is like a fools dagger ratling and snapping without an edge c. It was grown to a Proverb among our fore-fathers In nomine Domini incipit omne malum John Cornford one of the six last that were burnt in England for the true Religion when he heard himselfe and his fellows excommunicated stirred with a vehement zeal of God and proceeding in a more true excommunication against the Papists in the name of them all pronounced sentence against them in these words In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and by the power of his holy Spirit and the authority of his holy Catholike and Apostolike Church we do give here into the hands of Satan to be destroyed the bodies of all those blasphemers and hereticks that do maintain any errour against his most holy word or do condemn his most holy truth for heresie to the maintaining of any false Church or feigned Religion so that by this thy just judgement Act. an I Mon fol. 1862. most mighty God against thine adversaries thy true Religion may be known to thy glory and our comforts and to the edifying of all our Nation Good Lord so be it Verse 24. Give God the glory It appears Josh 7.19 and 1 Sam. 65. that this was some solemne forme in use among that people when they required an oath of delinquents This the hypocrites made use of as when the devils adjured Christ by the living God not to cast them out So their fore-fathers would persecute godly men and molest them with Church Censures and then say Let the Lord be glorified Isa 66.5 With like honesty as the Conspiratours in K. Richard the seconds time here in England indorsed all their Letters with Glory be to God on high on earth peace good will towards men This poor man might have answered as Rob. Smith the Martyr did when Bonner began the sentence of death against him Act and Mon. In Dei nomine Ye begin in a wrong name said he Verse 27. Will ye also be his Disciples A bold speech of so mean a man so little inlightned to the Cheif-Priests and Pharisees Such was that of Dirick Carver Martyr to Bonner Your doctrine is poison and sorcery If Christ were here you would put him to a worse death then he was put to before You say you can make God Act. and Mon. fol. â—5â—7 you can make a pudding as soon c. And that of Henry Lawrence who being to subscribe the Bill of his examination wrote Ibid 2533. Ye are all Antichrist and him ye follow c. And that of Anthony Parsons Thou callest us theeves said the Bishop of Salisbury I say quoth Anthony ye are not only theeves but murtherers ye are rather bitesheeps then true Bishops Ibid. 2111. c. Verse 31. We know that God heareth not sinners Their incense smels of the hand that offers it The lepers lips should be covered according to the Law the wicked compasse God with lies when they cry Hos 11.12 My father my father c. This is one of those naturall notions that the devil could never blot out of mans minde that God heareth not sinners Hine Achilies Homericue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he will never accept of a good motion from a bad mouth as that state in story would not He silenced the devil acknowledging him and of witches good prayers one saith Si magicea Dius non vult tales si piae non per tales Verse 34. Thou wast altogether borne in sinnes Because borne blinde so they upbraid him with his misery as if therefore a notorious offender This is harsh and rash judgement And doest thou teach us Oh take heed of that But a mortified man will yeeld to learn of any body a little childe shall lead him Isa 11.6 Acts 18.16 Learned Apollos was better instructed by a couple of poor tent-makers Verse 35. And when he had found him So when the Pope had excommunicated Luther and the Emperour proscribed him Christ Jesus was with him and carried on the worke Longè majora parturit mihi jam calamus saith he Nescio unde veniunt istae meditationes And in his book of the Babylonish captivity Luth. Epist he professeth se quotidie velit nolit doctiorem fieri Verse 39. For judgement I am come To judge much otherwise then those unjust judges have done that have cast out this poor servant of mine for a blasphemer B. Bonner having a blinde harper before him said that such blinde abjects that follow a sort of hereticall preachers when they come to the feeling of the fire will be the first that will flee from it To whom the blinde man said Act and Mon. fol. 1821. that if every joint of him were burnt yet he trusted in the Lord not to flee A blinde boy that had suffered imprisonment at Glocester not long before was brought to Bishop Hooper the day before his death Mr Hooper after he had examined him of his faith and the cause of his imprisonment beheld him stedfastly and the water appearing in his eyes said unto him Ah poor boy God hath taken from thee thy out ward sight for what consideration he best knowith but hath given thee another sight much more precious for he hath endued thy soul with the eye of knowledge and faith Ibid. 1321. c. It is a worthy speech of Mr Beza upon this Text Prodeant omnes Pharisaeorum nostri temporis Academiae Let all our University-Pharisees come forth together That blinde and hereticall Church as they call it hath by the blessing of God Habet ecclesia illa caca boreticaseprennes pueros qui teste unâ—â—er o mundo c. children of seven years-old that can before all the world confute and confound their erroneous doctrines witnesse the children of Merindall and Chabriers John Fettyes childe of eight years old that told Bonners Chaplain who said Fetty was an heretick My father is no heretick but you are an heretick for you have Balaams marke This childe they whipt to death c. Alice Driver Martyr Act. and Mon. fol. 1864. non-plust all the Doctours that examined her and then said God be honoured you be not able to resist the spirit of God in me a poor woman Ibid. 1857. I was never brought up in the University as ye have been but I have driven the plow many a time before my father and yet I will set my foot against the foot of any of you all c. Verse 41. But now ye say We see If after conviction men run away with the bit in their mouthes Basil in ep ad Eâ—vag the sin is the greater But their case is deplorable qui quod verum sit neque scient neque sustinent discere as Basil complains of the Westerne Church in his time CHAP. X Verse 1. Verily verily I say unto you A Men is in holy Scripture either prefixed to a discourse and then it is a particle of
nor evangelically so being afterwards examined by Bishop Bonner he did no lesse confesse his not-well-doing in the same submitting therefore himself willingly to punishment when it should come Howbeit touching his belief in the Sacrament and Popish ministration he neither did nor would submit himself But when he was rempted to turn and also threatned he answered Doe what ye will I am at a point for the heavens shall assoon fall as I will forsake mine opinion Act. and Mon. Jol. 1430. c. At his execution first his hand being held up against the Stake was stricken off At the which some that were present affirmed that he shrunk not but once a little stirred his shoulders Verse 12. Took Jesus and bound him This was done 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as Irenaeus hath it whiles the Deity rested for he could as easily have delivered himself as he did his Disciples but this Sacrifice was to be bound with cords to the Altar he was pinnioned and manacled as a malefactour So was not Abner His hands were not bound nor his feet put into the fetters 2 Sam. 3 34. But Christ was bound for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities Paul by his priviledge was freed from whipping 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but we by Christs bondage from those chains of darknes 2 Pet. 2.4 from those scourges and scorpions in hell Verse 13. And led him away to Annas first Who would not goe to bed late though it were till he had seen Christ brought bound before him and then cried out likely as Hanuibal did when he saw a pit full of mans bloud O formosum spectaculum So Stephen Gardiner would not sit down to dinner till the news came of the good Bishops burnt at Oxford Then he came out rejoycing and saying to the Duke of Norfolk Act. and Mon. fol. 1622. Now let us goe to Dinner but it was the last that ever he eat for it Shall they escape by iniquitie No In anger cast them down ô God Psal 56.7 Verse 14. Now Caiaphas was he c. So Balaam the devils Spelman spake excellently of the Star of Jacob. See the Notes on Chap. 11.51 52. Verse 15. That Disciple was known to the high-Priest Perhaps for that he and his father Zebedee were wont to serve the fat Priest with the best and daintiest fish for this other Disciple was John who had first fled with the rest and now came sculking in De nat anima to see what would become of his Master Of the Asse-fish Aristotle affirmeth that he of all other creatures hath his heart in his belly Such a thing was this Priest Verse 16. But Peter stood at the door Better he had kept him further off He that will not fall into the ditch must not walk too near the brimme Peter might better have bestowed himself somewhere else Longè utilius fuisset gemere precari in obscuro aliquo angulo saith Musculus It had been better for him to have been praying in a corner then thus to put himself upon a danger unlesse he had known himself the stronger Luther comforteth the men of Miltenberg by an Epistle and because they were forbidden to meet and talk together about matters of Religion upon pain of death Qui infir miores sunt tacitè in Domino gaudeant Deumque rogent ut se quoque animet ad publicam veritatque prosessionem he adviseth those of them that were strong in the spirit to doe their duty notwithstanding the danger But for the weaker sort he exhorteth them to rejoyce secretly in the Lord and to pray to him for further strength that they may be able to make a bold and wise profession of his truth Verse 17. He saith I am not False dissimulation is true deniall A silly wench is too hard for this stout stickler who was alway Melius animatus quam armatus as one observeth of him Sir Elias fulminator ad Jesubelis minas trepidat factus seipso imbecillior Thou also standest by faith Rom. 11. be not high-minded but fear Verse 18. And Warmed himself But whiles he warmed without he cooled within Evil company is a great quench-coal an ill air for zeal to breathe in it casts a damp For the abundance of iniquity Mat 24. the love of many waxeth cold Peters evil example was a compulsion to other good people Gal. 2.14 What marvell then if the swearing cursing souldiers compel'd him to doe the like They were the trunks thorow which the devil delivered himselfe jeering at and railing upon Christ no doubt c. Verse 19. Alsted Chron. Aventin An. nal l. 3. Cade of the Church Asked Jesus of his Disciples Questioned him in the spirituall Court first as an heretike as afterwards in the temporall Court for a seditious person So the Papists condemned married Priests for Nicolaitans in the Synod of Millain anno 1067. Virgilius a Germane Bishop and a great Mathematician they condemned for an heretike for affirming that there were Antipodes Paulus 2. Iac. Reu de vit Pontis p. 139. Act and Mon. fol. 1550. Pope pronounced them heretikes that did but name the name Academy either in jest or in earnest Innocent 2. condemned Arnoldus Brixius of heresie for saying that the Clergy should have their temporalties taken away and be tied to their spirituals only Bonner objected to Philpot the Martyr that he found written in his book In me Joanne Philpotto ubi abundavit peccatum superabundavit gratia And when the Bishop of Worcecter exhorted Philpot Ibid. 1637. before he began to speak to pray to God for grace Nay my Lord of Worcester said Bonner you doe not well to exhort him to make any prayer for this is the thing these heretikes have a singular pride in that they can often make their vain prayers in the which they glory much For in this point they are like to certain arrant heretikes of whom Pliny makes mention Plin Epist that they sing Antelucanos hymnos c. Was not this well aimed Those he spoke of were the Primitive Christians whom Pliny excuseth to Trajan the Persecutour But it is easie for malice to make heresie what it pleaseth when it is armed with power and can make havock at pleasure Verse 20. Veritas absconde crubescit I spake openly to the world Truth is bold and bare faced when heresie hides it self and loatnes the light What said John Frith Martyr to the Archbishops men that would have let him goe and shift for himself If you should both leave me here and goe to Croydon declaring to the Bishops that you had lost Frith Act. and Mon. fol. 19 7. I would surely follow as fast after as I might and bring them news that I had found and brought Frith again Do ye think that I am afraid to declare my opinion to the Bishops of England in a manifest truth Verse 21. Why askest thou me We are to be ready
a reed into his hand my treachery that nailed his hands and feet my vanity that grieved his soul to the death my self-love that thrust a spear into his side c. Adsum ego qui feci Virgil. Verse 19. Jesus of Nazareth c. To perswade the people to bow superstitiously at the Name of Jesus Papists commonly but ridiculously teach in their Pulpits that Christ himself on the Crosse bowed his head on the right side to reverence his own name which was written over it Europ Spec. as Sir Edwin Sands relates from his own experience Verse 20. In Hebrew Greek and Latine In Hebrew for the Jewes who gloried in the Law in Greek for the Grecians who gloried in wisdome in Latine for the Romans who most gloried in dominion and power As if Pilate should have said This is the King of all Religion having reference to the Hebrews of all wisdome to the Greeks of all power to the Romans The holy Ghost would also hereby commend unto us the dignity and study of these three languages to be retained for ever in the Church of Christ Verse 21. Write not the King of the Jews They would needs be mending Magnificat as they say and this of pure spite that the disgrace might rest only upon Christ and not at all reflect upon their Nation Whereas in truth nothing so ennobleth as any the least relation to Christ Mâ—t. 2. Mic. 5. Bethlehem where he was born it though the least yet therefore not the least among the Cities of Judah Among those that were marked Revel 7. Judah is reckoned first of all the Tribes by Leah's side because our Lord sprang out of Judah And Nephtali is named first among those that came by Rachels side because at Capernaum in that Tribe Christ dwelt which therefore also is said to be lifted up to heaven Mat. 11. Vt utrobique supereminâ—aâ— Christi praerogativa Verse 22. What I have written I have written i. e. I am unchangeably resolved it shall stand Non retractat boâ—o proâ—anus quod veâ—e licet fiâ—e mente consilâ—oâ—â—e Chri. â—lo â—câ—ipfit Câ—â— So God saith I am that I am that is I am yesterday and to day and the same for ever Learne we may of Pilate to be constant to a ood cause Marcellus the Pope would not change his name according to the custome to shew his immutability that he was no changeling Verse 23. Took his garments Christ as Elias being now to ascend into heaven did willingly let go his garments and the rather that he might cloath us with his righteousnesse Let us suffer with joy the spoyling of our goods as knowing in our selves not only by books or relation of others that we have in heaven a better and more enduring substance Hâ—b 10.32 But what a wise fool was Sir Thomas Moor who being brought to the Tower as a malefactour and one of the Officers demanding his upper garment for a fee meaning his gown he said he should have it and took him his cap Act. and Mon. fol. 97â— saying it was it was the uppermost garment that he had So when he was to be beheaded he said to the hangman I pray you let me lay my beard over the block lest you should cut it He thought it no glory unles he might die with a mock in his mouth These be the worlds wizards Now the Coat ws without seam Christi tunica est unica They that rent it by schismes are worse then the rude souldiers Indexpiabilis discordiae macula marâ—yrij sanguine ablui paâ—sione purga ri non potest Cypr deunâ—t eccles Chrysost Hom. 11. ad Ephes Occol ad fratres in Suevia There can be no greater sinne committed saith Cyprian then to break the unity of the Church Yea though one should suffer martyrdome yet cannot he expiate thereby his sinne of discord This saith Chrysostome is a bold but a true speech of Cyprian And like to this is that of Oecolampadius to the Lutherans in Swethland Our errour may be pardoned so that Christ by faith be apprehended Discordiam neque si sanguinem fundamus expiabimus but the blot of our discord we canot wash off with our heart bloud Verse 24. That the Scripture might be fulfilled So exactly is the old Testament fulfilled in the New The testimonies whereof are cited not only by way of accommodation but because they are the proper meaning of the places The souldiers could not cast the dice upon our Saviours garments but it was fore-told This shews that our Redemption by Christ is no imposture but a plot of Gods own contriving Let this settle us against all doubtings Verse 25. Now there stood by the Crosse c. Act. 18.18 Rom 16 3â— 2 Tim. 4.19 Act. 16.13 The men were fled the women stood to it Souls have no Sexes Manoah's wife was the more manly of the two Priscilla is sometimes set before Aquila When S. Paul came first to Philippi he had none that would hear him but a few women Verse 26. When Jesus therefore saw his mother In the midst of his miseries he thinks of his mother and takes care for her wel-doing after his decease Doctour Tailour the Martyr among other things that he said to his son at his death said this charge upon him When thy mother is waxed old forsake her not Act. and Mon. but provide for her to thy power and see that she lack nothing for so will God blesse thee and give thee long life upon earth and prosperity The Athenians punished such with death as noutished not their aged Parents And S. Paul saith that to require paents is good and acceptable before God 1 Tim 5.4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sc coraâ— homiâ—iâ—us Scul Verse 27. The Disciple took her c. A precious depositum the house was the better she abode in yet dare we not deifie her as the Papists as neither will we vilifie her as the Authour of the famale glory basely slanders some of us that we rudely call her Mall Gods maid Os durum Our Parents saith the Heathen are our Houshold gods 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hierocles Luk. 2.35 Honour them we must both in word and deed That our Saviour here cals her Woman and not Mother was either because he would not adde to her grief who was now pierced to the soul with that sword Simeon spake of or lest he should create her further trouble if she had been known to be his mother or for that being now in his last work and ready way to heaven 2 Cor 5. Act. and Mon. fol. 1450. he knew none after the flesh Thomas Wats Martyr spake thus at his death to his wife and six children Wife and my good children I must now depart from you therefore henceforth know I you no more c. But whereas Christ commends the care of his mother to his beloved Disciple with Behold thy mother the Samians used the like