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A06986	A catholike and ecclesiasticall exposition of the holy gospell after S. Marke and Luke. Gathered out of all the singular and approued deuines, vvhich the Lorde hath geuen to hys church by Augustine Marlorat. And translated out of Latine into English by Thomas Timme minister. Sene and alowed according to the order appointed; Novi Testamenti catholica expositio ecclesiastica. English. Selections.	Marlorat, Augustin, 1506-1562.; Tymme, Thomas, d. 1620.	1583 (1583)	STC 17405; ESTC S101063	491,796	424

is nothing hyer but onely height it selfe there is Chryst in his Diuinity euen as the daie sprynge or Sunne rysing For he proceeded from the Father euen as the beams of light proceede from the Sun Thus Chryst speaketh of himselfe Iohn 3.13 No man ascendeth into heauē but he which came downe from heauen For he hath not his Oryginall frō the Earth where hee was conceiued and borne In like manner he saith I wente oute from the Father Ioh. 16.28 and came into the world This Sonne of God sayth Zacharias hath visited vs comming to vs into the Earth and hath geuen to vs myserable dampned Sinners remission of Sinnes 79. To geue light to them that sate in Darkenesse and in the shadowe of death and to guide our feete into the way of peace To geue Lighte to them that sate in darkenes C. In this Zacharias extoll●th the mercy of God that the shadow of Death being put away the lighte of Lyfe was restored vnto the People of God And this seemeth to be an allusiō to the Woordes of the Prophet where Chryst is called the Sonne of righteousnes carying health in his wynges Mala. 4. ● that is to say in his Beames Whē the Sun ryseth we know by Experience the health followeth the same For by the rysing therof we feele our selues more mery and chearefull of the which sicke persons haue best experience As touching light and darkenes we haue the like speaches in Esay A people which walked in darknes saw great light Light is rysen vppon them that dwelte in the shadovve of Death The like we haue in many other places Concerning the which matter Esay 9.1 read the annotations vpon Mathevv BV. Therefore he perseuereth in the Metaphor Mat. 4.16 As the Sun geueth lighte vnto oure Bodies so Chryste geueth lighte vnto our mindes And withal he sheweth wherefore he calleth Chryste the day sprynge Namely that he might lyghten such as sit in Darkenes and in the shadow of Death By these words we are taughte that there is no quickning light in the world without Christ but that all thinges are couered with horrible darkenes of Death therefore Esay in another place testifieth that this benefite is proper to the Church onely Behould sayth he darkenes shall couer the Earth and a thicke miste the People Esay 60.1 but vppon thee shall the lord aryse and his glory shall bee seene in thee Notwithstanding it may be demaūded how the Israelites sate in the shadow of Death Question whose hearts the Lorde alwayes illumined by fayth Ansvver We answer that the Godly which liued vnder the Law being beset round about with the darkenes of Death behelde a lyghte a farre of in the comming of Chryste by which they were refreshed leaste they should bee ouerwhelmed with presente Death It may also be that Zacharias had respecte to the miserable estate of hys tyme. But this is generally true that by the comming of Chryst a lighte is risen vp to al the Godly which were from the beginning and which shall be to the ende to quicken them because he hath poured lyfe also into those that were deade BV. Furthermore Zacharias ioyneth heere the Iewes and Gentyles together and describeth the Condytion of mankynde and the office of Chryste Therefore he sayth Chryste therefore came that he might be the lighte of the World and to illuminate mēs hearts by the Ghospell and to call them vnto him which were held in Captiuity vnder Sathan in blyndnes in the darknes of Vnbeliefe that so he might dyrecte theyr feete into the way of peace Read the 4. cap. of Math. verse 16. Note heere that if the electe before they bee called be in the shadow of death what shall wee thinke of the Reprobate To be short we must set agaynst the shadow of Death the light and brightnesse of Chryst who putteth away these darkenesses that we might be illumined vnto Saluation His brightnesse aloane ought to be sufficient for vs. To directe our feete into the way of peace C. By this parte Zacharias teacheth that the perfection of al goodnes and the summe of all felicity cōsisteth in Chryst aloane The Name of peace may be taken in his owne proper sence welinoughe because the illumination of Chryst is able to pacify mens mindes But because the Hebrevves by peace vnderstande the happy Successe of all things there is no doubt but that Zachartas wente here aboute to make Chryst the Author of perfect blessednes least we should seeke for any maner of goodnes elsewhere but being perswaded that we are perfectly blessed in Chryst we might stay our selues vppon him alone To the which effect pertaine these words of the Prophet The Sunne shall shyne to thee no more by day Esay 60.19 nor the Moone by night but the Lord shal be thy euerlastynge lighte But if Zacharias by the onelie sighte of his Sonne being yet an Infante was led to speake so notably of the Grace and vertue of Chryst before hee was borne are not they to vnthankfull which thinke not so Honourably of Chryst after that hee is deade rysen agayne and ascended into Heauen that he mighte sit at the ryght hande of his Father as they ought and do diminish his Power of a Sauiour the Tytle whereof was geuen vnto him by the holy Ghost he being yet in his mothers wombe For wee must remember that which we spake before how that Zacharias spake not of hymselfe but by the dyrection of Gods Spyrite R. This is the Summe of Zacharias songe in the which seeing the truthe is specially commended and the mercy of God Gods benefites declared which are come to vs by Chryst manifested by the preaching and Testimony of Iohn let vs confirme our Faith and shewe our selues thankefull vnto God that with thankefulnes we may keepe and enioy those Benefites which by Gods liberality wee haue receiued throughe Chryst 80. And the Chyld grew vvaxed stronge in Spyrite and was in wyldernesse till the Day came when hee should shew himselfe vnto the Israelytes And the Chylde grewe C. Thys the Euangelyst Luke addeth to knit vp the history And waxed strōg in spirit As the Natiuity of Iohn was wonderfull so the increase of his age was not without admiration For as hee grewe in stature and in Body so also hee was corroborated with the strēgth of the Spyrite Not that he had nowe vnderstanding but because there was a straunge and vnwonted towardnes in the Child which was a signe that the holy Ghost dwelt in him C. Therefore according to the portion of euery age the holy Ghost sheweth it self more and more both in words and also in deedes And was in wildernesse A. Reade our Annotations vpon the first Verse of the third Chapter of Mathews Gospell Til the day came c C. That is to say he lay hid vntill the time came in the which the Lord had determined that he should shew himself C. Whereby wee gather that Iohn

accounted for a deceiuer To preache the Gospell C. Heere Christe sheweth to what ende hee was endued with the Graces of the Spirite namely that hee might Preache the Gospell to the poore Whereupon wee gather that which we sayd before that whosoeuer are sent of GOD to preache the Gospell are first instructed with necessarye Gyftes that they may bee able to discharge so waighty an Office Wherefore very fonde are they who vnder the pretence of the deuine calling vsurpe vnto them the place of Pastors when as in deede they are most vnmeete to execute such an office A. They therefore which will be coūted true and lawfull Pastors must cōsider that their proper office is to preach the Gospell R. For this great Sheepheard of all other shepheards Christ saith not To rule with externall maiesty he hath sent mee but To preach the Gospell And hee saith to his Apostells Ihon. 20. ●● As the father hath sent mee so send I you 1 Cor. 4.1 And the Apostell Paule writeth thus Let a man so esteme vs as the Mynisters of Christ dispensators of the Mysteries of God Also 1. Pet. 5.1 the Apostell Peter saith The Elders which are among you exhort which am also an Elder a Witnesse of the afflictions of Christe and also a Partaker of the glory that shall bee opened Feede you Gods flocke which is committed vnto you takinge the ouer sight of them Not as compelled thereunto but willinge not for the desire of filthye luker but of a good minde not as though yee were Lords ouer Gods Heritage but that yee be an ensample to the flocke To the poore By this Name the Prophette gieueth vs to vnderstande what the state of the Church was before the Gospell was preached and what the Condition of euery one of vs is without Christe Therefore he calleth the Poore the Contrite the captiues the Blinde and the Brused to whom GOD promiseth restoringe And although the body of the People was oppressed with so many miseries that to euery member thereof those tytells did very well agree yet notwithstandinge bicause many of them did flatter them selues in their neede in their blindnesse in their seruitude and in death it selfe therefore a fewe were apte and meete to receiue his grace To heale the broken hearted S. They are broken hearted which feele their sinnes for sinnes breake the hearts of men For they bring with them the wrath of GOD the feare of all pearills and the feare of Death and hell But Christe cureth this seeinge hee hath made satisfaction for sinnes and appeased his heauenly father Wherefore hee sayth Mat 11.28 Come vnto mee all yee that traueile are heauy laden and I will ease you And the Lorde himselfe by the mouth of the Prophet saith Hee healeth those that are broken in heart Ps 147.3 and geueth Medicine to heale their sicknesse Againe To whom shall I haue regarde but to the poore and broken in heart Esay 66.2 to him that trembleth at my worde To preach deliuerāce to the Captiue Christ speaketh not here of ciuill captiues or of externall deliuerance but of a spirituall deliueraunce by which wee are deliuered from the seruitude of Sathan For wee are all by Nature the Captiues of Sathan and sathan hath by his right power of Lyfe and death in vs. For after that Adam sinned wee all which are the Posterity of Adam soulde vnder sinne Rom. 7.14 for sinne wee are deliuered into the power of Sathan Therefore he came to preach deliuerance from Sathan and to restore vs to our former Lord who is GOD the Father of Heauen And hee preacheth Liberty and deliuerance when through his Name hee promiseth remission of sinnes shewing that it is he which satisfied for the same and payde our debtes Wherefore whosoeuer beleueth this preachinge and thereby hauinge obtayned remission of sinnes for Christs sake obtayneth also deliuerance from Sathan and is restored to his former liberty before GOD. And recouering of sight to the blind S. By blindnesse is vnderstoode the extreme and most desperate State Seing Christe is the light of the World when hee shineth not vppon vs what haue we left but Darknesse Hee is the day springe from an high which visiteth vs to geue light to them that sit in darkenesse and in the shadow of death Hee calleth them blinde which sit in darkenesse and in the shadow of death to whom light is rysen of the which we haue spoken in Mathew Chap. 4. verse 16. Freely to set at liberty them that are brused A. That is to say that I may deliuer those which are oppressed with the burthen of sinne may gieue them remission of their sinnes They are brused which lie in sinnes fighte against them and yet notwithstanding cannot ouercome them C. By all these formes of Speache first of all wee are taught to what end the Gospell is preached and what the same offereth vnto vs Namely that whereas wee are ouerwhelmed with all kinde of euills God by his quickening light shineth vnto vs that being brought out of the deepe sincke of death he may restore vs to full and perfect felicity This is no small commendation of the Gospell that wee are sayd and doe in deede to gather such vnspeake able fruite thereby Secondly wee see who they are which Christe inuiteth vnto him maketh Partakers of the Grace cōmitted vnto him namely they which by all maner of meanes are miserable and voyde of all hope of saluation But in like maner wee are taught that wee cannot enioy these benefits of Christe vnlesse wee beinge humbled with a serious feelinge of our euells doe desire him to bee our deliuerer no lesse then they which are hungery desire to bee satisfied with Foode For who soeuer swell with pride doe not sigh vnder their captiuity neyther doe mislike of them selues in their blyndenesse doe with deafe Eares contemne and despyse this Prophesie Reade the 11. Chapter of Mathew the verses .5 and 28. 19. And to Preache the acceptable yeare of the Lord. R. The Prophet alludeth to the yeare of Iubile Leuit. 2● 8 of the which mencion is made in Moses in the which two thinges were specially obserued the one was the deliueraunce of all Seruauntes in that yeare the other was the restoring of the Possessions of such Landes as were soulde to their olde Lord or ells to their Heyres This was a Ciuill Lawe most fit for the Land of Canaan and necessary for the gouernment of the Iewes In that yeare all quarrells contentions brawles debts Actions Couenants Lawes Letters and seales were ended insomuch that the same yeare was a publique composition and pacification of all ciuill controuersies But as touchinge the externall obseruation of the yeare of Iubile according to the Lawe of Moses wee haue nothinge to doe therewith but onely with the matter it selfe signified by the yeare of Iubile For this Spirituall Iubile began first when Christ began the

was done about him and at the lēgth how he yeelded vp the Ghost 34. And at the nynth hower Iesus cryed with a lowde voyce saying Eloy Eloy Lamasabacthani whych is if one interprete it My God my God why hast thou forsaken me The Euangelyste Marke bryngeth heere many woordes which were then vsed of the most of the People amonge the Iewes Notwithstanding they wer corrupted by the longe Captiuitye of Babilon Among which also he wrote this Eloy Eloy The Hebrewes saye Eli Eli as Mathew also hath Many affirme that Marke wrote Eli Eli But what this word Eloi signifieth read the 27. of Mathew 37. But Iesus cryed with a lowde voice and gaue vp the Ghost And gaue vp the Ghost After that Chryst had thus geuen vp the Ghost and committed his soule into the Handes of the Father some haue written that he then descended in to hell which they call Limbos Patrū where as they dreame the soules of the Fathers reste to whom say they he preached vntill he rose a gaine being moued so to affirme by this place of Peter wher it is sayd 1. Pet. 3 In the which Spyrite also he wente and preached to the spyrites that were in pryson And the Vayle of the Temple did rente in two partes from the Toppe to the Bottome BV. Marke now maketh mention of certaine things which followed the death of the Lord which do commende the Pryce of his Deathe and doe set forth the Maiesty of him beinge nowe a Dying Straighte way after that deth of the Lord sayth Marke the vaile of the Temple rente in two from the Top to the bottome The Vale was that which wente betweene the sight of the People and the Holy thynges whych were in the Temple Whereby wee haue to learne that shadowes vanishe away so sone as the light of the truth shyneth The rest concerneth the Exposition of this Verse and that whych followeth yee shall finde in the seuen and twenty Chapter going before FINIS Chapter the sixtenth AND When the Saboth day was past Mary Magdalene Marye the Mother of Iames and Salome brought sweete smelling Oyntmēts that they myght come and anoynte hym And vvhen the Saboth day vvas passe BV. In this last Chapter the Euangelyste descrybeth the true resurrection of the true Body of our Lord Iesus Chryst from the deade and that which the other two Euangelists haue done largely our Euangeliste Marke hath knit vp in few Wordes because these fewe wordes in steede of many might seme to suffice The Godly women come to annoint the body of the Lord that it mighte abide sweete that it might not stinke through corruption Therefore they bringe such ointments as are of force to dry vp and consume the moiste humors of the body to the end the same might thereby be kept vncorrupted Now because they found not his body it is euident that the same was risen 2. And earely in the morning the first day of the Saboths they came vnto the Sepulchar when the sonne was rysen BV. The time is heere noted whē these women went to the Sepulchre that thereby we might gather the time of the resurrection also The first day of the Sabothes This day is the first day in the weeke next following the Saboth being the very same which for a memorial of the resurrection we call Sonday That which is heere called the Sabothe is to vs Saterday A. Read the 28. cap. of Mathew 6. And he saith vnto them be not amazed Yee seke Iesus of Nazareth which was crucified He is rysen he he is not here behold the place wher they had put him BV. Note here diligently how by the Testimony of the most holy Aungels of God the special points of our redemption are reuealed and declared vnto Men. Luke 1. For the incarnation of our Lorde was shewed vnto the Virgin Mary by the Aungell Gabriell And now Angels being ministers of truth are witnesses of his resurrection from Act. 1. the deede When the Lord standynge vppon mounte Oliuet ascended into Heauen Angels appeared and testified that the Lord Iesus should so come againe to Iudgemente as the Disciples sawe him ascende into Heauen Wherfore if we wil not let to beleue sworne witnesses how much more ought we to geue credit vnto Angels the Ministers of truth Behould the Place where It is the true property of a humane body to be in one certaine place And because the Body of the Lorde whych was risen from the dead was no more there where it was at the first it followeth that the true body is risen the very same which was laide in the Sepulchre and to conclude it followeth that the same body rising agayne lost not the property of a humane Body for then the Angel should not haue truly sayd He is not here Reade the 28. cap. of Mathew 7. But goe your way and tell hys Disciples and Peter that he goeth before you into Galile there shal ye see him as he sayd vnto you BV. This also pertayneth to confirme the verity of Christs body For that Locall moouing doth shewe the Verity of Christs body There shall yee see him As if he should say There yee shall see him he place being certain ye shal se him not as a spyrite but as a true mā 11. Afterward he appered to the eleuen as they sate together and cast in theyr teeth their vnbeliefe and hardnes of hearte because they belyeued not them which had seene that hee was risen againe from the dead Some English translations haue As they sate together at meat But it cannot be gathered by the Hebrew nor Greeke texte but rather that they sate together weeping Luke 24 and in prayer For certayne it is that this was the first Vision or appearyng of Chryst which was aboute Midnight as it may be gathered by Luke which was no fit or conuenient time for supper Againe if they had bene at meat it is not like that Luke woulde haue sayde that the Lorde standynge before them asked them for meate Or if they had any thinge to eate For he shoulde haue sene himselfe whether they had or no. But it is the Hebrew phrase of Speache to vse this word sitting for resting in any place And cast in theyr teeth Where as some restrayne these wordes of Marke vnto Thomas it semeth to bee to much coacted or Wrested so that it is better more simpelie to expounde it thus that Christ whē hee Appeared at the fyrste to hys Apostles rebuked them because they woulde not belieue those Witnesses that sawe hym after his Resurrection Howbeit their hardnes of heart is not only condempned in this that they gieue no credit vnto the words of mē but because they being conuicted by the euent of the matter it selfe woulde skarse beleue the testimony of the Lorde himself Wherfore iustly the hardnes of theyr hearts is cast in their teethe because to theyr slow dulnes obstinacy was also ioyned euen as though willingly