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A08870	An introduction into the bookes of the prophets and apostles Written by Peter Palladius, Doctor of Diuinity and Byshop of Rochil. Faithfully translated out of Latin into English. By Edw. Vaughan.; Isagoge ad libros propheticos et apostolicos. English	Palladius, Peder, 1503-1560.; Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560.; Vaughan, Edward, preacher at St. Mary Woolnoth.	1598 (1598)	STC 19153; ESTC S113915	75,737	224

that the Grecians doe retaine the names of Iapetus Ioue Aeolus and many others not knowing whence they sprong but when the storie of Moses doth shew their kindred we must needes confesse that it is more auncient then the monuments of the Greekes a mightie a famous people was that of the Imerians whose posteritie without all doubt was the Cimbrians but their stocke your Greekes know not which the some of the word doth shew to be Gomer the son of Iaphet Nowe there is a kindered among the Egiptians called in their naturall speech and in the Aâ—rabian tongue Mizrai but bookes doe shew Nizraim to be the son of Cham the first antient among the Greekes were the wars of the Argonians and then of the Troianes but the time course of yeers which the Grecians themselues haue obserued doth shewe that the Troiane warre was not long before Dauid and that Hercules was almost of the same time with Sapson So the names histories of the heathen do testifie that the books of the church are the more auncient which is very necessarie for the studious to consider In the third place wee haue set a kinde of doctrine whereof there are two partes the Law and the Gospell and seeing that the knowledg of the law is graffted in the minds of all men reason in all men is inforced to confesse that it is impossible for any nation to be the people of God which do establish lawes contrary to the law of God but this is the common madnes of all the Gentils to call vpon a multitude of Gods and to deuise monstrous fables of the gods and euen in their lawes to yeeld vnto the filthy confusions of lust Some of them also the murdering of men whordoms and adulteries haue bin thought a good seruing of God Reason therfore enforceth to confesse that in the church the law is taught much better This argument also the olde writers haue vsed in confuting the heathen and howsoeuer the Gospel be not knowne vnto reason yet doth it lay open those things whereof the doctrine of the heathen can speake no certainty and yet it cannot bee denied but that the vnderstanding of theÌ„ is necessary forsomuch as man is the Image of God and is made to knowe and praise the Lorde From whence come so many doubtes in the disagreements of the minde and hart whence is that stubbornnesse of the hart and such a burning desire to sin seeing that yâ— law shineth in yâ— mind Are men made to liue in euerlasting sin mysery what is sin whence comes that vast heap of humane myserye whence are those so manye dissentions about God as whether god doeth heare men or why hee shuld regard them Whether after yâ— bodies are once dead there shal be another life in which shal be a differeÌ„ce betweene good bad What men are Gods temple who he doth heare and helpe Of these so waighty matter what great darknesse is there in all the wisedome of the heathen Howe many furies of the Phylosophers who like the sons of Tytan make war with heauen eyther imagining that there is no prouidence or being God to secondary causes and labour to proue that al sins are of necessity Seeing therfore we must confesse that the doctrine of the causes and remedies of euil is necessary for men and yet the wisdome of the heathen seeth it not truly let vs embrace Gods voice in the church seeing hee hath added great testimony therunto Reason acknowledgeth that the law is no wher purely deliuered but in the church And seeing it is certaine that the voice of God is there let vs heare this doctrin of which the Heathen are inforced to confesse that ther is great ignorance in their religion and doctrine and yet the opening of these questions are necessarye for the knowing of God for the which man was made and for true comfort Therefore that kind of doctrine in the Church is most delightfull to good mindes when the pure fountaines are therof tasted I account not in the Church the Romane tyrants and the Monks their chaÌ„pions who haue dispersed throughout the world their filthy poison for the doctrine of the sonne of God and haue transformed the doctrine of the church into heathenish opinions They pray vnto the dead men they command men to worship their breaden God which they carry about in theyr great solemnity they sel sacrifices for the quicke and dead they make Gods worship stage-like vestures and other delusions and confirme their rouing lusts This wicked rout I cal not the church but them which deliuer the sounde doctrine of God deliuered in the bookes of the Prophets Apostles and in the Creeds Many others also doe corrupt the simple truth and the sleights in disputing are delightful to som as in time past to the Stoicks Epicures Academicks But when wee commende this kind of doctrine we do exclude al corruption and toyes in vaine disputings In the 4. place we account the wonderful preseruation of the church in the midst of the ruines of Empires which although it may be gathered vnder the first testimony that is among myracles yet in this it differs from the former bicause it is a perpetual miracle of the continuall presence of God pertains to that special rule The worde of the Lord abideth for euer and not by the helpe of man as it is written Not in an host nor in strength but in my spirit saith the lord God of boasts In the 5. place is the constancy of Confessors accounted which confirm others 2 waies First bicause it is a mannes myracle wherin God strengthens the weak against fear punishments shews his presents many waies euen in their suffrings Many simple men haue raised the dead and done many wonders 2. Bicause the high minds in such as quietly bear affliction doth shew the gospel is powerfull in them that it is the seed of god as Iohn saith wherby eternal life righteousnes and ioy is begun in them 6 This testimony of the gospel in the faithful doth plainly conuince their minds namely the comfort and ioy which is kindled in theÌ„ by the holy ghost wherof Paul saieth you haue receiued the holy spirit whereby wee cry abbâ— father whereby they see howe in great sorrowe they are comforted which vphold themselues with meditation of the Gospel with prayer as Paule saith The spirit helpeth our infirmity These testimonies must be often thought on especially let vs be careful of the sixt least it be taken from vs by the illusions of mad men as the Anabap. c Steukfeldians boast of false inspirations who setting apart Gods worde pretend their reuellations as I haue found out the lies of many such the examples of Munster shewes the maliciousnes of many Steukfild writeth that God communicates with mens minds without any means from whence he proues the diuine motions are kindled not by meditation of the written doctrin but by a faming of

heauinesse If with their speech they mixe fained sighings Crocodiles teares other legerdemaines deuised by Art amongst the which slanders strange positions doe specially increase their authority As Sebastian the FrenchmaÌ„ reuiled the teachers and called a great volume of the sayings of the prophets apost which in shew seemed not to agre From whence he gathred that we must not iudge after the letter but as the spirit directs And in their Paradoxes they insert thinges to please people inlarge licentiousnesse Some there are which carry about with them the books of Sibils whence they take such Oracles as best befit theyr affections whom they flatter This kind of Idol priest must be taken heed of that rule is firmely to be held Thy word is a lantern vnto my feet And againe To the Lawe and the testimony And againe The Gospel is the power of God vnto saluation to euery one that beleeueth and those deceiuers are not to be harkened vnto which crye out that inspirations must else-where be sought for without thinking of the holy worde The saying of the sonne of God must bee helde fast whoe commandeth to preach repentance forgiuenes of sins in his name To this end let our teaching be applyed that repentance faith prayer and newe obedience may increase in vs by the meditation of Gods word and let god be praised with true duties according to that saying Fight thou a good fight holding fast faith a good conscience For traps may be laide by men by the aduancing of InspiratioÌ„s as we haue often seene By this meanes as by an inchantment the people discerned of seducers Therfore the sonne is sent to reueale vnto all creatures the secret and vnknown promise of reconciliation and that it beeing heard faith might be wrought in men and God might communicate himself with vs as Paule saieth Faith is by hearing and hearing by the word of God Wherfore these Idol priests of Cibel which withdraw mens mindes from the written word do reproch the son of God and take away both faith and al the exercise of faith If the writinges of the Prophets and Apostles were taken away so that euery hypocrite might lawfully brotch his counterfait Oracles from his inspirations as from his three footed seate howe great furies would ensue We haue seen example heerof in the Tragedies of Munster elswher Wherefore all holye teachers and hearers with al constancy ought to set themselues against these doting deuises Thy purpose and indeuour therefore O Peter I do commend that thou art an incourager of all the godly vnto reading As Paule saith Be conuersant in reading shewing the way to euery book declaring the arguments of them I woulde to God that our youth were accustomed rather to reading godly praier then to cauilles in disputing for when matters are well opened and no kind of false doctrine approoued there should be an end of disputing and it is a most true saying that to playe the Sycophant is too great diligence And whereas by the wisedome of your noble King and the diligence of godly teachers in your kingdom the studies of your youth are so ordered that no liberty to cauill is permitted vnto them You haue wel prouided for the peace of the church and their wits are accustomed to modesty All things though wel deliuered may be weakened if cauels may be regarded as in time past were those of the Pirchonians and the Academicks Therfore Paule doth strictly charge the Phillippians to hold faste the Canon or the rule of the word Now I beseech the Sonne of God our Lords Iesus Christ to keepe and to gouerne the churches in the kingdome of the Danes and in Germany and to make them to abide for euer one in him Farwell cal Feb. 1557. CONCERNING THE Authority of Gods word and holy Scripture THE authority of Gods worde and holy Scripture ought to be so great with all men that no one should doubt thereof but as we looke vp vnto heauen with our eies so should we thinke that the holy Scripture was brought from Heauen and as he that came from heauen is aboue all so the holy Scripture doth far exceed the doctrine and wisedome of man Christ asked the Pharisies of the doctrine of Iohn the Baptist whether it were from heauen or of men signifying that those two kinds of doctrin did greatly differ one from another the which also Christs disputation with Nichodemus maketh plaine Ioh. 3 The word of God is the holy Scripture of the old and new Testament which is called holy that is seuered from all other writings written by the holy Ghost brought from heauen And Christ deuideth the olde Testament into 3. partes in the last of Luke where hee saith that all thinges must be fulfilled whatsoeuer are written of the sonne of man In the 1 part Moses 2 part The Psal 3 part the Prop. The other partes doe belong to these The new Testament comprehends chiefly Gospels and Epistles which are the seals of the Gospell as I Paule thus subscribe thus I seale the Gospell of Matthewe with my bloud I Peter subscribe I Iohn c. The doctrine of the holy scripture is twoe fold The one The Lawe The other The Gospell But the holy Scripture is commended For the Sufficiencie Truth Profit Authority Dignitie Eternitie thereof 1 Christ shewes the sufficiencie thereof when he saith They haue Moses and the Prophets Againe search the scriptures bicause you thinke in them to hane eternall life And Paule Galat. 1 If any man shall teach any other Gospell let him be accurssed Esa 8 To the lawe and Testymonie you shall not adde neither shall you take from it his Deut 8 and in the 12. cha What I command you doe it thou shalt not adde nor diminish any thing 2 The truth of the scripture is proued by the wordes of Christ Iohn 8 Thy worde is truth Ioh. 2 The old and new Testament is true the true light now shineth Num 23 God is not as man that he should lie 3 The profit of the scripture is shewed by Paule Rom 15 Whatsoeuer things are written they are writteÌ„ for our learning that thorow patience comfort of the scripture we might haue hope 2 Tim. 3 all scripture in spired of God is profitable to teach c. 4 The authority thereof is in the laste of Luke all thinges must bee fulfilled which are written of me in Moses in the prophets and in the Psal 2 Pet. 1 Prophesie is not giuen by the will of man but holy men haue spoken as they haue beene mooued by the holy Ghost 5 The dignity thereof appeares Esa 55 as heauen is lifted vp from the earth so are my thoughts differing from your thoughts and Christ sayth giue not holy thinges to dogges neither caste yee pearles amongest swine 6 The eternity thereof as the worde of God abideth for euer And in Luke Heauen and earth shall passe but my word shal not passe Ioh. 16

preacheth by saint Paule not onely to Tymothye but to all the gouernors and teachers of the Church who had receiued the true doctrine of the Gospell Wherefore this Epistle ought to be most deare of very good account and speciall reckoning to the Ministers of the Gospell There are 4. chapters which are thus to be deuided In the first chapter after gratulation he warneth Tymothy First for the stirring vp of the grace of God 2 That he be not ashamed of the gospell of the bondes of Paule 3. To suffer affliction 4 For the retaining of the forme of whol some doctrine 5. to keepe that good which was committed vnto him hee inserteth also an excellent and most Euangelicall saying He that hath sowed vs c. which makes against Iustification by the works for the only grace of God and also commending his office and the house of Onismus against the falling away of the people of Asia from the gospell In the 2. chapter after the commendation of the doctrine chiefely hee exhorteth him to suffer afflictions bringing forth excellent arguments from the reward then hee is exhorted from the contentions and vaine ianglings of men shewing that it is no maruell if the good and euill be together in the church when as in a ritche mans house there are vessels appointed some to honour some to dishonour Last of all in this chapter is chiefelye handled that hee would haue him to deuide rightly the word of trueth least he should confound the lawe and the Gospell in the handling thereof But to vrge the law against the euill the wicked and obstinate that they may be deliuered to the magistrate to be punished or to be excommunicated and to comfort the afflicted and godly with the Gospell In the end of the chapter he sheweth that repentance is the gift of God In the the third chapter to the first perils to weet the falling away of the people of Asia and of others from the gospell of Christ he addeth another perill and setteth foorth false teachers verye largely whom he foretels that shoulde come in the latter daies against whome he exhorteth Tymothie by his constancy he might be profitable also to all his posterity Furthermore as in the former Epistle euen so Paule in this place by the light of Gods spirit foreseeth the impiety of the Bishoppe of Rome and those thinges which haue been done in Rome these 900. yeares In the ende he commendeth the sacred scripture then which commendation nothing can bee more excellently spoken From the fourth chapter he concludeth the Epistle by protestations in which he doth most earnestly charge Tymothie to the worke of an Euangelist shewing that the time of his dissolution was at hand that he had fought a good fight then with some fewe pointes of curtesie he endeth the Epistle he wrote this Epistle out of doubt a little before his martyrdome The Epistle to Tytus ALbeit this Epistle is not such a method as is the Epistle to the Romans yet notwithstanding it containeth the summe briefely of all christian religion in which he first instructeth and informeth teachers so that these three chapt might be deuided according to three principall states to weet Religion Pollicy and Domesticall gouernment or rule of an houshold The last of which he placeth in the middest because for the preseruing thereof God ordained the other two Very fitly was annexed to this information the place of Iustification Againe and again that to the same as to a marke all things might be directed aymed and referred In the first chapter he discerneth Religion and as in the Epistle to Tymothy euen so here hee describeth vnder the name of a Bishop all the ministers of the Gospell what manner of people they ought for to be in life doctrine Now for the faithfull themselues at an other time by reason of false teachers which he paintes out vnto the end of the chapter he sets foorth to beholde their impiety as it were in a glasse in which our Papistes may the more rightly looke into themselues In the second chapter he drawes a table as it were of household manners and he reformeth the life of euery state concerning houshold affaires where vnder the name of Young he admonisheth Tytus himselfe that he should shewe himselfe in all thinges an example of good workes then he sheweth the reason to weet the appearaunce of the grace of God in this that CHRIST gaue himselfe for vs that we should liue in him modestly iustly and godly In the third chapter he giues preceptes concerning pollicy and of obedience to be giuen towards magistrates He teacheth that all subiects are to bee warned by Titus adding therunto great causes out of the Lawe and Gospell to wit that we are all debters to the same Againe bringing in that most excellent place of Iustification wherein he takes away saluation by workes and doth ascribe it to the only mercy of God thorough our mediatour Christ Where he shewes very euidently the forme maner of our redemption That whosoeuer coueteth to bee a new man it is necessarie for him to beleeue and to bee baptized In the end he dehorts to good workes and to auoide foolish and heretical questions The Epistle of Paule to Philemon THis Epistle shewes the wonderfull loue of Paule towardes his neighbour in this that he studied to reconcile Onisemus to his maister Phylemon with great humility of minde and with sweet wordes first he commends Philemons faith and charity Afterwards he puts forth his petition for Onesimus being conuerted to the faith Last of al with sweete affections hee takes vppon himselfe the faulte of Onisemus doeth reconcile him to his maister not now as a seruant but as a deare beloued brother in Christ a great example of charity and study of concord in Paule The Epistle to the Hebrues ALthough it bee doubtfull whether this bee the Epistle of saint Paule because of some places in the 9 10 and 12 chapters Out of the which it is prooued by some that it was not Paule that wrote it Yes neuer thelesse the Epistle hath the authoritye of the holye Ghost as appeares by the scope therof He deliuers plainly christ to be true God and true manne yea our onely sâ—â—â—our and redeemer and the greater part of the Epistle stands on comparison by which it conuinceth the Lord of all namely Christ the naturall and euerlasting sonne of God He compares Christ 1 with the Angels chap. 1 2. 2 with the Moses chap. 3 and 4. 3 with the Aron chap. 5. 4 with the Melchisedeth chap. 6 and 7. 5 with the Sacrifices of the law 8.9 10. It hath 13. chapters which for the better declaration of them though not altogither exactly may be thus deuided In the first two chapters after his entrance wherein he briefly describeth the diuinity and humanitye of Christ and shewes him to be much more excellent then the Angels by nine argumentes in which he preached Christ to

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