers intercessions for vs. 150. 420 marg Praying one for an other is of great force 420 marg 543. To pray for our persecutors 209. nu 34. Publike praiers more auailable then priuat pag. 471. The Priests praiers more auailable pag. 610. At the time of praier specially God sendeth comfortable visitations 319 marg Preachers that preach vvel must liue accordingly 104 marg 112 marg 386. marg Catholike preachers in time of persecution vvhat is their comfort 547. Predestination and reprobation declared at large pag. 406. 407. They consist vvith free vvil 370. 403. 406. 407. The mysterie of predestination and reprobatiō is humbly to be reuerēced not curiously searched 402. 403. 407. nu 20. 21. 412. No man must by occasion thereof be reachlesse and desperate in neglecting his saluation 403. 406. 359 marg Good vvorkes must concurre vvith Gods predestination 668. Vvhat and how far we may and should learne herein 403. 412. Heretical and presumptuous bookes of Predestination 407. 412. Priest The name in al languages almost the same 333. heretically changed into Elder ibidem The vvord Senior Auncient in the vulgar Latine translation is alvvaies in the Greeke Presbyter Priest 334 marg 664. 351 marg His office and vocation 609. 610. His dignitie 609. They are called Angels 701. They are coadiutors vvith and vnder Christ and worke in his name 92. 190. 444. 474. 480. 482. 429 marg Their authoritie to remit sinnes 21 24. 53. nu 18. p. 92. 151. 162 m 190. 276. 480. 252 marg The Protestants carpe at this authoritie as the Iewes did at Christ for
all ✠verse 27 And the lord of that seruant moued vvith pitie dimissed him and the dette he forgaue him ✠verse 28 And vvhen that seruant vvas gone forth he found one of his felovv-seruants that did ovve him an hundred pence and laying hands vpon him thratled him saying Repay that thou ovvest ✠verse 29 And his felovv seruant falling dovvne besought him saying Haue patience tovvard me and I vvil repay the all ✠verse 30 And he vvould not but vvent his vvay and cast him into prison til he repayed the dette ✠verse 31 And his felovv-seruants seeing vvhat vvas done vvere very sorie and they came and told their lord al that vvas done ✠verse 32 Then his lord called him and he said vnto him Thou vngratious seruant I forgaue thee al the dette because thou besoughtest me oughtest nor thou therfore also to haue mercie vpon thy felovv-seruant euen as I had mercie vpon thee ✠verse 33 And his lord being angrie deliuered him to the tormenters vntil he repayed al the dette ✠verse 34 So also shal my heauenly father doe to you if you forgiue not euery one his brother from your hartes ⊢ ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XVIII 1. Who is the greater The occasion of this question and of thier contention for Superioritie among the rest of their infirmities which they had before the comming of the Holy Ghost was as certaine holy Doctors write vpon emulation toward Peter whom only they saw preferred before the rest in the payment of the tribute by these wordes of our Sauiour Geue it them for me and thee Chrys ho. 59. Hiero. in Mat. Vpon this place 7. Scandals The simple be most annoyed by taking scandal of their preachers Priests and elders il life and great damnation is to the guides of the people whether they be temporal or spiritual but specially to the spiritual if by their il example and slaunderous life the people be scaÌ„dalized 8. Hand foote eye By these partes of the body so necessarie and profitable for a man is signified that whatsoeuer is neerest and deerest to vs wife children freeudes riches al are to be conteâ—â—ned and forsaken for to saue our soule 10. Their Angels A great dignitie and a maruelous benefite that euery one hath from his Natiuitie an Angel for his custodie and Patronage against the wicked before the face of God Hiero. vpon this place And the thing is so plaine that Caluin dare not deny it and yet he wil needes doubt of it lib. 1. Inst c. 14. sect 1. 17. Not heare the Church Not only Heretikes but any other obstinate offender that wil not be iudged nor ruled by the Church may be excommunicated and so made as an Heathen or Publican was to the Iewes by the discipline of the same casting him our of the felowship of Catholikes Which Excommunication is a greater punishement then if he were executed by sword fire and wild beastes Aug. cont Adu leg liâ— c. 17. And againe he saith Man is more sharply and pitefully bound by the Churches Keies then with any yron or adamantine manicles or fetters in the world August ibidem 17. Heathen Heretikes therfore because they wil not heare the Church be no better nor no otherwise to be esteemed of Catholikes then heathen men and Publicans were esteemed of Catholikes then heathen men and Publicans were esteemed among the Iewes 18. You shal binde As before he gaue this power of binding and loosing ouer the whole first of al and principally to Peter vpon whom he builded his Church so here not only to Peter and in him to his successors but also to the other Apostles and in them to their successors euery one in their charge Hieron lib. 1. c. 14. aduers Iouin and Epist ad Heliod Cyprian de Vnit. Eccl. nu 3. 18. Shal loose Our Lord geueth no lesse right and authoritie to the Churche to loose then to binde as S. Ambrose writeth against the Nouatians who confessed that the Priests had power to binde but not to loose 20. In the middes of them Not al assemblies may chalenge the presence of Christ but only such as be gathered together in the vnity of the Church and therfore no conuenticles of Heretikes directly gathering against the Churche are warranted by this place Cypr. de vnit Eccles nu 7. 8. 22. Seuentie times seuen There must be no end of forgeuing them that be penitent either in the Sacrament by absolution or one man an other their offenses CHAP. XIX He ansvvereth the tempting Pharisees that the case of a man vvith his vvife shal be as in the first institution it vvas vtterly indissoluble though for one cause he may be diuorced 10 And therevpon to his Disciples he highly commendeth Single life for heaven 13 He vvil haue children came vnto him 16 He shevveth vvhat is to be done to enter into life euerlasting 20 What also for a rich man to be perfect 27 As also vvhat passing revvard they shal haue vvhich follovv that his counsel of perfection 29 yea though it be but in some one peece verse 1 AND it came to passe vvhen IESVS had ended these vvordes he departed from Galilee came into the coastes of Ievvrie beyond IordaÌ„ ✠verse 2 and great multitudes folovved him and he cured them there ✠verse 3 And there came to him the Pharisees tempting him and saying Is it lavvful for a man to dimisse his vvife for euery cause ✠verse 4 Who ansvvering said to them Haue ye not read that he which did make ' from the beginning made them male and femal And he said ✠verse 5 For this cause man shal leaue father and mother and shal cleane to his vvife and they tvvo shal be in one flesh ✠verse 6 Therfore novv they are not tvvo but one flesh That therfore vvhich God hath ioyned together let ″ not man separate ⊢ ✠verse 7 They say to him why then * did Moyses commaund to giue a bil of diuorce and to dimisse her ✠verse 8 He saith to them Because Moyses for the hardnes of your hart permitted you to dimisse your vviues but from the beginning it vvas not so ✠verse 9 And I say to you that * Whosoeuer shal dimisse his vvife ″ but for fornication and shal mary an other doth committe aduoutrie and he that shal mary her that is dimissed committeth aduoutrie ✠verse 10 His disciples say vnto him If the case of a man vvith his vvife be so it is not expedient to mary ✠verse 11 Who said to them ″ Not al take this vvord but they to vvhom it is giuen ✠verse 12 For there are eunuches which vvere borne so froÌ„ their mothers vvombe and there are eunuches vvhich were made by men and there are eunuches vvhich haue ″ gelded them selues for the kingdom of heauen ″ He that can take let him take ⊢ ✠verse 13 Then *
✠verse 19 And this he said signifying by vvhat death he should glorifie God ⊢ And vvhen he had said this he saith to him Folovv me ✠verse 20 Peter turning savv that disciple vvhom IESVS loued folovving * vvho also leaned at the supper vpon his breast and said Lord vvho is he that shal betray thee ✠verse 21 Him therfore vvhen Peter had seen he saith to IESVS Lord and this man vvhat ✠verse 22 IESVS saith to him So I vvil haue him to remaine til I come vvhat to thee folovv thou me ✠verse 23 This saying therfore vvent abrode among the brethren that that disciple dieth not And IESVS did not say to him he dieth not but So I vvil haue him to remaine til I come vvhat to thee ✠verse 24 This is that disciple vvhich giueth testimonie of these things and hath vvritten these things and vve knovv that his testimonie is true ⊢ ✠verse 25 But there are * many other things also vvhich IESVS did vvhich if they vvere vvritten in particular neither the vvorld it self I thinke vvere able to conteine those bookes that should be vvritten ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XXI 17. Feede my sheepe As it was promised him Mat. 16 that the Church should be builded vpoÌ„ him and that the keies of heauen should be giuen to him so here it is performed he is actually made the general Pastor and Gouerner of al Christs sheepe For though the other ten as Matthias and Paul also afterward were Apostles Bishops Priests aud had authoritie to binde and loose to remitte and reteâ—ne to preach baptize and such like as wel as he Yet in these things and al other gouernement Christ would haue him to be their head and they to depend of him as head of their College and consequently of the whole flocke of Christ no Apostle nor no Prince in earth if he acknowledge him self to be a sheepe of Christ exempted from his charge And that Christ maketh a difference betwixt Peter and the rest and giueth him some greater preeminence and regiment then the rest it is plaine by that he is asked whether he loue our Lord more then the other Apostles do where for equal charge no difference of loue had bene required To Peter saith S. Cyprian our Lord after his Resurrection said Feede my sheepe and buildâ—d his Church vpon him alone and to him he giueth the charge of feeding his sheepe For although after his Resurrection he gaue his povver alike to al saying As my Father sent me so I send you take the Holy Ghost if you remitte to any their sinnes they shal be remitted c. Yet to manifest vnitie he coÌ„stituted one Chaire so disposed by his authoritie that vnitie should haue origine of one The rest of the Apostles vvere that Peter vvas in equal fellovvship of honour and povver but the beginning coÌ„meth of vnitie the Primacie is giuen to Peter that the Church of Christ may be shewed to be one one Chaire S. Chrysostome also saith thus Why did our Lord shede his bloud truely to redeeme those sheepe the cure of vvhich he committed both to Peter and also to his Successors And a litle after Christ vvould haue Peter indued vvith such authoritie and to be far aboue al his other Apostles for he saith Peter dost thou loue me more then al these do Wherevpon our Maister might haue inferred If thou loue me Peter vse much fasting sleepe on the hard floure vvatch much be patrone to the oppressed father to the orphans and husband to the vvidovves but omitting al these things he saith Feed my sheepe For al the foresaid vertues certes may be done easily of many subiects not onely men but vvomen but vvhen it commeth to the gouernement of the Church and committing the charge of so many soules al vvoman kind must needes vvholy giue place to the burden and greatnes thereof and a great number of men also So writeth he And because Protestants would make the vnlearned thinke that S. Gregorie deemeÌ„d the Popes Supremacie to be wholy vnlawful and Antichristian for that he condemneth Iohn of Constantinople for vsurping the name of vniuersal Bishop resembling his insolence therein to the pride of Antichrist note wel the wordes of this holy father in the very same place and Epistle against the B. of Constantinople by which you shal easily see that to deny him to be vniuersal Bishop is not to deny Peter or the Pope to be head of the Church or supreme Gouerner of the same as our Aduersaries fraudulently pretend It is plaine to al men saith he that euer read the Gospel that by our Lordes mouth the charge of the vvhole Church vvas committed to S. Peter Prince of the Apostles for to him it vvas said Feed my sheepe for him vvas the prayer made that his faith should not faile to him vvere the keies of heauen giuen and authoritie to binde and loose to him the cure of the Church and principality vvas deliuered and yet he vvas not called the vniuersal Apostle This title in deed vvas offered for the honour of S. Peter Prince of the Apostles to the Pope of Rome by the holy Councel of Chalcedon but none of that See did euer vse it or consent to take it Thus much S. Gregorie who though he both practised iurisdictioÌ„ through out al Christendom as other of that See haue euer done and also acknowledged the Principality and Soueraintie to be in Peter and his Successors yet would he not for iust causes vse that title subiect to vanitie misconstructioÌ„ But both he al the Popes since haue rather called them selues Seruos seruorum Dei the Seruants of Gods seruants Though the word vniuersal Bishop in that sense wherein the holy Councel of Chalcedon offered it to the See of Rome was true and Lawful For that Councel would not haue giuen any Antichristian or vniust title to any man Onely in the B. of Constantinople and other which in no sense had any right to it and who vsurped it in a very false and tyrannical meaning it was insolent vniust and Antichristian See also the Epistles of S. Leo the Great concerning his practise of vniuersal iurisdiction though he refused the title of vniuersal Bishop And S. Bernard that you may better perceiue that the general charge of Christs sheepe was not onely giuen to Peters person but also to his successors the Popes of Rome as S. Chrysostom also before alleaged doth testifie writeth thus to Eugenius Thou art he to whom the keies of heauen are deliuered to whom the sheepe are coÌ„mitted there be other Porters of heaueÌ„ other Pastors of flockes but thou hast inherited in more glorious differeÌ„t sort For they haue euery one their particular flocke but to thee al vniuersally as one flocke to one maÌ„ are credited being not onely the Pastor of the sheepe but the one Pastor of al the
Pastors them selues but thou wilt aske me how I proue that euen by our Lordes word for to whom of al I say not onely Bishops but Apostles were the sheepe so absolutely and without limitation coÌ„mitted If thou loue me Peter feede my sheepe He saith not the people of this kingdom or that citie but my sheepe without al distinction So S. Bernard And herevnto may be added that the second feede is in greeke a word that signifieth withal to gouerne and rule as Ps â— Mich. 5. Mat. 2. Apoc. 2. and therfore it is spoken of Dauid also and other temporal Gouerners as the Hebrew word answering therevnto in the Scriptures very often and the Greeke in profane writers also 1â— An other shal gird thee He Prophecieth of Peters Martyrdom and of the kinde of death which he should suffer that was crucifying which * the Heretikes fearing that it were a steppe to proue he was martyred in Rome deny whereas the Fathers and ancient writers are as plaine in this as that he was at Rome Origen apud Euseb li. 3. c. 1. Euseb li. 2. c. 24. Hist Ec. Tertul. de praescript nu 14. Aug. tract 123 in Ioan. Chrysost Beda in hunc locum THE SVMME AND THE ORDER OF THE EVANGELICAL HISTORIE gathered breifly out of al foure euen vnto Christs Ascension * ⎠* Mt. Mr. Lu. Io.     1 THE preface mouing the Reader to receiue CHRIST being the aeternal VVORD of God the life and the light   1  The Angel telleth Zacharie of the conception of Iohn Baptist Christs Precursor and Elizabeth conceiueth him   1  The same Angel doing his message to the B. Virgin CHRIST is incarnate in her wombe   1  Our B. Ladie visiteth Elizabeth and Iohn Baptist is borne and circuncised 1    The Angel telleth Ioseph that his vvise is vvith childe by the Holy Ghost 1  3  The genealogie of Christ   2  The birth of Christ in Bethlehem and his circuncision 2    The Sages come from the East and adore Christ   2  Christ is presented in the Temle vvhere Simeon and Anna prophecie of him 2    Ioseph vvith the childe and his mother fleeth into Aegypt and returneth to Nazareth   2  Iesus being sought of his parents is found in the Temple among the Doctors 3 1 3  Iohn the Baptist preacheth and baptizeth preparing al to receiue Christ and among other Christ is baptized of him 4 1 4  Christ fasteth fourtie daies and is tempted in the vvildernesse    1 Iohn giueth testimonie of Christ to the legates of the Ievves to the people and to his ovvne disciples    2 Christ vvorketh his first miracle turning vvater into vvine at a mariage    1 In the feast of Pasche he casteth out the biers and sellers in the Temple insinuating to the Iewes his death and resurrectioÌ„    3 He teacheth Nicodemus by night and baptizeth in Iurie by the ministerie of his disciples vvherevpon a question is moued to Iohn about their tvvo baptismes 14 6 3  Iohn Baptist is put into prison for reprehending Herods incestuous aduoutrie 4   4 After Iohns emprisonment Christ returning into Galilee by Samaria talketh vvith the Samaritane vvoman    4 He healeth a lordes sonne of an ague 4 1 4  He preacheth in Galilee and vvaxeth very famous 4 1 5  He calleth foure disciples out of the boate and they folovv him  1 4  He healeth one possessed of a diuel in the Synagogue 8 1 4  He cureth Simon Peters mother in lavv many sicke persons 8  9  He refuseth three that offer to folovv him 8 4 8  He appeaseth the tempest on the sea 8 5 8  He healeth tvvo possessed of diuels in the countrie of the Gerasens and permitteth the diuels to enter into svvine 9 2 5  He healeth the sicke of the palsey being let dovvne through the tiles     He calleth Matthevv from the custome house and disputeth vvith Iohns disciples and the Pharisees of fasting 9 5 8  He raiseth the Archisynagogs daughter and cureth her that had a fluxe of bloud 9    He healeth tvvo blinde and one possessed    5 He healeth him on the Sabboth day that lay at the Probatica and had been diseased 38 yeres 12 3 6  He confuteth the Pharisees being offended that his disciples bruised the eares of corne on the Sabboth 12    He refelleth the Pharisees being offended because he cured the vvithered hand on the Sabboth 5.6.7 3 6  He chooseth the 12 Apostles and maketh that diuine sermon called Sermo Domini in monte the Sermon of our Lord in the mount conteining the paterne of a Christian mans life 8 1 5  He cureth a leper 8  7  He healeth the Centurions seruant   7  He raiseth the vvidovves sonne at Naim 11  7.9  Iohn sendeth out of prison his disciples vnto Christ   7  He forgiueth M. Magdalens sinnes preferring her much before the Phâ—risee that despised her 12 3 11  He healeth him that had a deafe and dumme deuil and refuteth the blaspheming Pharisees 12 3 11.8  He preferreth the obseruers of Gods vvord before carnal mother and brethren 13 4 8  The parable of the sovver 13 4   The parables of the cockle of the seede grovving vvhen men sleepe of the mustard seede and of the leauen 13    The parables of the treasure hid in the field of the pretious stone and of the nette 13 6 4  Teaching in Nazareth he condemneth it of incredulitie 9.10 6 8  He sendeth the tvvelue Apostles to preache 14 6 9  Iohn is beheaded and the fame of Iesus commeth to Herods eares 14 6 9 6 He feedeth 5000 men vvith fiue loaues 14 6  6 He vvalketh vpon the sea and so maketh Peter also to doe    6 He reasoneth of Manna and of the true bread from heauen 15 7   He reprehendeth the Pharisees for cauilling at his disciples because they did eate vvith vnvvashed handes     He healeth the daughter of the vvoman of Canaan  7   He cureth a man that vvas deafe and dumme 15 8   He feedeth 4000 vvith seuen loaues 16 8   He reiecteth the Pharisees that asked a signe and biddeth his disciples bevvare of their leauen  8   He healeth a blinde man in Bethsaida 16 8 9  The time that he vvil passe out of this vvorld novv dravving nigh he maketh Peter for confessing him to be Christ the Rocke vpon vvhich he vvil build his Church promising to giue him the keies of heauen and
or Peter so bouÌ„d to the Ievves only that he could not meddle vvith the Gentiles seing he vvas * the man chosen of God by whom the Gentils should first beleeue vvho first baptized them and first gaue order concerning them Therfore the treacherie of Caluin is intolerable that vpon this distinction of the Apostles charge vvould haue the simple suppose that S. Peter could not be Bishop of Rome so might he barre â— Iohn from Ephesus also nor deale among the Gentiles as a thing against Gods ordinance and the appointment betvvene him and S. Paul as though thereby the one had bound him self to the other not to preach or meddle vvithin his fellovves compasse And vvhich is further most seditious he exhorteth al men to keepe fast the foresaid compact and rather to haue respect to S. Paules Apostleship then to S. Peters as though the preaching authoritie and Apostleship of both vvere not a like true and al of one holy Spirit vvhether they preached to Iewes or Gentiles as both did preach vnto both peoples as is already proued and at length partly by the daily decay of the Ievvish state and their incredulitie and partly for that in Christianitie the distinction of Iew Gentil ceased after a season both vvent to the cheefe citie of the Gentiles and there founded the Church common to the Hebrues and al nations Peter first and Paul aftervvard And therfore Tertullian saith de prâ—script nu 14. O happie Church to vvhich the Apostles povvred out al doctrine vvith their bloud Where Peter suffereth like to our Lordes passion vvhere Paul is â—rovvned vvith Iohn Baptists death 9. Gaue the right handes of societie There is and alwaies ought to be a common fellowship and fraternitie of al Pastores and preachers of the Church Into vvhich societie who so euer entereth not but sandeth in Schisme and separation from Peter and the cheefe Apostolike Pastors what pretence so euer he hath or vvhence so euer he chalengeth authoritie he is a vvolfe and no true Pastor Vvhich vnion and communion together was so necessarie euen in S. Paules case that notvvithstanding his special calling of God yet the Holy Ghost caused him to go vp to his elder Apostles to be receiued into their fellovvship or brotherhod for it is to be noted that SS Peter Iames and Iohn vvere not sent to S. Paul to ioyne vvith him or to be tried for their doctrine and calling by him but contrariewise he vvas sent to them as to the cheefe and knovven ordinarie Apostles They therfore gaue Paul their handes that is to say tooke him into their societie and not he them And S. Hieroms rule concerning this shal be found true to the vvorldes end speaking of S. Peters successor He that gathereth not vvith thee scattereth Ep. 17. And in an other place for the same cause he calleth Rome tutissimum Communionis portum the most safe and sure hauen of communion or Societie Ep. 16. 6. â— And vvhereas the Heretikes by this also vvould proue that Peter had no preemineÌ„ce aboue Paul being his fellovv Apostle it is ridiculous As though al of one fellowship or brotherhod he alvvaies equal or as though there vvere not order and gouernement superioritie and inferioritie in euery societie vvel appointed And they might perceiue by this vvhole passage that Peter vvas the special and in more singular sort the Apostle of the Ievves though Iames and Iohn vvere also as S. Paul is also called in more singular sort the Apostle and doctor of the Gentiles then S. Barnabas and yet they vvere both alike taken here into this societie as they were both at once and alike segregated into this ministerie and ordered together Act. 13. It is a poore reason then to say or thinke S. Peter not to be aboue S. Barnabas neither because of this societie and fellovvship vnto vvhich he vvas receiued together vvith S. Paul 11. I resisted him Vvicked Porphyrie as S. Hierom vvriteth chargeth S. Paul of enuie and malâ—part boldnes and S. Peter of errour Proâ—m Comment in Galat. Euen so the like impious sonnes of Cham for this and for other things gladly charge S. Peter as though he had committed the greatest crimes in the vvorld for it is the propertie of Heretikes and il men to be glad to see the Saincts reprehended and their faultes discouered as vve may learne in the vvritings of S. Augustine against Faustus the Manichee vvho gathered out al the actes of the holy Patriarches that might seeme to the people to be vvorthy blame Vvhom the said holy Doctor defendeth at large against him as both he and before him S. Cyprian finde here vpon this Apostles reprehension much matter of praising both their vertues S. Paules great zeale and S. Peters vvonderful humilitie that the one in the cause of God vvould not spare his Superior and that the other in that excellent dignitie vvould not take it in il part nor by allegation of his Supremaâ—iâ— disdaine or refuse to be controvvled by his iunior vvhich of the tvvo they count the greater grace and more to be imitated For neither Peter saith S. Cyprian Whom our Lord chose the first and vpon vvhom he built the Church vvhen Paul disputed vvith him of circumcision chalâ—vged insolently or arrogantly tooke any thing to him self saying that he had the Primacie and therfore the later Disciples ought rather to obey him ep 71 ad Quintum nu 2. And S. Augustine ep 19. c 2 in fine That saith he vvhich vvas done of Paul profitably by the libertie of charitie the same Peter tooke in good part by holy and benigne godlines of humilitie and so he gaue vnto posteritie a more rare and holy example if at any time perhaps they did amis to be content to be corrected of their iuniors then Paul for to be bold and confident yea the inferiors to resist their betters for defending the truth of the Gospel brotherly charitie alvvaies preserued By vvhich notable speaches of the Doctors vve may also see how friuolously the Heretikes argue herevpon that S. Peter could not be Superior to S. Paul being so reprehended of him vvhereas the Fathers make it an example to the Superiors to beare vvith humilitie the correption or controulement euen of their inferiors Namely by this example S. Augustine li. 2 de bapt 6. 1. excellently declareth that the B. Martyr S. Cyprian vvho vvalked avvry touching the rebaptizing of them that vvere christened of Heretikes could not nor vvould not haue been offended to be admonished reformed in that point by his fellovves or inferiors much lesse by a vvhole Councel We haue learned saith he that Peter the Apostle in vvhom the Primacie of the Apostles by excellent grace is so preeminent vvhen he did othervvise concerning circumcision then the truth required vvas corrected of Paul the later Apostle I thinke vvithout any reproch vnto him Cyprian the Bishop may be compared to Peter the Apostle hovvbeit I ought rather
vvhat is it but because he descended also first into the inferiour partes of the earth ✠verse 10 He that descended the same is also he that is ascended aboue al the heauens that he might fill al things ✠verse 11 And * he gaue * some Apostles and some Prophets and othersome Euangelists and othersome pastors and doctors ✠verse 12 to the consummation of the sainctes vnto the vvorke of the ministerie vnto the edifying of the body of Christ ✠verse 13 ″ vntil we meete al into the vnitie of faith and knovvledge of the sonne of God into a perfect man into the measure of the age of the fulnes of Christ ⊢ ✠verse 14 that novv vve be not children vvauering and caried about ″ vvith euery vvinde of doctrine in the vvickednes of men in craftines to the circumuention of errour ✠verse 15 But doing the truth in charitie let vs in al things grow in him vvhich is the head Christ ✠verse 16 of vvhom the vvhole body being compacte and knit together by al iuncture of subministration according to the operation in the measure of euery member maketh the increase of the body vnto the edifying of it self in charitie ✠verse 17 This therfore I say and testifie in our Lord that novv you vvalke not as also the * Gentiles vvalke in the vanitie of their sense ✠verse 18 hauing their vnderstanding obscured vvith darkenes alienated from the life of God by the ignorance that is in them because of the blindenes of their hart ✠verse 19 vvho despairing * haue giuen vp them selues to impudicitie vnto the operation of al vncleannes vnto auarice ✠verse 20 But you haue not so learned Christ ✠verse 21 if yet you haue heard him and haue been taught in him as the truth is in IESVS ⊢ ✠verse 22 * Lay you avvay according to the old conuersation the old man vvhich is corrupted according to the desires of errour ✠verse 23 And be renevved in the spirit of your minde ✠verse 24 and put on the nevv man vvhich according to God is created in iustice and holinesse of the truth ✠verse 25 For the vvhich cause laying avvay lying * speake ye truth euery one vvith his neighbour because vve are members one of an other ✠verse 26 * Be angrie and sinne not let not the sonne goe dovvne vpon your anger ✠verse 27 Giue not place to the Deuil ✠verse 28 He that stole let him novv not steale but rather let him labour in vvorking vvith his handes that vvhich is good that he may haue vvhence to giue vnto him that suffereth necessitie ✠verse 29 Al naughtie speache let it not proceede out of your mouth but if there be any good to the edifying of the faith that it may giue grace to the hearers ✠verse 30 And contristate not the holy Spirit of God in vvhich you are signed vnto the day of redemption ✠verse 31 Let al bitternes and anger and indignation and clamour and blasphemie be taken avvay from you vvith al malice ✠verse 32 And be gentle one to an other merciful pardoning one an other as also God in Christ hath pardoned you ANNOTATIONS CHAP. IIII. 5. One faith As rebellion is the bane of ciuil Commonvvealths and kingdoms and peace and concord the preseruation of the same so is Schisme diuision and diuersitie of faiths or felovvships in the seruice of God the calamitie of the Church and peace vnitie vniformitie the special blessing of God therein and in the Church aboue al Commonvvealths because it is in al pointes a Monarchie tending euery vvay to vnitie but one God but one Christ but one Church but one hope one faith one baptisme one head one body Vvhereof S. Cyprian li. de vnit Eâ—nu 3. saith thus One Church the Holy Ghost in the person of our Lord designeth faith One is my doâ—e This vnitie of the Church he that holdith not doth he thinke he holdeth the faith He that vvithstandeth and resisteth the Church he that forsaketh Peters chaire vpon vvhich the Church vvas built doth he trust that he is in the Church When the blessed Apostle S. Paul also shevveth this Sacrament of vnitie saying One body and one spirit c. Which vnitie vve Bishops specially that rule in the Church ought to hold fast and maintaine that vve may proue the Bishoply function also it self to be one and vndiuided c. And againe There is one God and one Christ and one Church and one Chaire by our Lordes voice founded vpon Peter An other altar to be sette vp or a novv Priesthod to be made besides one altar one Priesthod is impossible Whosoeuer gathereth els vvhere scattereth it is adulterous it is impious it is sacriligious vvhatsoeuer is instituted by mans furie to the breach of Gods diuine disposition Get ye far from the contagion of such men fleâ— from their speaches at a canker and pestilenâ—â— our Lord hauing praemonished and vvarned before hand They are blind leaders of the blind c. Vvhereby vve learne that this vnitie of the Church commended so much vnto vs consisteth in the mutual fellovvship of al Bishops vvith the See of the Peter S. Hilarie also li. ad Constantium Augustum thus applieth this same place of the Apostle against the Arians as vve may do against the Caluinists Perilous and miserable it is saith he that there are novv so many faithes as vvilles and so many doctrines as 〈◊〉 vvhiles either faithes are so vvritten ad vve vvill or as vve vvil so are vnderstood and vvhereas according to one God and one Lord and one Baptisme there is also one faith vve fall avvay from that vvhich is the only faith and vvhiles mee faithes be made they beginne to come to that that there is none at al. 11. Some Apostles Many functions that vvere euen in the Apostles time are not here named vvhich must be noted against the Aduersaries that call here for Popes as though the names of Bishops Priests or Deacons vvere not as vvel leaft out as Popes vvhom yet they can not deny to haue been in vse in S. Paules daies And therfore they haue no more reason out of this place to dispute against the Pope then against the rest of the Ecclesiastical functions Neither is it necessarie to reduce such as be no specified here to these here named though in deede both other Bishops and Prelates and specially Popes may be conteined vnder the names of Apostles Doctors and Pastors Certes the roome and dignitie of the Pope is a very continual Apostleship and S. Bernard calleth it Apostolatum Bernard ad Eugen. li. 14. c. 4 c. 6 in fine 13. Vntil vve meete The Church of God shal neuer lacke these spiritual functions or such as be ansvverable to them according to the time and state of the Church til the vvorldes end Vvhereby you may proue the
the house ✠verse 17 So let ″ your light shine before men that they may see your good vvorkes and glorifie your father vvhich is in heauen ✠verse 18 Do not thinke that I am come to breake the Lavv or the Prophets I am not come to breake but to fulfil ✠verse 19 For assuredly I say vnto you * til heauen and earth passe one iote or one tittle shal not passe of the Lavv til al be fulfilled ✠verse 20 He therfore that shal * breake ″ one of these least commaundements shal so teach men shal be called the least in the Kingdom of heauen But he that shal doe and teach he shal be called great in the Kingdom of heauen ⊢ ✠verse 21 For I tel you that vnles ″ your iustice abound more then that of the Scribes and Pharisees you shal not enter into the Kingdom of heaueÌ„ ✠verse 22 You haue heard that it vvas sayd to them of old * Thou shalt not kil and vvho so killeth shal be in danger of iudgement ✠verse 23 But I say to you that vvhosoeuer is angrie vvith his brother shal be in danger of iudgment And vvhosoeuer shal say to his brother Raca shal be in danger of a councel And whosoeuer shal say Thou foole shal be guilty of the ″ hel of fyre ✠verse 24 If therefore thou offer thy ″ gift at the altar and there thou remember that thy brother hath ought agaynst the ✠verse 25 leaue there thy offering before the altar and goe first to be reconciled to thy brother and then coming thou shalt offer thy gift ⊢ ✠verse 26 * Be at agreement vvith thy aduersarie betimes vvhiles thou art in the vvay vvith him lest perhaps the aduersarie deliuer thee to the iudge and the iudge deliuer thee to the officer and thou be cast into ⸬ prison ✠verse 27 Amen I say to thee thou shalt not goe out from thence til thou repay the last farthing ✠verse 28 You haue heard that it vvas sayd to them of old * Thou shalt not committe aduoutrie ✠verse 29 But I say to you that vvhosoeuer shal see a vvoman to lust her hath already committed aduoutrie vvith her in his hart ✠verse 30 And if thy right eie scandalize thee plucke it out cast it from thee for it is expedient for thee that one of thy limmes perish rather then thy vvhole body be cast into hel ✠verse 31 And if thy right hand scandalize thee cut it of and cast it from thee for it is expedient for thee that one of thy limmes perish rather then that thy vvhole body goe into â—el ✠verse 32 It vvas sayd also * vvhosoeuer shal dimisse his vvife let him giue her a bil of diuorcement ✠verse 33 But I say to you vvhosoeuer shal dimisse his vvise ″ excepting the cause of fornication maketh her to committe aduoutrie And he that shal marie her that is dimissed ″ committeth aduoutrie ✠verse 34 Agayne you haue heard that it vvas sayd to them of old * Thou shalt not committe periurie but thou shalt performe thy othes to our Lord. ✠verse 35 But I say to you ″ not to svveare at al neither by heauen because it is the throne of God ✠neither by the earth because it is the foote-stole of his feete neither by HierusaleÌ„ because it is the citie of the great King ✠verse 36 Neither shalt thou svveare by thy head because thou canst not make one heare vvhite or blacke ✠verse 37 Let your talke be yea yea no no and that vvhich is ouer aboue these is of euil ✠verse 38 You haue heard that it vvas sayd * An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth ✠verse 39 But I say to you ″ not to resist euil but if one strike thee on thy right cheeke turne to him also the other ✠verse 40 and to him that vvil contend vvith thee in iudgment and take away thy cote let goe thy cloke also vnto him ✠verse 41 and vvhosoeuer vvil force thee one mile goe vvith him other tvvayne ✠verse 42 He that asketh of thee giue to him and * to him that vvould borovv of thee turne not avvay ✠verse 43 You haue heard that it vvas sayd * Thou shalt loue thy neighbour and ⸬ hate thine enemie ✠verse 44 But I say to you loue your enemies doe good to them that hate you and pray for them that persecute and abuse you ✠verse 45 that you may be the children of your father vvhich is in heauen vvho maketh his sunne to rise vpon good bad and rayneth vpon iust ⸬ vniust ✠verse 46 For if you loue them that loue you vvhat revvard shal you haue do not also the Publicans this ✠verse 47 And if you salute your brethren only vvhat do you more do not also the heathen this ✠verse 48 Be you perfect therfore as also your heauenly father is perfect ANNOTATIONS CHAP. V. 10. For Iustice Heretikes and other malefactours 〈◊〉 suffer willingly and stoutly but they are not blessed because they suffer not for iustice For sayth S. Aug. they can not suffer for iustice that haue deuided the Churche and where sound fayth or charitie is not there cannot be iustice Cont. ep Parm. li. 1. c. 9. Ep. 50. Psal 34. Conc. 2. And so by this scripture are excluded al false Martyrs as S. Augustine often declareth and S. Cypr. de Vnit. Eccl. nu 8. 12. Reward In Latin and Greeke the word signifieth very wages and hire dewe for workes and so presupposeth a meritorious deede 15. The light This light of the world and citie on a mountayne and candel vpon a candlesticke signifie the Clergie and the whole Churche so built vpon Christ the mountayne that it must needes be visible and can not be hid nor vnknowen Aug. cont Fulg. Donas c. 18. Li. 16. cont â—aust c. 17. And therfore the Churche being a candle not vnder a bushel but shining to al in the house that is in the world what shal I say more sayth S. Augustine then that they are blind which shut their eyes agaynst the candel that is set on the candlesticke Tract 2. in ep 10. 17. Your light The good life of the Clergie edifieth much and is Gods great honour whereas the contrarie dishonoureth him 20. One of these Behold how necessarie it is not only to beleeue but to keepe al the commaundements euen the very least 21. Your iustice It is our Iustice when it is geuen vs of God Aug. in Ps â—0 Conc. 1. De Sp. lit c. 9. So that Christians are trueâ—â—â—ust and haue in them selues inhaerent iustice by doing Gods commaundement without which iustice of workes no man of age can be saued Aug. de fid oper c. 16. Whereby we see saluation iustice and iustification not to
thereof ✠verse 35 And the husbandmen apprehending his seruants one they beat an other they killed and an other they stoned ✠verse 36 Againe he sent other seruants moe then the former and they did to them likevvise ✠verse 37 And last of al he sent to them his sonne saying They vvil reuerence my sonne ✠verse 38 But the husbandmen seeing the sonne said vvithin them selues This is the heire come let vs kil him and vve shal haue his inheritaunce ✠verse 39 And apprehending him they cast him forth out of the vineyard and killed him ✠verse 40 When therfore the lord of the vineyard shal come vvhat vvil he doe to those husbandmen ✠verse 41 They say to him The naughtie men he vvil bring to naught and his vineyard he vvil let out to other husbandmen that shal render him the fruite in their seasons ✠verse 42 IESVS saith to them Haue you neuer read in the Scriptures The stone which the builders reiected the same is made into the head of the corner By our lord was this done and it is maruelous in our eyes ✠verse 43 Therfore I say to you that the kingdom of God shal be taken avvay from you and shal be giuen to a nation yelding the fruites thereof ✠verse 44 And * he that falleth vpon this stone shal be broken and on vvhom it falleth it shal al to bruise him ✠verse 45 And vvhen the cheefe Priestes and Pharisees had heard his parables they knevve that he spake of them ✠verse 46 And seeking to lay hands vpon him they feared the multitudes because they held him as a Prophet â— ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XXI 2. You shal finde Christ by diuine power both knewe where these beasts were being absent and commaunded them for his vse being an other mans and sodenly made the colt fitte to be ridden on neuer broken before 7. The asse and the colâ— This asse vnder yoke signifieth the Iewes vnder the Law and vnder God their Lord as it were his old and ancient people the yong colt now first ridden on by Christ signifieth the Gentiles wilde hitherto and not broken now to be called to the faith and to receiue our Sauiours yoke And therfore the three last Euangelists writing specially to the Gentils make mention of the colt only 8. Garments in the way These offices of honour done to our Saulour extraordinarily were very acceptable and for a memory hereof the holy Church maketh a solemne Procession euery yere vpon this day specially in our Countrie when it was Catholike with the B. Sacrament reuerently caried as it were Christ vpon the asse and strawing of rushes and floures bearing of Palmes setting vp boughes spredding and hanging vp the richest clothes the quire and queristers singing as here the children and the people al done in a very goodly ceremonie to the honour of Christ and the memorie of his triumphe vpon this day The like seruice and the like duties done to him in al other solemne Processions of the B. Sacrament and otherwise be vndoubtedly no lesse grateful 9. Hosanna These very wordes of ioyful crie and triumphant voice of gratulation to our Sauiour holy Church vseth alwaies in the Preface of the Masse as it were the voice of the Priest and al the people who then specially are attent and deuout immediatly before the Consecration and Eleuation as it were expecting and reioycing at his comming 13. House of prayer Note here that he calleth external sacrifice out of the Prophete Esay prayer For he speaketh of the Temple which was builded properly and principally for sacrifice 16. Mouth of infants Yong childrens prayers proceding from the instinct of Gods spirit be acceptable and so the voices of the like or of other simple folke now in the Church though them selues vnderstand not particularly what they say be maruelous grateful to Christ 22. Beleeuing In respect of our owne vnworthinesse and of the things not alwaies expedient for vs we may wel doubt when we pray whether we shal obtaine or noâ— but on Gods part we must beleeue that is we must haue no diffidence or mistrust either of his power or of his wil if we be worthy and the thing expedient And therfore S. Marke hath thus Haue ye faith of God 23. In what power The Heretikes presumptuously thinke them selues in this point like to Christ because they are asked in what power they come and who sent them but when they haue answered this question as fully as Christ did here by that which he insinuateth of Iohns testimonie for his authority they shal be heard and til then they shal be stil taken for those of whom God speaketh by the Prophete They â—anne and I sent them not 28. The first The first sonne here is the people of the Gentils because Gentility was before there was a peculiar and chosen people of the Iewes and therfore the Iewes here as the later are signified by the other sonne CHAP. XXII Yet by one other parable he fore sheweth the most deserued reprobation of the earthly and persecuting Iewes and the gratious vocation of the Gentils in their place 15 Then he defeateth the snare of the Pharisees and Herodians about paying tribute to Caesar 23 He answereth also the inuention of the Sadducees against the Resurrection 34 and a question that the Pharisees aske to pose him turning and posing them againe because they imagined that Christ should be no more then a man 〈◊〉 and so he putteth al the busy Secteâ— to silence verse 1 AND IESVS ansvvering spake againe in parables to them saying ✠verse 2 The kingdom of heauen is likened to a man being a king vvhich made a â— mariage to his sonne ✠verse 3 And he sent his â— seruants to call them that vvere inuited to the mariage and they vvould not come ✠verse 4 Againe he sent other seruants saying Tel them that vvere inuited Behold I haue prepared my dinner my beeues and fatlings are killed and al things are ready come ye to the mariage ✠verse 5 But they neglected and vvent their vvaies â— one to his farme and an other to his merchandise ✠verse 6 and the rest laid hands vpon his seruants and spitefully intreating them murdered them ✠verse 7 But vvhen the king had heard of it he vvas vvroth and sending his hostes destroied those murderers and burnt their citie ✠verse 8 Then he saith to his seruants The mariage in deede is ready but they that vvere inuited vvere not vvorthie ✠verse 9 Goe ye therfore into the high vvayes and vvhosoeuer you shal finde call to the mariage ✠verse 10 And his seruants going forth into the vvayes gathered together al that they found bad and good and the mariage vvas filled vvith ghestes ✠verse 11 And the king vvent in to see the ghestes and he savv there a man not attired in a vvedding garment ✠verse 12 And he
things must be done but the end is not yet ✠verse 7 for nation shal rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom and there shal be pestilences and famines and earth-quakes in places ✠verse 8 and al these things are the beginnings of sorovves ◠✠verse 9 Then * shal they deliuer you into tribulation and shal kil you and you shal be odious to al nations for my names sake ✠verse 10 And then many shal be scandalized and they shal deliuer vp one an other and they shal hate one an other ✠verse 11 And many false-prophets shal rise and shal seduce many ✠verse 12 And because â— iniquitie shal abound the charitie of many shal vvaxe cold ✠verse 13 But he that shal perseuêre to the end he shal be saued ◠✠verse 14 And this Gospel of the kingdom â— shal be preached in the vvhole vvorld for a testimonie to al nations and then shal come the consummation ✠verse 15 Therfore vvhen you shal see â— the abomination of desolation vvhich vvas spoken of by Daniel the Prophet standing in the holy place he that readeth let him vnderstand ✠verse 16 then they that are in levvrie let them flee to the mountaines ✠verse 17 and he that is on the house-toppe let him not come dovvne to take any thing out of his house ✠verse 18 and he that is in the field let him not goe backe to take his coate ✠verse 19 And vvo to theÌ„ that are vvith childe and that giue sucke in those dayes ✠verse 20 But pray that your flight be not in the vvinter or on the Sabboth ✠verse 21 For there shal be then great tribulation such as hath not been from the beginning of the vvorld vntil novv neither shal be ✠verse 22 And vnles those daies had been shortened no flesh should be saued but for the elect the daies â— shal be shortened ✠verse 23 Then if any man shal say vnto you Loe here is Christ or there do not beleeue him ✠verse 24 For there shal rise false-Christes and false-Prophets and shal shevv â— great signes and vvonders so that the elect also if it be possible may be induced into errour ✠verse 25 Loe I haue foretold you ✠verse 26 If therfore they shal say vnto you Behold he is in the desert goe ye not out behold â— in the closets beleeue it not ✠verse 27 For as lightening coÌ„meth out of the east and appeareth euen into the vvest so shal also the aduent of the sonne of man be ✠verse 28 Wheresoeuer the body is thither shal the egles also be gathered together ✠verse 29 And â— immediatly after the tribulation of those dayes * the sonne shal be darkened and the moone shal not giue her light and the starres shal fal from heauen and the powers of heauen shal be moued ✠verse 30 and then shal appeare the signe of the Sonne of man in heauen and then shal al tribes of the earth bevvaile and they shal see the Sonne of man comming in the cloudes of heauen vvith much povver and maiestie ✠verse 31 And he shal send his Angels vvith a trumpet and a great voyce and they shal gather together his elect from the foure vvindes from the furthest partes of heauen euen to the endes thereof ✠verse 32 And of the figtree learne a parable When novv the bough thereof is tender and the leaues come forth you knovv that sommer is nigh ✠verse 33 So you also vvhen you shal see these things knovv ye that it is nigh euen at the doores ✠verse 34 Amen I say to you that this generation shal not passe til al these things be done ✠verse 35 Heauen and earth shal passe but my vvordes shal not passe ◠✠verse 36 But of that day and houre no body knovveth neither the Angels of heauen but the Father alone ✠verse 37 And as * in the dayes of Noe so shal also the comming of the Sonne of man be ✠verse 38 For as they vvere in the dayes before the floud eating and drinking marying and giuing to mariage euen vnto that day in vvhich Noe entred into the arke ✠verse 39 and knevve not til the floud came and tooke them al so also shal the coÌ„ming of the Sonne of man be ✠verse 40 Then two shal be in the field one shal be taken and one shal be left ✠verse 41 tvvo vvomen grinding in the mill one shal be taken and one shal be left ✠verse 42 Watch therfore because you knovv not vvhat houre your Lord vvil come ✠verse 43 But this knovv ye that * if the good man of the house did knovv vvhat houre the theefe vvould come he vvould surely vvatch and vvould not suffer his house to be broken vp ✠verse 44 Therefore be you also ready because at vvhat houâ—e you knovv not the Sonne of man vvil come ✠verse 45 Who thinkest thou is a faithful and vvise seruant vvhom his lord hath appointed ouer his familie to giue them meate in season ✠verse 46 Blessed is that seruant vvhom vvhen his lord coÌ„meth he shal finde so doing ✠verse 47 Amen I say to you that ouer al his goods shal he appoint him ⊢ ✠verse 48 But if that naughtie seruant shal say in his hart My lord is long a comming ✠verse 49 and shal beginne to strike his felovv-seruants and eateth and drinketh vvith drunkards ✠verse 50 the lord of that seruant shal come in a day that he hopeth not and an houre that he knovveth not ✠verse 51 and shal deuide him and appoint his portion vvith the hypocrites there shal be vveeping and gnashing of teeth ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XXIIII 2. Not left This was fulfilled 40 yeres after Christes Ascension by Vespasian the Emperour and his sonne Titus Euseb li. â— c. 6. seq ex Iosepho Vpon which wordes There shal not be left c. which threaten the destruction of the Iewes Temple and those wordes Vpon this Rocke I wil build my Church which promise the building of the Catholike Church of al nations S. Châ—ysostome making a long comparison of these two prophecies of Christ saith thus Thou seest in both his great and vnspeakable power in that that he increased and built vp them that worshipped him and those that stumbled at him he abased destroyed and plucked them vp by the roote Doest thou see how whatsoeuer he hath built no man shal destroy and whatsoeuer he hath destroyed no man shal build He builded the Church and no man shal be able to destroy it he destroyed the Temple and no man is able to build it and that in so long time For they haue endeuoured both to destroy that and could not and they haue attempted to build vp this and they could not doe that neither c. 3. The signe Our Maister knowing that it was not profitable nor
thereby wrought in them that wonderful multiplication So the blessing of God is alwayes effectual and therfore here also he blessed the bread and by that blessing with the wordes folowing made it his body Ambros li. de his qui initi myst c. 9. Aug. ep 59 ad Paulinum Now whereas taking the cuppe it is said he gaue thankes We say that it is al one with blessing and that he blessed the cuppe as before the bread as it is euident by these wordes of S. Paul Calix cui benedicimus the cuppe which we blesse and therfore he calleth it Calicem benedictionis the cuppe of blessing vsing the same Greeke word that is spoken of the bread But why is it then said here he gaue thankes because we translate the wordes faithfully as in the Greeke and the Latin and because the sense is al one as we are taught by S. Paul before alleaged and by the fathers which cal this geuing of thankes ouer the cuppe or ouer the bread the blessing therof S. Iustin in fin 2. Apol. Panem Eucharistisatum S. Irenâ—e li. 4. c. 34. Panem in quo gratiâ— actâ— sunt S. Cyprian de coen do Calix solenni benedictione sacratus that is The bread blessed by geuing thankes vpon it The cuppe consecrated by solemne blessing 26. This is The bread and the wine be turned into the body and bloud of Christ by the same omnipotent power by which the world was made and the word was incarnate in the wombe of the virgin Damasc li. 4 c. 14. Cypr. de Coen Domini Amb. li. de myst init c. 9. 26. My body He said not This bread is a figure of my body or This wine is a figure of my bloud but This is my body and This is my bloud Damasc li. 4 c. 14. Theophyl in hunc locum Cone 2. Nâ—c act 6 to 4 eiusdem actionis in fine When some fathers cal it a figure or signe they meane the outward formes of bread and wine 28. Bloud of the new Testament As the old Testament was dedicated with bloud in these wordes This is the bloud of the Testament c. Heb. 9. so here is the institution of the new Testament in Christes bloud by these wordes This is the bloud of the new Testament c. Which is here mystically shed and not only afterward vpon the Crosse for the Greeke is the present tense in al the Euangelistes and S. Paul and likewise speaking of the body 1 Cor. 11. it is in the Greeke the present tense and Luc. 22. and in the Latin here And the Heretikes them selues so put it in their translations 29. Fruite of the vine S. Luke putteth these wordes before he come to the consecration whereby it seemeth that he speaketh of the wine of the Paschal lambe and therfore nameth it the fruite of the vine but if he speake of the wine which was now his bloud he nameth it notwithstaÌ„ding wine as S. Paule nameth the other bread for three causes first because it was so before as Eue is called Adams bone and Aarons rod deuoured their roddes Whereas they were not now roddes but serpents And He tasted the water turned into wine whereas it was now wine and not water and such like secondly because it keepeth the formes of bread and wine and things are called as they appeare as when Raphael is called a yong man Tob. 5. and Three men appeared to Abraham Gen. 18. whereas they were three Angels thirdly because Christ in this Sacrament is very true and principal bread and wine feeding and refreshing vs in body and soule to euerlasting life â—9 Not as I wil. A perfect example of obedience and submitting our self and our willes to Gods will and ordinance in al aduersity and that we should desire nothing temporal but vnder the condition of his holy pleasure and appointment 41. Watch and pray Hereof came Vigils and Nocturnes that is watching and praying in the night commonly vsed in the Primitiue Church of al Christians as is plaine by S. Cyprian and S. Hierom but afterward and vntil this day specially of Religious persons 69. Wench S. Gregorie declaring the difference of the Apostles before the receiuing of the Holy Ghost and after saith thus Euen this very Pastor of the Church him self at whose most sacred body we sitte how weake he was the wenche can tell you but how strong he was after his answer to the high Priest declareth Act. 5. 29 We must obey God rather then men Greg. ho. 20 â—o Euang. 74. To curse A goodly example and warning to mans infirmity and to take heede of presumption and to hang only vpon God in tentations 75. Wept bitterly S. Ambrose in his Hymne that the Church vseth at Laudes speaking of this saith Hoc ipsa Petra ecclesia canente culpam diluit When the Cocke crewe the Rocke of the Church him self washed away his fault S. August 1 Retract c. â—1 CHAP. XXVII The cheefe of the Ievves accuse him to Pilate the Gentil his betrayer and the Iudge and the Iudges wife testifying in the meane time manifoldly his innocencie 20 and persuade the common people also not only to preferre the murderer Barabbas but also to crie CRVCIFIGE Al to the reprobation of their vvhole nation and nothing but fulfilling the Scriptures 27 After many illusions 31 he is crucified by the Gentils 38 Which the Ievves seeing do triumph as if they had novv the victorie 45 But euen then by many vvonderful vvorkes he declareth his might to their confusion 57 Finally being buried they to make al sure set souldiars to keepe his sepulcher verse 1 AND vvhen morning vvas come al the cheefe Priestes and auncients of the people consulted together against IESVS that they might put him to death ✠verse 2 And they brought him bound and deliuered him to Ponce Pilate the President ✠verse 3 Then Iudas that betrayed him seeing that he vvas condemned â— repenting him returned the thirtie siluer peeces to the cheefe Priestes and auncients ✠verse 4 saying I haue sinned betraying iust bloud But they said what is that to vs looke thou to it ✠verse 5 And casting dovvne the siluer peeces in the temple he departed and vvent and hanged him self vvith an halter ✠verse 6 And the cheefe Priestes hauing taken the siluer peeces said It is not lavvful to cast them into the Córbana because it is the price of bloud ✠verse 7 And after they had consulted together they bought vvith them the potters field to be a burying place for strangers ✠verse 8 For this cause that field vvas called Hacéldama that is the field of bloud euen to this present day ✠verse 9 Then vvas fulfilled that vvhich vvas spoken by Ieremie the Prophet saying And they tooke the thirtie peeces of siluer the price of the priced vvhom they did price of the children of
and say to the people He is risen from the dead and the last errour shal be vvorse then the first ✠verse 65 Pilate said to them You haue a gard goe gard it as you knovv ✠verse 66 And they departing made the sepulchre sure sealing vp the stone vvith vvatchmen ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XXVII 3. Repenting him Note how spedily the plague of God falleth after sinne and specially men must note what torment of conscience and desperation often foloweth the sheading of innocent bloud 5. Hung himself If he had rightly repented notwithstanding his horrible treason he might haue obteyned mercy but by hanging him self he tooke away al meanes of mercy and saluation because he died finally impenitent 24. Innocent of his bloud Though Pilate was much more innocent then the Iewes and would haue been free from the murder of our Sauiour seeking al the meanes that he could without offending the people and the Emperours lawes to dimisse him Yet he is damned for being the minister of the peoples wicked wil against his owne conscience euen as al Officers be and specially the Iudges and Iuries which execute lawes of temporal Princes against Catholike men for al such be guilty of innocent bloud and be nothing excused by that they execute other mens will according to the lawes which be vniust For they should rather suffer death them selues then put an innocent man to death 40. If thou be the Sonne Maruel not when thou hearest our Sauiour in the B. Sacrament mocked at or seest him abused of wicked men that he straight reuengeth not such blasphemies or that he sheweth not him self there visibly and to the senses when faithles Heretikes wil say Let me see him tast him c. for he suffered here the like on the Crosse when he might at his will haue come downe with as much ease as he rose when he was dead 46. Why hast thou forsaken me Beware here of the detestable blasphemie of Caluin and the Caluinists who thinking not the bodily death of Christ sufficient say that he was also here so forsaken and abandoned of his Father that he sustained in soule and conscience the very feares and torments of the damned And to take away the Article of his descending into Hel after his death which was with triumph and not in paine they say that his descending was nothing els but that his soule suffered the very paines of Hel vpon the Crosse Whereas in deede by these wordes out of the Psalme our Sauiour wil signifie no more but that his paines being now so long on the Crosse and ready to die were very great and therfore according to the infirmity of his humane nature for very anguish as before in the garden when he was but toward his Passion he saith he was forsaken for two causes first because it was the wil of God not to deliuer him but that he should die secondly because his diuine nature did so represse it self for the time that he felt no comfort thereof at al but was left to die in extreme paines as a mere man 19. Wrapped This honour and duty done to Christes body being dead was maruelous grateful and meritorious And this wrapping of it in cleane find on may signifie by S. Hierom that the Body of our Lord is to be wrapped not in gold pretious stones and silke but in pure linnen And so in the whole Church it is obserued by S. Siluesters constitution that the Corporal wherevpon our Lordes body lieth on the altar must be pute and plaine linnen CHAP. XXVIII He riseth againe the third day and the blind most obstinate Iewes by bribery working to their owne reprobation he appeareth to his Disciples in Galilee as both before his Passion he foretold them Mat. 26 and now after his Resurrection first the Angel then also him self appointed by the women 〈◊〉 and sendeth them to al Nations to build his Church among the Gentils verse 1 AND in the euening of the Sabboth vvhich davvneth on the first of the Sabboth came Marie Magdalene and the other Marie ″ to see the sepulchre ✠verse 2 And behold there vvas made a great earth-quake For an Angel of our Lord descēded from heauen and comming rolled backe the stone and sate vpon it ✠verse 3 and his countenance vvas as lightening and his garment as snovv ✠verse 4 And for feare of him the vvatchmen vvere frighted and became as dead ✠verse 5 And the Angel ansvvering said to the vvomen Feare not you for I knovv that you seeke IESVS that vvas crucified ✠verse 6 he is not here for he is risen * as he said come and see the place vvhere our Lord vvas laid ✠verse 7 And going quickly tel ye his Disciples that he is risen and behold he goeth before you into Galilee there you shal see him loe I haue fortold you ✠verse 8 And they vvent forth quickly out of the monument vvith feare and great ioy running to tel his Disciples ✠verse 9 And behold IESVS mette them saying Al haile But they came neere and tooke hold of his feete and adored him ✠verse 10 Then IESVS said to them Feare not goe tel my brethren that they goe into Galilee there they shal see me ✠verse 11 Who vvhen they vvere departed behold certaine of the vvatchmen came into the citie and told the cheefe Priestes al things that had been done ✠verse 12 And being assembled together vvith the auncients taking counsel they gaue a greate summe of money to the souldiars ✠verse 13 saying Say you That his Disciples came by night and stole him avvay vvhen vve vvere a sleepe ✠verse 14 And if the President shal heare of this vve vvil persuade him and make you secure ✠verse 15 But they taking the money did as they vvere taught And this vvord vvas bruited abrode among the Ievves euen vnto this day ✠verse 16 And the eleuen Disciples vvent into Galilee vnto the mount vvhere IESVS had appointed them ✠verse 17 And seeing him they adored but some doubted ✠verse 18 And IESVS comming neere spake vnto them saying Al povver is giuen to me in heauen and in earth ✠verse 19 ◠going therfore teach ye al nations BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER AND OF THE SONNE AND OF THE HOLY GHOST ✠verse 20 teaching them to obserue al things vvhatsoeuer I haue commaunded you and behold I am vvith you ″ al daies euen to the consummation of the vvorld ⊢ ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XXVIII 1. To see the Sepulcher The deuout women came to visite our Sauiours sepulcher and for their deuotion first deserued to know the Resurrection and to see him risen The honour of the which Sepulcher and the Pilgrimage therevnto in the Primitiue Church S. Hierom declareth in these wordes The Iewes sometime honoured Sancta Sanctorum because there were the Cherubs and the
said to him Simon I haue somevvhat to say vnto thee but he said Maister say ✠verse 41 A certaine creditour had tvvo debters one did ovve fiue huÌ„dred pence and the other fiftie ✠verse 42 They hauing not vvherevvith to pay he forgaue both Vvhether therfore doth loue him more ✠verse 43 Simon ansvvering said I suppose that he to vvhom he forgaue more But he said to him Thou hast iudged rightly ✠verse 44 And turning to the vvoman he said vnto Simon Doest thou see this vvoman I entred ″ into thy house vvater to my feete thou didst not giue but she vvith teares hath vvatered my feete and vvith her heares hath vviped them ✠verse 45 Kisse thou gauest me not but she since I came in hath not ceased to kisse my feete ✠verse 46 Vvith oile thou didst not anoint my head but she vvith ointment hath anointed my feete ✠verse 47 For the vvhich I say to thee Many sinnes are forgiuen her because she hath loued much But to vvhom lesse is forgiuen he loueth lesse ✠verse 48 And he said to her Thy sinnes are forgiuen thee ✠verse 49 And they that sate together at the table began to say vvithin them selues Vvho is this that also forgiueth sinnes ✠verse 50 And he said to the vvoman ″ Thy faith hath made the safe goe in peace ⊢ ANNOTATIONS CHAP. VII 5. Built a Synagogue As at that time to found a Synagogue vvas acceptable to God and procured the praiers of the faithful people for vvhose vse it vvas made so novv much more in the nevv Testament to build a Church Monasterie College or any like vvorke for the honour and seruice of God is grateful to him and procureth the praiers of the good people for vvhose vse such things be founded 44 Into thy house An exceding approbation of the extraordinary vvorkes and signes of external deuotion vvhich seeme to carnal men though othervvise faithful to be often superfluous or not acceptable This Simon vvas perhaps of a good vvil and therfore as diuers others did els vvhere inuited Christ to his house not of curiositie or captiousnes as some other did but of affectioÌ„ as it may seeme by Christs familiar talke vvith him Notvvithstanding his duties tovvardes him vvere but ordinary but the anointing vvashing kissing vviping of his feete in such sort as the vvoman did vvere further signes of more then vulgar loue such as is in deuout men or vvomen that goe on pilgrimage and kisse deuoutly the holy memories of Christ and his Saincts Vvhich is no more but an exteriour expressing of their affection and that they loue much as euery vulgar christian man doth not 50 Thy faith The remission of her sinnes being attributed before to charitie is novv also said to come of her faith Vvhereby you may knovv that it commonly procedeth of both and of hope also though but one named Because vvhen there be diuers causes concurring to one effect the scriptures commonly name but one and that especially vvhich is most proper to the purpose and time not excluding the other And therfore his vvorking miracles vpon any person is attributed to the faith of them on vvhom or at vvhose desire they be done Because he vvrought his miracles to induce al men to beleeue in him and therfore specially required faith at their hands and namely before other things vvhether they did beleeue that he vvas able to doe that vvhich they asked at his hands vvithout vvhich it had ben rather a mockrie and tentation of him then a true desire of benefite at his hands CHAP. VIII Going ouer al Galilee with his traine 4 he preacheth to the Iewes in parables because of their reprobation 9 but to his Disciples manifestly because he wil not for the Iewes incredulity haue his comming feâ—strate 19 signifying also that we art his kinne though we be Gentils and not his carnal brethren the Iewes 22 To whom also signified by the Gerasens after the tempest in his sleepe that is in his death and caulme in his resurrection he commeth but they preferring their temporals before his presence he leaueth them againe 41 Likewise comming to cure the Iewes who were borne when the Gentils sickened about Abrahams time he is preuented with the faith of the Gentils and then the Iewes die but them also in the end he wil restore verse 1 AND it came to passe afterward and he made his iourney by cities and tovvnes preaching and euangelizing the kingdom of God and the Tvvelue vvith him ✠verse 2 and some vvomen that had been cured of vvicked spirits and infirmities * Marie vvhich is called Magdalene out of vvhom seuen deuils vvere gone forth ✠verse 3 and Ioane the vvife of Chusa Herods procurator and Susan and many others that ″ did minister vnto him of their substance ✠verse 4 And * vvhen a very great multitude assembled and hastened out of the cities vnto him he said by a similitude ✠verse 5 The sovver vvent forth to sovv his seede and vvhiles he sovveth some fel by the vvay side and vvas troden vpon and the foules of the aire did eate it ✠verse 6 And other some fel vpon the rocke and being shot vp it vvithered because it had not moisture ✠verse 7 And othersome fel among thornes and the thornes grovving vp vvithal choked it ✠verse 8 And other some fel vpoÌ„ good ground and being shot vp yelded fruite an hundred fold Saying these things he cried He that hath eares to heare let him heare ✠verse 9 And his disciples asked him vvhat this parable vvas ✠verse 10 To vvhom he said To you it is giuen to knovv the mysterie of the kingdoÌ„ of God but to the rest in parables that * seeing they may not see and hearing may not vnderstand ✠verse 11 And the parable is this The seede is the vvord of God ✠verse 12 And they besides the vvay are those that heare then the deuil coÌ„meth and taketh the vvord out of their hart lest beleeuing they be saued ✠verse 13 For they vpon the rocke such as vvhen they heare vvith ioy receiue the vvord and these haue no rootes because for a time they beleeue and in time of tentation they reuolt ✠verse 14 And that vvhich fel into thornes are they that haue heard and going their vvaies are choked vvith cares and riches and pleasures of this life and render not fruite ✠verse 15 And that vpon good ground are they vvhich in a good and very good hart hearing the vvord doe reteine it and yeld fruite in patience ⊢ ✠verse 16 And no man lighting a candel doth couer it vvith a vessel or put it vnder a bed but setteth it vpoÌ„ a caÌ„delsticke that they that enter in may see the light ✠verse 17 For there is not any thing secrete that shal not be made manifest nor hid that shal not be knowen come abrode ✠verse
his coate And his coate vvas vvithout seame vvrought from the toppe through out ✠verse 24 They said therfore one to an other Let vs not cut it but let vs cast lottes for it vvhose it shal be That the scripture might be fulfilled saying They haue parted my garments among them and vpon my vesture they haue cast lottes And the souldiars did these things ✠verse 25 And there stoode beside the crosse of IESVS his mother and his mothers sister Marie of Cléphas and Marie Magdalene ✠verse 26 Vvhen IESVS therfore had seen his mother and the disciple standing vvhom he loued he saith ″ to his mother Vvoman behold thy sonne ✠verse 27 After that he saith ″ to the disciple Behold thy mother And from that houre the disciple tooke her to his ovvne ⊢ ✠verse 28 Aftervvard IESVS knovving that al things vvere novv consummate that the * scripture might be fulfilled he saith I thirst ✠verse 29 A vessel therfore stoode there ful of vinegre And they putting a spongeful of vinegre about hyssope offered it to his mouth ✠verse 30 IESVS therfore vvhen he had taken the vinegre said It is coÌ„summate And bovving his head he gaue vp the ghost ✠verse 31 The Ievves therfore because it vvas the Parasceue that the bodies might not remaine vpon the crosse on the Sabboth for that vvas a greate Sabboth day they desired Pilate that their legges might be broken and they might be taken avvay ✠verse 32 The souldiars therfore came and of the first in deede they brake the legges and of the other that vvas crucified vvith him ✠verse 33 But after they vvere come to IESVS vvhen they savv that he vvas dead they did not breake his legges ✠verse 34 but one of the souldiars vvith a speare opened his side and incontinent there came forth ″ bloud and vvater ✠verse 35 And he that savv it hath giuen testimonie and his testimonie is true ⊢ And he knovveth that he saith true that you also may beleeue ✠verse 36 For these things vvere done that the scripture might be fulfilled You shal not breake a bone of him ✠verse 37 And againe an other scripture saith They shal looke on him vvhom they pearsed ✠verse 38 And after these things Ioseph of Arimathaea because he vvas a disciple of IESVS but secrete for feare of the Iewes desired Pilate that he might take avvay the body of IESVS And Pilate permitted He came therfore and tooke avvay the body of IESVS ✠verse 39 * Nicodemus also came he that at the first came to IESVS by the night bringing a mixture of myrrhe and aâ—oés about an hundred poundes ✠verse 40 They tooke therfore the body of IESVS and bound it in linnen clothes vvith the spices as the maner is vvith the Ievves to burie ✠verse 41 And there vvas in the place vvhere he vvas crucified a garden and in the garden a nevv monument vvherein no man yet had been laide ✠verse 42 There therfore because of the Parasceue of the Ievves they laid IESVS because the monument vvas hard by ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XIX 15. His owne crosse This crosse for that it was the instrument of our redemption and as it were the altar of the supreme sacrifice highly sanctified by the touching bearing and oblation of the sacred body and bloud of our Lord is truely called the HOLY CROSSE and hath been endued vvith vertue of miracles both the whole and euery litle peece thereof For the which causes and specially for the most neere memorial of Christes Passion it hath been visited in Pilgrimages honoured by festiual daies and otherwise reserued reuerâ—nced of the ancient fathers with al deuotion as contrariwise it hath been abused of Pagans Apostaraes and Heretikes seeking in vaine to deface and destroy it See S. Cyril li. 6. cont Iulian. S. Hierom ep 17. S. Paulinus ep 11. Ruffinus li. 1. c. â— 8. Euagr. histo li. 4. c. 25. S. Leo ep 72. and Ser. â— de Passione Paulus Diac. li. 18. 26. To his mother The maruelous respect that Christ had to his mother vouchsauing to speake to her and to take order for her euen from the crosse in the middes of his infinite anguishes and mysteries a working for mankind 27. To the Disciple A great honour to Iohn and charge to haue that blessed iewel in keeping and an vnspeakable comfort that from that day forward the one was to the other mother and sonne virginem virgini coÌ„mendauit saith S. Hierom. He coÌ„mended the virgin to a virgin 34. Bloud and vvater This pearsing of Christs side though on the souldiars part it was done blindly and insolently yet by Gods ordinance it conteined great mysteries and was presigured by Moyses striking the rocke with his rodde as this streame of bloud and water drawen miraculously out of his dead body running in the Sacraments of the Church after the people of God was signified by the water of the same rocke folowing the Israelites in the desert Out of this side saith S. Augustine issued the Sacraments Hence saith S. Chrysostom the great mysteries haue their beginning Who vvarneth vs that vvhen vve come to drinke of the holy chalice vve should so approche as though vve drevv the bloud out of Christes side And both bloud and vvater apart did flovv forth to shevv vs the fountaine of the tvvo principal Sacraments and their seueral matters Baptisme and the Eucharist springing to life euerlasting in the Church The fathers also say that the Church vvho is Christs spouse and his coadiutrice in applying the bloud and vvater to the benefite of the Faithful was here formed builded and taken out of this holy side of Christ sleeping on the Crosse as * Eue was of Adams side when he was cast a sleepe in Paradise CHAP. XX. Vpon Easter day his body is missed in the Sepulcher first by M. Magdalene 3 secondly by Peter also and Iohn the vvinding clothes yet remayning 11 Then to M. Magdalene after she had seen tvvo Angels IESVS also him self appeareth 〈◊〉 She hauing told to the Disciples he appeareth to them also the same day and sendeth them as him self vvas sent giuing them the Holy Ghost to remitte and to reteine sinnes 26 Againe vpon lovv Sunday he appeareth to them letting Thomas see that he might beleeue and commending such as not seeing yet do beleeue 30 The effect of this booke verse 1 AND the first of the Sabboth Marie Magdalene commeth early vvhen it vvas yet darke vnto the monument and she savv the stone taken avvay from the monumeÌ„t ✠verse 2 She ranne therfore and coÌ„meth to Simon Peter and to the other disciple vvhom IESVS loued and saith to them They haue taken our Lord out of the monument and vve knovv not vvhere they haue laid him ✠verse 3 Peter therfore vvent forth and that other disciple
according to the purpose of him that vvorketh al things according to the counsel of his vvil ✠verse 12 that vve may be vnto the praise of his glorie vvhich before haue hoped in Christ ✠verse 13 in vvhom you also vvhen you had heard the vvord of truth the Gospel of your saluation in vvhich also beleeuing you vvere signed vvith the holy Spirit of promis ✠verse 14 vvhich is the pledge of our inheritance to the redemption of acquisition vnto the praise of his glorie ✠verse 15 Therfore I also hearing your faith that is in our Lord IESVS and loue tovvard al the sainctes ✠verse 16 cease not to giue thankes for your making a memorie of you in my praiers ✠verse 17 that God of our Lord IESVS Christ the father of glorie giue you the spirit of vvisedom and of reuelation in the knovvledge of him ✠verse 18 the eies of your hart illuminated that you may knovv vvhat the hope is of his vocation and vvhat are the riches of the glorie of his inheritance in the sainctes ✠verse 19 and vvhat is the passing greatnes of his povver tovvard vs that beleeue according to the operation of the might of his povver ✠verse 20 vvhich he vvrought in Christ raising him vp from the dead and setting him on his right hand in celestials ✠verse 21 aboue ″ al Principalitie Potestate Power and Domination and euery name that is named not only in this vvorld but also in that to come ✠verse 22 And he hath * subdued al things vnder his feete and hath made him ″ head ouer al the CHVRCH ✠verse 23 vvhich is his body the fulnes of him vvhich is filled al in al. ANNOTATIONS CHAP. I. 21. Al Principalitie The Fathers vpon this and other places of the old and new Testament vvhere they finde the orders of holy Angels or spirites named agree that there be nine orders of them Of vvhich some be here counted and called as vve see in the Epistle to the Colossians the order of Thrones is specified vvhich maketh fiue to vvhich if vve adde these foure Cherubim Seraphim Angels and Archangels vvhich are commonly named in holy vvrite in al there be nine S. Denys coel Hier. c. 7. 8. 9. Ec. Hier. c. 1. S. Athanas li de Communi essent in fine Gregor Moral li. 32. c. 18. Therfore good Reader make no accoumpt of * Caluins and others infidelitie vvhich blasphemously blame and condemne the holy doctors diligence in this point of curiousitie and impietie The vvhole endeuour of these heretikes is to bring al into doubt and to corrupt euery Article of our Religion 22. Head It maketh a high proofe among the Protestants that no man can be head of the Church because it is a calling and dignitie proper to Christ But in truth by as good reason there should be no king nor lord because He is king and lord neither should there be Bishop or Pastor because he is the Bishop and Pastor of our soules nor Pontifex nor Apostle for by those titles S. Paul termeth him Hebr. 3 none should be piller foundation rocke light or maister of the Church or truth because Christ is properly al these And yet our nevv doctors though they be exceding seditious and vvould for the aduantage of their sect be gladly ridde of kings and al other Superiors temporal if they feared not the sword more then God and vvould finde as good Scriptures to be deliuered of them as they now finde to discharge them selues of obedience to Popes yet I say they vvil not deny al the former titles and dignities notvvithstanding Christes soueraine right in the same to be giuen and communicated to the Princes and Magistrates of the earth both spiritual and temporal though Christ in a more diuine ample absolute excellent and transcendent sort haue al these things attributed or appropriated to him self So then though he be the head of the Church and the onely head in such soueraine and principal maner as no earthly man or mere creature euer is or can be and it ioyned to the Church in a more excellent sort of coniunction then any king is to his subiects or Countrie or any Pope or Prelate to the Church vvhereof he is gouernour euen so farre that it is called his body Mystical life motion spirit grace issuing dovvne from him to it and the members of the same as from the head of the natural body though in this sort we say no man can be head but Christ nor the Church be body to any but to Christ yet the Pope may be the ministerial head that is to say the cheefe Gouernour Pastor and Prelate of the same and may be his Vicar or Vicegerent in the regiment of that part vvhich is in earth as S. Hierom calleth Damasus the Pope Summum Sacerdotem the cheefe and highest Priest and the Apostle saith of this ministerial head The head can not say to the feete you are not necessarie for me For therein also is a great difference betvvene Christ and euery mortal I relate that as the Apostle here saith he is head of the vvhole Church meaning of the triumphaÌ„t of al Angels also though in an other sort no lesse theÌ„ of the Church militaÌ„t So Peter vvas not nor any Pope nor any man can be Where you must obserue that for this soueraine preeminence of Christ in this case the Church is not called the body mystical of any Gouernour Peter Paul or vvhat Prelate or Pope so euer CHAP. II. He putteth them in minde of their vnvvorthines before they vvere Christians that al the praise may be giuen to the grace of God 11 and of the enmitie that vvas thâ—â— betvvene the Ievv and the Gentil 〈◊〉 vntil nevv that Christ by his Crosse hath made both one taking avvay the ceremâ—nies of the Lavv and making one body and building one holy Temple of al in his Catholike Church verse 1 AND you vvhen you vvere dead by your offenses sinnes ✠verse 2 vvherein sometime you vvalked according to the course of this vvorld according to the * prince of the povver of this aire of the spirit that novv vvorketh on the childreÌ„ of diffidence ✠verse 3 in vvhom also vve al conuersed sometime in the desires of our flesh doing the vvil of the flesh and of thoughtes and vvere by nature the children of vvrath as also the rest ✠verse 4 but God vvhich is riche in mercie for his exceding charitie vvhervvith he loued vs ✠verse 5 euen vvhen vve vvere dead by sinnes quickened vs together in Christ by vvhose grace you are saued ✠verse 6 and raised vs vp vvith him and hath made vs sit vvith him in the celestials in Christ IESVS ✠verse 7 that he might shevv in the vvorldes succeding the aboundant riches of his grace in bountie vpon vs in Christ IESVS ✠verse 8 For by ″ grace you are saued
through faith and that not of your selues for it is the gift of God ✠verse 9 not of vvorkes that no man glorie ✠verse 10 For vve are his vvorke created in Christ IESVS in good vvorkes vvhich God hath prepared that vve should vvalke in them ✠verse 11 For the vvhich cause be mindeful that sometime you vvere Gentils in the flesh vvho vvere * called prepuce of that vvhich is called circumcision in the flesh made vvith hand ✠verse 12 vvho vvere at that time vvithout Christ alienated from the conuersation of Israël and * strangers of the testaments hauing no hope of the promis and vvithout God in this vvorld ✠verse 13 But novv in Christ IESVS you that sometime vvere farre of are made nigh in the bloud of Christ ✠verse 14 For he is our peace vvho hath made both one and dissoluing the middle vvall of the partition the enmities in his flesh ✠verse 15 euacuating the lavv of cōmaundements in decrees that he may create the tvvo in him self into one new man making peace ✠verse 16 and may reconcile both in one body to God by the crosse killing the enmities in him self ✠verse 17 And comming he euangelized peace to you that vvere farre of and peace to them that vvere nigh ✠verse 18 For * by him vve haue accesse both in one Spirit to the Father ✠verse 19 Novv then you are not strangers and forreiners but you are citizens of the sainctes and the domesticals of God ✠verse 20 ″ built vpon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets IESVS Christ him self being the highest corner stone ✠verse 21 in vvhom al building framed together grovveth into an holy temple in our Lord ✠verse 22 in vvhom you also are built together into an habitation of God in the holy Ghost ⊢ ANNOTATIONS CHAP. II. ◠By grace you are saued through faith Our first iustification is of Gods grace and not of our deseruings because none of al our actions that vvere before our iustification could merite or iustly procure the grace of iustification Againe he saith through faith for that faith is the beginning foundation and roote of al iustification and the first of al other vertues vvithout which it is impossible to please God 20. Built vpon the foundation Note against the Heretikes that thinke it dishonorable to Christ to attribute his titles or callings to mortal men that the faithful though builded first principally and properly vpon Christ yet are said here to be built also vpon the Apostles and Prophets Vvhy may not the Church then be builded vpon Peter CHAP. III. For vvitnessing the vocation of the Gentils as being the Apostle of the Gentils he is 〈◊〉 prison 1◠Wherein the Gentils therfore haue cause to reioyce rather then to shrinke So he saith 14 and also praieth to God vvho is almightie to confirmed their invvard man though the outvvard be infirmed by persecutions verse 1 FOR this cause I Paul the prisoner of IESVS Christ for you Gentiles ✠verse 2 if yet you haue heard the dispensation of the grace of God vvhich is giuen me tovvard you ✠verse 3 because according to reuelation the sacrament vvas made knovven to me as I haue vvrittē before in breife ✠verse 4 according as you reading may vnderstand my vvisedom in the mysterie of Christ ✠verse 5 vvhich vnto other generations vvas not knovven to the sonnes of men as novv it is reuealed to his holy Apostles Prophets in the Spirit ✠verse 6 The Gentils to be coheires concorporat and comparticipant of his promis in Christ IESVS by the Gospel ✠verse 7 vvhereof I am made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God which is giuen me according to the operation of his povver ✠verse 8 To me * the least of al the sainctes is giuen this grace among the Gentils to euangelize the vnsearcheable riches of Christ ✠verse 9 and to illuminate al men vvhat is the dispensatiō of the sacrament hidden from vvorldes in God vvho created al things ✠verse 10 that the manifold vvisedom of God may be notified to the Princes and Potestats in the celestials by the Church ✠verse 11 according to the prefinitiō of worldes vvhich he made in Christ IESVS our Lord. ✠verse 12 In vvhom vve haue affiance and accesse in confidence by the faith of him ✠verse 13 For the vvhich cause I desire that you faint not in my tribulations for you vvhich is your glorie ✠verse 14 For this cause I bovve my knees to the Father of our Lord IESVS Christ ✠verse 15 of vvhom al paternitie in the heauens and in earth is named ✠verse 16 that he giue you according to the riches of his glorie povver to be fortified by his Spirit in the inner man ✠verse 17 Christ to dvvel by faith in your hartes rooted and founded in charitie ✠verse 18 that you may be able to comprehend vvith al the sainctes vvhat is the bredth and length and height and depth ✠verse 19 to knovv also the charitie of Christ surpassing knovvledge that you may be filled vnto al the fulnes of God ✠verse 20 And * to him that is able to doe al things more aboundantly then vve desire or vnderstand according to the povver that vvorketh in vs ✠verse 21 to him be glorie in the CHVRCH and in Christ IESVS vnto al generations vvorld vvithout end Amen CHAP. IIII. He exhorteth them to keepe the vnitie of the Church most 〈…〉 vvith al humilities bringing them many motiues therevnto 7 and 〈…〉 that 〈◊〉 the diuersitie it self of offices is not for diuision as being the gift of Christ him self 〈◊〉 to build vp the Church and to held al in the vnitie therof against the 〈…〉 of Heretikes that vnder Christ the head in the Church being the body euery member may prosper 17 Neither as touching life most vve 〈◊〉 like the Heathen but as it becommeth Christians laying of al our old corrupt maners and increasing daily in al goodnes verse 1 I Therfore prisoner in our Lord beseeche you that you vvalke vvorthy of the vocation in vvhich you are called ✠verse 2 vvith al humilitie mildenes vvith patience supporting one an other in charitie ✠verse 3 careful to keepe the vnitie of the spirit in the bond of peace ✠verse 4 One body and one spirit as you are called in one hope of your vocation ✠verse 5 One Lord ″ one faith one baptisme ✠verse 6 * One God and Father of al vvhich is euer al and by al and in al vs. ⊢ ✠verse 7 But * to euery one of vs is giuen grace according to the measure of the donation of Christ ✠verse 8 For the vvhich he saith Ascēding on high he ledde captiuitie captiue he gaue giftes to men ✠verse 9 And that he ascended
themselues 2 Cor. 2 16 Holy vvidowhod 1 Cor. 7. Fasting an act of religion Dutiful obedience to parents THE SECOND part The preparation that vvas made to the manifestation of CHRIST The Gospel vpoÌ„ Imber Saturday in Aduent And on the 4 Sunday in Aduent Mt. 3 1. Mr. 1 1. ⸬ Penance prepareth the way to Christ Esa 40 3. Mt. 3 7. ⸬ Fruites of penance be workes satisfactorie ⸬ A man vvithout good workes is vnfruitful and shal be cast into euerlasting fire ` is ⸬ Almes counseled or enioyned for sinnes and to auoid damnation ⸬ Iohn was so holy that many might by errour easily thinke he was Christ Mt. 3 11. Mr. 1 8 ⸬ How say then the Heretikes that the Baptisme of Christ is of no greater vertue then Iohns ` coÌ„meth Io. 1 26. Act. 1 5. 11 16. 19 4. Mat. 14 3 ` brother Philips Mar. 6 17. Mt. 3 13. Mr. 1 9. Io. 1 32. ⸬ Beza boldly wipeth out of this Gospel these wordes vvho vvas of Cainan though al the Greeke copies both of the old Testament of the new haue the wordes with ful coÌ„sent whereby vve learne the intolerable saucines of the Caluinists and their coÌ„tempt of holy Scripture that dare so deale with the very Gospel it self The reconciliation of Matthew and Luke in our Sauiours petigree Mt. 4 1. Mr. 1 12 ⸬ The Churches fast of 40 daies called LeÌ„t coÌ„meth of this is an Apostolical Tradition Clem. Constit Apost li. 5 c. 13. Hier. ep ad Marcal â—du erro MoÌ„tani Leo ser 6 et 9 de Quadrages Deuter. 8 3. Deu. 6 13 10 20. ⸬ See the Annot in S. Matthew c. 4 11. c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Psal 90 11. ⸬ If the Diuel him self alleage Scripture against Christ no maruel that Heretikes do so against Christs Church Deut. 6 16. THE third part of Christes manifesting him self by preachiÌ„g and miracles specially in Galilee Mt. 4 12. Mr. 1 14 Mt. 13 54. ⸬ Our Sauiour vsed to preach in their Synagogues Mr. 6 1. Io. 4 43 Esa 61 1 ⸬ He had a maruelous grace and an extraordinarie force in mouing the harts of his hearers The Gospel vpon Munday in the 3 vveeke of Lent 3 reg 17 9. 4 reg 5 14. Mat. 4 13. 7 28. Mr. 1 21 Mat. 8 14. The Gospel vpon Thursday in the 3 vveeke of Lent And vpon Saturday in Vvhitson-vveeke Mr. 1 30 The diuels tentations Miracles at one place and not at an other Christs body conteined in place aboue nature The Apostles left their vviues The Gospel vpoÌ„ the 4 Sunday after Pentecost Mt. 4 18. Mar. 1 16. Mt. 8 2. Mar. 1 40. ⸬ See S. Mat. Annot. c. 8 4. Leu. 14 2. Mt. 9 2. The Gospel vpoÌ„ Friday in whitsonvveeke Mr. 2 3. Mt. 9 9. Mr. 2 14 The Gospel vpoÌ„ S. Matthevves eue SepteÌ„b 2â— Mat. 9 14. ⸬ Christ came not to call those who presume of their owne iustice and that couÌ„pt them selues to haue no neede of Christ Mar. 2 18. ⸬ See S. Mat. Annot. c. 9 14. Lu. 5 33. Peters ship Peter fishing Act. 2 41. 4 4. Peters coadiutors Peters preeminence in fishing for 〈◊〉 soules Zeale of soules The intercessioÌ„ of others In catena S. Thomae Priests do remit sinnes Io. 20 23. Hiero. in Mat. 9. Forsaking al and folovving Christ Athan. in vit S. Antonij August coÌ„fes li. 8 c. 12. Bonau in vit S. FraÌ„cisci ⸬ S. Hierom ep 1 ad Nepotia vvriteth of him self that being at CoÌ„stantinople he asked his maister Gregorie Nazianzene the famous Doctor then Bishop there what Sabboth this vvas who by his answer declared that it was very hard to tel neither is it yet knowen to the best learned Yet the Protestants are wont to say Al is very easie Mt. 12 1 Mr. 2 23 1. Re. 21 4. Leu. 24 9. Mt. 12. 10. Mr. 3 1. The Gospel vpoÌ„ S. Bartlemewes day Mt. 10 1 Mr. 3 13 6 7. Lu. 9 1. The Gospel vpoÌ„ Alholowes eue And for many Martyrs Mt. 5 2. 6 7. ⸬ That is to euery one iustly asking For that vvhich is vniustly asked may be iustly denied Aug. li. 1. c. 40. de Serm. Do. in monte The Gospel vpon the first Sunday after Pentecost ⸬ He buildeth right surely that hath both faith and good vvorkes he buildeth on sand that trusteth to his faith or reading or knovvledge of the scripture and doth not vvorke or liue accordingly Heretikes vnderstaÌ„d not the Scriptures The Churches praiers at the times of giuing holy Orders Calu. Inst li. 4 c. â— The name and dignitie of Apostles Ps 108 8. Act. 2 20. Eph. 1 20. Act. 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 12. Eph. 4 11. 1 Cor. 9 2. Phil. 2 25. Luc. 4 18. Hebr. 3 1. Peters preeminence Al persecution for Christ is a blessing The vanitie of Heretical preachers Against vsurie Mt. 8 5. ⸬ See the Annotations vpon S. Matth. c. 8 8. The Gospel vpoÌ„ the 15 Sunday after Pentecost And vpoÌ„ Thursday in the 4 vveeke of Lent And for S. Monica S. Augustinâ— mother Maij. 4. Mt. 11 2 c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Esa 35 5. 61 1. ⸬ Pauperes euangelizantur that is to the poore the Gospel is preached and they receiue it Mt. 11 7 ⸬ Marke this vvel concerning Iohns apparel and diet See the Annotations vpon S. Matth. c. 3 4. Mal. 3 1 ⸬ As they that conteÌ„ned Iohns baptisme despised Gods counsel and wisedoÌ„ so much more they that make no accoumpt of the Sacraments of the Church despise Gods counsel and ordinance touching their saluation to their owne damnation Mt. 3 4. The Gospel vpoÌ„ S. Marie Magdalens day Iul 22. And vpon Thursday in Passion weeke And vpoÌ„ Imber Friday in Sept. ⸬ A perfect paterne of true penance in this vvoman vvho sought of Christ vvith opeÌ„ teares other strange vvorkes of satisfaction and deuotion remission of her sinnes ⸬ Not only faith as you may perceiue but loue or charitie obtaineth remission of sinnes ⸬ As the Pharisees did alwaies carpe Christ for remissioÌ„ of sinnes in earth so the Heretikes reprehend his Church that remitteth sinnes by his authoritie Building of Churches Monasteries c. Exteriour signes of more then common deuotion Iustification attributed not to faith onely Mr. 16 9. c aliae multae Mt. 13 1. The Gospel vpoÌ„ the Sunday of Sexagesine Mr. 4 1. Es 6 9. ⸬ See the Annotations vpon S. Matthevv c. 13 14. ⸬ Against the Heretikes that say faith once hat can not be lost and that he vvhich novv hath not faith neuer had ⸬ He did not here disdainfully speake of his mother but teacheth that our spiritual kinred is to be preferred before carnal cognation Hilar. in 〈◊〉 Mat. Mt. 8 23. Mar. 4 36. c complebantur ⸬ See the Annotations vpon S. Matthevv c. 8 24. Mt. 8 28 Mr. 5 1. Mt. 9 18 Mr. 5 22. ⸬ See the Annotations vpon S. Matthew c. 9. 19. ⸬ It is an euideÌ„t signe of prerogatiue that Peter only is named
71. 124. nu 14. pag. 558. Mediator See Sainctes Hovv Christ is the onely mediator 568. Merite and Meritorious 72 marg It hath correspondeÌ„ce and relation to merces hire or revvard 13. 16. 112 marg 430. 719 mar 744 marg 543 marg Both the meaning and word are in the scriptures 197 m. 198. 430. 639 m. 537 m. 705 m. 553 m. VvheÌ„ce the merite of workes riseth 72 marg 402. 411. 430. 594. 470. Difference of merites 58. 37. 486. 430. 193 m. Vve merite not our first iustification See Iustification To be worthie to merite is al one 198. 197 m. 705. marg 537 marg 553 mar The time of meriting is in this life only 245 m. See vvorkes The Protestants auoid the word merite 639. The Caluinists deny Christs owne merites 529. 708 m. Miracles necessarie to cofirme new doctrine 27. nu 1. p. 263. nu 24. p. 298. nu 82. p. 492. nu 12. True miracles only in the Cath. Church 50. nu 19. 20. p. 124. nu 22. Vvhen Heretikes may worke true miracles p. 112. nu 38. Forged or lying miracles 7â— nu 84. p. 559. nu 9. p. 722 marg Miracles vvrought by application of creatures by the name of IESVS of the Apostles other holy men by Saincts and their relikes S. Peters shadovv S. Paules napkin 112. 104. nu 13 231. 261 298. 304. 312. 326. 350. 372. By touching Christ and vvhatsoeuer belonged to him 93 marg 106. 108. Miracles in one place and at one time more then in other 147. 231. 456 marg Peculiar to certaine countries 370 m. 372. The Protestants as faithles to beleeue such miracles as the old Pagans 261. They attribute them to the Diuel as the heathen did p. 24 in marg They pretend Pharisaically Gods honour in derogating from the miracles of Saincts 246 marg The gift of miracles in the Church for edification 132. Christs miracles significatiue 247 m. Monkes Monastical life Vvhether they should worke with their handes 561. 562. They were shauen în the primitiue Church and Nunnes clipped of their heare 562. See Exemites Religious N NAmes of CHRISTIANS 323. of the authors of sectes ibid. of the first instituters of seueral religious orders ibidem Neuters 33. 706. Nouelties of wordes phrases 584. not al new that are not in Scriptures ibid. How they are to be tried nouelties of vvordes ibid. Numbers mystical 94. 700. The Protestants rashnes in condemning numbers of praiers fastes Masses c. 700. O ORiginal sinne See Sinne. Orders The three holy orders bouÌ„d to chastitie 571. Bigami excluded from holy orders 570. 579. 596. Al seuen orders haue been from the Apostles time 572. The institution and office of Deacons 305. Holy orders is a Sacrament 577. instituted by Christ at his last supper 204. 452. giuen by imposition of handes 330. 332. 577. 586 marg by a Bishop not by the peoples voices 332. It giueth grace 586 marg none to be admitted vvithout good examination 579 marg Praier and fasting at the time of giuing holy Orders 154. 332. marg See Imber daies Othes that are vnlavvful must not be kept pag. 38 marg 361. P PArdons or indulgences grounded vpon Christs ovvne vvordes 474. vpon his example 210. 474. vpon his merites and the mutual satisfaction of one for an other pag. 538. practised by S. Paul 473. 474. by the holy Bishops of the primitiue Church 474. A pardon is only a remission of temporal punishment due for sinne 473. 474. 475. Vvhy pardons more common now then in old time ibid. to whom this auctoritie of pardoning pertaineth 47. nu 19. pag. 473. 474. 475. 538. Al pardons are giuen in the vertue and name of Christ 474. Parents The duety tovvard them 142. 106. Carnal parents frendes in what cases lesse esteemed 159 marg 176 mar 181 marg duty tovvard our spiritual parents 600 marg See Priests Penance is perfect repentance that is not only amendemeÌ„t of life but implying also confession sorowful contrition and paineful satisfaction pag. 8. 30. 167 marg That the Greeke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifie this penaÌ„ce p. â— 30. 171 marg 177 marg 716 marg 492 m. S Iohn Baptist first then Christ and his Apostles preached penance 7. 8. 88 marg 143 marg 295 marg 352 marg 366 marg S. Iohn Baptists penance 8. 156 marg Marie Magdalens penance 157 marg The great penance in the primitiue Church 475. 492 marg The old Canonical discipline ib. S. Paules chastening of his body by penance 444. Temporal paine remaineth due vvhen the sinne is remitted 635. Satisfaction or workes of Penance pag. 8. nu 8. 143 marg 195. 314. 454. 473. 482. 630. 645. nu â—3 717 marg They derogat nothing from Christs satisfaction but are requisite because of the same 402. 473. 538. 611. The body chastised by penance is a grateful sacrifice to God 413. The Sacrament of Penance handled at large 276. The necessitie thereof as of Baptisme pag. 277. it is secunda tabula post naufragium 277. The contempt thereof a sinne against the holy Ghost 33. nu 31. The partes thereof Contrition Confession Satisfaction 276. Vvhat is Contrition 483. 294 marg Luthers heresie of Contrition 483. It worketh saluation ibidem Vve are bound to confesse 276. See Confession Al sinnes may be remitted by this Sacrament 613. 629. It is the old heresie of the Nouatians to deny that Confession to a Priest is necessarie and his Absolution 276. 277. See Absolution Priests Gods woÌ„derful mercy toward penitent sinners 183 marg Penance before Baptisme 295 marg Perfection double one in this life an other in the life to come 532. The state of perfection See Monastical life Religious Permission of some things that are not allowed or approued 116. Toleration of the euil 256. Persecution Catholike mens comfort in persecution 26 marg 154. 163 m. 202 m. 663. nu 17. pag. 702 m. 723. nu 7. Their secret assembling in persecutioÌ„ 71. Their praise in vvhose houses such Assemblies are kept 325 marg 342 marg 421 marg There shal be great persecution of Catholike men tovvard the end of the vvorld 122. and 199. marg 727 marg Constancie in persecution necessarie ibidem marg 706. highly commended 702. marg 723. To looke backe vpon their losses is dangerous 166. To forsake al rather then the Cathol faith is necessarie 181 and 182 m. The better men most afflicted in this life 663. The Church persecuted by Heretikes and coÌ„trariewise 505 m. Fleeing in time of persecution 325 marg wise euasions to escape daÌ„gers by S. Paules example 358. nu 25. 359 mar 341. nu 37. pag. 364 marg Not to forsake our Pastors emprisoned 529 marg Happie Gailers that shew mercie to their Catho prisoners 341 marg The courtesie of heathen officers in this case 359 m. To consent by any meanes to the persecution of such is a great offence 357 marg PersecutioÌ„ an occasion of much good 310 marg The Church