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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A22641	St. Augustine, Of the citie of God vvith the learned comments of Io. Lod. Viues. Englished by I.H.; De civitate Dei. English	Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.; Healey, John, d. 1610.; Vives, Juan Luis, 1492-1540.	1610 (1610)	STC 916; ESTC S106897	1,266,989	952

God So did Christ found her in his Patriarchs 〈◊〉 ●…hets before he tooke flesh in her from the Virgin Mary Seing therefore 〈◊〉 Prophet so long agoc said that of this Citty which now we behold come 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In steed of fathers thou shal haue children to make them Princes ouer all the 〈◊〉 so hath shee when whole nations and their rulers come freely to con●… 〈◊〉 proffesse Christ his truth for euer and euer then without all doubt there 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…ope herein how euer vnderstood but hath direct reference vnto these 〈◊〉 stations L. VIVES 〈◊〉 a generation So read the 70. whom Augustine euer followeth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and this reduplication is very emphaticall in the Hebrew b To those that hee neuer Christ while hee was on the earth neuer came nor preached in any nation but Israell Nor matter●… 〈◊〉 tha●… some few Gentiles came vnto him wee speake here of whole nations c Men shall call it The seauenty read it thus indeed but erroneously as Hierome noteth In Psalm 89. for they had written it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 what is Sion which reading some conceyuing not reiected and added 〈◊〉 reading it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an other Si●…n and that the rather because it followeth hee was made man therein But the vulgar followeth the Hebrew and reads it with an interrogation Of the references of the 110. Psalme vnto Christs Priest-hood and the 22. vnto his passion CHAP. 17. FOr in that psalme that as this calleth Christ a King enstileth him a priest beginning The Lord said vnto my Lord sit thou at my right hand vntill I make thine enemies thy foote-stoole we beleeue that Christ sitteth at Gods right hand but we see it not nor that his enemies are all vnder his feete which a must appeare in the end and is now beleeued as it shall hereafter bee beheld but then the rest the Lord shall send the rod of thy power out of Sion be thou ruler amidst thine enemies This is so plaine that nought but impudence it selfe can contradict it The enemies themselues confesse that the law of Christ came out of Sion that which we call the Ghospell and auouch to be the rod of his power And that he ruleth in the midst of his enemies themselues his slaues with grudging and fruitlesse gnashing of teeth doe really acknowledge Furthermore the Lord sware and will not repent which proues the sequence eternally established thou art a Priest for euer after the order of Melchisedech The reason is Aarons priest-hood and sacrifice is abolished and now in all the world vnder Christ the priest wee offer that which Melchisedech brought forth when hee blessed Abraham who doubteth now of whom this is spoken and vnto this manifestation are the other Tropes of the psalme referred as wee haue declared them peculiarly in our Sermons and in that psalme also wherein CHRIST prophecieth of his passion by Dauids mouth saying they perced my hands and my feete they counted all my bones and stood gazing vpon me These words are a plaine description of his posture on the crosse his nayling of his hands and feete his whole body stretched at length and made a rufull gazing stock to the beholders Nay more they parted my garments among them they cast lots vpon my vesture How this was fulfilled let the Ghospell tell you And so in this there are diuers obscurities which not withstanding are all congruent with the maine and scope of the psalme manifested in the passion chiefly seeing that those things which the psalme presaged so long before are but now effected as it fore-told and euen now are opened vnto the eyes of the whole world For it saith a little after All the ends of the world shall remember themselues and turne vnto the Lord all the kindreds of the earth shall worship before him for the kingdome is the Lords and he ruleth among the nations L. VIVES VVHich a ●…st apeare In the end but now is onely beleeued Saint Paul writeth much of it vnto the Corynthians and Hebrewes Christs death and resurrection prophecied in psalme 3. 40. 15. 67. CHAP. 18. NEither were the psalmes silent of his resurrectiō for what is that of the third psalme I laid me downe and slept and rose againe for the Lord susteined me wil any one say that the prophet would record it for such a great thing to sleepe and to rise but that he meaneth by sleepe death and by rising againe the resurrection things that were fit to bee prophecied of Christ this in the 41. psalme is most plaine for Dauid in the person of the mediator discoursing as hee vseth of things to come as if they were already past because they are already past in Gods predestination a and praescience saith thus Mine enemies speake euill of me saying when shall he die and his name perish and if he come to see he speaketh lies and his heart he apeth vp iniquity within him and hee goeth forth and telleth it mine ene●… whisper together against me and imagine how to hurt me They haue spoken an vniust thing vpon me shall not he that sleepeth arise againe this is euen as much as if he had said shall not he that is dead reuiue againe the precedence doth shew how they conspired his death and how he that came in to see him went for to bewray him to them And why is not this that traitor Iudas his disciple Now because hee 〈◊〉 they would effect their wicked purpose to kill him hee to shew the fondnesse of their malice in murdering him that should rise againe saith these words ●…ll not he that sleepeth arise againe as if hee said you fooles your wickednesse procureth but my sleepe But least they should do such a villany vnpunished hee meant to repay them at full saying My friend and familiar whom I trusted and who eate of my ●…ead euen he hath b kicked at me But thou Lord haue mercy vpon me raise me vp 〈◊〉 shall requite them Who is hee now that beholdeth the Iewes beaten out of 〈◊〉 ●…nd and made vagabonds all the world ouer since the passion of Christ 〈◊〉 ●…ceiueth not the scope of this prophecy for he rose againe after they had 〈◊〉 and repayed them with temporall plagues besides those that hee re●… for the rest vntill the great iudgement for Christ himselfe shewing his 〈◊〉 to the Apostles by reaching him a peece of bread remembred this verse 〈◊〉 ●…alm shewed it fulfilled in himself he that did eate of my bread euē he hath 〈◊〉 ●…e the words in whom I trusted agree not with the head but with the ●…ts properly for our Sauiour knew him well before hand when he sayd c 〈◊〉 is a diuell but Christ vsed to transferre the proprieties of his members 〈◊〉 ●…mselfe as being their head body and head being all one Christ. And ther●… 〈◊〉 of the Ghospell I was hungry and you gaue me to eate hee expoundeth af●… thus

The words of the Lord are pure words as sil ●…ied in the fire what is his words now that boweth to this Gods Priest and 〈◊〉 ●…od and Priest place me in some of fice about the Priest-hood that I may eate a mor●… bread I will not haue my fathers honours they are nothing but place me any 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thy Priest-hood I would faine be a dore keeper or any thing in thy seruice and 〈◊〉 thy people for Priest-hood is put heere for the people to whom Christ the ●…or is the high Priest which people the Apostle called an holy nation and a royall Priest-hood Some read k Sacrifice in the former place for Priest-hood all is one both signifie the christian flocke Whereof S. Paul saith Being many 〈◊〉 are all one bread and one body and againe l Giue vp your bodies a liuing sacrifice So then the addition that I may eate a morsel of bread is a direct expression of the sacrifice whereof the Priest himselfe saith the bread which I will giue is my flesh c. This is the sacrifice not after the order of Aaron but of Melchisedech hee that readeth let him vnderstand So then these words Place me in some office about thy priest-hood that I may eate a morsell of bread are a direct and succinct confession of the faith this is the halfe penny of siluer because it is briefe and it is Gods word that dwelleth in the house of the beleeuer for hauing said before that hee had giuen Aarons house meate of the offring of the house of Israel which were the sacrifices of the Iewes in the Old Testament therefore addeth hee the eating of bread in this conclusion which is the sacrifice of the New Testament L. VIVES HIs a name It was Phinees ●…ay the Iewes or Helias Hierome b An Ephod Of this read Hierome Ad Marcellam Contra Iouinian Ad Fabiolam The Greekes called it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ioseph de Antiq. Iud. lib. 3. So do the LXX Ruffinus translateth it Superhumerale and it was open at the sides from the arme-pits downe-wards The high Priest onely wore such an one and it was embrothered with gold and silke of diuers collours The Leuits had a garment like it but that was of linnen Such an one did Anna make for Samuel and such an one did Dauid dance in before the Arke And herevpon I thinke our Rabbines or most Doctor-like sort of Friers haue got the tricke of wearing such ●…esture hanging loose from the shoulders as a badge of their super-eminent knowledg and then your Ciuilian and P●…isitian in emulation of them got vp the like But the Seauenty call it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c Honorest So was it in the time when the Iewes priests grew wealthy and so is it now with vs for who seeketh into the priest-hood for Godlinesse rather then gaine as the world goeth now and what sonne is perswaded by the father vnto an ecclesiasticall habite but onely in hope of ritches what ●…est thinketh he doth not well to sit and spend the churches goods as they call them frankly with his sonnes if he haue them and haue them hee will vnlesse he bee an Eunuch his brethren his sisters and his cousins let the poore goe shift where they can Thus thus will it bee whilest ritches rule in the hearts of men d To blesse The vulgar is not so read it each one hath the bookes I must proceed e An old man 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 an high priest saith Hierome f Romaines A diuersity of reading but nihil ad rem g Though Samuel His father was a leuite Chron. 1. 6. his mother of the tribe of Iudah This place Augustine recalleth thus whereas I said hee was not of the sons of Aaron I should haue said hee was none of the priests sonnes And they most commonly succeeded their fathers in the Priest-hood but Samuels father was of Aarons seede but he was no Priest nor of his seed otherwise then all the Iewes were the seed of Iacob Retractation lib. 2. h Prophecy and history And though these words seemed to another purpose yet aimed they at Christ. i We should thinke So thought by the Anthropomorphites k Sacrifi●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is both but rather Priest-hood l Giue vp This is not in some copies yet is it befitting this place The promise of the Priest-hood of the Iewes and their kingdome to stand eternally not fulfilled in that sort that other promises of that vnbounded nature are CHAP. 6. ALthough these things were thē as deeply prophecied as they now are plainly fulfilled yet some may put this doubt how shall we expect all the eue●… therein presaged when as this that the Lord said thine house and thy fathers 〈◊〉 shall walke before me for euer can bee no way now effected the priest-hood being now quite abolished nor any way expected because that eternity is promised to the priest-hood that succeded it hee that obiecteth this conceiue●… not that Aarons priesthood was but a type shadow of the others future priesthood and therfore that the eternity promised to the shaddow was due but vnto the substance onely and that the change was prophecyed to auoyde this supposition of the shadowes eternity for so the kingdome of Saul the reprobate was a shadow of the kingdome of eternity to come the oyle where-with he was annoynted was a great and reuerend mistery which Dauid so honored that when hee was hid in the darke caue into which Saule came to ease himselfe of the burden of nature he was affraid and onely cut off a peece of his skirt to haue a token whereby to shew him how causelesse he supected him and persecuted him hee feared I say for doing thus much least he had wronged the mistery of Sauls being annoynted Hee was touched in heart saith the Scripture for cutting off the a skirt of his rayment b His men that were with him perswaded him to take his time Saul was now in his hands strike sure The Lord kepe me saith he from doing so vnto my maister the Lords annoynted to lay mine hands on him for he is the annointed of the Lord. Thus honored hee this figure not for it selfe but for the thing it shaddowed And therefore these words of Samuel vnto Saule The Lord had prepared thee a kingdome for euer in Israel but now it shal not remaine vnto thee because thou hast not obayed his voyce therefore will he seeke him a man according to his heart c. are not to be taken as if Saul himselfe shold haue reygned for euermore and then that his sinne made God breake his promise afterwards for hee knew that he would sinne when hee did prepare him this kingdome but this hee prepared for a figure of that kingdome that shall remaine for euer-more and therefore he added it shall not remaine vnto thee it remaineth and euer shall in the signification but not vnto him for neither he nor his progeny