is taken Act. 21 and from the Tribune Lysias deliuered to Felix the Gouernour Act. 23 and by him left to Festus Act. 24. he appealeth to Caesar Act. 25 and so is SENT TO ROME Act. 27 vvhere he arriueth Act. 28. Neronis Natiuit Ascen  2 58 25 At Rome he remaineth in free prison tvvo yere Act. 28. and then is deliuered 2 Tim. 4.    After his deliuerie he preached in sundrie countries of the vvest namely in Spaine Hiero. in Cataloge Epiph. Hares 27. Him self vvriteth that he purposed so to doe Ro. 15.    In his Epistle to the Philippians c. â— he minded to visâ—e the Churches of Asia vvhich also he did Genebrard in Chron.    He vvriteth last of al his second Epistle to Timothee a litle before his death 2 Tim. 4. being novv the second time apprehended and in bandes at Rome Theodoret. 14 70 37 He vvas beheaded at Rome the same day that Peter vvas crucified S. Ambros ser 〈◊〉 68. S Maximus OF THE OTHER APOSTLES THE Actes of the rest of the tvvelue Apostles be not much vvritten of in this booke but as * other Ecclesâ—â—stical writers do teâ—tifie they preached specially in these nations as folovveth Andrevv in Aâ—haia Iohn in Asia Philip in Pbrygia Iames in Ievvrie Bartholomevv in Scythia Thomas in India Matthevv in Aethiopia Simon in Persia Thaddâ—us in Mesopotamia the other Iames in Spaine Matthias in Palestine So distributing them selues through out the vvorld to gather one Catholike Church of al Nations according as Christ gaue them commission Mat. 28 19 and as it vvas prophecied of them before Psal 18. Their sound is gone forth into euery countrie and their wordes into the endes of the whole world But before they departed one from an other the time vvhereof is not certainely knovven * al Tvvelue assembling together ful of the Holy Ghost eche laying dovvne his sentence agreed vpon tvvelue principal articles of the Christian faith and appointed them for a rule to al beleeuers Vvhich is therfore called and is THE APOSTLES CREDE Not vvritten in paper as the Scripture but from the Apostles deliuered by tradition Ruff. Hiero. locis citatis Vvhich as of old Hiero. cont Lucifer so at this day al solemnely professe in their Baptisme either by them selues or by others and al that be of age and capacitie are bound to know and beleeue euery article of the â—ame Vvhich are these that folovv THE APOSTLES CREDE or SYMBOLVM APOSTOLORVM 1 I Beleeue in God the Father almightie creator of heauen and earth 2 And in IESVS CHRIST his only Sonne our Lord. 3 Vvho vvas conceiued by the Holy Ghost borne of the Virgin MARIE 4 Suffered vnder Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried Descended into Hel. 5 The third day be rose againe from death 6 Ascended into heauen Sitteth at the right haÌ„d of God the Father almightie 7 From thence he shal come to iudge the quicke and the dead 8 I beleeue in the Holy Ghost 9 The holy Catholike Church the communion of saincts 10 Forgiuenesse of sinnes 11 Resurrection of the flesh 12 Life euerlasting Amen ⧠THE ARGVMENT OF THE EPISTLES IN GENERAL AFTER the Gospels vvhich is a storie of Christ himselfe and after the Actes of the Apostles Vvhich is a storie of Christes Church novv folovv the Epistles of the Apostles vvhich they vvrote of such matters as they had then occasion to vvrite of For being the founders and the Doctors of the Church they did in their time as the Doctors that succeeded them did after them vvho from the beginning vnto this day haue vvritten Epistles Bookes against heresies euer as they arose and of al other Ecclesiastical matters as they had occasion ministred vnto them Of vvhich their doing the Apostles first gaue here the ensample as also S. Luke in the Actes of the Apostles led the vvay to al the writers of the Ecclesiastical Historie after him For al though there be no comparison betvvene them for authoritie for asmuch as these are Cannonical Scripture and so are not any vvritings of their successors yet the occasions and matters as I haue said are like Most of these Epistles are S. Paules Epistles the rest are called * Catholicae Epistolae the Epistles Catholike For S. Paul vvriteth not any Epistle to al hovvbeit euery one of them is for al the Church but some to particular Churches of the Gentils as to the Romanes to the Corinthians to the Galatians to the Ephesians to the Philippians to the Colossians to the Thessalonians some to particular persons as to Timothee to Tite vvho vvere Bishops among the Gentiles to vvit of Ephesus and of Crete and to Philémon and then one to the Hebrevves vvho vvere the Ievves of Hierusalem and Iurie But the Epistles of the other Apostles that is of S. Iames S. Peter S. Iohn and S. Iude are not so intituled to any one Church or person except S. Iohns tvvo later short Epistles vvhich yet might not be separated from his first because they vvere al of one Author and therefore they are termed Catholike that is vniuersal For so vvriteth S. Iames To the tvvelue tribes that are in dispersion greeting and S. Peter in his first Epistle thus To the elect straÌ„gers of the dispersion of Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia Bithynia in his second thus To them that haue obteined equal faith vvith vs. likevvise S. Iude To them that are in God the father beloued and in Iesus Christ preserued and called S. Iohns first is vvithout title Novv for the occasions of their vvriting vvhereby vve shal perceiue the matters or arguments that they handle it must be remembred as the Storie of that time in the Actes of the Apostles doth at large declare that the Church then beginning vvas planted by the Apostles not onely in the Ievves but also in the Gentiles yea and specially in the Gentiles Vvhich thing offended the Ievves many waies For they could not abide to see so much as their owne Countrie to receiue him for CHRIST vvhom they had reiected and crucified much lesse to see them preach him to the Gentiles also that offended euen those Ievves also that beleeued him to be Christ Hovvbeit such of them as vvere Catholikes and therefore not obstinat vvere satisfied vvhen they vnderstood by the Apostles that it vvas Gods pleasure as Act. 11. vve reade But others of the became heretikes preached to the Christian Gentiles that it vvas necessary for them to receiue also the Ievves religion Of such vve reade Act. 15. Vnles you be circumcised you can not be saued And as these did so preach against the truth so did the vnchristened Ievves not onely them selues persecute but also stirre vp the Idolatrous Gentiles euery vvhere to persecute the Christians by such obstinacie prouoking God to reprobate theire Nation vvhich yet they thought vnpossible to be done because they vvere the seede of Abraham and
euery one of them one and it vvas said to them that they should rest yet a litle time ″ til their fellovv-seruaÌ„tes be complete and their brethren that are to be slaine euen as they ✠verse 12 And I savv vvhen he had opened the sixt seale and behold there vvas made a great earth-quake and the sunne became blacke as it vvere sacke cloth of heare and the vvhole moone became as bloud ✠verse 13 and the starres from heauen fel vpoÌ„ the earth as the figge tree casteth her greene figges when it is shaken of a great vvinde ✠verse 14 and heauen departed as a booke folded together and euery hil and ilandes vvere moued out of their places ✠verse 15 And the kinges of the earth princes and tribunes and the riche and the strong and euery bond-man and free-man * hid them selues in the dennes and the rockes of mountaines ✠verse 16 And they say to the mountaines and the rockes * Fall vpon vs and hide vs from the face of him that sitteth vpon the throne and from the wrath of the Lambe ✠verse 17 because the great day of their wrath is come and vvho shal be able to stand ANNOTATIONS CHAP. VI. 9. Vnder the altar Christ as man no doubt is this altar vnder vvhich the soules of al Martyrs liue in heauen expecting their bodies as Christ their head hath his body there already And for correspondence to their place of state in heauen the Church saieth commonly their bodies also or relikes neere or vnder the altars vvhere our Sauiour body is offered in the holy Masse and hath a special prouiso that no altars be erected or consecrated vvithout some part of a Saincts body or relikes Conâ— Asrican can 50. Carthag 5. can 14. See S. Hierom cont vigilant c. 3. S. Augustine de ciuit li. 8. c. 27. S. Gregorie li. 5. ep 50. li. 1. ep 52. li. 2 ep 58. Vvher vnto the Prophet seemeth here to allude making their soules also to haue their being in heauen as it vvere vnder the altar But for this purpose note vvel the vvordes of S. Augustine or vvhat other auncient writer soeuer vvas the author thereof Ser. 11 de Sanctis Vnder the altar saith he of God I savv the soules of the slaine What is more reuerent or honorable then to rest vnder that altar on vvhich sacrifice is done to God and in vvhich our Lord is the Priest as it is vvritten Thou art a Priest according to the order of Melchisedec Rightly do the soules of the iust rest vnder the altar because vpon the altar our Lordes body is offered neither vvithout cause do the iust there call for reuenge of their bloud vvhere also the bloud of Christ is shed for sinners and many other goodly vvordes to that purpose This place also the vvicked heretike Vigilantius as S. Hierom vvriting against him vvitnesseth c. 2 abused to proue that the soules of Martyrs and other Saincts vvere included in some certaine place that they could not be present at their bodies and monuments vvhere Christian people vsed in the primitiue Church to pray vnto them as Catholike men doe yet nor be vvhere they list or vvhere men pray vnto them To vvhich the holy doctor ansvvereth at large that they be vvheresoeuer Christ is according to his humanitie for vnder that altar they be Part of his vvordes be these that you may see hovv this blessed father refuted in that Heretike the Caluinistes so long before they vvere borne Dcst thou saith he presâ—â—ribe savves to God Doest thou feâ—ter the Apostles that they may be kept in prison til the day of iudgement and be kept from their Lord of vvhom it is vvritten They folovv the Lambe vvhither soeuer he goeth If the Lambe be in euery place then they that he vvith the Lambe must be euery vvhere And if the diuel and vvicked spirites gadding abrode in the vvorld vvith passing celeritie be present euery vvhere shal holy Martyrs after the sheading of their bloud be kept close vnder an altar that they can not sturre out from thence So ansvvereth this learned doctor Vvhich misliketh our Caluinistes so much that they charge him of great errour in that he saith Christ according to his humanitie is euery vvhere as though he vvere an Vbiquetarie Protestant Vvhere if they had any iudgement they might perceiue that he meaneth not that Christ or his Saincts should be personally present at once in euery place alike as God is but that their motion speede and agilitie to be vvhere they list is incomparable and that their povver and operation is accordingly vvhich they may learne to be the holy doctors meaning by the vvordes that folovv of the Diuel and his ministers vvhoÌ„ he affirmeth to be euery vvhere no othervvise but by their exceding celeritie of being and vvorking mischeefe novv in one place novv in an other and that in a moment For though they be spirites yet are they not euery vvhere at once according to their essence And for our nevv Diuines it vvere a hard thing to determine hovv long Satan that told our Lord he had circuited the earth vvas in his iourney and in the particular consideration and tentation of Iob and hovv many men he assaulted in that his one circuite No no. such curious companions knovv nothing nor beleeue nothing but that they see vvith corporal eies and teach nothing but the vvay to infidelitie 10. And they cried S. Hierom also against the said Vigilantius reporteth that he vsed an argument against the praiers of Saincts out of this place for that these Martyrs cried for reuenge and could not obtaine But vve vvil report his vvordes that you may see how like one heretike is to an other these of our daies to those of old Thou saiest in thy booke saith S. Hierom c. 3. that vvhiles vve be aliue one of vs may pray for an other but after vve be dead no mans praier shal be heard for an other specially seing the Martyrs asking reuenge of their bloud could not obtaine So said the Heretike Against vvhich the holy Doctor maketh a long refuâ—ation prouing that they pray much more after they be in heauen then they did here in earth and that they shal be much sooner heard of God then vvhen they vvere in the vvorld But for the Heretikes argument framed out of these vvordes of the Apocalypse thus These Martyrs did not obtaine 〈◊〉 Saincts do not pray for vs it vvas so friuolous and the antecedent so manifestly false that he vouchsaued not to stand about it For it is plaine that the Martyrs here vvere heard and that their petition should be fulfilled in time appointed by God vvherevnto they did and do alvvaies conforme them selues for it vvas said vnto them That they should rest yet a litle time til c. And that Martyrs praiers be heard in this case our Sauiour testifieth Luc 18 saying And vvil not God reuenge
there were no free wil August lib. 2. cap. 4. 5. 8. de act cum Foelic Manich. CHAP. XVII As he promised he giueth them a sight of the glorie vnto which Suffering doth bring â— aâ—d then againe doth inâ—ulcate his Passion 14 A deuil also he casteth out which his Disciples could not for their incredulitie and lacke of praying and fasting 22 being yet in Galilee he reuealeth more about his Passion 24 and the tribute that the Collectors exacted for al he payeth for himself and Peter declaring yet withal his freedom both by word and miracle verse 1 AND after six dayes IESVS taketh vnto him Peter and Iames and Iohn his brother and bringeth them into a high mountaine apart ✠verse 2 And he vvas ″ transfigured before them And his face did shine as the sunne his garments became vvhite as snovv ✠verse 3 And behold there ″ appeared to them Moyses and Elias talking vvith him ✠verse 4 And Peter ansvvering said to IESVS Lord it is good for vs to be here if thou vvilt let vs make here three tabernacles one for thee and one for Moyses and one for Elias ✠verse 5 And as he vvas yet speaking behold a bright cloude ours had ovved them And loe a voice out of the cloude saying This is my vvelbeloued sonne in vvhom I am vvel pleased heare ye him ✠verse 6 And the disciples hearing it fel vpon their face and vverefore afraid ✠verse 7 And IESVS came and touched them and he said to them Arise and feare not ✠verse 8 And they lifting vp their eyes savv no body but only IESVS ✠verse 9 And as they descended from the ″ mount IESVS commaunded them saying Tel the vision to no body til the Sonne of man be risen from the dead ⊢ ✠verse 10 And his Disciples asked him saying what say the Scribes then that * Elias must come first ✠verse 11 But he ansvvering said to them ″ Elias in deede shal come and restore al things ✠verse 12 And I say to you that Elias is already come and they did not knovv him but vvrought on him vvhatsoeuer they vvould So also the Sonne of man shal suffer of them ✠verse 13 Then the Disciples vnderstoode that of Iohn the Baptist he had spoken to them ✠verse 14 And * vvhen he vvas come vnto the multitude there came to him a man falling dovvne vpon his knees before him ✠verse 15 saying Lord haue mercie vpon my sonne for he is lunatike and sore vexed for he falleth often into the fire and often into the vvater ✠verse 16 and I offered him to thy Disciples and they could not cure him ✠verse 17 IESVS ansvvered and said O faithles and peruerse generation hovv long shal I be vvith you Hovv long shal I suffer you bring him hither to me ✠verse 18 And IESVS rebuked him and the deuil vvent out of him and the ladde vvas cured from that houre ✠verse 19 Then came the Disciples to IESVS secretely and said ″ Why could not vve cast him out ✠verse 20 IESVS said to them because of your incredulity for amen I say to you if you haue ″ faith as a mustard seede you shal say to this mountaine Remoue from hence thither and it shal remoue and nothing shal be impossible to you ✠verse 21 But this kinde is not cast out but by ″ prayer and fasting ✠verse 22 And * vvhen they conuersed in Galilee IESVS said to them The Sonne of man is to be betraied into the hands of men ✠verse 23 and they shal kil him and the third day he shal rise againe And they vvere stroken sadde excedingly ✠verse 24 And vvhen they vvere come to Capharnaum there came they that receiued the didrachmes vnto Peter and said to him Your maister doth he not pay the didrachmes ✠verse 25 He saith Yes And vvhen he vvas entered into the house IESVS preuented him saying what is thy opinion Simon The kings of the earth of vvhom receiue they tribute or cense of their children or of strangers ✠verse 26 And he said Of strangers IESVS said to him Then the ″ children are free ✠verse 27 But that vve may not scandalize them goe thy vvaies to the sea and cast a hooke and that fish vvhich shal first come vp take and vvhen thou hast opened his mouth thou shalt find a stater take that and giue it them for ″ me and thee ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XVII 2. Transfigured Marke in this Transfiguration many maruelous points as that he made not only his owne body which then was mortal but also the bodies of Moyses and Elias the one dead the other to die for the time as it were immortal thereby to represent the state and glorie of his body and his Saincts in heauen By which maruelous transfiguring of his body you may the lesse maruel that he can exhibite his body vnder the forme of bread and vvine or otherwise as he list 3. Appeared Moyses By this that Moyses personally appeared and was present with Christ it is plaine that the Saincts departed may in person be present at the affaires of the liuing August de cura pro mort c. 15. 16. For euen as Angels els where so here the Saincts also serued our Sauiour and therfore as Angels both in the old Testament and the new were present often at the affaires of men so may Saincts 9. Mount This mount commonly esteemed and named of the ancient fathers Thabor S. Peter calleth the holy Mount because of this wonderful vision like as in the old Testament where God appeared to Moyses in the bush and els where to others he calleth the place of such Apparitions holy ground Wherby it is euident that by such Apparitions places are sanctified and therevpon groweth a religion and deuotion in the faithful toward such places and namely to this Mount Thabor called in S. Hierom Itabirium Ep. 17. there was great Pilgrimage in the Primitiue Church as vnto al those places which our Sauiour had sanctified with his presence and miracles and therfore to the whole land of promis for that cause called the holy land Su S. Hiero. in Epitap Paula ep 17. 18 ad Mercellam 11. Elias shal come He distinguisheth here plainly betwene Elias in person who is yet to come before the iudgement and betwene Elias in name to wit Iohn the Baptist who is come already in the spirit and vertue of Elias So that it is not Iohn Baptist only nor principally of whom Malachie prophecieth as our Aduersaries say but Elias also him self in person 19. Why could not we No maruel if the Exorcists of the Catholike Church which haue power to cast out diuels yet doe it not alwaies when they wil and many times with much a doe Wheras the Apostles hauing receiued this power * before ouer vncleane spirites
him wel fare thee good and faithful seruant because thou hast been faithful ouer a fevv things I vvil place thee ouer many things enter into the ioy of thy lord ⊢ ✠verse 24 And he also that had receiued the one talent came forth and said Lord I knovv that thou art a hard man thou reapest vvhere thou didst not sovv and gatherest vvhere thou stravvedst not ✠verse 25 and being afraid I vvent and hid thy talent in the earth behold loe here thou hast that vvhich thine is ✠verse 26 And his lord ansvvering said to him Naughtie and sloughtful seruant thou didst knovv that I reape vvhere I sovv not gather vvhere I stravved not ✠verse 27 thou oughtest therfore to haue committed my money to the bankers and comming I might haue receiued mine ovvne â— vvith vsurie ✠verse 28 Take ye avvay therfore the talent from him and giue it him that hath ten talents ✠verse 29 For to * euery one that hath shal be giuen and he shal abound but from him that hath not that also vvhich â— he seemeth to haue shal be taken avvay from him ✠verse 30 And the vnprofitable seruant cast ye out into the vtter darknesse There shal be vveeping and gnashing of teeth ✠verse 31 And vvhen the sonne of man shal come in his maiestie and al the Angels vvith him then shal he sitte vpon the seate of his maiestie ✠verse 32 and al nations shal be gathered together before him and he shal â— separate them one from an other as the pastor separateth the sheepe from the goates ✠verse 33 and shal set the sheepe at his right hand but the goates at his left ✠verse 34 Then shal the king say to them that shal be at his right hand Come ye blessed of my father possesse you the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the vvorld ✠verse 35 for I vvas an hungred and â— you gaue me to eate I vvas a thirst and you gaue me to drinke ✠verse 36 I vvas a stranger and you tooke me in naked and you couered me sicke and you visited me I vvas in prison and you came to me ✠verse 37 Then shal the iust ansvveâ— him saying Lord vvhen did vve see thee an hungred and fed thee a thirst and gaue thee drinke ✠verse 38 and vvhen did vve see thee a stranger and tooke thee in or naked and couered thee ✠verse 39 or vvhen did vve see thee sicke or in prison and came to thee ✠verse 40 And the king ansvvering shall say to them Amen I say to you as long as you did it to one of these my least brethren you did it to me ✠verse 41 Then he shal say to them also that shal be at his left hand â— Get ye avvay from me you cursed into fire euerlasting vvhich vvas prepared for the Deuil and his angels ✠verse 42 for I vvas an hungred and you â— gaue me not to eate I vvas a thirst and you gaue me not to drinke ✠verse 43 I was a stranger and you tooke me not in naked and you couered me not sicke and in prison and you did not visite me ✠verse 44 Then they also shall ansvver him saying Lord vvhen did vve see thee an hungred or a thirst or a stranger or naked or sicke or in prison and did not minister to thee ✠verse 45 Then he shal ansvver them saying Amen I say to you as long as you did it not to one of these lesser neither did you it to me ✠verse 46 And these shal goe into punishment euerlasting but the iust into life euerlasting ⊢ ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XXV 1. Virgiâ—s These virgins fiue wise and fiue foolish signifie that in the Church militant there be good and bad which bad shal be shut out at the later day although they haue lampes that is faith as the other because their lampes are out that is their faith is dead without charity and good workes to lighten them Greg. ho. 12. 1. Lampes These lampes lighted be good workes namely of mercy and the laudable conuersation which shineth before men Aug. ep 120 c. 33. 3. Oyle This oyle is the right inward intention directing our workes to Gods glorie and not to the praise of our selues in the sight of men Aug. ep 120 c. 33. 27. With vsurie Vsurie is here taken for the lawful gaine that a man getteth by wel employing his goods When God geueth vs any talent or talents he looketh for vsurie that is for spiritual increase of the same by our diligence and industrie 29. That which he seemeth to haue He is said to haue Gods gifts that vseth them and to such an one God wil increase his giftes He that vseth them not seemeth to haue rather then â—ath them and from him God wil withdraw that which before he gaue 32. Separate Lo here is the separation for in the Church militant they liued both together As for Heretikes they went out of the Church before and separated them selues and therfore are not to be separated here as being iudged already 34. Come ye 41 get ye away It is no incongruity that God should say Goe into euerlasting fire to them that by their free wil haue repelled his mercie and to the other Come ye blessed of my father take the kingdom prepared for them that by their free wil haue receiued faith and confessed their sinnes and done penance Aug. li. 2 act cum Fel. Manich. c. 8. 35. You gaue me Hereby we see how much almes-deedes and al workes of mercy preuaile towardes life euerlasting and to blot out former sinnes Aug. in Ps 49. 42. Gaue me not He chargeth them not here that they beleeued not but that they did not good workes For such did beleeue but they cared not for good workes as though by dead faith they might haue come to heauen Aug. defid op c. 15. ad Dulcit q. 2. to 4. CHAP. XXVI To the Councel of the Iewes Iudas by occasion of Marie Magdaelens â—intmeÌ„t doth sell him for litle 17 After the Paschal lambe 26 he giueth them that bread of life promised Io. 6. in a mystical Sacrifice or Separation of his Body and Bloud 31 And that night he is after his prayer 47 taken of the Iewes men Iudas being their captaine and forsaken of the other eleuen for feare 57 is falsely accused and impiously condemned of the Iewes Councel 67 and shamefully abused of them 69 and thrise deâ—ied of Peter Al euen as the Scriptures and him self had often foretold verse 1 AND it came to passe vvhen IESVS had ended al these vvordes he said to his Disciples ✠verse 2 You knovv that after tvvo dayes shal be Pasche and the Sonne of man shal be deliuered to be crucified ✠verse 3 Then vvere gathered together the cheefe Priestes and auncients of the people into the court of the high priest vvho
dewe place How much lesse can he abide the profaning of Churches now with Heretical seruice and preaching of heresie and blasphemie 17. Dâ—nne of theeues If the Temple was then a denne of theeues because of profane and secular merchandise how much more now when the house appointed for the Holy Sacrifice and Sacrament of the Bodie of Christ is made a denne for the Ministers of Caluins bread CHAP. XII He foretelleth to the Iewes in a parable their reprobation most worthy and the vocation of the Church of the Gentils in their place 10 him self being the headstone thereof 13 He defeateth the snare of the Pharisees and Herodians about paying tribute to Casar 18 answereth also the inuention of the Sadducces against the Resurrection 28 also the opposition of a Scribe 35 And so hauing put al the busie sectes to silence he turneth and poseth them on the other side because they imagined Christ should be no more but a man 38 Bidding the people to beware of the Scribes being ambitious and hypocrites 41 He commendeth the poore widovv for her two mites aboue al. verse 1 AND he began to speake to them in parables A man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it and digged a trough and built a tovvre and let it out to husbandmen and vvent forth into a strange countrie ✠verse 2 And he sent to the husbandmen in season a seruant to receiue of the husbandmen of the fruite of the vineyard ✠verse 3 Vvho apprehending him bette him and sent him avvay emptie ✠verse 4 And againe he sent to them an other seruant and him they vvounded in the head and vsed him reprochefully ✠verse 5 And againe he sent an other and him they killed and many other beating certaine and killing others ✠verse 6 Therfore hauing yet one sonne most deere him also he sent vnto them last saying That they vvill reuerence my sonne ✠verse 7 But the husbandmen said one to an other This is the heier come let vs kill him and the inheritance shal be ours ✠verse 8 And apprehending him they killed him and cast him forth out of the vineyard ✠verse 9 What therfore vvil the lord of the vineyard doe He vvil come and destroy the husbandmen and vvil giue the vineyard to others ✠verse 10 Neither haue you read this scripture The stone vvhich the builders reiected the same is made the head of the corner ✠verse 11 By our Lord was this done and it is maruelous in our eies ✠verse 12 And they sought to lay hands on him and they feared the multitude for they knevv that he spake this parable to them And leauing him they vvent their vvay ✠verse 13 * And they send to him certaine of the Pharisees and of the Herodians that they should entrappe him in his vvord ✠verse 14 Vvho comming say to him Maister vve knovv that thou art a true speaker and carest not for any man for thou doest not looke vpon the person of men but teachest the vvay of God in truth is it lavvful to giue tribute to Caesar or shal vve not giue it ✠verse 15 Vvho knovving their subteltie said to them Vvhy tempt you me bring me a penie that I may see it ✠verse 16 But they brought it him And he saith to them Vvhose is this image and inscription They say to him Caesars ✠verse 17 And IESVS ansvvering said to them Render therfore the things that are Caesars to Caesar and that are Gods ″ to God And they marueled at him ✠verse 18 And * there came to him the Saducees that say there is no resurrection and they asked him saying Maister ✠verse 19 * Moyses vvrote vnto vs that if any mans brother die and leaue his vvife and leaue no children ″ his brother shal take his vvife and raise vp seede to his brother ✠verse 20 There vvere therfore seuen brethren and the first tooke a vvife and died leauing no issue ✠verse 21 And the second tooke her and died and neither this left issue And the third in like maner ✠verse 22 And the seuen tooke her in like sort and did not leaue issue Last of al the vvoman also died ✠verse 23 In the resurrection therfore vvhen they shal rise againe vvhose vvife shal she be of these for the seuen had her to vvife ✠verse 24 And IESVS ansvvering said to them Do ye not therfore erre ″ not knovving the scriptures nor ″ the povver of God ✠verse 25 For vvhen they shal rise againe from the dead they shal neither marrie noâ— be married but are as the Angels in heauen ✠verse 26 And as concerning the dead that they do rise againe haue you not read in the booke of Moyses hovv in the bush God spake to him saying I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob ✠verse 27 He is not the God of the dead but of the liuing You therfore are much deceiued ✠verse 28 And * there came one of the Scribes that had heard them questioning and seeing that he had wel answered them asked him vvhich vvas the first coÌ„maundement of al. ✠verse 29 And IESVS ansvvered him That the first commaundement of al is Heare Israel the Lord thy God is one God ✠verse 30 And thou shalt loue the Lord thy God from thy vvhole hart and vvith thy vvhole soul and vvith thy vvhole minde and vvith thy vvhole povver This is the first commaundement ✠verse 31 And the second is like to it Thou shalt loue they neighbour as thy self An other commaundement greater then these there is not ✠verse 32 And the Scribe said to him Vvel Maister thou hast said in truth that there is one God and there is none other besides him ✠verse 33 And that he be loued from the vvhole hart and vvith the vvhole vnderstanding and vvith the vvhole soule and vvith the vvhole strength and to loue his neighbour as him self is a greater thing then al holocaustes and sacrifices ✠verse 34 And IESVS seeing that he had ansvvered vvisely said to him Thou art not farre from the kingdom of God And no man novv durst aske him ✠verse 35 And * IESVS ansvvering said teaching in the temple Hovv do the Scribes say that Christ is the sonne of Dauid ✠verse 36 For Dauid him self saith in the holy Ghost Our Lord said to my Lord sit on my right hand vntil I put thine enemies the foote-stoole of thy feete ✠verse 37 Dauid therfore him self calleth him Lord and vvhence is he his sonne And a great multitude heard him gladly ✠verse 38 And he said to them in his doctrine * Take heede of the Scribes that vvil vvalke in long robes and be saluted in the market-place ✠verse 39 and sit in the first chaites in the Synagogs and loue the highest
verse 41 And his parents vvent euery yere vnto Hierusalem * at the solemne day of Pasche ✠verse 42 And vvhen he vvas tvvelue yeres old they going vp into Hierusalem according to the custome of the festiual day ✠verse 43 and hauing ended the daies vvhen they returned the childe IESVS remained in Hierusalem and his parents knew it not ✠verse 44 And thinking that he vvas in the companie they came a daies iourney and sought him among their kinsfolke and acquaintance ✠verse 45 And not finding him they returned into Hierusalem seeking him ✠verse 46 And it came to passe after three daies they found him in the temple sitting in the middes of the Doctors hearing them and asking them ✠verse 47 And al vvere astonied that heard him vpon his vvisedom and ansvvers ✠verse 48 And seeing him they vvondered And his mother said to him Sonne vvhy hast thou so done to vs behold thy father and I sorovving did seeke thee ✠verse 49 And he said to them Vvhat is it that you sought me did you not knovv that I must be about those things vvhich are my fathers ✠verse 50 And they vnderstood not the vvord that he spake vnto them ✠verse 51 And he vvent dovvne vvith them and came to Nazareth and vvas ″ subiect to them And his mother kept al these vvordes in her hart ✠verse 52 And IESVS proceeded in vvisedom and age and grace vvith God and men ⊢ ANNOTATIONS CHAP. II. 14. Men of good wil. The birth of Christ giueth not peace of minde or saluation but to such as be of good will because he worketh not our good against our willes but our willes concurring Aug. quaest ad Simpli◠li. 1. q. 2. to 4. 19. Kept al. Our Lady though litle he spoken of her concerning such matters in the Scriptures because she was a woman and not admitted to teach or dispute in publike of high mysteries yet she knew al these mysteries and wisely noted and contemplated of al those things that were done and said about Christ from the first houre of his Conception til the end of his life and his Ascension 34. To the ruine Therfore to the ruine of some because they would not beleeue in him and so vvere the cause of their owne ruine as he is els where called A stumbling stone because many would stumble at him and so fall by their owne fault other some he raised by his grace from sinne to iustice and so he was the resurrection of many The Apostle vseth the like speache saying We are to some the odour of life vnto life to others the odour of death vnto death Not that their preaching was to cause death but because they that would not beleeue their preaching wilfully incurred deadly sinne and damnation 38. A vvidow Marke that widowhod is here mentioned to the commendation thereof euen in the old Testament also and the fruite and as it were the profession thereof is here commended to vvitte fasting praying being continually in the Temple euen as S. Paul more at large for the state of the new Testament speaketh of widowhod and virginitie as being professions more apt and commodious for the seruice of God 37. By fastings and praiers seruing Seruing in the Greeke is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is doing diuine worship vnto God as by praier so also by fasting so that fasting is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is an act of religion whereby we doe worship God as we doe by praier and not vsed only to subdew our flesh much lesse as Heretikes would haue it as a matter of poliIcie 61. Subiect to them Al children may learne hereby that great ought to be their subiection and obedience to their Parents when Christ him self being God would be subiect to his parents being but his creatures CHAP. III. Iohn to prepare al to Christ as Esay had prophecied of him baptizeth them to penance 7 insinuating their reprobation and the Gentils vocation 10 teaching also and exhorting ech sort to doe their dutie 15 That him self is not Christ vvil also iudge his baptized 19 Iohns imprisonment 21 Christ being him self also baptized of Iohn hath testimonie from heauen 23 as he vvhose generation reduceth vs againe to God verse 1 AND in the fiftenth yere of the empire of Tiberius Caesar Pontius Pilate being Gouernour of Ievvrie and Herod being Tetrarch of Galilee and Philip his brother Tetrarch of Ituréa and the countrie Trachonîtis and Lysanias Tetrarch of Abilina ✠verse 2 vnder the high Priests Annas and Caiphas the vvord of our Lord vvas made vpon Iohn the sonne of Zacharie in the desert ✠verse 3 And * he came into al the countrie of Iordan preaching the baptisme of penance vnto remission of sinnes as it is vvritten in the booke of the sayings of Esay the Prophet ✠verse 4 A voice of one crying in the desert prepare the vvay of our Lord make straight his pathes ✠verse 5 Euery valley shal be filled and euery mountaine and hil shal be made lovv and crooked things shal become straight and rough vvaies plaine ✠verse 6 and al flesh shal see the SALVATION of God ✠verse 7 He said therfore to the multitudes that vvent forth to be baptized of him * Ye viper broodes vvho hath shevved you to flee from the vvrath to come ✠verse 8 Yeld therfore fruites vvorthie of penance and doe ye not begin to say Vve haue Abraham to our father For I tel you that God is able of these stones to raise vp children to Abraham ✠verse 9 And novv the axe is put to the roote of the trees Euery tree therfore that yeldeth not good fruite shal be ' cut dovvne and cast into fire ✠verse 10 And the multitudes asked him saying Vvhat shal vve doe then ✠verse 11 And he ansvvering said vnto them He that hath tvvo coates let him giue to him that hath not and he that hath meate let him doe likevvise ✠verse 12 And the Publicans also came to be baptized and said to him Maister vvhat shal vve doe ✠verse 13 But he said to them Doe nothing more then that vvhich is appointed you ✠verse 14 And the souldiars also asked him saying Vvhat shal vve also doe And he said to them Vexe not neither calumniate any man and be content vvith your stipends ✠verse 15 And the people imagining and al men thinking in their harts of Iohn lest perhaps he vvere Christ ✠verse 16 Iohn ansvvered saying vnto al * I in deede baptize you vvith vvater but there shal come ' a mightier then I vvhose latchet of his shoes I am not vvorthie to vnloose he shal baptize you in the Holy Ghost and fire ✠verse 17 vvhose fanne is in his hand and he vvil purge his floore and vvil gather the vvheate into his barne but
they vvere his cosins either the sonnes of Iosephs brother or as the more receiued opinion is the sonnes of our Ladies sister called Marie of Iames which Iames therfore is also called the brother of our Lord. 55. Her spirit returned This returning of the soules againe into the bodies of them whom CHRIST and his Apostles raised from death specially Lazarus who had been dead foure daies doth euidently proue a third place against our aduersaries that say euery one goeth straight to Heauen or to Hel. â—or it can not be thought that they vvere called from the one or the other and therfore from some third place CHAP. IX His Twelue also now preaching euery where and working miracles 6 Herod and al do wonder much 10 After vvhich he taketh them and goeth into the vvildernesse Where he cureth and teacheth feeding 5000 vvith fiue leaues 18 Peter confessing him to be Christ 21 he on the other side foretelleth his Passion and that al must in time of persecution folovv him therein â—7 Vvherevnto to encourage vs the more 27 he giueth in his Transfiguration a sight of the glorie vvhich is the revvard of suffering â—7 The next day he casteth out a diuel vvhich his Disciples could not 43 Vvhom amiddes these vvonders he fore vvarneth againe of his scandalous Passion 49 And to cure their ambition he telleth them that the most humble he esteemeth most 49 bidding them also not to prohibit any that is not against them 51 Yea and tovvard such as be against them Schismatically to shevv mildnes for al that 57 Of folowing him three examples verse 1 AND calling together the tvvelue Apostles he gaue them vertue and povver ouer al deuils and to cure maladies ✠verse 2 And he sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heale the sicke ✠verse 3 And he said to them Take nothing for the vvay neither rod nor skippe nor bread nor money neither haue tvvo coates ✠verse 4 And into vvhatsoeuer house you enter tarie there and thence doe not depart ✠And vvhosoever shal not receiue you going forth out of that citie shake of the dust also of your feete for a testimonie vpon them ✠verse 6 And going forth they vvent a circuite from tovvne to tovvne euangelizing and curing euery vvhere ⊢ ✠verse 7 And * Herod the Tetrarch heard al things that vvere done by him and he staggered because it vvas said of some That Iohn vvas risen from the dead ✠verse 8 but of other some That Elias hath appeared and of others that a Prophet one of the old ones vvas risen ✠verse 9 And Herod said Iohn I haue beheaded but vvho is this of vvhom I heare such things And he sought for to see him ✠verse 10 And * the Apostles being returned reported to him vvhatsoeuer they did and taking them he retired apart into a desert place vvhich belongeth to Beth-saida ✠verse 11 which the multitudes vnderstaÌ„ding folovved him he receiued them and spake to them of the kingdom of God and them that had neede of cure he healed ✠verse 12 And the day began to dravv tovvards an end And the Tvvelue comming neere said to him Dimisse the multitudes that going into tovvnes and villages here about they may haue lodging and finde meates because here vve are in a desert place ✠verse 13 And he said to them Giue you them to eate But they said we haue no more but fiue loaues and tvvo fishes vnles perhaps vve should goe and bie meates for al this multitude ✠verse 14 And there vvere men almost fiue thousand And he said to his disciples Make them sit dovvne by companies fiftie and fiftie ✠verse 15 And so they did And they made al sit dovvne ✠verse 16 And taking the fiue loaues and the tvvo fishes he looked vp vnto heauen and blessed them and he brake and distributed to his disciples for to set before the multitudes ✠verse 17 And they did al eate and had their fill And there vvas taken vp that vvhich remained to them tvvelue baskets of fragments ✠verse 18 * And it came to passe vvhen he vvas alone praying his disciples also vvere vvith him and he asked them saying Vvhom doe the multitudes say that I am ✠verse 19 But they ansvvered and said Iohn the Baptist and some Elias but some that one of the Prophets before time is risen ✠verse 20 And he said to theÌ„ But vvhom say ye that I am Simon Peter ansvvering said The CHRIST of God ✠verse 21 But he rebukiÌ„g them coÌ„maunded that they should tell this to no man ✠verse 22 saying That the sonne of man must suffer many things and be reiected of the Auncients and cheefe Priests and Scribes and be killed and the third day rise againe ✠verse 23 And he said to al If any man vvil come after me let him denie him self and take vp his crosse daily and folovv me ✠verse 24 For he that vvil saue his life shal lose it for he that shal lose his life for my sake shal saue it ✠verse 25 for vvhat profit hath a man if he gaine the vvhole vvorld and lose him self and cast avvay him self ✠verse 26 For he that shal be ashamed of me and of my vvordes him the Sonne of man shal be ashamed of vvhen he shal come in his maiestie and his fathers and of the holy Angels ✠verse 27 And I say to you assuredly There be some standing here that shal not rast death ″ til they see the kingdom of God ✠verse 28 * And it came to passe after these vvordes almost eight daies and he tooke Peter and Iames and Iohn and vvent into a mountaine to pray ✠verse 29 And vvhiles he prayed the shape of his countenance vvas altered and his raiment vvhite and glistering ✠verse 30 And behold tvvo men talked vvith him And they vvere Moyses and Elias ✠verse 31 appearing in maiestie And they told his decease that he should accomplish in Hierusalem ✠verse 32 But Peter and they that vvere vvith him vvere heauie vvith sleepe And avvaking they savv his maiestie and the tvvo men that stoode vvith him ✠verse 33 And it came to passe vvhen they departed from him Peter said to IESVS Maister it is good for vs to be here and let vs make three tabernacles one for thee and one for Moyses and one for Elias not knovving vvhat he said ✠verse 34 And as he spake these things there came a cloud and ouershadovved them and they feared vvhen they entered into the cloude ✠verse 35 * And a voice vvas made out of the cloude saying This is my beloued sonne heare him ✠verse 36 And vvhiles the voice vvas made IESVS vvas found alone And they held their peace and told no man in those daies any of these things vvhich they had seen ✠verse 37
one grote doth she not light a candle and svveepe the house and seeke diligently vntil she finde ✠verse 9 And vvhen she hath found calleth together her frendes and neighbours saying Reioyce vvith me because I haue found the grote vvhich I had lost ✠verse 10 So I say to you there shal be ioy ″ before the Angels of God vpon one sinner that doth penance ⊢ ✠verse 11 And he said A certaine man had tvvo sonnes ✠verse 12 and the yonger of them said to his father Father giue me the portion of substance that belongeth to me And he deuided vnto them the substance ✠verse 13 And not many daies after the yonger sonne gathering al his things together vvent from home into a farre countrie and there he vvasted his substance liuing riotously ✠verse 14 And after he had spent al there fel a sore famine in that countrie and he began to be in neede ✠verse 15 And he vvent and cleaued to one of the citizens of that countrie And he sent him into his farme to feede svvine ✠verse 16 And he vvould faine haue filled his bellie of the huskes that the svvine did eate and no bodie gaue vnto him ✠verse 17 And returning to him self he said Hovv many of my fathers hirelings haue aboundance of bread and I here perish for famine ✠verse 18 I vvil arise and vvil goe to my father and say to him Father I haue sinned against heauen and before thee ✠verse 19 I am not novv vvorthie to be called thy sonne make me as one of thy hirelings ✠verse 20 And rising vp he came to his father And vvhen he vvas yet farre of his father savv him and vvas moued vvith mercie and running to him fel vpon his necke and kissed him ✠verse 21 And his sonne said to him Father I haue sinned against heauen before thee I am not novv vvorthie to be called thy sonne ✠verse 22 And the father said to his seruants Quickely bring forth the first stole and doe it on him and put a ring vpō his hand and shoes vpon his feete ✠verse 23 and bring ″ the fatted calfe and kil it and let vs eate and make merie ✠verse 24 because this my sonne vvas dead and is reuiued vvas lost and is found And they began to make merie ✠verse 25 But his elder sonne vvas in the field and vvhen he came and drevv nigh to the house he heard musicke and dauncing ✠verse 26 and he called one of the seruants and asked vvhat these thinges should be ✠verse 27 And he said to him Thy brother is come and thy father hath killed the fatted calfe because he hath receiued him safe ✠verse 28 But he had indignation and vvould not goe in His father therfore going forth began to desire him ✠verse 29 But he ansvvering said to his father Behold so many yeres doe I serue thee and I neuer transgressed thy commaundement and thou didst neuer giue me a kidde to make merie vvith my frendes ✠verse 30 but after that thy sonne this that hath deuoured his substance vvith whoores is come thou hast killed for him the fatted calfe ✠verse 31 But he said to him Sonne thou art alvvaies vvith me and al my things are thine ✠verse 32 But it behoued vs to make merie and be glad because this thy brother vvas dead and is reuiued vvas lost and is found ⊢ ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XV. 7. Then vpon ninety nine iust Neither God nor the Saincts in heauen nor men in earth do for al that esteeme more of penitent sinners then they do of them that continevv iust and godly though by the soden motion and present affection of ioy that man taketh and expresseth in such alteration and nevv fallen good it be here signified that the conuersion of euery sinner is exceding acceptable to God and giueth his Saincts nevv cause of ioy and thankes giuing to God in an other kinde then for the continuance of the iust 10. Before the Angels The Angels and other celestial spirits in heauen do reioyce at euery sinners conuersion they know then and haue care of vs yea our hartes and inward repentance be open to them how then can they not heare our prayers And betwixt Angels and the blessed soules of Saincts there is no difference in this case the one being as highly exalted as the other and as neere God in whom and by whom onely they see and know our affaires as the other 23. The fatted calfe This feasting and festiuitie saith S. Augustine li. 2 qu. Euang. c. 33. to 4. are novv celebrated throughout the vvhole vvorld the Church being dilated and spred for that calfe in the body and bloud of our Lord is both offered to the Father and also feedeth the vvhole house And as the calfe signifieth the B. Sacrament of the body and bloud of Christ so the first stole may signifie our innocencie restored in baptisme and the rest other graces and giftes giuen vs in the other Sacraments CHAP. XVI He teacheth the riche to procure heauen vvith their riches 14 And being therfore derided of the couetous Pharisees vvho savv temporal riches promised in the letter of the Lavv he shevveth that novv is come the preaching of the kingdom of God howbeit the Lavv for al that in no iote shal be frustrat 19 foretelling them also that the couetous Ievvis shal be denied of their father Abraham when poore Laxarus the penitent Gentily shal rest in his bosome verse 1 AND he said also to his Disciples There vvas a cartaine riche man that had a bailife he vvas il reported of vnto him as he that had vvasted his goods ✠verse 2 And he called him and said to him Vvhat heare I this of thee render account of thy bailiship for novv thou canst no more be bailife ✠verse 3 And the bailife said vvithin him self Vvhat shal I doe because my lord taketh avvay from me the bailiship digge I am not able to begge I am ashamed ✠verse 4 I knovv vvhat I vvil doe that vvhen I shal be remoued from the bailiship they may receiue me into their houses ✠verse 5 Therfore calling together euery one of his lords detters he said to the first Hovv much doest thou ovve my lord ✠verse 6 But he saith An hundred pipes of oile And he said to him Take thy bil and sit dovvne quickly vvrite fiftie ✠verse 7 After that he said to an other But thou hovv much doest thou ovve Vvho said An hundreth quarters of vvheat He said to him Take thy bil and vvrite eightie ✠verse 8 And ″ the lord praised the bailife of iniquitie because he had done vvisely for the children of this vvorld are vviser then the children of light in their generation ✠verse 9 And I say to you Make vnto you frendes of the mammon of iniquitie that vvhen you faile ″ they may
them al Bishops and Lawful Pastors to be his witnesses from Hierusalem to the ends of the world 39. Searche the Scriptures He reprehendeth the Iewes that reading daily the Scriptures and acknowledging that in them they should finde life and saluation they yet looked ouer them so superficially that they could not finde therein him to be CHRIST their King Lord life and Sauiour For the special maisters Scribes of the Ievves then were like vnto our Heretikes novv vvho be euer talking and turning and shuffling the Scriptures but are of al men most ignorant in the deepe knovvledge thereof And therfore our Maister referreth them not to the reading onely or learning them without booke or hauing the sentences thereof gloriously painted or vvritten in their Temple houses or coates but to the deepe searche of the meaning and mysteries of the Scriptures vvhich are not so easily to be seen in the letter CHAP. VI. Hauing vvith fiue loaues fed fiue thousand 16 vvalking also the night after vpon the sea 22 on the morovv the people there vpon resorting vnto him 27 he preacheth vnto them of the Bread vvhich he vvil giue telling them that he is come from heauen and therfore able to giue such bread as cā quicken the word euen his ovvne flesh and that al his Elect shal beleeue as much 60 Many not vvith standing do murmur at this doctrine yea and become apostataes thoug he tel them that they shal see by his Ascension into heauen that he is descended from heauen but the Tvvelue sticke vnto him beleeuing that he is God omnipotent as he said Among vvhom also that no man be scandalized he signifieth that he foreknovveth vvhich vvil become a traiter as among the foresaid vvhich vvould become apostataes verse 1 AFTER these things IESVS vvent beyond the sea of Galilee vvhich is of Tiberias ✠verse 2 and a great multitude folovved him because they savv the signes vvhich he did vpon those that vvere sicke ✠verse 3 IESVS therfore went vp into the mountaine and there he sare vvith his Disciples ✠verse 4 And the Pasche vvas at hand the festiual day of the Ievves ✠verse 5 Vvhen IESVS therfore had lifted vp his eies and savv that a very great multitude commeth to him he saith to Philippe Vvhence shal vve bie bread that these may eate ✠verse 6 And this he said tempting him for him self knevv vvhat he vvould doe ✠verse 7 Philippe ansvvered him Tvvo hundred penie vvorth of bread is not sufficient for them that euery man may take a litle peece ✠verse 8 One of his Disciples Andrevv the brother of Simon Peter saith to him ✠verse 9 There is a boy here that hath fiue barley loaues tvvo fishes but vvhat are these among so many ✠verse 10 IESVS therfore saith Make the men to sit dovvne And there vvas much grasse in the place The men therfore sate dovvne in number about fiue thousand ✠verse 11 IESVS therfore tooke the loaues and vvhen he had giuen thankes he distributed to them that sate in like maner also of the fishes as much as they vvould ✠verse 12 And after they vvere filled he said to his Disciples Gather the fragments that are remaining lest they be lost ✠verse 13 They gathered therfore and filled tvvelue baskets vvith fragments of the fiue barley loaues vvhich remained to them that had eaten ✠verse 14 Those men therfore vvhen they had seen vvhat a signe IESVS had done said That this is the Prophet in deede that is to come into the vvorld ✠verse 15 IESVS therfore vvhen he knevv that they vvould come to take him and make him king * he fled againe into the mountaine him self alone ⊢ ✠verse 16 And vvhen euen vvas come his Disciples vvent dovvne to the sea ✠verse 17 And vvhen they vvere gone vp into the shippe they came beyond the sea into Capharnáum and novv it vvas darke and IESVS vvas not come vnto them ✠verse 18 And the sea arose by reason of a great vvinde that blevv ✠verse 19 Vvhen they had to vved therfore about fiue and tvventie or thirtie furlonges they see IESVS vvalking vpon the sea and to dravv nigh to the shippe and they feared ✠verse 20 But he saith to them It is I feare not ✠verse 21 They vvould therfore haue taken him into the shippe and forthvvith the shippe vvas at the land to vvhich they vvent ✠verse 22 The next day the multitude that stoode beyond the sea savv that there vvas no other boate there but one and that IESVS had not entred into the boate vvith his Disciples but that his Disciples only vvere departed ✠verse 23 but other boates came in frō Tiberias beside the place vvhere they had eatē the bread our Lord giuing thankes ✠verse 24 Vvhen therfore the multitude savv that IESVS vvas not there nor his Disciples they vvent vp into the boates came to Capharnaū seeking IESVS ✠verse 25 And vvhē they had found him beyond the sea they said to him Rabbi vvhē camest thou hither ✠verse 26 IESVS ansvvered them and said Amen amen I say to you you seeke me not because you haue seene signes but because you did eate of the loaues and vvere filled ✠verse 27 ″ Vvorke not the meate that perisheth but that endureth vnto life euerlasting vvhich the Sonne of man vvil giue you For him the Father God hath signed ✠verse 28 They said therfore vnto him Vvhat shal vve doe that vve may vvorke the vvorkes of God ✠verse 29 IESVS ansvvered and said to them This is the vvorke of God that you beleeue in him vvhom he hath sent ✠verse 30 They said therfore to him Vvhat signe therfore doest thou that vve may see and may beleeue thee vvhat vvorkest thou ✠verse 31 Our * fathers did eate Manna in the desert as it is vvritten Bread from heauen he gaue them to eate ✠verse 32 IESVS therfore said to them Amen amen I say to you Moyses gaue you not the bread from heauen but my Father giueth you ″ the true bread from heauen ✠verse 33 For the bread of God it is that descendeth from heauen and giueth life to the vvorld ✠verse 34 They said therfore vnto him Lord giue vs alvvaies this bread ✠verse 35 And IESVS said to them I am the bread of life he that commeth to me shal not hunger and he that beleeueth in me shal neuer thirst ✠verse 36 But I said to you that both you haue seen me and you beleeue not ✠verse 37 Al that the Father giueth me shal come to me and him that commeth to me I vvil not cast forth ✠verse 38 Because I descended from heauen not to doe mine ovvne vvil but the vvil of him that sent me ✠verse 39 For this is the vvil of him that sent me the Father that al that he hath giuē me I leese not thereof
but raise it in the last day ✠verse 40 And this is the vvil of my father that sent me that euery one that seeth the Sonne and beleeueth in him haue life euerlasting and I vvil raise him in the last day ⊢ ✠verse 41 The Ievves therfore murmured at him because he had said I am the bread vvhich descended from heauen ✠verse 42 and they said is not this IESVS the sonne of Ioseph vvhose father and mother vve knovv Hovv then faith he That I descended from heauen ✠verse 43 IESVS therfore ansvvered and said to them Murmure not one to an other ✠verse 44 no man can come to me vnles the Father that sent me ″ dravv him and I vvil raise him vp in the last day ✠verse 45 It is vvritten in the Prophers And al shal be docible of God Euery one that hath heard of the Father and hath learned commeth to me ✠verse 46 Not that any man hath seen the Father but he vvhich is of God this hath seen the Father ✠verse 47 Amen amen I say to you he that beleeueth in me hath life euerlasting ✠verse 48 I am the bread of life ✠verse 49 Your fathers did eate ″ Manna in the desert and they died ✠verse 50 This is the bread that descendeth from heauen that if any man eate of it he die not ✠verse 51 I am the liuing bread that came dovvne from heauen If any man eate of this bread he shal liue for euer and * the bread vvhich I vvil giue is my flesh for the life of the vvorld ⊢ ✠verse 52 The Ievves therfore stroue among them selues saying ″ Hovv can this man giue vs his flesh to eate ✠verse 53 IESVS therfore said to them Amen amen I say to you ″ Vnles you eate the flesh of the Sonne of man ″ and drinke his bloud ″ you shal not haue life in you ✠verse 54 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud hath life euerlasting and ″ I vvil raise him vp in the last day ⊢ ✠verse 55 For my flesh is ″ meate in deede and my bloud is drinke in deede ✠verse 56 He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my bloud abideth in me and I in him ✠verse 57 As the liuing father hath sent me and I liue by the father and he that eateth me the same also shal liue by me ✠verse 58 This is the bread that came dovvne from heauen Not as your fathers did eate Manna and died ″ He that eateth this bread shal liue for euer ⊢ ✠verse 59 These things he said teaching in the Synagogue in Capharnáum ✠verse 60 Many therfore of his Disciples hearing it said This saying is hard and vvho can heare it ✠verse 61 But IESVS knovving vvith him self that his Disciples murmured at this he said to them Doth this scandalize you ✠verse 62 ″ If then you shal see * the Sonne of man ascend vvhere he vvas before ✠verse 63 It is the spirit that quickeneth ″ the flesh profiteth nothing The vvordes that I haue spoken to you be spirit and life ✠verse 64 But there be certaine of you ″ that beleeue not For IESVS knevv from the beginning vvho they vvere that did not beleeue and vvho he vvas that vvould betray him ✠verse 65 And he said Therfore did I say to you that no man can come to me vnles it be giuen him of my Father ✠verse 66 After this many of his Disciples ″ vvent backe and novv they vvalked not vvith him ✠verse 67 IESVS therfore said to the Tvvelue Vvhat vvil you also depart ✠verse 68 Simon ″ Peter therfore ansvvered him Lord to vvhom shal vve goe thou hast the vvordes of eternal life ✠verse 69 And vve beleeue and haue knovven that thou art Christ the sonne of God ✠verse 70 IESVS ansvvered them Haue not I chosen you the Tvvelue of you one is a deuil ✠verse 71 And he meant Iudas Iscariot Simons sonne for this same vvas to betray him vvhereas he vvas one of the Tvvelue ANNOTATIONS CHAP. VI. 27. Worke not the meate By their greedy seeking after him for meate of the body he taketh occasion to dravv them to the desire of a more excellent foode which he had to giue them and so by litle to open vnto them the great meate and mysterie of the B. Sacrament which as he proueth doth not onely far passe their ordinarie bread or his maruelous multiplied loaues but Manna it self which they thought came from heauen and so much wondered at it 32. The true bread Though the person of Christ incarnate euen out of the Sacrament also be meant vnder the Metaphores of bread and drinke from heauen and our beleefe in him be signified by eating and feeding yet the causes why they should be recommended vnto vs in such termes were that he was to be eaten and drunken in deed in the formes of bread and wine for the which cause his body on the crosse is called his bread his bloud shed on the crosse * the bloud of the grape no doubt because the same body and bloud were in Holy Sacrament to be eaten and drunken In vvhich speaches either of Christs person generally or peculiarly of the same as in the B. Sacrament the true bread is not taken proprely and specially for that substance which is of corne and called vvith vs bread but generally for food or meate and therfore it hath ioyned vvith it lightly a terme signifying a more excellent sort of sustenance as the true bread the bread of heauen the bread of life Supersubstantial bread in which sort the holy Sacrament which is Christs body is both here and in S. Luke and S. Paul also often called bread euen after consecration not onely for that it was made of bread but because it is bread more truely and by more excellent property and calling then that vvhich ordinarily is named bread 44. Dravv him The Father dravveth vs and teacheth vs to come to his Sonne and to beleeue these high and hard mysteries of his incarnation and of feeding vs vvith his ovvne substance in the Sacrament not cōpelling or violenty forcing any against their will or without any respect of their consent as Heretikes pretend but by the svveete internal motions and persuasions of his grace and spirit he wholy maketh vs of our owne vvill and liking to consent to the same 49. Manna and died The Heretikes holding the fathers of the old Testament to haue eaten of the same meate and to haue had as good Sacraments as vve be here refuted Christ putting a plaine difference in the very substance thereof and in the graces and effects much more at large Manna vvas onely a figure of the B. Sacrament though a very excellent figure thereof for many causes It came in a sort from heauen out Sacrament more it vvas made by
prone to their old lavv and voluntarily after the knovvledge and profession of the Christian faith by Baptisme commit this sinne of incredulitie and apostasie they can neuer haue that aboundant remission applied vnto them by Baptisme vvhich can neuer be ministred to them againe And that general full pardon he calleth here oblation and aftervvard in the 26 verse hostiam pro peccato an host for sinne 26. If vve sinne vvillingly As the Caluinists abuse other like places against the holy sacrifice of the Masse so they abuse this as the Nouatians did before them to proue that an Heretike Apostata or any that vvilfully forsaketh the truth can neuer be forgiuen Vvhich as is before declared in the 6 chapter is most vvicked blasphemie the meaning hereof being as is there said onely to terrifie the Hebrues that falling from Christ they can nor so easily haue the host of Christes death applied vnto them because they can not be baptized any more but must passe by sacramental penance and satisfaction and other hard remedies vvhich Christ hath prescribed after Baptisme in the Churches discipline Therfore S. Cyril saith li. 5 in Io. cap. 17. Penanâ—e is not excluded by these vvordes of Paul but the renevving by the lauer of regeneration He doth not here take avvay the second or third remission of sinnes for he is not such an enemy to our saluation but the host vvhich is Christ he denieth that it is to be offered againe vpon the Crosse So saith this holy Doctor And by this place the like you see hovv perilous a thing it is for Heretikes ignorant persons to read the Scriptures Vvhich by folovving their ovvne fantasie * they peruert to their damnation 29. The bloud of the Testament Vvhosoeuer maketh no more account of the bloud of Christes sacrifice either as shed vpon the Crosse or as in the holy Chalice of the altar for our Sauiour calleth that also * the bloud of the nevv Testament then he doth of the bloud of calues and goates or of other common drinkes is vvorthy death and God vvil in the next life if it be not punished here reuenge it vvith greuous punishment 31. It is horrible Let al Christian people do satisfaction and penance for their sinnes in this life for the iudgemeÌ„ts of God in the next life done by God him self of vvhat sort soeuer vvhether temporall as in Purgatorie or eternal as in Hell be exceding greuous 34. You had compassion To be merciful to the afflicted for religion to be partakers of their miseries is a very meritorious vvorke and giueth great confidence before God in the day of repaiment or remuneration for the same 34. With ioy If all Christian men vvould consider this they vvould not thinke it so great a matter to lose their land or goods for defense of the Catholike faith 38. Liueth of faith Faithful men afflicted in this life haue their comfort in their assured faith and hope of Christes comming to deliuer them once from all these miseries so by that faith and comfort they liue vvhereas othervvise this miserable life vvere a death CHAP. XI He exhorteth them by the definition of faith to sticke vnto God though they see not yet his revvard shevving that all the Saincts aforetime did the like being all constant in faith though not one of them receiued the promis that is the inheritance in heauen but they and vve novv after the comming of Christ receiue it together verse 1 AND ″ faith is the substance of things to be hoped for the argument of things ″ not appearing ✠verse 2 For in this the old men obtained testimonie ✠verse 3 * By faith vve vnderstand that the vvorldes vvere framed by the vvord of God that of inuisible things visible things might be made ✠verse 4 * By faith Abel offered a greater hoste to God theÌ„ Cain * by vvhich he obtained testimonie that he vvas iâ—st God giuing testimonie to his giftes by it he being dead yet speaketh ✠verse 5 * By faith Henoch vvas translated that he should not see death and he vvas not found because God translated him for before his translation he had testimonie that he had pleased God ✠verse 6 But vvithout faith it is impossible to please God For ″ he that commeth to God must beleeue that he is and is a revvarder to them that seeke him ✠verse 7 * By faith Noë hauing receiued an ansvver concerning those things vvhich as yet vvere not seen seating framed the arke for the sauing of his house by the vvhich he condemned the vvorld and vvas instituted heire of the iustice vvhich is by faith ✠verse 8 * By faith he that is called Abraham obeied to goe forth into the place vvhich he vvas to receiue for inheritaÌ„ce and he vvent forth not knovving vvhither he vvent ✠verse 9 By faith he abode in the land of promise as in a straÌ„ge laÌ„d dvvelling in cottages vvith Isaac Iacob the coheires of the same promise ✠verse 10 For he expected the citie that hath foundations vvhose artificer and maker is God ✠verse 11 * By faith Sara also her self being barren receiued vertue in conceauing of seede yea past the time of age because she beleeued that he vvas faithful which had promised ✠verse 12 For the vvhich cause euen of one and him quite dead there rose as the starres of heauen in multitude as the sand that is by the sea shore innumerable ✠verse 13 According to faith died al these not hauing receiued the promises but beholding them a farre of and saluting them and coÌ„fessing that they are pilgrimes strangers vpon the earth ✠verse 14 for they that say these things doe signifie that they seeke a countrie ✠verse 15 And in deede if they had been mindeful of the same from vvhence they came forth they had time verely to returne ✠verse 16 but novv they desire a better that is to say a heauenly Therfore God is not confounded to be called their God for he hath prepared them a citie ✠verse 17 * By faith Abraham offered Isaac vvhen he vvas tempted and his onlie-begotten did he offer vvho had receiued the promises ✠verse 18 to vvhom it vvas said That in Isaac shal seede be called to thee ✠verse 19 accounting that God is able to raise vp euen from the dead wherevpoÌ„ he receiued him also for a parable ✠verse 20 * By faith also of things to come Isaac blessed Iacob and Esau ✠verse 21 * BY faith Iacob dying blessed euery one of the sonnes of Ioseph * and ″ adored the toppe of his roddo ✠verse 22 * By faith Ioseph dying made mention of the going forth of the children of Israël and gaue commaundement concerning his bones ✠verse 23 * By faith Moyses being borne vvas
Holy Ghost 15 Exhorting them to liue also accordingly in al holines 15 considering the holines of God the vprightnes of his iudgement the price of their redemption by Christ 22 and the vertue of the seede in them â—hich is grace regeneratiue in Baptisme foretold by the Prophet also verse 1 PETER an Apostle of IESVS Christ to the electe strangers of the dispersion of Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithynia ✠verse 2 according to the prescience of God the Father into sanctification of the Spirit vnto the obedience and sprinkling of the bloud of IESVS Christ Grace to you and peace be multiplied ✠verse 3 Blessed be God and the father of our Lord IESVS Christ vvho according to his great mercie hath regenerated vs vnto a liuely hope by the resurrection of IESVS Christ from the dead ✠verse 4 vnto an inheritance incorruptible and incontaminate and that can not fade conserued in the heauens in you ✠verse 5 vvho in the vertue of God are kept by faith vnto saluatioÌ„ ready to be reuealed in the last time ✠verse 6 wherin you shal reioyce a litle novv if you must be made heauy in diuerse tentations ✠verse 7 that the probation of your faith much more pretious then gold vvhich is proued by the fire may be found vnto praise and glorie and honour in the reuelatioÌ„ of IESVS Christ ⊢ ✠verse 8 vvhom hauing not seen you loue in vvhom novv also not seing you beleeue and beleeuing you reioyce vvith ioy vnspeakable and glorified ✠verse 9 receiuing the end of your faith the saluation of your soules ✠verse 10 Of the vvhich saluation the Prophetes inquired searched vvhich prophecied of the grace to come in you ✠verse 11 searching vnto vvhich or vvhat maner of time the Spirit of Christ in them did signifie foretelling those passions that are in Christ and the glories folovving ✠verse 12 to vvhom it vvas reuealed that not to theÌ„ selues but to you they ministred those things vvhich novv are told you by them that haue euangelized to you the holy Ghost being sent from heauen on vvhom the Angels desire to looke ✠verse 13 For the vvhich cause hauing the loines of your minde girded sober trust perfectly in that grace vvhich is offered you in the reuelation of IESVS Christ ✠verse 14 as children of obedience not configurated to the former desires of your ignorance ✠verse 15 but according to him that hath called you the Holy one be you also in al conuersation holy ✠verse 16 because it is vvritten You shal be holy because I am holy ✠verse 17 And if you inuocate the Father him vvhich * vvithout acception of persons iudgeth according to euery ones vvorke in feare conuerse ye the time of your peregrination ✠verse 18 Knovving that * not vvith corruptible things gold or siluer you are redeemed from your vaine conuersation of your fathers tradition ✠verse 19 but vvith the pretious bloud as it vvere of an immaculate and vnspotted lambe Christ ✠verse 20 * foreknovven in deede before the constitution of the vvorld but manifested in the last times for you ✠verse 21 vvhich by him are faithful in God vvho raised him from the dead and hath giuen him glorie that your faith and hope might be in God ✠verse 22 Making your soules chaste in obedience of charitie in the sincere loue of the fraternitie from the hart loue ye one an other earnestly ✠verse 23 borne againe not of corruptible seede but incorruptible by the vvord of God vvho liueth and remaineth for euer ✠verse 24 For al flesh is as grasse and al the glorie thereof as the floure of grasse the grasse is vvithered and the floure thereof is fallen avvay ✠verse 25 But the vvord of our Lord remaineth for euer and this is the vvord that is euangelized among you CHAP. II. Novv after their Baptisme vvhat must be their meate 4 and being come to Christ hovv happie they be abouâ— their incredulous brethren according to the Scriptures also 11 Wherevpon he beseecheth them to shine in good life among the Heathen so to procure their conuersion 13 to be obedient subiects to higher Povvers hovvsoeuer some misconster Christian libertie 14 and seruants to obey their Maisters 19 And so doing vvel though they suffer for it it is very meritorious 21 vvhereas Christ also not onely gaue them example 24 but also by his death hath made them able to liue iustly verse 1 LAYING avvay therfore al malice and al guile and simulations and enuies and al detractions ✠verse 2 as infants euen novv borne reasonable milke vvithout guile desire ye that in it you may grovv vnto saluatioÌ„ ✠verse 3 if yet you haue tasted that our Lord is svveete ✠verse 4 Vnto vvhom approching a liuing stone of men in deede reprobated but of God elect and made honorable ✠verse 5 be ye also your selues superedified as it vvere liuing stones spiritual houses ' a holy priesthod to offer ″ spiritual hostes acceptable to God by IESVS Christ ✠verse 6 For the vvhich cause the Scripture conteineth Behold I put in Sion a principal corner stone elect pretious and he that shal beleeue in him shal not be confounded ✠verse 7 To you therfore that beleeue honour but to them that beleeue not the stone vvhich the builders reiected the same is made into the head of the corner ✠verse 8 and * a stone of offense and a rocke of scandal to them that stumble at the vvord neither doe beleeue wherin also they are put ' ✠verse 9 But you are an * elect generation a kingly priesthod a holy nation a people of purchase that you may declare his vertues vvhich from darkenesse hath called you into his maruelous light ✠verse 10 Vvhich sometime not a people but novv the people of God Vvhich not hauing obtained mercie but novv hauing obtained mercie ✠verse 11 My deerest I beseche you as strangers pilgrimes * to refraine your selues from carnal desires which vvarre against the soule ✠verse 12 hauing your conuersation good among the Gentiles that in that vvherein they misreport of you as of malefactors by the good vvorkes considering you * they may glorifie God in the day of visitation ✠verse 13 * ″ Be subiect therfore to euery humane creature for God vvhether it be ″ to king as excelling ✠verse 14 or to rulers as sent by him to the reuenge of malefactors but to the praise of the good ✠verse 15 for so is the vvil of God that doing vvel you may make the ignorance of vnvvise men to be dumme ✠verse 16 as free ″ not as hauing the freedom for a cloke of malice but as the seruants of God ✠verse 17 Honour al men Loue the fraternitie Feare God Honour
those things vvhich are in it That there shal be time no more ✠verse 7 but in the daies of the voice of the seuenth Angel vvhen the trompet shal beginne to sound the mysterie of God shal be consummate as he hath euangelized by his seruantes the Prophetes ✠verse 8 And I heard a voice from heauen againe speaking with me and saying Goe and take the booke that is opened of the hand of the Angel standing vpon the sea and vpon the land ✠verse 9 And I vvent to the Angel saying vnto him that he should giue me the booke And he said to me * Take the booke and deuoure it and it shal make thy belly to be bitter but in thy mouth it shal be svveete as it vvere honie ✠verse 10 And I tooke the booke of the hand of the Angel and denoured it it vvas in my mouth as it vvere honie svveete and vvhen I had deuoured it my bellie vvas made bitter ✠verse 11 and he said to me Thou must againe prophecie to Nations and peoples and tonges and many kinges CHAP. XI S. Iohn measuring the Temple 3 heareth of tvvo vvitnesses that shal preache 7 vvhom the beast cōming vp from the sea shal kil 12 but they rising againe ascend into heauen 13 and seuen thousand persons are slaine vvith an earthquake 15 and as the sound of the seuenth Angel the soure and tvventie seniors giue praise and thankes to God verse 1 AND there vvas giuen me a reede like vnto a rodde and it vvas said to me Arise and measure the temple of God and the altar and them that adore in it ✠verse 2 but the court vvhich is vvithout the temple cast forth measure not that because it is giuen to the Gentiles they shal treade vnder foote the holy citie two and fourtie monethes ✠verse 3 and I vvil giue to ″ my tvvo vvitnesses and they shal prophecie a thousand tvvo hundred sixtie daies clothed vvith facke-clothes ✠verse 4 These are the two oliue trees and the tvvo candlestickes that stand in the sight of the Lord of the earth ✠verse 5 And if any man vvil hurt them fire shal come forth out of their mouthes and shal deuoure their enemies and if any man vvil hurt them so must he be slaine ✠verse 6 These haue power to shut heauen that it raine not in the daies of their prophecie and they haue povver ouer the vvaters to turne them into bloud and to strike the earth vvith al plague as often as they vvil ✠verse 7 And vvhen they shal haue finished their testimonie the beast vvhich ascended from the depth shal make vvarre against them and shal ouercome them and kil them ✠verse 8 And their bodies shal lie in the streates of the great citie vvhich is called spiritually Sodom and Aegypt vvhere their Lord also vvas crucified ✠verse 9 And there shal of tribes and peoples and tonges and Gentiles see their bodies for three daies and a halfe and they shal not suffer their bodies to be laid in monuments ✠verse 10 and the inhabitants of the earth shal be glad vpon them and make merie and shal send giftes one to an other because these tvvo prophets tormented them that dvvelt vpon the earth ✠verse 11 And after three daies and a halfe the spirit of life from God entred into them And they stoode vpon their seete and great feare fel vpon them that savv them ✠verse 12 And they heard a loud voice from heauen saying to them Come vp hither And they vvent vp into heauen in a cloude and their enemies savv them ✠verse 13 And in that houre there vvas made a great earthquake and the tenth part of the citie fel and there vvere slaine in the earthquake names of men seuen thousand and the rest vvere cast into a feare and gaue glorie to the God of heauen ✠verse 14 The second vvoe is gone and behold the third vvoe vvil come quickly ✠verse 15 And the seuenth Angel sounded with a trompet and there vvere made loude voices in heauen saying The kingdom of this vvorld is made our Lords his Christs and he shal reigne for euer and euer Amen ✠verse 16 And the foure and tvventie seniours vvhich sitte on their seates in the sight of God fel on their faces and adored God ✠verse 17 saying Vve thanke thee Lord God omnipotent vvhich art and vvhich vvast and vvhich shalt come because thou hast receiued thy great povver and hast reigned ✠verse 18 And the Gentiles vvere angrie and thy vvrath is come and the time of the dead to be iudged and to tender revvard to thy seruants the prophets and sainctes and to them that feare thy name ″ litle and great and to destroy them that haue corrupted the earth ✠verse 19 And the temple of God vvas opened in heauen and the arke of his testament vvas seen in his temple and there vvere made lightenings and voices and an earthquake and greate haile ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XI 3. My tvvo vvitnesses Enoch and Elias as it is commonly expounded for that Elias shal come againe before the later day it is a most notorious knovven thing to vse S. Augustines vvordes in the mouthes and hartes of faithful men See li. 20 de Ciuit. Dei c. 29. Tract 4 in Ioan. and both of Enoch and Elias Lib. 1 de pec merit c. 3. So the rest of the Latin Doctors as S. Hierom ad Pāmach ep 61 c. 11. in Psal 20. S. Ambrose in Psal 45. S. Hilarie 20 can in Mat. Prospet li. vltim◠de Promissionibus c. 13. S Gregorie li. 14. Moral c. 11. he 12 in Ezech. Beda in 9 Marci The Greeke fathers also as S. Chrysostom he 58 in Mat. ho. 4 in 2 Thessal ho. 21 in Genes ho. 22 in ep ad Hebr. Theophylacte and Occumenius in 17 Matthai S. Damascene li. 4 de Orthodoxa fide c. 27. Furthermore that they liue also in Paradise it is partly gathered out of the Scripture Ecclici 44. 16. vvhere it is plainely said of Enoch that he is translated into Paradise as al our Latin exemplars do reade and of Elias that he vvas taken vp aliue it is euident 4 Reg. 2. And S. Irenaeus saith it is the tradition of the Apostles that they be both there li. 5 in initio Dicunt Presbyteri saith he qui sunt Apostolorum Discipuli So say the Priests or Auncients that are the scholers of the Apostles See S. Iustine q. 85 ad orthodoxos Finally that they shal returne into the companie of men in the end of the vvorld to preache against Antichrist and to inutie both Ievves and Gentiles to penance and so be martyred as this place of the Apocalypse seemeth plaine so vve haue in part other testimonies hereof Malac. 4. Ecclci 44 16. 48 10. Mat. 17 11. See also Hyppolytus booke of Antichrist and the end of the vvorld
vvhere he is called the man of sinne Againe he must be one particular person not a nūber a succession or vvhole order of any degree of men because his proper name and the particular number and the characters thereof be though obscurely insinuated Vvhich reproueth the vvicked vanitie of Heretikes that vvould haue Christs ovvne Vicars the successors of his cheese Apostle yea the vvhole order of them for many ages together to be this Antichrist Vvho by his description here and in the said Epistle to the Thessalonians must be one special man and of a particular proper name as our Lord IESVS is And vvhosoeuer he be these Protestants vndoubtedly are his precursors for as they make his vvay by ridding avvay Christs images crosse and name so they excedingly promote the matter by taking avvay Christs cheefe minister that al may be plaine for Antichrist If the Pope had been Antichrist and had been reuealed novv a good many yeres sithence as these fellovves say he is to them then the number of this name vvould agree to him and the prophecie being novv fulfilled it vvould euidently appeare that he bare the name and number here noted for no doubt vvhen lie commeth this count of the letters or number of his name vvhich before is so hard to knovv wil be easie for he will set vp his name in euery place euē as we faithful men do novv aduance IESVS And vvhat name proper or appellatiue of al or any of the Popes do they finde to agree vvith this number notvvithstanding they boast that they haue found the vvhole order and euery of them these thousand yeres to be Antichrist and the rest before euen from S. Peter forevvorkers tovvard his kingdom 1◠The number 666. Forasmuch as the auncient expositors and other do thinke for certaine knowledge thereof no mortal mā can haue vvithout an expresse reuelatiō that his name cōsisteth of so many such letters in Greeke as according to their maner of numbering by the Alphabete make 666 and forasmuch as the letters making that number may be found in diuers names both proper common as S. Irenaeus findeth them in Latinos and Teitan Hippolytus in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aretas in Lampetis some of this age in Ludérus vvhich vvas Luthers name in the Alman tōgue therfore vve see there can be no certaintie and euery one frameth and applieth the letters to his ovvne purpose and most absurd folly it is of the Heretikes to applie the vvord Latinos to the Pope neither the vvhole order in common nor euer any particular Pope being so called and S. Irenaeus the first that obserued it in that vvord applied it to the Empire and state of the Romane Emperour vvhich then vvas Heathen and not to the Pope of his daies or after him and yet preferred the vvord Teitan as more agreable vvith this admonition that it vvere a very perilous and presumptuous thing to define any certaintie before hand of that number and name And truely vvhatsoeuer the Protestants presume herein of the Pope vve may boldly discharge Luther of that dignitie He is vndoubtedly one of Antichrists precursors but not Antichrist him self CHAP. XIIII 2 Virgins follovv the Lambe vvhithersoeuer singing a nevv canticle 6. One Angel Euangelizeth the Gospel 8 an other Angel telleth the fall of Babylon 9 the third declareth their tormants that haue adored the beast Moreouer tvvo hauing sickles 15 one of them is commaunded to reape dovvne the corne 18 the other to gather the grapes as in vintage vvhich are troden in the lake of Gods vvrath verse 1 AND I looked behold a Lābe stoode vpon mount Sion and vvith him an hundred fourtie foure thousand hauing his name and the name of his Father vvritten in their foreheads ✠verse 2 And I heard a voice from heauen as the voice of many vvaters and as the voice of great thunder and the voice vvhich I heard as of harpers harping on their harpes ✠verse 3 And they sang as it vvere a nevv song before the seate and before the foure beastes and the seniors and no man could say ' the song but those hundred fourtie foure thousand that vvere bought from the earth ✠verse 4 These are they vvhich were not defiled vvith vvomen For they are virgins These folovv the Lambe vvhithersoeuer he shal goe These vvere bought from among men the first fruites to God and the Lambe ✠verse 5 and in their mouth there vvas found no lie for they are vvithout spot before the throne of God ⊢ ✠verse 6 And I savv an other Angel flying through the middes of heauen hauing the eternal Gospel to euāgelize vnto them that sit vpon the earth and vpon euery nation and tribe tōge people ✠verse 7 saying vvith a loud voice Feare our Lord and giue him honour because the houre of his iudgement is come and adore ye him * that made heauen and earth the sea and al things that are in them and the fountaines of vvaters ✠verse 8 And an other Angel folovved saying * Fallen fallen is that great Babylon vvhich of the vvine of the vvrath of her fornication made al nations to drinke ✠verse 9 And the third Angel folovved them saying vvith a loud voice If any man adore the beast and his image and receiue the character in his forehead or in his hand ✠verse 10 he also shal drinke of the vvine of the vvrath of God vvhich is mingled vvith pure vvine in the cuppe of his vvrath and shal be tormented vvith fire brimstone in the sight of the holy Angels and before the sight of the Lambe ✠verse 11 and the smoke of their tormentes shal ascend for euer euer neither haue they rest day and night vvhich haue adored the beast and his image and if any man take the character of his name ✠verse 12 Here is the patience of sainctes vvhich keepe the commaundements of God and the faith of IESVS ✠verse 13 And I heard a voice from heauen saying to me Vvrite Blessed are the dead which die in our Lord. ″ from hence forth novv saith the Spirit that they rest from their labours for their vvorkes folow them ✠verse 14 And I savv and behold a vvhite cloude and vpon the cloude one sitting like to the Sonne of man hauing on his head a crovvne of gold and in his hand a sharpe sickle ✠verse 15 And an other Angel came forth from the temple crying vvith a loud voice to him that sate vpon the cloude * Thrust in thy sickle and reape because the houre is come to reape for the haruest of the earth is drie ✠verse 16 And he that sate vpon the cloude thrust his sickle into the earth and the earth vvas reaped ✠verse 17 And an other Angel came forth from the temple vvhich is in heauē him self also hauing a sharpe sickle
our Lord the Prophets of God the Gospel Scriptures the name of IESVS such like vvhich be by vse signification or sanctification made holy are not â—ovv to be reuerenced and they shal finde al these things to haue been reuerenced of al the faithful vvithout any dishonour of God and much to his honour Secondly that this reuerence is named adoration in the Seriptures these speaches do proue Ps 93. Adore ye his footestoole because it is holy and Hebr. 11. He adored the toppe of his rod. Thirdly that the Scriptures also vvarrant vs as the nature of the vvord adoratioÌ„ giueth in al three tonges to bowe downe our bodies to fall flat on the ground at the presence of such thinges and at the feete of holy persons specially Angels as Iohn doth here these examples proue Abraham adored the Angels that appeared to him Moyses also the Angel that shewed him self out of the bush vvho vvere creatures though they represented Gods person as this Angel here did that speake to S. Iohn Balaam adored the Angel that stoode before him vvith a svvord drawen Num. 22. Iosuè adored falling flat downe before the feete of the Angel calling him his Lord knowing by the Angels owne testimonie that it vvas but an Angel Vvho refused it not but required yet more reuerence commaunding him to plucke of his shoes because the ground vvas holy no doubt so made by the presence onely of the Angel Yea not onely to Angels but euen to great Prophets this deuotion vvas done as to Daniel by Nabuchodonosor vvho fell flat vpon his face before him and did other great offices of religion vvhich the Prophet refused not because they vvere done to God rather then to him as S. Hierom defendeth the same against Porphyrie vvho charged Daniel vvith intolerable pride therein and the said holy doctor alleageth the fact of Alexander the great that did the like to Ioiadas the high priest of the â—evves Hovvsoeuer that be for of the sacrifice there mentioned there may be some doubt vvhich the Church doth alvvaies immediatly to God and to no creature the fact of the prophets 4 Reg. 2 to Elizeus is plaine vvhere they perceiuing that the double grace and spirit of Elias vvas giuen to him fel flat dovvne at his feete and adored So did * the Sunamite to omit that Achior adored Iudith falling at her feete as a vvoman blessed of God and infinite other places Al vvhich thinges by comparing the Scriptures our Aduersaries should haue found to be lavvfully done to men and Angels and soueraine holy creatures Vvhereby they might conuince them selues perceiue that that thing could not be forbidden S. Iohn to doe to the Angel which they pretend though the Angel for causes might refuse euen that vvhich S. Iohn did lawfully vnto him as S. Peter did refuse the honour giuen him by Cornelius according to S. Chrysostoms opinion he 23 in c 10 Act. yea euen in the third chapter of this booke if our Aduersaries vvould looke no further they might see where this Augel prophecieth promiseth that the Ievves should fall dovvne before the feete of the Angel of Philadelphia and adore See the Annot there CHAP. XX. An Angel casteth the dragon or diuel bound into the depth for a thousand yeres in vvhich the soules of martyes in the first resurrection shal reigne vvith Christ 7 After vvhich yeres Satan being let loose shal raise Gog and Magog an innumerable armie against the beloued citie 9 but a fire from heauen shal destroy them 12 Then bookes are opened and he that sitteth vpon the throne iudgeth al the dead according to their vvorkes verse 1 AND I savv an Angel descending from heauen hauing the key of the bottomles depth and a great chaine in his hand ✠verse 2 And he apprehended the dragon the old serpent vvhich is the Deuil and Satan and â— bound him for a thousand yeres ✠verse 3 and he threvv him into the depth and shut him vp and sealed ouer him that he seduce no more the nations til the thousand yeres be consummate and after these thinges he must be loosed a litle time ✠verse 4 And â— I savv seates and they sate vpon them iudgement vvas giuen them â— and the soules of the beheaded for the testimonie of IESVS and for the vvord of God and that adored not the beast not his image nor receiued his character in their foreheads or in their handes and haue liued and reigned vvith Christ a thousand yeres ✠verse 5 â— The rest of the dead liued not til the thousand yeres be consummate ″ This is the first resurrection ✠verse 6 Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection in these the second death hath not povver but â— they shal be priestes of God and of Christ and shal reigne vvith him a thousand yeres ✠verse 7 And vvhen the thousand yeres shal be consummate â— Satan shal be loosed out of his prison and shal goe forth and seduce the nations that are vpon the foure corners of the earth * Gog and Magog and shal gather them into battel the number of vvhom is as the sand of the sea ✠verse 8 And they ascended vpon the bredth of the earth and compassed â— the campe of the Sainctes and the beloued citie ✠verse 9 And â— there came dovvne fire from God out of heauen and deuoured them ✠verse 10 and the Deuil vvhich seduced them vvas cast into the poole of fire and brimstone vvhere both the beast and the false-prophet shal be tormented day and night for euer and euer ✠verse 11 And I savv a great vvhite throne and one sitting vpon it from vvhose sight earth and heauen fled and there vvas no place found for them ✠verse 12 And I savv the dead great and litle standing in the sight of the throne and bookes vvere opened and * â— an other booke vvas opened vvhich is of life and the dead vvere iudged of those thinges vvhich were vvritten in the bookes according to their vvorkes ✠verse 13 and the sea gaue the dead that vvere in it and death and hel gaue their dead that vvere in them and it vvas iudged of euery one according to their vvorkes ✠verse 14 And hel and death vvere cast into the poole of fire This is the second death ✠verse 15 And he that vvas not found vvritten in the booke of life vvas cast into the poole of fire ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XX. 2. bound him Christ by his Passion hath abridged the povver of the Deuil for a thousand yeres that is the vvhole time of the nevv Testament vntil Antichrists time vvhen he shal be loosed againe that is be permitted to deceiue the vvorld but for a short time only to vvit three yeres and a halfe 4 I savv seates S. Augustine li. 20 de Ciuit. Dei c. 9 taketh this to be spoken not