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A06863	A booke of notes and common places, with their expositions, collected and gathered out of the workes of diuers singular writers, and brought alphabetically into order. A worke both profitable and also necessarie, to those that desire the true vnderstanding & meaning of holy Scripture By Iohn Marbeck	Merbecke, John, ca. 1510-ca. 1585.	1581 (1581)	STC 17299; ESTC S112020	964,085	1,258

due either by the name of a vowe or els of a cursse The Iewes had a Commaundement giuen them that they should not spare Idolls for their dutie was to ouerthrow and destroy all things pertaining vnto them But they being led by couetousnesse reserued those things vnto themselues and tourned them to their owne proper commodities So sinned Achan also Saul when he had ouercome Amalech Contrariwise Moses gaue an excellent example of vertue when he not onely brake the golden Calfe but also did beate it into powder and threw it into the riuer For if the reliques of the Idoll had remained stil peraduenture the Israelites as they were outragious woulde haue worshipped them Indéede the Publike-wealth and our Magistrates maye take away those things which are superstitious and conuert the prices of them to good and godly vses But this thing is not permitted to priuate men But the Iewes were generally forbidde that they should not saue such things especially as were vowed by a cursse Pet. Mar. vpon the Rom. fol. 46. SADVCES What the Saduces were THe Saduces were such men as cloked their religion vnder a glorious name for Saducei is as much to say as iust or holy They taught y● ther was neither Angel spirit nor life after death that God gaue the lawe onely for this that honestly and quietly we should liue receiuing of God héere in this lyfe the reward of Iustice. They interpreted the Scriptures according to the iudgement of mans reason neither any other thing would they heare And as concerning that which pertained to the manner of their liuing they were plaine Epicures A wonderfull thing to be heard y● such Ethnike opinions should créepe in among the peculiar people of God that so farre that openly they were not afraid to teach constantly to affirme that after this lyfe there remained none other life The Saduces calling themselues after the Etimologie of their name iust men affirmed as Iosephus writeth lib. 2. bell Iud. cap. 7. that man had free-will that it lay in man to doe good or bad Mat. 22. and Luke Act. 23. say that they denie the resurrertion affirming ther was neither Angell nor spirit Euseb. 13. SAGAION What it signifieth SAgaion as some will signifieth an exercise that is a painfull and heauie temptation of Dauid● Other interpret it an ignoraunce because he knew not the fault that was layed vnto him Some say it was one of the instruments where with all the Psalmes before which it is set were sung Some think that it is a certaine kinde of melody T. M. The Hebrue Interpreters agree not among themselues vppon this word Sigaion For some take it for an instrument of Musicke Unto some it séemeth to be a note to sing a song by Other some thinke it to be the beginning of some common carol according to the time whereof Dauids will was to haue this Palme sung And other interpret the Hebrue worde to signifie delightfulnes In my iudgment saith Caluine y● second opinion is most allowable namely y● it was some kind of tune or song as if a man would terme it a Saphicke or Phalentian verse Howbeit I force not a matter of so lyght importaunce Cal. vpon the Psal. SAINTS How Saints are not to be prayed vnto nor worshipped THe very Saints themselues whether they he dead men or Angels wil not haue honour giuen vnto them which only is due vnto God This appeared in Paule● Barnabas when the men of Licaonia a●●onied at their miracle would haue done sacrifice vnto them as if they had bene Gods for they renting their garments confessing and perswading them that they were not Gods forbad such things to be done vnto them This appeareth also in the Angells as we read in the Apocalips The Angell forbidding himselfe to be worshipped and saieng to him that worshipped him I am the fellow● seruaunt of thée thy bretheren August in his 2. boo and 21. chap. against Faustus I. Gough But neither Helias is to be worshipped although he be yet alyue nor yet is Iohn to be worshipped although by his owne praiers he made his sleepe wonderfull nay rather he receiued grace from God But neither Thecla nor any Saint is worshipped For y● olde error shall not rule in vs that we shuld forsake the liuing God worship those things that wer made by him For they honoured and worshipped the creature besides the creater and they were made fooles For if he will not haue the Angells to be worshipped how much more y● which was borne of Anna which by Ioachi● being giuen to Anna which by praier and all diligence was giuen according to promise to the father and mother notwithstanding was not ●orne otherwise beside the nature of man but like as all men of the séede of y● woman and of the wombe of the woman Epiph. in his book cont haeres li. 3. to 2. haeres 29. Let vs not count it religion to worship the workes of mens hands For the crafts masters themselues which made such things are better whom notwithstanding we ought not to worship Let vs not make it religion to worship brute beasts for the basest sort of men y● be he better thē they whō notw●stāding we ought not to worship Let vs not make it religion to worship dead men because they haue liued godly they are not counted that they seeke such honour but they wold haue him to be worshipped of vs who allumining them doe reioyce August in li. de vera religi chap. 55. I. Gough As for the holy Martirs we neither say that they are Gods neither haue we accustomed to worshippe them but we praise them rather with great honour because they haue valiātly striuen for the truth and haue mainteined the sinceritie of faith insomuch as they haue despised their owne lyfe and not regarded the terrours of death haue preuailed in verye great daungers and were of so great strength as though they would raise vp Images to themselues of their owne lyfe c. Cyril in his 6. booke contra Iulian. To praise God in his Saints what it meaneth If the Papist will haue this place Praise the Lord in his Saints to be lyke vnto this Call vpon the Saints of the Lord Then by as good a reason we may say that the Trumpet the Uioll and the Harpe c. ought to bée called vpon For it followeth immediatly after Praise him in the sound of the trumpet in the violl and in the harpe but the Catholike veritie truth doth both read and vnderstand the words of the Prophet after this sort Praise the Lord in his Sanctuarie or in his holynesse that is praise him that dwelleth in heauen for in another place he sayth Lift vp your hands vnto the Sanctuarie praise the Lord which is as much as if he shoulde haue sayde Lift vp your hands vnto heauen praise the Lord giue him thāks for his benefits Whervnto he addeth

perfect faith Of the spirituall sacrifice that the Christians doe dailie offer vnto God Looke Rom. 12. 1. Phi. 4. 18. 1. Pet. 2●5 Ric. Turnar Sée more in the word Sacrifice CAINE How and by what meanes Caine was slaine IN the beginning of the world most people went naked sauing that they were partlie couered with skinnes of some beast at that time they had no dwelling house to defende them neither from the colde neither yet from heate but after their owne phantasies they made with pretie boughs and twigs of trées such little pretie lodgings as we call Cabens or Boothes And it so chaunced that Caine béeing verie olde and also wearie happened one daie to laie him downe to rest in a bush that was enclosed with gréene boughs as aforesaid And Lamech one of y● kinred of Caine in the fift degrée who by reason of his greate age had lost his sight and yet at a time was disposed to go abrode to kill some wilde beast And taking his Bowe and Arrowes he toke also a little boie to leade and direct him where hee might haue a good shoote And when he drew somewhat néere vnto the bush where Caine laie the little boie espieng the bush to wagge séeing as it were a great thing in the midst therof he imagined that there laie some wilde beast and the boye béeing afraide thereof gaue knowledge to olde Father Lamech that in a bush standing right before him not farre off there laie a great and terrible beast And Lamech vppon the report of the childe stretched out his arme drew a straight draught toward the bush where he slew his cosin Caine that laie in the same after he had liued 730. yeares as saith Philo Graftonan his Chro. fol. 7. ¶ Lyra saith that when Lamech perceiued he had slaine Caine whom the Lord had forbidden him in paine of greate punishment he fell vpon his owne seruant beat him so that he died Of a certeine sect called Caini Caini were heretiks which honoured Caine and tooke him for their father They highlie estéemed of Esau Chore Dathan Abiram with the Sodomits They called Iudas the traitour their cosin honouring him for betraieng of Christ affirming y● he foresawe how great a benefit it would become vnto mākinde They reade a certeine Gospell written as they saie by Iudas they reuiled the lawe and denied the resurrection Epiphani haeres 38. August de haeres CAIPHAS How he was the mouth of God and the mouth of the diuell all at one time HE was the mouth of God in as much as God made him to saie that his people could not be saued but onely by the death of his sonne Iesus Christ but he was the mouth of the diuell according to his intent after the which he so spake for he did not speak according to the meaning of the holie Ghost but as a murtherer an enimie of truth pretending the death of Iesus Christ because of the hatred which he bare towardes him ¶ God made him to speake neither could his impietie let Gods purpose who caused this wicked man euen as he did Balaam to be an instrument of the holie Ghost Geneua ¶ The spirit of prophesie doe manie times speake by the mouth of an vngodly man for the vngodlie are so excecated and blinded that they do oftentimes speak against theirown selues vnwittinglie and that to their vtter vndoing and destruction ● Sir I. Cheeke CALL What it is to call vpon the name of the Lord. IN that time beganne men to call vppon the name of the Lord. ¶ To call vpon the name of the Lord is to require all things of him and to trust in him giuing him the honour and worship that belongeth vnto him as in Gen. 12. 8. T. M. ¶ In these daies God began to moue the heartes of the godly to restore religion which a long time by the wicked had ben supprest Geneua Of three mnner of callings Manie are called c. ¶ Christ speaketh of the externall calling by the preaching of the Gospell of y● which there are three degrées All men are called yea euen they which heare not these which are dumme and are deafe minded are also called The second sort enter in and promise that they will serue God neuertheles their consciences condemneth them because they haue not the true root As Symon Magus which did faine himselfe to beléeue of the faithful being conuicted in his conscience by the truth of the Gospell professed the same but he had no roote as Peter casteth him in the téeth Such are they trulie to whom the Lord sendeth his holie spirit and whome for a time he illuminateth but at the length by the iust desert of their ingratitude he forsaketh them and striketh them with great blindnesse The third calling is speciall of great efficacie by the which God doth verie much aduance the elect faithfull onelie when that by the inward lightening of the spirit he bringeth to passe that the word preached abideth in their hearts To these testimonie is giuen by the same spirit that they are the adopted sonnes of God We cannot iudge who are the elect and who are the reprobate for we ought to leaue this iudgement vnto God Notwithstanding by signes there maie be some coniecture had but we must alwaies beware of rash iudgement Euerie man that is elected and chosen of God is fullie certified in himselfe of his calling The which thing we maie dailie beholde For manie are brought into the Church which afterward fall awaie from the same either béeing terrified by persecution or els béeing ouercome with some other temptation Such trulie are of the number of them that are called but are not elected for héereby our election is proued if we perseuer vnto the last end Mar. fol. 51. ¶ First all men be generallie called euen those that doth not heare the word for vnto them both heauen and earth and and the creatures comprehended therein doth not cease to preach the almightie power of God and also his goodnesse and mercie so that all men as the Apostle saith are vnexcusable before the maiestie of God And with them maie be comprehended those that heare the word who though they be called be so deafe in their hearts and mindes that they will neither giue care nor héede to the calling The second sort that be called doe professe the Christian religion receiue the word but it hath no true root in them as Symon Magus being conuinced in his heart y● the gospel was true did for a time professe but because it had no root in him he did soone fall awaie from it Such are them to whom y● Lord doth giue his holy spirit illuminating thē for a time but after ward he doth forsake them because of their ingratitude and vnthankfulnesse doth strike them with great blindnesse The third manner of calling is both particular and also most effectuall For by it the Lord

In their fare apparell building riding yea furniture of warre they vse a plainenesse When they eate their meates all of them as well the king himselfe as also his noble men sit downe vpon the ground they vtterly absteine from wine swines flesh They abhor all superfluitie curiousnes as well in apparel as in building For y● most part they dwel in tents hales which are remoued from place to place In their leagus bargains al promises they vse al faithfulnes Héervpō it commeth to passe y● they vse no seales to scale their writing withall no not euen in the Princes matters Wonderful is their loue obediēce towards their king insomuch as al the noble men of y● realm stand in awe of y● kings only cōmandemēt in so many large kingdomes al things are done by y● kings appoinment only Those y● be chosen to y● wars for y● defence of their religion run to it so merry chéerefull y● ye wold say they were going to a wedding They beléeue themselues to be happie in all pointes when they yéeld vp their soules among the speares arrows in defending or inlarging their Empire or religiō Neither are they y● die in y● quarrell commended with y● mourning of their friendes but they be registred among the Saints that haue gotten the vpper hand and they be openlye praised with Hymnes Finally great is the shamefastnesse and honestye of their women They be neuer séene in the companie of men or in places of resort For a man to talke with a womam abrode it is so rare a thing that it may be counted for a myracle if it happen to be séene Their women neither buie nor sell anie thing They neuer come in the sight of men with their faces bare neither in their owne houses nor out of their houses The apparell that they weare is both verie comely and very plaine and in the Church they haue a place alone by themselues from the men Who then would not wonder at such behauiour and orderlinesse Who would not like it well Who could looke for such things euen at the hands of y● popish Monks boast they neuer so much of reformation Héereby they maye easily deceiue such as are of an honest disposition and make them beléeue that God fauoureth them highly and aduaunceth their Empire c. Marl. vpon the Apoc. fol. 191. MAYZIM What this word Mayzim signifieth MAyzim signifieth strong defences as Bulwarkes and Castels This God Mayzim which our fathers as Abraham Isia● the Prophets and the Apostles with our fathers in the Primitiue Church neuer knew is it which the shauen Antechrists of late haue made and saine themselues euery daye to make it which slighthie ●egerdemane say they no Angell nor yet Mary her selfe cannot doe but onely the Popes false annointed Antichrists This their strong God Castle Mayzim is not only their own made God but also al their rites cermonies lawes doctrines traditions with their tran●●●stantiations all their lieng prophane Papistrie false worshipping and Idolatrie belonging therevnto c. Melancthon vpon Daniel ¶ Mayzim that is the good of power and riches they shall estéeme their own power aboue al their Gods worship it Ge. MAKER Against the false opinion that hath bene taught the people to receiue their maker in the Sacrament The Sacrament is a Sacrament it is not God It is the bread of our Lord as S. Augustine saith it is not our Lorde it is a creature corruptible it is not the maker of heauen earth Accursed is he that giueth the name glory of God to a creature that is not God August in Iohannem Tract 59. Saint Chrisostome sayth Nolimus queso c. Let vs not confounde the creature and the creator together least it be said of vs They haue honoured a creature more then their maker MALACHY What is meant by the Sacrifice that Malachy speaketh of FRom the rising of the Sunne vnto the going downe of the same my name is great among the Gentiles in euery place incense shall be offered in my name c. ¶ The pure sacrifice y● Malachy speaketh of saith Tertulian that should be offered in euery place is the preaching of the Gospell vnto the end of the world In an other place he sayth The Sacrifice that Malachy meant is a deuoute prayer proceeding from a pure conscience ¶ The Prophet Malachy saith S. Hierom meaneth héereby that the praier of holy people shall be offered vnto God not onely in Iewrie that was but a prouince of the world but also in all places ¶ Mart●●lis saith the pure sacrifice which Malachy meaneth is offered not onely vpon the holy altar or communion table but also euery wher ¶ Then if it may be offered in euery place and without an altar he meant not the sacrifice of the Masse ¶ God sheweth that their ingratitude and neglect of his true seruice shall be the cause of the calling of the Gentiles And héere the Prophet that was vnder the lawe framed his words to the capacitie of the people And by the altar sacrifice he meneth the spirituall seruice of God which shoulde be vnder the Gospell when an ende should be made of all those legall ceremonies by Christs onely sacrifice Geneua ¶ The Prophet in this place spake no word of the Masse nor of anie oblation propiciatorie to be made by the Priests But he spake of the oblation of the faithfull people in what place so euer they be which offer to God with pure harts minds sacrifices of laud praise prophesieng of the vocation of y● Gentiles that God would extend his mercie vnto them not to be God onely of the Iewes but of all nations from East to West that with pure faith call vpon him and glorifie his name Cranmer MAMMON What this word Mammon signifieth MAke you friends of the wicked Mammon c. ¶ This word Mammon is a word of the Syrians speach signifieth riches So that the text meaneth Bestow your riches according to the word of God y● God be pleased with your doings not deceitfully as this fellow did Tindale ¶ Againe he defineth Mammon on this wise Mammon saith he is an Hebrue word signifieth riches or temporall goods namely all superfluitie and all that is aboue necessarie the which is not reputed to our necessarie vses wherewith a man may helpe another without vndoing or hurting of himselfe For Hamon in the Hebrue speach signifieth a multitude or abundance or many therehence commeth Mahamon or Mammon abundance or plentifulnesse of goods or riches c. MAN How man was made after the Image of God GOD said Let vs make man in our Image according to our likenesse c. ¶ This Image likenesse of God in man is expounded Ephe. 4. 24. Where it is written that man was created after God in righteousnesse true holinesse meaning by these two