but his commaundements of which S. Iohn sayth 1. Ep. 5. His commaundements are not heauy cleane contrary to the Aduersaries that say they are vnpossible to be kept CHAP. XII The blindnes of the Pharisees about the Sabboth he reproueth by Scriptures by reason and by a miracle 14 and his death being therfore sought by them he meekely goeth out of the vvay according as Esay had prophecied of him 2◠His casting out of deuils also he defendeth agaynst them 31 and setteth forth the daunger they stand in for their horrible blasphemie 38 And because they aske yet for a signe he shevveth hovv vvorthely they shal be damned 43 foretelling hovv the deuil shal possesse their Nation 46 and testifying that although he be of their bloud yet not they for this but such as keepe his commaundements are deere vnto him verse 1 AT that time * IESVS vvent through the corne on the Sabboth and his Disciples being hungrie began to plucke the eares and to eate ✠verse 2 And the Pharisees seeing them said to him Loe thy Disciples doe that vvhich is not lavvful for them to doe on the Sabboth-dayes ✠verse 3 But he sayd to them Haue you not read vvhat * Dauid did vvhen he vvas an hungred and they that vvere vvith him ✠verse 4 hovv he entred into the house of God and did eate the loaues of proposition vvhich it vvas not lavvful for him to eate nor for them that vvere vvith him * but for priestes only ✠verse 5 Or haue ye not read in the * Lavv that on Sabboth-dayes the priestes in the temple do breake the Sabboth and are vvithout blame ✠verse 6 but I tel you that there is here a greater then the tēple ✠verse 7 And if you did knovv vvhat it is I wil mercie and not sacrifice you vvould neuer haue condemned the innocentes ✠verse 8 For the Sonne of man is lord of the Sabboth also ✠verse 9 And vvhen he had passed from thence he came into their synagogue ✠verse 10 And * behold there vvas a man vvhich had a vvithered hand and they asked him saying Whether is it lavvful to cure on the Sabboths that they might accuse him ✠verse 11 But he sayd to them what man shal there be of you that shal haue one sheepe and if the same fall into a ditche on the Sabboths vvil he not take hold and lift it vp ✠verse 12 Hovv much better is a man more then a sheepe therfore it is lavvful on the Sabboths to doe a good deede ✠verse 13 Then he sayth to the man Stretch forth thy hand and he stretched it forth and it vvas restored to health euen as the other ✠verse 14 And the Pharisees going forth made a cōsultation agaynst him hovv they might destroy him ✠verse 15 But IESVS knovving it retired from thence and many folovved him and he cured them all ✠verse 16 and he charged them that they should not disclose him ✠verse 17 That it might be fulfilled vvhich vvas spoken by Esay the Prophete saying ✠verse 18 Behold my seruant vvhom I haue chosen my beloued in vvhom my soul hath vvel liked I vvil put my spirit vpon him and iudgement to the Gentiles shal he shew ✠verse 19 He shal not contend nor crie out neither shal any man heare in the streetes his voyce ✠verse 20 The reede bruised he shal not breake and smoking flaxe he shal not extinguish til he cast forth iudgement vnto victorie ✠verse 21 And in his name the Gentiles shal hope ✠verse 22 Then * vvas offered to him one possessed vvith a deuil blinde and dumme and he cured him so that he spake saw ✠verse 23 And al the multitudes vvere amased and sayd whether this be the Sonne of Dauid ✠verse 24 But the Pharisees hearing it sayd This felovv casteth not out diuels but ″ in Beelzebub the Prince of the diuels ✠verse 25 And IESVS knovving their cogitations said to them Euery kingdom deuided against it self shal be made desolate and euery citie or house deuided agaynst it self shal not stand ✠verse 26 And if Satan cast out Satan he is deuided against him self hovv then shal his Kingdom stand ✠verse 27 And if I in Beelzebub cast out deuils your children in vvhom do they cast out Therfore they shal be your iudges ✠verse 28 But if I in the Spirit of God do cast out deuils then is the kingdom of God come vpon you ✠verse 29 Or hovv can a man enter into the house of the strong and rifle his vessel vnles he first binde the strong and then he vvil rifle his house ✠verse 30 He that is ″ not vvith me is agaynst me and he that ″ gathereth not vvith me scattereth ✠verse 31 Therfore I say to you euery sinne and blasphemie shal be forgiuen men but ″ the blasphemie of the Spirit shal not be forgiuen ✠verse 32 And vvhosoeuer shal speake a vvord agaynst the Sonne of man it shal be forgiuen him but he that shal speake against the Holy Ghost it shal not be forgiuen him neither in this vvorld nor ″ in the vvorld to come ✠verse 33 Either make the tree good and his fruite good or make the tree euil and his fruite euil for of the fruite the tree is knowē ✠verse 34 You vipers broodes hovv can you speake good things vvhereas you are euil for of the aboundance of the hart the mouth speaketh ✠verse 35 A good man out of a good treasure bringeth forth good things and an euil man out of an euil treasure bringeth forth euil things ✠verse 36 But I say vnto you that euery ″ idle vvord that men shal speake they shal render an account for it in the day of iudgement ✠verse 37 For of thy wordes thou shalt be iustified and of thy vvordes thou shalt be condemned ✠verse 38 Then ansvvered him certaine of the Scribes and Pharisees saying Maister vve vvould see a signe from thee ✠verse 39 who ansvvered and said to them The vvicked and aduouterous generation seeketh a signe and a signe shal not be giuen it but the signe of Ionas the Prophet ✠verse 40 For as * Ionas vvas in the vvhales belly three dayes and three nightes so shal the Sonne of man be in the hart of the earth three dayes and three nightes ✠verse 41 The men of Niniuee shal rise in the iudgemēt vvith this generatiō and shal condemne it because * they did penance at the preaching of Ionas And behold more then Ionas here ✠verse 42 The * Queene of the South shal rise in the iudgement vvith this generation and shal condemne it because she came from the endes of the earth to heare the vvisedom of Salomō and behold more the Salomon here ✠verse 43 And * vvhen an vncleane spirit shal goe out of a man he vvalketh
vvatched him vvhether he vvould cure on the Sabboths that they might accuse him ✠verse 3 And he saith to the man that had the vvithered hand Rise vp into the middes ✠verse 4 And he saith to them Is it lavvful on the Sabboths to doe vvel or il to saue a soule or to destroy but they held their peace ✠verse 5 And looking round about vpon them vvith anger being sorovvful for the blindenes of their hart he saith to the man Stretch forth thy hand And he stretched it forth and his hand vvas restored vnto him ✠verse 6 And the Pharisees going forth immediatly made a consultation vvith the Herodians against him hovv they might destroy him ✠verse 7 But IESVS vvith his Disciples retired to the sea and a great multitude from Galilee and Ievvrie folovved him ✠verse 8 and from Hierusalem and from Idumaea and beyond Iordan And they about Tyre and Sidon a great multitude hearing the things vvhich he did came to him ✠verse 9 And he spake to his Disciples that a boate might attend on him because of the multitude lest they should throng him ✠verse 10 for he healed many so that there preased in vpon him for to touch him as many as had hurtes ✠verse 11 And the vncleane spirites vvhen they savv him fel dovvne vnto him and they cryed saying ✠verse 12 ″ Thou art the sonne of God And he vehemently charged them that they should not disclose him ✠verse 13 And * ascending into a mountaine he called vnto him vvhom he vvould him self and they came to him ✠verse 14 And he made that ″ tvvelue should be vvith him and that he might send them to preach ✠verse 15 And he gaue them povver to cure infirmities and to cast out diuels ✠verse 16 And he gaue to Simon the name ″ Peter ✠verse 17 and Iames of Zebedee and Iohn the brother of Iames and he called their names Boanerges vvhich is the sonnes of thunder ✠verse 18 and Andrevv and Philippe and Bartlemevv and Matthevv and Thomas and Iames of Alphaeus and Thaddaeus and Simon Cananaeus ✠verse 19 and Iudas Iscariote vvho also betrayed him ✠verse 20 And they come to a house and the multitude resorteth together againe so that they could not so much as eate bread ✠verse 21 And vvhen his had heard of it they vvent forth to lay hands on him for they said That he vvas become mad ✠verse 22 And the Scribes vvhich vvere come dovvne from Hierusalem said * That he hath Beelzebub and that in the prince of deuils he casteth out deuils ✠verse 23 And after he had called them together he said to them in parables Hovv can Satan cast out Satan ✠verse 24 And if a ″ kingdom be deuided against it self that kingdom can not stand ✠verse 25 And if a house be deuided against it self that house can not stand ✠verse 26 And if Satan be risen against him self he is deuided and can not stand but hath an end ✠verse 27 No body can rifle the vessel of the strong being entred into his house vnles he first binde the strong and then shal he rifle his house ✠verse 28 Amen I say to you that al sinnes shal be forgiuen the sonnes of men and the blasphemies wherevvith they shal blaspheme ✠verse 29 But he that shal blaspheme against the Holy Ghost he hath not forgiuenesse for euer but shal be guilty of an ″ eternal sinne ✠verse 30 Because they said He hath an vncleane spirit ✠verse 31 And * there come his mother and brethren and standing vvithout they sent vnto him calling him ✠verse 32 and the multitude sate about him and they say to him Behold thy mother and thy brethren vvithout seeke thee ✠verse 33 And ansvvering them he said ″ Who is my mother and my brethren ✠verse 34 And looking about vpon them vvhich sate round about him he saith Behold my mother and my brethren ✠verse 35 For vvhosoeuer shal doe the vvil of God he is my brother and my sister and mother ANNOTATIONS CHAP. III. 13. Thou art the Sonne The confession of the truth is not grateful to God proceding from ouery person The diuel acknowledging our Sauiour to be the sonne of God was bidden hold his peace Peters confession of the same was highly allowed and rewarded Aug. tract 10 in ep Ioan. Ser. 30. 31. de verb. Apostoli Therfore neither Heretikes sermons must be heard no not though they preach the truth So is it of their prayer and seruice which being neuer so good in it self is not acceptable to God out of their mouthes yea it is no better then the howling of wolues Hiero. in 7 Osâ—â— 14. Twelue This number of twelue Apostles is mystical and of great importance as appeareth * by the choosing of Mathias into Iudas place to make vp againe this number prefigured in the 12 Patriarkes Gen. 49. the 12 Princes of the children of Israel Num. 1. the 12 fountaines found in Elim Exod. 15. the 12 pretious stones in the Rational of Aaron Exod. 39. the 12 Spies sent by Moyses Num. 13. the 12 stones taken out of Iordan whereof the Altar was made Iosu 4. the 12 loues of Proposition Leuit. 24. c. Anselm in Mt. c. 10. And these are the 12 foundations of heauenly Hierusalem Apoc. 21. 16. Peter Peter in numbering the Twelue is alwaies the first and his name is so giuen him for signification of his calling to be the * Rocke or Foundation of the Church vnder Christ as here also the name BOANERGES is giuen to other two Apostles for signification and so names els where in the old Testament and in the new 24. Kingdom against kingdom As this is true in al Kingdoms and Common-weales where Ciuil dissension reigneth so is it specially verified in heresies and Heretikes which haue alwaies diuisions among them selues as the plague of God for diuiding them selues and others from the Church 29. Eternal sinne That which is here called eternal is as S. Matthew expresseth it that which shal neither be remitted in this life nor in the life to come Where we learne by S. Marke that there are also sinnes not eternal and by S. Matthew that they are such as shal be forgiuen either here or in the life to come 33. Who is my mother Neither is it here said that he had no mother as some vpon these wordes falsly gather nor ingratitude to our parents is taught vs by this answer but we be hereby admonished to preferre the spiritual mother of the Faithful which is the Church Catholike and our brethren in her and their spiritual good aboue our carnal parents or kinne For so our Maister being occupied here about heauenly things accounted al them his mother and brethren which did the will of his Father in which number our Lady his
oile and vvine his Sacraments the host the priests his ministers Vvhereby is signified that the Lavv could not recouer the spiritual life of mankind from the death of sinne that is iustifie man but Christ onely vvho by his passion and the grace and vertue thereof ministred in and by his Sacraments iustifieth and increaseth the iustice of man healing and abling free-vvil to doe al good vvorkes 42. Marie the best part Tvvo notable exaÌ„ples one of the life Actiue in Martha the other of the life ConteÌ„platiue in Marieâ— representing vnto vs that in holy Church there should be alvvaies some to serue God in both these seueral sorts The life conteÌ„platiue is here preferred before the actiue the Religious of both sexes are of that more excellent state and therfore our Protestants haue wholy abandoned them out of their common wealth which the true Church neuer wanted But to say truth they haue neither Martha nor Marie our Lord geue them grace to see their miserie If ours were not answerable to their profession or were degenerated why haue they no new ones if our Churches Votaries vowed vnlawful things Chastitie Pouertie Obedience Pilgrimage what other Votaries or lawful vowes haue they For to offer voluntarily by vow besides the keeping of Gods commaundements wherevnto we are bound by precept and promise in our Baptisme our soules bodies goods or any other acceptable thing to God is an acte of soueraine worship belonging to God onely and there was neuer true religion without such vowes and Votaries If there be none in their whole Church that professe contemplation or that vow any thing at al to God voluntarily neither in their bodies nor in their goods God and the world knovv they haue no Church nor religion at al. CHAP. XI He teacheth a forme of prayer â— and exhorteth to pray instantly 11 assuring that so God wil giue vs good things 14 The Iewes blaspheming his casting out of Diuels and asking for a miracle from heauen 17 he defendeth his doing 〈◊〉 foretelling also the Diuels expulsion by him out of the world that is the vocation of the Gentils 24 and his reentrie into their nation 27 with their reprobation though he be of their flesh 29 and also their final most worthy damnation 37 Againe to the Pharisees and Scribes he crieth wo as authors of the said â—â—probation now at hand verse 1 AND it came to passe vvhen he vvas in a certaine place praying as he ceased one of his Disciples said to him Lord teach vs to pray as Iohn also taught his Disciples ✠verse 2 And he said them * Vvhen you pray say FATHER sanctified be thy name Thy kingdom come ✠verse 3 Our daily bread giue vs this day ✠verse 4 and forgiue vs our sinnes for because our selues also doe forgiue euery one that is in debt to vs And lead vs not into temptation ✠verse 5 And he said to them Vvhich of you shal haue a frende and shal goe to him at midnight and shal say to him Frende lend me three loaues ✠verse 6 because a frende of mine is come out of his way to me and I haue not what to set before him ✠verse 7 he from vvithin ansvvering saith Trouble me not novv the doore is shut and my children are vvith me in bed I can not rise and giue thee ✠verse 8 And if he shal perseuêre knocking I say to you although he vvil not rise and giue him because he is his frende yet for his importunitie he vvil rise and giue him as many as he needeth ✠verse 9 * And I say to you Aske and it shal be giuen you seeke and you shal finde knocke and it shal be opened to you ✠verse 10 For euery one that asketh receiueth and he that seeketh findeth and to him that knocketh it shal be opened ✠verse 11 And vvhich of you if he aske his father bread vvil he giue him a stone or a fish vvil he for a fish giue him a serpent ✠verse 12 Or if he aske an egge vvil he reach him a scorpion ✠verse 13 If you then being naught knovv hovv to giue good giftes to your children hovv much more vvil your father from heauen giue the good spirit to them that aske him ⊢ ✠verse 14 * And he vvas casting out a deuil and that vvas dumme And vvhen he had cast out the deuil the dumme spake and the multitudes marueiled ✠verse 15 * And certaine of them said In Beel-zebub the prince of Deuils he casteth out Deuils ✠verse 16 And other tempting asked of him a signe from heauen ✠verse 17 But he seeing their cogitations said to them Euery kingdom deuided against it self shal be made desolate and house vpon house shal fall ✠verse 18 And if Satan also be deuided against him self hovv shal his kingdom stand because you say that in Beel-zebub I doe cast out Deuils ✠verse 19 And if I in Beel-zebub cast out Deuils your children in vvhom doe they cast out therfore they shal be your iudges ✠verse 20 But if I in the finger of God doe cast out Deuils surely the kingdom of God is come vpon you ✠verse 21 Vvhen the strong armed keepeth his court those things are in peace that he possesseth ✠verse 22 But if a stronger then he come vpon him and ouercome him he vvil take avvay his vvhole armour vvherein he trusted and vvil distribute his spoiles ✠verse 23 He that is not vvith me is against me and he that gathereth not vvith me scattereth ✠verse 24 Vvhen the vncleane spirit shal depart out of a man he vvandereth through places vvithout vvater seeking rest And not finding he saith I vvil returne into my house vvhence I departed ✠verse 25 And vvhen he is come he findeth it svvept vvith a besome and trimmed ✠verse 26 Then he goeth and taketh seuen other spirits vvorse then him self and entring in they dvvel there And the last of that man be made vvorse then the first ✠verse 27 And came to passe vvhen he said these things a certaine vvoman lifting vp her voice out of the multitude said to him ″ Blessed is the vvombe that bare thee and the pappes that thou didst sucke ✠verse 28 But he said Yea rather blessed are they that heare the vvord of God and keepe it ⊢ ✠verse 29 And the multitudes running together he began to say * This generation is a vvicked generation it asketh a signe and a signe shal not be giuen it but ″ the signe of Ionas the Prophet ✠verse 30 * For as Ionas vvas a signe to the Niniuites so shal the Sonne of man also be to this generation ✠verse 31 * The Queene of the South shal rise in the iudgement vvith the men of this generation and shal condemne them because she came from the endes of the earth to heare the
my beloued sonne in vvhom I am vvel pleased ANNOTATIONS CHAP. III. 1. Desert Of this word desert in Greeke eremus commeth the name Eremitages and Eremites that liue a religious and austere life in deserts and solitatie places by the example of S. Iohn Baptist whom the holy Doctors therfore call the Prince and as it were the author of such profession S. Chrys ho. 1 in Marcum ho. de Io. Baptista Hiero. ad Eustoch de eâ—stod virg Isid li. 1. c. 15 de diu off Bernardus de excel Io. Baptista Wherewith the Protestants are so offended that * they say S. Chrysostom spake rashly and vntruely And no maruel for whereas the Euangelist himself in this place maketh him a perfect paterne of penance and Eremitical life for desert or wildernes for his rough and rude apparel for abstayning from al delicate meates according to our Sauiours testimonie also of him Mt. 11 8 Luc. 7 33 they are not ashamed to peruert all with this strange commentarie that it was a desert * full of townes and villages his garment was * chamlet his meate * such as the countrey gaue and the people there vsed to make him thereby but a common man like to the rest in his maner of life cleane against Scriptures fathers 〈◊〉 reason 2. Doe penance So is the Latin word for word so readeth al antiquitie namely S. Cyprian ep 52 often and S. Augustine li. 13 Confes c. 12. and it is a very vsual speache in the New Testament specially in the preaching of S. Iohn Baptist * Christ him self and * the Apostles to signifie perfect repentance which hath not onely confession and amendment but contrition or sorow for the offense and paineful satisfaction such as S. Cyprian speaketh of in al the foresaid epistle But the Aduersaries of purpose as * namely Beza protesteth mislike that interpretation because it fauoureth Satisfaction for sinne which they cannot abide Where if they pretend the ⸬ Greeke word we send them to these places Mat. 11 21. Lu. 10 13. 1 Cor. 7 9. where it must needes signifie sorowful payneful and satisfactorie repentance we tel them also that * S. Basil a Greeke Doctor calleth the Niniuites repentance with fasting and hearecloth and ashes by the same Greeke word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And more we wil tell them in other places 8. Confessing their sinnes Iohn did prepare the way to Christ and his Sacraments not only by his baptisme but by inducing the people to confession of their sinnes Which is not to acknowledge them selues in general to be sinners but also to vtter euery man his sinnes 9. Fruite worthie He preacheth satisfaction by doing worthy fruites or workes of penance which are as S. Hierom saith in 2. Ioel fasting praying almes and the like 10. The axe Here preachers are taught to dehort from doing euil for feare of Hel and to exhort to doe good in hope of heauen which kind of preaching our Aduer doe condemne 11. In water Iohns baptisme did not remitte sinnes nor was comparable to Christs Baptisme as here it is playne and in manie other places Hiero. adu Lucifer Aug. de Bapt. cont Donat. li. 5. c. 9. 10. 11. Yet is it an article of our Adu that th one is no better then the other which they say not to extol Iohns but to derogate from Christes baptisme so far that they make it of no more valure or efficacie for remission of sinnes and grace and iustification then was Iohns thereby to mainteine their manifold heresies that Baptisme taketh not away sinnes that a man is no cleaner nor iuster by the Sacrament of Baptisme then before that it is not necessarie for children vnto saluation but it is ynough to be borne of Christian parents and such like erroneous positions wel knowen among the Caluinists 12. Floore This floore is his Church militant here in earth wherein are both good and bad here signified by corne and chaffe til the separation be made in the day of iudgement contrarie to the doctrine of the Heretikes that hold the Church to consist onely of the good 16. Opened To signifie that heauen was shut in the old law til Christ by his Passion opened it and so by his Ascension was the first that entered into it contrarie to the doctrine of the Heretikes See Hebr. 9 â— and 11 40. CHAP. IIII. Christ going into the desert â—o prepare him self before his Manifestation ouercometh the Deuils tentations 12 Beginning in Galilee as the Prophet said he should 18 he calleth foure Disciples and with his preaching and miracles draweth vnto him innumerable folowers verse 1 THEN * IESVS was ledde of the Spirit into the ″ desert to be tempted of the Deuil ✠verse 2 And vvhen he had ″ fasted fourtie daies and fourtie nightes aftervvard he vvas hungrie ✠verse 3 And the tempter approched sayd to him If thou be the sonne of God commaund that these stones be made bread ✠verse 4 Who ansvvered said It is vvritten Nor in bread alone doth man liue but in euery word that procedeth from the mouth of God ✠verse 5 Then the Deuil tooke him vp into the holy citie and set him vpon the pinnacle of the TeÌ„ple ✠verse 6 and sayd to him If thou be the sonne of God cast thy self dovvne for ″ it is vvritten That he wil giue his Angels charge of thee in their hands shal they hold thee vp lest perhaps thou knocke they foote agaynst a stone ✠verse 7 IESVS sayd to him againe It is vvritten Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God ✠verse 8 Againe the Deuil tooke him vp into a very high mountaine and he shevved him al the Kingdoms of the vvorld and the glorie of them ✠verse 9 and sayd to him Al these vvil I giue thee if falling dovvne thou vvilt adore me ✠verse 10 Then IESVS sayth to him Auant Satan for it is vvritten The Lord thy God shalt thou adore ″ him onely shalt thou serue ✠verse 11 Then the Deuil left him and behold Angels came and ministred to him ⊢ ✠verse 12 And * vvhen IESVS had heard that Iohn vvas deliuere vp he retyred into Galilee ✠verse 13 and leauing the citie Nazareth came dvvelt in Capharnaum a sea tovvne in the borders of Zabulon Nephthali ✠verse 14 that it might be fulfilled vvhich vvas sayd by Esay the Prophet ✠verse 15 Land of Zabulon land of Nephthali the way of the sea beyond Iordan of Galilee of the Gentils ✠verse 16 the people that sate in darknesse hath seen great light and to them that sate in a countrey of the shadow of death light is risen to them ✠verse 17 From that time IESVS began to preach and to say ″* Doe penance for the Kingdom of heauen is at hand ✠verse 18 And IESVS * vvalking by the sea
things therfore vvhatsoeuer you vvil that men doe to you doe you also to them For this is the Lavv and the Prophets ✠verse 13 Enter ye by the narrovv gate because brode is the gate and large is the vvay that leadeth to perdition and many there be that enter by it ✠verse 14 Hovv narrovv is the gate and straite is the vvay that leadeth to life and fevv there are that finde it ✠verse 15 Take ye great heede of false Prophets vvhich come to you in the ″ clothing of sheepe but invvardly are rauening vvolues ✠verse 16 ″ By their fruites you shal knovv them Do men gather grapes of thornes or figges of thistels ✠verse 17 Euen so euery good tree yeldeth good fruites and the euil tree yeldeth euil fruites ✠verse 18 A good tree can not yeld euil fruites neither an euil tree yeld good fruites ✠verse 19 Euery tree that yeldeth not good fruite shal be cut dovvne and shal be cast into fyre ✠verse 20 Therfore by their fruites you shal knovv them ✠verse 21 Not euery one that sayth to me ″ Lord Lord shal enter into the Kingdom of heauen but he that doeth the vvil of my father vvhich is in heauen he shal enter into the kingdom of heauen ⊢ ✠verse 22 Many shal say to me in that day Lord Lord haue not vve prophecied in they name and in thy name cast out diuels and in thy name vvrought many miracles ✠verse 23 And then I vvil cōfesse vnto them That I neuer knevv you depart from me you that vvorke iniquitie ✠verse 24 Euery one therfore that heareth these my vvordes and doeth them shal be likened to a vvise man that built his house vpon a rocke ✠verse 25 and the rayne fel and the fluddes came the vvindes blevve and they beate agaynst that house and it fel not for it vvas founded vpon a rocke ✠verse 26 And euery one that heareth these my vvordes doeth them not shal be like a foolish man that built his house vpon the sand ✠verse 27 and the rayne fel and the fluddes came and the vvindes blevve and they beate agaynst that house and it fel the fall therof vvas great ✠verse 28 And it came to passe vvhen IESVS had fully ended these vvordes the multitutde vvere in admiration vpon his doctrine ✠verse 29 For he vvas teaching them as hauing povver and not as their Scribes and Pharisees ANNOTATIONS CHAP. VII 1. Iudge not It is not Christian part to iudge il of mens actes which be in them selues good and may procede of good meaning or of mans inward meanings and intentions which we can not see of which fault they must beware that are to suspicious and giuen to deeme alwayes the worst of other men But to say that Iudas or an Heretike euidently knowen to die obstinatly in heresie is damned and in al other playne and manifest cases to iudge is not forbidden 6. Holy to dogges No holy Sacrament and specially that of our Sauiours blessed body must be geuen wittingly to the vnworthy that is to them that haue not by confession of al mortal sinnes examined and proued them selues See the Annot. 1. Cor. 11 27. 28. 29. ◠Euery one that asketh Al things that we aske necessarie to saluation with humilitie attention continuance and other dewe circunstances God wil vndoubtedly graunt when it is best for vs. 15. Clothing of sheepe Extraordinarie apparance of zeale and holines is the sheepes cote in some Heretikes but these of this time weare not that garment much being men of vnsatiable sinne This is rather their garment common to them with al other Heretikes to crake much of the word of the Lord and by pretensed allegations and * sweete wordes of benediction and specially by promise of knowledge light and libertie of the Gospel to seduce the simple and the sinful 16. Fruites These are the fruites which Heretikes are knowen by diuision from the whole Churche diuision among them selues taking to them selues new names and new malsters inconstancie in doctrine disobedience both to others and namely to spiritual officers loue and liking of them selues pride and intolerable vaunting of their owne knowledge aboue al the holy Doctors corruption falsification and quite denying of the parts of Scriptures that specially make agaynst them and these be common to al Heretikes lightly Othersome are more peculiar to these of our time as Incestuous mariages of vowed persons Spoile of Churches Sacrilege and profanation of al holy things and many other special poynts of doctrine directly tending to the corruption of good life in al states 21. Lord Lord. These men haue faith otherwise they could not inuocate Lord Lord Ro. 10. But here we see that to beleeue is not ynough and that not only infidelitie is sinne as Luther teacheth Yea Catholikes also that worke true miracles in the name of our Lord and by neuer so great fayth yet without the workes of iustice shal not be saued 1. Cor. 13. Agayne consider here who they are that haue so often in their mouth The Lord the Lord and how litle it shal auaile them that set so litle by good workes and contemne Christian iustice CHAP. VIII Immediatly after his Sermon to confirme his doctrine with a miracle he cureth a Leper 5 But aboue him and al other Iewes he cōmendeth the faith of the Centurion who was a Gentil and foretelleth by that occasion the vocation of the Gentiles and reprobation of the Iewes 14 la Peters house he sheweth great grace 18 In the way to the sea he speaketh with two of folowing him 23 and vpon the sea commaundeth the tempest 28 and beyond the sea he manifesteth the deuils malice agaynst man in an heard of svvine verse 1 AND vvhen he vvas come dovvne from the mountaine great multitudes folovved him ✠verse 2 And * behold a leper came and adored him saying Lord if thou vvilt thou canst make me cleane ✠verse 3 And IESVS stretching forth his hand touched him saying I vvil be thou made cleane And forthvvith his leprosy vvas made cleane ✠verse 4 And IESVS sayth to him See thou tel no body but goe * shevv thy self to the ″ priest offer the ″ gift vvhich Moyses commaunded for a testimonie to them ✠verse 5 And * vvhen he vvas entred into Capharnaum there came to him a Centurion beseeching him ✠verse 6 saying Lord my boy lieth at home sicke of the palsey is sore tormēted ✠verse 7 And IESVS sayth to him I vvil come cure him ✠verse 8 And the Centurion making ansvver sayd Lord ″ I am not vvorthie that thou shouldest enter vnder my roofe but only say the vvord and my boy shal be healed ✠verse 9 For I also am a man subiect to authoritie hauing vnder me souldiars and I say to this goe and he goeth and to an other come
✠verse 3 And behold certaine of Scribes sayd vvithin them selues ″ He blasphemeth ✠verse 4 And IESVS seeing their thoughtes said Wherfore thinke you euil in your hartes ✠verse 5 ″ Whether is easier to say thy sinnes are forgiuen thee or to say Arise and vvalke ✠verse 6 But that you may knovv that the ″ Sonne of man hath povver in earth to forgiue sinnes then sayd he to the sicke of the palsey Arise take vp thy bedde and goe into thy house ✠verse 7 And he arose and vvent into his house ✠verse 8 And the multitudes seeing it vvere afrayd and ″ glorified God that gaue such povver ″ to men ⊢ ✠verse 9 And * vvhen IESVS passed forth from thence he savv a man sitting in the custome-house named Matthevv And he sayth to him Folovv me And he arose vp and folovved him ✠verse 10 And it came to passe as he vvas sitting at meate in the house behold many Publicans and sinners came and sate dovvne vvith IESVS and his Disciples ✠verse 11 And the Pharisees seeing it sayd to his Disciples vvhy doth your Master eate vvith Publicans sinners ✠verse 12 But IESVS hearing it sayd They that are in health neede not a physicion but they that are il at ease ✠verse 13 But go your vvayes and learne vvhat it is I vvil mercie ″ not sacrifice For I am not come to cal the iust but sinners ⊢ ✠verse 14 Then * came to him the Disciples of Iohn saying vvhy do vve and the Pharisees ″ fast often but thy Disciples do not fast ✠verse 15 And IESVS sayd to them Can the children of the bridegrome mourne as long as the bridegrome is vvith them But the dayes vvil come vvhen the bridegrome shal be taken avvay from them and then they shal fast ✠verse 16 And no body putteth a peece of ravv cloth to an old garment For he taketh avvay the peecing therof from the garment and there is made a greater rent ✠verse 17 Neither do they put ″ nevv vvine into old bottels Othervvise the bottels breake and the vvine runneth out and the bottels perish But nevv vvine they put into nevv bottels and both are preserued together ✠verse 18 * As he vvas speaking this vnto them behold a certaine Gouernour approched and adored him saying Lord my daughter is euen novv dead but come lay thy hand vpon her and she shal liue ✠verse 19 And IESVS rysing vp folovved him and his Disciples ✠verse 20 And behold a vvoman vvhich vvas troubled vvith an issue of bloud ″ tvvelue yeres came behind him and touched the hemme of his garment ✠verse 21 For she sayd vvithin her self If I shal ″ touch only his garment I shal be safe ✠verse 22 But IESVS turning and seeing her sayd Haue a good hart daughter thy faith hath made the safe And the vvoman became vvhole from that houre ✠verse 23 And vvhen IESVS vvas come into the house of the Gouernour savv minstrels and the multitude keeping a sturre ✠verse 24 he sayd Depart for the vvenche is not dead but sleepeth And they laughed him to skorne ✠verse 25 And vvhen the multitude vvas put forth he entred in and held her hand And the mayde arose ✠verse 26 And this bruite vvent forth into al that countrie ✠verse 27 And as IESVS passed forth from thence there folovved him tvvo blinde men crying and saying Haue mercie on vs O sonne of Dauid ✠verse 28 And vvhen he vvas come to the house the blinde came to him And IESVS sayth to them ″ Do you beleeue that I can doe this vnto you They say to him Yea Lord. ✠verse 29 Then he touched their eyes saying According to your faith be it done to you ✠verse 30 And their eyes vvere opened and IESVS threatened them saying See that no man knovv it ✠verse 31 But they vvent forth bruited him in al that countrey ✠verse 32 And vvhen they vvere gone forth behold they brought him a dumme man possessed vvith a diuel ✠verse 33 And after the diuel vvas cast out the dumme man spake and the multitudes marueled sying Neuer vvas the like seene in Israel ✠verse 34 But * the Pharisees sayd In the prince of diuels he casteth out diuels ✠verse 35 And IESVS vvent about al the cities and tovvnes teaching in their synagogs and preaching the Gospel of the kingdom and curing euery disease and euery infirmitie ✠verse 36 And seing the multitudes he pitied them because they vvere vexed and lay like sheepe that haue not a shepheard ✠verse 37 Then he sayth to his Disciples The haruest surely is great but the vvorkemen are fevv ✠verse 38 ″ Pray therfore the Lord of the haruest that he send forth vvorkemen into his haruest ANNOTATIONS CHAP. IX 3. He blasphemeth When the Iewes heard Christ remitte sinnes they charged him with blasphemie as Heretikes now charge his priests of the new Testament for that they remitte sinnes to whom he sayd Whose sinnes you shal forgeue they are forgeuen c. Io. 20. 5. Whether is easier The faithlesse Iewes thought as Heretikes now a daies that to forgeue sinnes was so proper to God that it could not he communicated vnto man but Christ sheweth that as to worke miracles is otherwise proper to God only and yet this power is communicated to men so also to forgeue sinnes 6. The sonne of man in earth Christ had power to remit sinnes and often executed the same not only as he was God but also as he was a man because he was head of the Churche and our cheefe Bishop and Priest according to his manhod in respect wherof al power was geuen him in heauen and earth Mat. 28 v. 18. 8. Glorified The faythful people did glorifie God that gaue such power to men for to remit sinnes and to doe miracles knowing that that which God committeth to men is not to his derogation but to his glorie him self only being stil the principal worker of that effect men being only his ministers substitutes and working vnder him and by his commission and authoritie ◠To men Not only Christ as he was man had this power to forgeue sinnes but by him and from him the Apostles and consequently Priests Mat. 28. Al power is geuen me Mat. 18. Whatsoeuer you shal loose in earth shal be loosed in heauen Ioan. 20. Whose sinnes you shal forgeue they are forgeuen 13. Not sacrifice These are the wordes of the Prophete who spake them euen then when sacrifices where offered by Gods commaundement so that it maketh not agaynst sacrifice but he saith that sacrifice only without mercie and charitie and generally with mortal sinne is not acceptable The Iewes offered their sacrifices dewely but in the meane time they had no pitie nor mercie on their brethren that is it which God misliketh 14. Fast often
shal be giuen and he shal abound but he that hath not from him shal be taken avvay that also vvhich he hath ✠verse 13 Therfore in parables I speake to them because seeing they see not and hearing they heare not neither do they vnderstand ✠verse 14 and the prophecie of Esay is fulfilled in them vvhich saith With hearing shal you heare and you shal not vnderstand and seeing shal you see and you shal not see ✠verse 15 For the hart of this people is vvaxed grosse and vvith their eares they haue heauily heard and their eies ″ they haue shut lest at any time they may see with their eies and heare with their eares and vnderstand vvith their hart and be conuerted and I may heale them ✠verse 16 But blessed are your eyes because they doe see and your eares because they doe heare ✠verse 17 For amen I say to you that * many Prophets and iust men haue desired to see the things that you see and haue not seen them and to heare the things that you heare and haue not heard them ✠verse 18 Heare you therfore the parable of the sovver ✠verse 19 Euery one that heareth the vvord of the kingdom and vnderstand not there cometh the vvicked one and catcheth avvay that vvhich vvas sovven in his hart this is he that vvas sovven by the vvay side ✠verse 20 And he that vvas sovven vpon rockie placesh this is he that heareth the vvord and incōtinent receiueth it vvith ioy ✠verse 21 yet hath he not roote in him self but is for a time and vvhen there falleth tribulation and persecution for the vvord he is by and by scandalized ✠verse 22 And he that vvas sovven among thornes this is he that heareth the vvord and the carefulnes of this vvorld and the deceitfulnes of riches choketh vp the vvord and he becometh fruitles ✠verse 23 But he that vvas sovven vpon good ground this is he that heareth the vvord and vnderstandeth and bringeth fruite and yeldeth some an hundred-fold and an other threescore and an other thirtie ✠verse 24 An other parable he proposed to them saying The kingdom of heauen is resembled to a man that sovved good seede in his field ✠verse 25 But vvhen men vvere a sleepe his enemy came and ouersovved cockle among the vvheate and vvent his vvay ✠verse 26 And vvhen the blade vvas shot vp and had brought forth fruite then appeared also the cockle ✠verse 27 And the seruants of the goodman of the house comming said to him Sir didst thou not sovv good seede in thy field Whence then hath it cockle ✠verse 28 And he said to them The enemy man hath done this And the seruants said to him Wilt thou vve goe and gather it vp ✠verse 29 And he said No ″ lest perhaps gathering vp the cockle you may roote vp the vvheate also together vvith it ✠verse 30 Suffer both to grovv vntil the haruest and in the time of haruest I vvil say to the reapers Gather vp first the cockle and binde it into bundels to burne but the vvheate gather ye into my barne ⊢ ✠verse 31 An other parable he proposed vnto them saying * The kingdom of heauen is like to a mustard-seede vvhich a man tooke and sovved in his field ✠verse 32 Which is the ″ least surely of al seedes but vvhen it is grovven it is greater then al herbes and is made a tree so that the soules of the aire come and dvvel in the branches thereof ✠verse 33 An other parable he spake to them The kingdom of heauen is like to leauen vvhich a vvoman tooke and hid in three measures of meale vntil the vvhole vvas leauened ✠verse 34 Al these things IESVS spake in parables to the multitudes and vvithout parables he did not speake to them ✠verse 35 that it might be fulfilled vvhich vvas spoken by the Prophet saying I wil open my mouth in parables I wil vtter things hidden from the foundation of the vvorld ⊢ ✠verse 36 Then hauing dimissed the multitudes he came into the house and his Disciples came vnto him saying Expound vs the parable of the cockle of the field ✠verse 37 Who made ansvver and said to them He that soweth the good seede is the Sonne of man ✠verse 38 And the field is the vvorld And the good seede these are the childrē of the kingdom And the cockle are the children of the vvicked one ✠verse 39 And the enemie that sovved them is the deuil But the haruest is the ende of the vvorld And the reapers are the Angels ✠verse 40 Euen as cockle therfore is gathered vp and burnt vvith fire so shal it be in the ende of the vvorld ✠verse 41 The Sonne of man shal send his Angels and they shal gather out of his kingdom al scandals and them that vvorke iniquitie ✠verse 42 and shal cast them into the furnace of fire There shal be vveeping and gnashing of teeth ✠verse 43 Then shal the iust shine as the sunne in the kingdom of their father He that hath eares to heare let him heare ✠verse 44 The kingdom of heauen is like a treasure hidden in a field vvich a man hauing found did hide it and for ioy thereof goeth and selleth al that he hath and byeth that field ✠verse 45 Againe the kingdom of heauen is like to a marchant man seeking good pearles ✠verse 46 And hauing found one precious pearle he vvent his vvay and sold al that he had and bought it ✠verse 47 Againe the kingdom of heauen is like to a nette cast into the sea and gathering together of al kind of fishes ✠verse 48 Which vvhen it vvas filled dravving it forth and sitting by the shore they chose out the good into vessels but the bad they did cast out ✠verse 49 So shal it be in the consummation of the vvorld The Angels shal goe forth and shal separate the euil from among the iust ✠verse 50 and shal cast them into the furnace of fire there shal be vveeping and gnashing of teeth ✠verse 51 Haue ye vnderstoode al these things They say to him Yea. ✠verse 52 He said vnto them Therefore euery Scribe instructed in the kingdom of heauen is like to a man that is an housholder vvhich bringeth forth out of his treasure nevv things and old ⊢ ✠verse 53 And it came to passe vvhen IESVS had ended these parables he passed from thence ✠verse 54 And * coming into his ovvne countrie he taught them in their synagogues so that they marueled and said Hovv came this fellovv by this vvisedom and vertues ✠verse 55 Is not this the ″ carpenters sonne Is not his mother called MARIE and his brethren Iames and Ioseph and Simon and Iude ✠verse 56 and his sisters are they not al vvith vs Whence therefore hath he al these
on vs. ✠verse 23 And Iesus said to him If thou canst beleeue al things are possible to him that beleeueth ✠verse 24 And incontinent the father of the boy crying out vvith teares said I do beleeue Lord helpe my incredulity ✠verse 25 And vvhen IESVS savv the people running together he threatened the vncleane spirit saying to him Deafe and dumme spirit I commaunde thee goe out of him and enter not any more into him ✠verse 26 And crying out and greatly tearing him he vvent out of him and he became as dead so that many said That he is dead ✠verse 27 But IESVS holding his hand lifted him vp and he rose ✠verse 28 And vvhen he vvas entred into the house his Disciples secretely asked him Why could not vve cast him out ✠verse 29 And he said to them This kinde can goe out by nothing but by prayer and fasting ⊢ ✠verse 30 And * departing thence they passed by Galilee neither vvould he that any man should knovv ✠verse 31 And he taught his Disciples and said to them That the Sonne of man shal be betrayed into the hands of men and they shal kil him and being killed the third day he shal rise againe ✠verse 32 But they knevv not the vvord and they vvere afraid to aske him ✠verse 33 And * they came to Capharnaum Vvho vvhen he vvas in the house asked them What did you treate of in the vvay ✠verse 34 But they held their peace for in the vvay they had disputed among them selues vvhich of them should be the greater ✠verse 35 And sitting dovvne he called the Tvvelue and saith to them If any man vvil be first he shal be last of al and the minister of al. ✠verse 36 And taking a childe he set him in the middes of them Vvhom vvhen he had embraced he said to them ✠verse 37 Vvhosoeuer shal receiue one of such children in my name receiueth me and vvhosoeuer shal receiue me receiueth not me but him that sent me ✠verse 38 * Iohn ansvvered him saying Maister vve savv one casting out deuils ″ in thy name vvho folovveth not vs and vve prohibited him ✠verse 39 But IESVS said Do not prohibit him for there is no man that doth a miracle in my name and can soone speake il of me ✠verse 40 for he that is not against you is for you ✠verse 41 For vvhosoeuer shal giue you to drinke a cuppe of vvater in my name because you are Christs amen I say to you he shal not lose his revvard ✠verse 42 And vvhosoeuer shal scandalize one of these litle ones beleeuing in me it is good for him rather if a milstone vvere put about his necke and he vvere cast into the sea ✠verse 43 And if thy hand scandalize thee cut it of it is good for thee to enter into life maimed then hauing tvvo hands to goe into hel into the fire vnquencheable ✠verse 44 vvhere their vvorme dieth not and the fire quencheth not ✠verse 45 And if thy foote scandalize thee choppe it of it is good for thee to enter into life euerlasting lame rather then hauing tvvo feete to be cast into the hel of vnquencheable fire ✠verse 46 vvhere their vvorme dieth not and the fire quencheth not ✠verse 47 And if thine eye scandalize thee cast it out it is good for thee vvith one eve to enter into the kingdom of God rather then hauing tvvo eies to be cast into the hel of fire ✠verse 48 vvhere their vvorme dieth not and the fire quencheth not ✠verse 49 For euery one shal be salted vvith fite and * euery victime shal be salted vvith salt ✠verse 50 Salt is good but if the salt shal be vnseasoned vvhervvith vvil you season it Haue salt in you and haue peace among you ANNOTATIONS CHAP. IX 4. Elias with Moyses Moyses representeth the persons of al the Saincts that shal be departed this life when Christ commeth in his Maiestie to iudgement And Elias who was then liuing figureth the holy men that shal then be found aliue when he commeth in glorie Who both shal then begin to reigne with Christ in glorie Beda in 9. Marc. 13. Elias also is come Elias was Zelous for Gods Law a great reprehender of sinne and an Eremite and shal be the Precursor of Christ in his second Aduent So was Iohn before his first Aduent a Zelatour a Corrector an Eremite and his Precursor Theod. in â—aten Thoma super hunc locum See S. Hierom in the life of Paul the eremite that both Elias and Iohn Baptist vvere counted principal professours of that life 38. In thy name Miracles are vvrought sometime by the name of IESVS whatsoeuer the men be when it is for the proofe of a truth or for the glorie of God In so much that Iulian the Apostata him selfe did driue away diuels with the signe of the Crosse as S. Gregorie Nazianzene writeth orat 1 in Iulian. Theodoret. li. â— c. 3 hist And so also Heretikes may doe miracles among the Heathen to prooue any article of the Christian faith but they neuer did nor euer shal vvorke any miracle to prooue any of their erroneous opinions as to prooue that Christ is not really in the B. Sacrament CHAP. X. He answereth the tempting Pharisees and againe his disciples afterward that the case of a man with his wife shal be as in the first institution vtterly indissoluble 13 He blesseth children 17 He sheweth what is to be done to get life euerlasting 21 What also for a rich man to be perfect 2â— as also what passing reward they shal haue that doe so in time of persecution 32 He reuealeth more to his Disciples touching his Passion 35 bidding the two ambitious suiters to thinke rather of suffering with him 41 and teaching vs in the rest of his Disciples not to be greeued at our Ecclesiastical Superiours considering they are as he was him self to toile for our saluation 46 Then going out of Iericho he giueth sight to a blinde man verse 1 AND rising vp thence he commeth into the coastes of Ievvrie beyond Iordan and the multitudes assemble againe vnto him and as he vvas accustomed againe he taught them ✠verse 2 And the Pharisees comming neere asked him Is it lavvful for a man to dimisse his vvife tempting him ✠verse 3 But he ansvvering said to them Vvhat did Moyses commaund you ✠verse 4 Who said * Moyses ″ permitted to vvrite a bil of diuorce and to dimisse her ✠verse 5 To vvhom IESVS ansvvering said For the hardnes of your hart he vvrote you this precept ✠verse 6 but from the beginning of the creation * God made them male and femal ✠verse 7 For this cause * man shal leaue his father and mother and shal cleaue to his vvife ✠verse 8 and they tvvo shal be in one
of you vpon the Sabboth loose his oxe or his asse from the manger and leadeth them to vvater ✠verse 16 But ″ this daughter of Abraham vvhom Satan hath bound loe these eightene yeres ought not she to be loosed from this bond on the Sabboth day ✠verse 17 And vvhen he said these things al his aduersaries vvere ashamed and al the people reioyced in al things that vvere gloriously done of him ⊢ ✠verse 18 He said therfore * Vvherevnto is the kingdom of God like and vvherevnto shal I esteeme it like ✠verse 19 It is like to a mustard seede vvhich a man tooke and cast into his garden and it grevv and became a great tree and the foules of the aire rested in the boughes thereof ✠verse 20 And againe he said * Like to vvhat shal I esteeme the kingdom of God ✠verse 21 It is like to leauen vvhich a vvoman tooke and hid in three measures of meale til the vvhole vvas leauened ✠verse 22 And he vvent by cities and tovvnes teaching and making his iourney vnto Hierusalem ✠verse 23 And a certaine man said to him Lord be they fevv that are saued * But he said to them ✠verse 24 Striue to enter ″ by the narrovv gate because many I say to you ″ shal seeke to enter and shal not be able ✠verse 25 But vvhen the good man of the house shal enter in and shut the doore and you shal begin to stand vvithout and knocke at the doore saying Lord open to vs and he ansvvering shal say to you I knovv you not vvhence you are ✠verse 26 then you shal begin to say Vve did ″ eate before thee and drinke and in our streates didst thou teach ✠verse 27 And he shal say to you I knovv you not vvhence you are depart from me al ye vvorkers of iniquite ✠verse 28 There shal be vveeping and gnashing of teeth vvhen you shal see Abraham and Isaac and Iacob and al the Prophets in the kingdom of God and you to be thrust out ✠verse 29 And there shal come from the East and the Vvest and the North and the South and shal sit dovvne in the kingdom of God ✠verse 30 And behold they are last that shal be first and they be first that shal be last ✠verse 31 The same day there came certaine of the Pharisees saying to him Depart and get the hence because Herod vvil kil thee ✠verse 32 And he said to them Goe and tel that foxe Behold I cast out deuils and perfite cures this day and to morovv and the third day I am consummate ✠verse 33 But yet I must vvalke this day and to morovv and the day folovving because it cannot be that a Prophet perish out of Hierusalem ✠verse 34 * Hierusalem Hierusalem vvhich killest the Prophets and stonest them that are sent to thee hovv often vvould I gather thy childrē as the bird doth her brood vnder her vvings and thou vvouldest not ✠verse 35 Behold your house shal be left desert to you And I say to you that you shal not see me til it come vvhen you shal say Blessed is he that commeth in the name of our Lord. ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XIII 2. These Galilaans It is Gods mercie that he straight punisheth not al offenders but some fevv for a vvarning to all as that for Schisme he striketh nor al such as haue forsaken the Church and the lavvful Priests as he did Coré and his complices that for spoile of Churches he reuengeth not al as he did Heliodorus and al that vow and reuoke their gifts to God as Ananias and Sapphîra Some few therfore for their iust deserts be so handled for example to prouoke al others guilty of the same crimes to doe penance Which if they doe not in this life they shal all assuredly perish in the next world Optatus li. 1 cont Parmen sub finem 16. This daughter we may see that many diseases which seeme natural doe procede of the Diuel by Gods permission either for sinne or for probation and both those kindes Christ specially cured for that no natural medicines could cure them and specially because he came to dissolue the workes of Satan both in body and soul 24. By the narrovv Our Lord is not contrarie to him self in that he ansvvereth the gate to be straite and fevv to be saued whereas els vvhere he said that many should come from the East and Vvest c. and ioy with Abraham in the kingdom of heauen Mat. 8. 11. For though they be few in respect of the vvicked of al sortes yet they be many in them selues and in the societie of Angels the vvheate cornes are scarse seen at the threshing vvhen they are medled with the chaffe but vvhen the il are remoued the vvhole barne of heauen shal be filled So saith S. Aug. Ser. 32 de verb. Do. 24. Shal seeke Many vvould be saued and looke to be saued but can not because they vvil not take paines to enter in at so straite a passage that is to say to fast much pray often doe great penance for their sinnes liue in holy Churches discipline abstaine from the pleasures of this world and suffer persecution and losse of their goods and liues for Christes sake 26. Eate before thee It is not ynough to feede vvith Christ in his Sacraments or to heare his vvord the Church to chalēge heauen thereby vnlesse vve liue in vnitie of the Catholike Church So S. Augustine applieth this against the Donatistes that had the very same seruice and Sacraments which the Catholike Church had but yet seuered them selues from other Christian countries by Schisme CHAP. XIIII By occasion of dining with a Pharisee 2 after that he hath againe confounded them for maligning him for his miraculous good doing on the Sabboth 7 he teacheth them humilitie seing their ambition 1◠and in their workes to seeke retribution not of men in this worlde but of God in the world to come 16 foretelling also that the Iewes for their worldly excuses shal not tast of the Supper but the Gentils in their place 〈◊〉 Yea that so far must men be from al worldlines that they must earnestly bethinke them before they enter into his Church and be ready to forgot all 34 specially considering they must be the salt of others also verse 1 AND it came to passe vvhen IESVS entred into the house of a certaine Prince of the Pharisees vpon the Sabboth to eate bread and they vvatched him ✠verse 2 And behold there vvas a certaine man before him that had the dropsie ✠verse 3 And IESVS ansvvering spake to the Lavvyers and Pharisees saying Is it Lavvful to cure on the Sabboth ✠verse 4 But they held their peace but he taking him healed him and sent him avvay ✠verse 5 And ansvvering them he said Vvhich of you shal haue
to them ✠verse 5 And they vvere glad and bargained to giue him money ✠verse 6 And he promised And he sought opportunitie to betray him apart from the multitudes ✠verse 7 * And the day of the Azymes came vvherein it vvas necessarie that the Pasche should be killed ✠verse 8 And he sent Peter and Iohn saying Goe and prepare vs the Pasche that vve may eate ✠verse 9 But they said Vvhere vvilt thou that vve prepare it ✠verse 10 And he said to them Behold as you enter into the citie there shal meete you a man carying a pitcher of vvater folovv him into the house into vvhich he entreth ✠verse 11 and you shal say to the good manof the house The Maister saith to thee Vvhere is the inne vvhere I may eate the Pasche vvith my Disciples ✠verse 12 And he vvil shevv you a great refectorie adorned and there prepare ✠verse 13 And they going found as he said to them and prepared the Pasche ✠verse 14 And vvhen the houre vvas come he sate dovvne and the tvvelue Apostles vvith him ✠verse 15 And he said to them ″ Vvith desire I haue desired to eate this Pasche vvith you before I suffer ✠verse 16 For I say to you that from this time I vvil not eate it til it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God ✠verse 17 And ″ taking the chalice he gaue thankes and said Take and deuide among you ✠verse 18 for I say to you That I vvil not drinke of the generation of the vine til the kingdom of God doe come ✠verse 19 * And taking bread he gaue thankes and brake and gaue to them saying ″ THIS IS MY BODY ″ VVHICH IS GIVEN FOR YOV ″ Doe this ″ for a commemoration of me ✠verse 20 In like maner the chalice also after he had supped saying THIS IS THE CHALICE ″ THE NEVV TESTAMENT IN MY BLOVD ″ VVHICH SHAL BE SHED FOR YOV ✠verse 21 * But yet behold the hand of him that betraieth me is vvith me on the table ✠verse 22 And the Sonne of man in deede goeth according to that vvhich is determined but yet vvo to that man by vvhom he shal be betrayed ✠verse 23 And they began to question among them selues vvhich of them it should be that should doe this ✠verse 24 * And there fel also a cōtention betvvene them vvhich of them seemed to be greater ✠verse 25 And he said to them The kinges of the Gentiles ouerrule them and they that haue povver vpon them are called beneficial ✠verse 26 But you not so but he that is the greater among you let him become as the yonger he that is the leader as the waiter ✠verse 27 For which is greater he that sitteth at the table or he that ministreth is not he that sitteth but I am in the middes of you as he that ministreth ✠verse 28 you are they that haue remained vvith me in my tētations ✠verse 29 And I dispose to you as my father disposed to me a kingdō ✠verse 30 that you may eate drinke vpon my table in my kingdom may sit vpon thrones iudging the tvvelue tribes of Israel ✠verse 31 And our Lord said ″ Simon Simon behold Satan hath required to haue you for to sift as vvheate ✠verse 32 BVT I HAVE PRAIED FOR THEE that thy faith faile not and thou once conuerted confirme thy brethren ✠verse 33 Vvho said to him Lord vvith thee I am readie to goe both into prison and vnto death ✠verse 34 And he said * I say to thee Peter the cocke shal not crovv to day til thou denie thrise that thou knovvest me ✠verse 35 And he said to them Vvhen I sent you * vvithout purse and skrippe and shoes did you lacke any thing But they said Nothing ✠verse 36 He said therfore vnto them But novv he that hath a purse let him take it likevvise also a skrippe and he that hath not let him sel his coate and bie a svvord ✠verse 37 For I say to you that yet this that is vvritten must be fulfilled in me And vvith the vvicked vvas he reputed For those things that are concerning me haue an end ✠verse 38 But they said Lord Loe tvvo svvordes here But he said to them It is ynough ✠verse 39 * And going forth he vvent according to his custome into mount-Oliuet And his Disciples also folovved him ✠verse 40 And vvhen he vvas come to the place he said to them Pray lest ye enter into tentation ✠verse 41 And he vvas pulled avvay from them a stones cast and kneeling he praied ✠verse 42 saying Father if thou vvilt transferre this chalice from me But yet not my vvil but thine be done ✠verse 43 And there appeared to him an Angel from heauen strengthening him And being in an agonie he praied the longer ✠verse 44 And his svveat became as droppes of bloud trikling dovvne vpon the earth ✠verse 45 And vvhen he vvas risen vp from praier and vvas come to his Disciples he found them sleeping for pensifenes ✠verse 46 And he said to them Vvhy sleepe you arise pray lest you enter into tentation ✠verse 47 As he vvas yet speaking behold a multitude and he that vvas called Iudas one of the Tvvelue vvent before them and approched to IESVS for to kisse him ✠verse 48 And IESVS said to him Iudas with a kisse doest thou betray the sonne of man ✠verse 49 And they that vvere about him seeing vvhat vvould be said to him Lord Shal vve strike vvith the svvord ✠verse 50 And one of them smote the seruant of the high Priest and cut of his right eare ✠verse 51 But IESVS ansvvering said Suffer ye thus farre And vvhen he had touched his eare he healed him ✠verse 52 And IESVS said to them that vvere come vnto him the cheefe Priests and magistrates of the temple and auncients As it vvere to a theefe are you come forth vvith svvordes and clubbes ✠verse 53 Vvhen I vvas daily vvith you in the temple you did not lay handes vpon me but this is your houre and the povver of darkenesse ✠verse 54 And apprehending him they led him to the high Priests house but Peter folovved a farre of ✠verse 55 And a fire being kindled in the middes of the court they sitting about it Peter vvas in the middes of them ✠verse 56 Vvhom vvhen a certaine vvenche savv sitting at the light and had beheld him she said This fellovv also vvas vvith him ✠verse 57 But he denied him saying Vvoman I knovv him not ✠verse 58 And after a vvhile an other man seeing him said And thou art of them But Peter said O man I am not ✠verse 59 And after the space as it vvere of one houre a certaine other man affirmed
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
Al vvhich being vvel considered the Heretikes are to contentious and incredulous to discredite the same as they commonly doe CHAP. XII 4 The great dragen the Diuel vvatching the vvoman that brought forth a man childe to deuoure it God tooke avvay the childe to him self and fed the vvoman in the desert 7 Michael fighting vvith the dragon ouercoÌ„meth him 13 vvho being throvven dovvne to the earth persenâ—teth the vvomaÌ„ her seede verse 1 AND a great signe appeared in heauen a vvoman clothed vvith the sunne and the moone vnder her feete on her head a crovvne of tvvelue starres ✠verse 2 being with childe she cried also traueling and is in anguish to be deliuered ✠verse 3 And there vvas seen an other signe in heauen and behold a great red dragon hauing seueÌ„ heades ten hornes and on his heades seuen diademes ✠verse 4 his taile drevv the third part of the starres of heauen and cast them to the earth and the dragon stoode before the vvoman vvhich vvas ready to be deliuered that vvhen she should be deliuered he might deuoure her sonne ✠verse 5 And she brought forth a man childe vvho vvas * to gouerne al nations in an yron rodde her sonne vvas taken vp to God and to his throne ✠verse 6 ″ the vvoman fled into the vvildernesse where she had a place prepared of God that there they might feede her a thousand tvvo hundred sixtie daies ✠verse 7 And there vvas made ″ a great battel in heauen Michael and his Angels fought vvith the dragon and the dragon fought and his Angels ✠verse 8 and they preuailed not neither vvas their place found any more in heauen ✠verse 9 And that great dragon vvas cast forth the old serpent vvhich is called the Deuil and Satan vvhich seduceth the vvhole vvorld and he vvas cast into the earth his Angels vvere throvven downe vvith him ✠verse 10 And I heard a great voice in heauen saying Novv is there made saluation and force and the kingdom of our God and the povver of his Christ because the accuser of our brethren is cast forth vvho accused them before the sight of our God day and night ✠verse 11 And they ouercame him by the bloud of the Lambe and by the vvord of their testimonie and they loued not their liues euen vnto death ✠verse 12 Therfore reioyce ô heauens and you that dvvel therein Vvo to the earth and to the sea because the Diuel is desceÌ„ded to you hauing great vvrath knovving that he hath a litle time ✠verse 13 And after the dragon savv that he vvas throvven into the earth he persecuted the vvomaÌ„ vvhich brought forth the man-childe ✠verse 14 and there vvere giuen to the vvoman tvvo vvinges of a great egle that shee might flie into the desert vnto her place vvhere she is nourished for a time times halfe a time from the face of the serpent ✠verse 15 And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the vvoman vvater as it vvere a floud that he might make her ″ to be caried avvay vvith the floud ✠verse 16 And the earth holpe the vvoman and the earth opened her mouth and svvallovved vp the floud vvhich the dragon cast out of his mouth ✠verse 17 And the dragon vvas angrie against the vvoman and vvent to make battel vvith the rest of her seede vvhich keepe the commaundements of God and haue the testimonie of IESVS Christ ✠verse 18 And he stood vpon the sand of the sea ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XII 6. The vvoman fled This great persecution that the Church shal flee from is in the time of Antichrist and shal endure but three yeres and a halfe as is noted v. 14 in the margent In vvhich time for al that she shal not vvant our Lordes protection nor true Pastors nor be so secrete but al faithful men shal knovv and folovv her much lesse shal she decay erre in faith or degenerate and folovv Antichrist as Heretikes do vvickedly feine As the Church Catholike novv in England in this time of persecution because it hath no publike state of regiment nor open free exercise of holy functions may be said to be fled into the desert yet it is neither vnknovven to the faithful that folovv it nor the enemies that persecute it as the hidde company that the protestants talke of vvas for some vvorldes together neither knovven to their frendes nor foes because there vvas in deede none such for many ages together And this is true if vve take this flight for a very corporal retiring into vvildernes Vvhere in deede it may be and is of most expounded to be a spiritual flight by forsaking the ioyes and solaces of the vvorld and giuing her self to contemplation and penance during the time of persecution vnder Antichrist And by enlarging the sense it may also very vvel signifie the desolation and affliction that the Church suffereth and hath suffered from time to time in this vvildernes of the vvorld by al the forerunners and ministers of Antichrist Tyrants and Heretikes 7. A great battel In the Church there is a perpetual combat betvvixt S. Michael protector of the Church militant as he vvas sometime of the Ievves Synagogue Dan. 10 21 and his Angels and the Deuil and his ministers the perfect victorie ouer vvhom shal be at the iudgement Marke here also the cause vvhy S. Michael is commonly painted fighting vvith a dragon 15. To be caried avvay By great persecution he vvould dravv her that is her children from the true faith but euery one of the faithful elect gladly bearing their part thereof ouercome his tyranoie At vvhose constancie he being the more offended vvorketh malicious attempts in assaulting the frailer sort vvho are here signified by the rest of her seede that keepe the commaundemants but are not so perfect as the former CHAP. XIII 1 A beast rising vp out of the sea hauing seuen heades and ten hornes ten diademes 5 blasphemeth God 7 and vvarreth against the Saincts destroieth them 11 And an other beast rising out of the earth vvith tvvo hornes vvas altogether for the foresaid beast constraining men to make and adore the image thereof and to haue the character of his name verse 1 AND I savv ″ a beast comming vp from the sea hauing seuen heades and ten hornes vpon his hornes ten diademes and vpon his heades names of blasphemie ✠verse 2 And the beast vvhich I savv vvas like to a libarde and his feete as of a beare and his mouth as the mouth of a lion And the dragon gaue him his ovvne force and great povver ✠verse 3 And I savv one of his heades as it vvere slaine to death and the vvound of his death vvas cured And al the earth vvas in admiration after the beast ✠verse 4 And they adored the dragon vvhich gaue povver to the beast
the Gentiles to be innumerable c The elect of the Gentiles ⸬ Boughes of the palme tree be tokens of triumph and victorie The Epistle for many Martyrs The glorie of Martyrs Esa 49 10. Es 25 8. Apo. 21 4. THE 4 VISION ⸬ The Priest standing at the altar praying offering for the people in the time of the high mysteries Christ him self also being present vpon the altar is a figure of this thing therevnto he alludeth c If this be S. Michael or any Angel and not Christ him self as some take it Angels offer vp the praiers of the faithful as the 24 Elders did chap. 5. for this vvvord Saincts is taken here for the holy persons on earth as often in the Scripture though it be not against the Scriptures that the inferior Sainct or Angel in heaueÌ„ should offer their praiers to God by their superiors there But hereby vve coÌ„clude against the Protestants that it derogateth not from Christ that Angels or Saincts offer our praiers to God as also it is plaine of Raphael Tob. 12 12. Most vnderstand al this of Heretikes ⸬ The fall of an Arch heretike as Arius Luther Caluin out of the Church of God Which haue the key of Hel to open bring forth al the old condemned heresies buried before in the depth c Innumerable peâ—y heretikes folowing their Maisters after the opening the smoke of the bottomlesse pit Apoc. 6 16. The cheefe Maister of heretikes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In English Destroier c Pagans Infidels and sinful impenitent Catholikes must be condemned also ⸬ This phrase being the like both in greeke and latin signifieth such sorowful penal repentance as causeth a man to forsake his former sinnes and depart from them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See the same phrase c. 2 21 22. Act. â— v. 22. Vvho are seduced by Heretikes The manifold hypocrisie of Heretikes Herâ—t translation CHRIST the valiant Angel is here described ` pillers ⸬ Many great mysteries and truthes are to be preserued in the Church vvhich for causes knovven to Gods prouidence are not to be vvritten in the booke of holy Scripture Dan. 12 7. c This vvas the maner of taking an othe by the true God as 〈◊〉 32. Ezec. 3 1 c By earnest studie and meditation ⸬ Svveete in the reading but in fulfilling somevvhat bitter because it coÌ„mauÌ„deth workes of penance and suffering of tribulatioÌ„s ⸬ Three yeres and a halfe vvhich is the time of Antichrists reigne and persecution ⸬ The great Antichrist c He meaneth Hierusalem named Sodom and Aegypt for the imitatioÌ„ of theÌ„ in wickednes So that we see his cheefe reigne shal be there though his tyrannie may extend to al places of the vvorld ⸬ The wicked reioyce vvhen holy men are executed by the tyrants of the vvorld because their life and doctrine are hurdenous vnto them ⸬ The kingdoÌ„ of this world vsurped before by Satan Antichrist shal aftervvard be Christes for euer ⸬ To repay the hire or wages for so both the Greeke vvord and the latin signifie due to holy men proueth against the protestaÌ„ts that they did truely merite the same in this life Enoch Elias yet aliue shal preach in the time of Antichrist THE 3 PART ⸬ This is properly principally spoken of the Church and by allusion of our B. Lady also The Dragons incredulous persecuting multitude and Antichrist the cheefe head thereof c The great Diuel Lucifer ⸬ The spirites that fall from their first state into Apostasie vvith him and by his meanes c The Diuels endeuour agaiÌ„st the Churches children and specially our B. Ladies onely sonne the head of the rest Ps 2 9. Apoc. 2 27. ⸬ Vvhen the Angels or vve haue the victorie vve must knovv it is by the bloud of Christ and so al is referred alvvaies to him ⸬ This often insinuatioÌ„ that Antichrists reigne shal be but three yeres a halfe Dan. 7 25. Apoc. 12 2. 3. in this chap. v. 6. c. 13 5. proueth that the heretikes be excedingly blinded vvith malice that hold the Pope to be Antichrist who hath ruled so many ages The Church shal flee as to a desert in Antichrists time but not decay or be vnknowen no not for so short a time S. Michael fighting vvith the dragon Antichrists atteÌ„pts to draw from the true faith ⸬ They that now folow the simplest grossest heretikes that euer were without seeing miracles vvould then much more folow this great seducer working miracles ⸬ No heretikes euer liker Antichrist theÌ„ these in our daies specially in blasphemies against Gods Church Sacraments Saincts ministers and al sacred thinges Apoc. 3. 5 Gen. 9 6 Mt. 26 52. ⸬ An other false prophet inferior to Antichrist shal vvorke vvonders also but al referred to the honour of his maister Antichrist So doth Caluin other Arch-heretikes peruert the world to the honour of Antichrist and so do their scholers also for the honour of them Many mysteries expounded Great persecution by Antichrist and his ministers Their blessednes that continue coÌ„stant The honour of Christs image is for the honour of Christ Antichrists triple honour against the honour of Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The ProtestaÌ„ts by abolishing of Christes image crosse and irreuereÌ„ce to the name IESVS make a ready vvay to the honour of Antichrist Io. 14 29. Antichrists name secrete Antichrist shal be one special man and of a peculiar name The Pope can not be Antichrist Al scaming of letters to expresse Antichrists name is vncertaine Irem li. 5 in fine The Epistle vpoÌ„ S. Innocents day in Christmas ⸬ Christ and the same number of elect that were signed chap. 7. ` learne 〈◊〉 ⸬ One state of life more excelleÌ„t then an other and virgins for their puritie passing the rest alwaies accompanying Christ according to the Churches hymne out of this place Quecunque pergis virgines sequuntur c. c This the Church applieth to the holy Innocents that died first for Christ Ps 145. Act. 14. Esa 21. ⸬ The citie of the diuel which is the vniuersal societie of the wicked misbeleuers il liuers in the vvorld Ier. 51. Apo. 18. ⸬ The great damnatioÌ„ that shal folovv them that forsake Christ the Church worship Antichrist or his image ⸬ Faith is not ynough to saluatioÌ„ without fulfilling of Gods coÌ„mauÌ„dements b The Epistle in a daily Masse for the dead Ioel 3. Mat. 13. c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lacuÌ„ fat trough lake Beza Praying for the dead and vnto Saincts at the altar The place abused against Purgatorie ansvvered ` á modo ` 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Photius in Lexico THE 4 PART Of the 7 last plagues final damnatioÌ„ of the vvicked The tribulations about the day of iudgement c Baptisme ⸬ The song of Moyses and Christ is the new TestameÌ„t and the old ` Saincts THE EIETH VISION linen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ⸬