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A16078	A harmonie vpon the the three Euangelists, Matthew, Mark and Luke with the commentarie of M. Iohn Caluine: faithfully translated out of Latine into English, by E.P. Whereunto is also added a commentarie vpon the Euangelist S. Iohn, by the same authour.; Harmonia ex tribus Evangelistis composita	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564. In Evangelium secundum Johannem. aut; Pagit, Eusebius, 1547?-1617.; Fetherston, Christopher.	1584 (1584)	STC 2962; ESTC S102561	1,583,711	1,539

of intemperaunce and rapine Therefore he reproueth their hypocrisie beecause they only sought to frame their liues to the eyes of men that they might get themselues the reporte and vaine fame of holynes Therefore he calleth them backe to a pure and sincere desire to liue wel Make cleane saith he first that which is within for it were a ridiculous thing to feede the eyes with outward cleannes and to drink of a cuppe foule with dregges or filthy by other means 27. You are like to whited tombes Here is an other similitude but it tendeth to the same ende For hee compareth them to tombes which the menne of the worlde doe ambitiouslye make fayre and gorgeous for themselues Therefore as the painting and pargeting of tombes draweth mennes eyes to looke vppon them when as they are full of dead carkases within so Christe saieth that hypocrites doe deceiue with the outwarde shewe because they are full of fraud and wickednesse Luke vseth other wordes as that they deceiue mennes eies as the graues which they do not often perceyue which walke ouer them yet the meaning of them both is one for vnder the pretence of feigned holynesse there laye filthynes hydden which they nourished in their heartes euen as the marble tombe beecause it maketh a fayre and pleasaunt shewe couereth the filthines of the carkases least it should offend them that passe that way VVhereby we gather that which I sayde before that Christ puld of their paynted visor that he might helpe the simple and vnlearned people whō the Scribes through dissimulation kept in bondage vnder them For this admonition was profitable to the simple that they might the speedilyer withdraw themselues out of the iawes of the wolues Yet this doctrine containeth a generall doctrine that the children of God shoulde not so much desire to be seene as to be pure Math. 23. Mark Luk. 11. 29 VVoe be to you Scribes and Pharises hypocrites for yee builde the tombes of the Prophets garnish the sepulchres of the righteous 30 And say if wee had beene in the dayes of our fathers we woulde not haue beene partners with them in the bloud of the prophets 31. And then yee bee witnesses vnto your selues that yee are the chyldren of thē that murthered the Prophets 32 Fulfil ye also the measure of your fathers 33 O serpents the generation of vipers how should ye escape the damnation of hel 34 VVherefore beholde I sende vnto you Prophets and wise men and Scribes and of them ye shal kil and crucifie and of them shal ye scourge in your Synagogues and persecute from citye to citie 35. That vppon you may come all the righteous bloud that was shed vppon the earth from the bloud of Abell the righteous vnto the bloud of Zacharias the son of Barachias whom yee slew betweene the temple and the altar 36. Verely I saye vnto you all these things shal come vpon this generation 37 Ierusalem Ierusalem which killest the Prophetes aud stonest them which are sent to thee how often would I haue gathered thy children togeather as the hen gathereth her chickens vnder her winges and ye would not 38 Beholde your habitation shall be left vnto you desolate 39 For I say vnto you yee shall not see me henceforth till that ye say blessed is he that commeth in the name of the Lord.   47. VVoe bee to you for y●e builde the sepulchres of the Prophetes and your fathers killed them 48. Truely yee beare witnesse and allow the deedes of your fathers for they killed them and ye build their sepulchres 49 Therfore said the wisdome of God I will sende them Prophets and Apostles and of them they shal slay and persecute 50 That the bloud of all the prophets shed from the foundation of the worlde may be required of this generation 51 From the bloud of Abel vnto the bloud of Zacharias whiche was slaine betweene the altar and the temple verely I saye vnto you it shall be required of this generation Luke 13. 34 O Ierusalem Ierusalem which killest the Prophetes and stonest them that are sent to thee how often would I haue gathered thy children togeather as the henne gathereth her broode vnder her wings ye would not 35 Behold your house is lefte vnto you desolate and verely I tell you yee shall not see me vntill the time come that yee shall saye blessed is hee that commeth in the name of the Lord. Luke 11. 53 And as hee said these thinges vnto them the Scribes and Pharises began to vrge him sore and to prouoke him to speake of manye things 54 Laying waite for him and seekinge to catch some thinge of his mouth whereby they might accuse him 29. For you buylde the tombes Some doe wrongfully thinke that he reproued the Scribes of superstition because that they preposterouslye honoured the Prophets which are dead with sumptuous Sepulchres as the Papistes nowe doe giue the honour due to God to dead Saintes and do wickedly worshippe their images They were not at that time so blinde nor so madde wherefore Christ had another purpose The Scribes also by this dissimulation gatte themselues credit amōgst the vnlearned people and amongste all the Iewes beecause that they reuerentlye esteemed the memory of the Prophetes For when they in this manner feigned to maintain their doctrin euery man would haue thought that they had beene faithful followers and most earnest and zealous keepers of the worshippe of God Therfore it was a thing verye plausible to build the monumentes of the Prophetes for by this meanes religion was puld as it were out of darkenesse to be honoured But they meant nothing lesse then to restore the doctrine which might seeme to haue ben ouerthrown by the death of the Prophets But thogh they were straungers and most cruel enemies of the doctrine of the prophetes yet being dead they honoured them with sepulchres as if that they maintained one cause with them And this is the manner of hypocrites to honour the holy ministers of God and pure teachers after theyr death whom they could not abide in their life And this commeth not onely of common corruption which Horace noteth in these wordes of enuie we hate vertue when it is present and seeke for it when it is taken away but because the dead ashes doe not trouble them any more with sharpe and seuere rebukes they doe willingly make a vaine shew of religion in worshipping of them at whose wordes and speach they hadde beene almost mad For this dissimulation to desire to worshippe the dumbe is not much to be regarded So all the Prophetes in their tyme were contumeliously reiected and much troubled of the Iewes yea and they were oft times most cruelly slaine And the posteritie which came after them being nothing better then their fathers rather reuerenced the memory of them as in a shadow then imbraced their doctrine for that they hated that as much as their teachers For as the world because it dareth not despise God

downe this their foolish arrogancye doth not onely say that they are no better then other nations beecause that God hath vouchsafed to send Prophetes and notable interpreters of hys wisdome vnto them but he proueth that this grace being abused shal be their greater rebuke and the more to theyr destruction for the purpose of GOD was farre otherwyse then they imagined namelye that hee might make them the more inexcusable and that the heape of their wicked malice might be brought to the full height as if he should haue said you doe verye fondlye and foolishlye pretende this as an honour to you that God hath sent you Prophetes For God hath determined another thing in his secrete iudgment that by this continuall course of calling of them so louingly he might openly discouer your wicked obstinacy and that he might when he hath brought the same to passe destroy the children and the fathers togeather As concerning the wordes the sentence in Matthew wanteth somewhat the sense wherof must be supplied out of Lukes wordes He numbreth the Scribes and the wise men with the Prophetes that he might amplifie and set forth the grace of God VVhereby their vnthankfulnesse dooth the more appeare that when GOD had omitted no meanes that might serue for their destruction yet it preuailed nothing Luke for the Scribes and wise menne placeth the Apostles but the sense is all one This place doth also teach that God dooth not alwayes saue menne so oft as he sendeth his word vnto them but his will is that it shall be preached to the reprobate whom he knoweth to be obstinate that it might be vnto them a ●auour of death vnto death The word of GOD is of it selfe and of the owne nature holsome and calleth all menne generallye to the hope of eternall life but because that all menne are not moued inwardlye neyther dooth GOD open the eares of all menne to be short because that all menne are not renewed by repentaunce nor brought to obedience whosoeuer doe refuse the worde of God doe by their vnbeliefe turne it to their destruction and make it deadly to them VVhen God knoweth before that it shall come so to passe he doth purposely send his Prophets vnto them that he may cast the reprobate headlong into the greater destruction as hee declareth more at large Isay 6. 10. I graunt that this agreeth not with the reason of manne as we see the wicked contemners of God doe take a iolly occasion to barke out that God as some cruell tyrant should delight himselfe in the greater destruction of menne whom without hope of profiting he doth wittinglye and willingly blinde and harden more and more But God doth by such instructions teach the faythfull modestie Therefore let vs learne this sobrietie fearefully to reuerence that which passeth our vnderstanding They which doe say that the foreknowledge of God is no hinderaunce but that the vnbeleeuers may bee saued they doe fondly excuse God with a vaine defence I graunt that the reprobate doe not seeke their owne death beecause that God foresawe that it should be so and therefore their destruction cannot be ascribed to his foreknowledge but I say that the righteousnesse of God is not thus rightly defended for it may be presently obiected that it is in the power of GOD that they doe not repent beecause that the gyfte of fayth and repentaunce is in his hand This maye also be obiected what the meaning of this should be that GOD of sette and deliberate purpose appoynteth the light of his word to blinde men why is he not contented simply with the destruction of them that are appointed to eternall death but would haue them perish twise or thrise There is no other aunswere to be made but to giue this glory to the iudgementes of God that we may cry with Paule that it is a profounde and vnsearchable depth Romanes 15. 33. But it is demaunded howe GOD should say that the prophesies were giuen to the Iewes for their destruction when as his adoption did alwaies flourish effectually in that nation I answere when as onely a smal remnaunt embraced the worde by faith to saluation he speaketh here of the greater nūber or of the whole bodye as where Iesaias 8. 61. foretelleth the generall destruction of that nation hee is commaunded to seale vppe the lawe of God amongst the disciples Therefore we must knowe that as ofte as the Scripture iudgeth the Iewes to eternall death the remnauntes are alwayes excepted in whom the Lorde preserueth some seede beecause of his owne free election 35. That vppon you may come all the righteous bloud Hee dooth not onelye take from them that which they wrongfully toke to themselues but hee teacheth that the Prophetes were giuen them altogeather to an other end that no age might be free from the sinne of rebelling against God For the Pronowne you doth generallye comprehende the whole nation from their beginning If any man would obiect that it agreeth not with the iudgement of God that the children should be punished for the offences of the fathers the answere is ready sith they ioined with them togeather in that vngodly conspiracy it must not seeme absurd if God generally punishing all men should cast the punishment due to the fathers into the bosome of the children Therefore the account of perpetual contempte is iustlye exacted and required of the whole nation and the punishment is laid vppon them at once though some of them liued at one age and others in another For as God by the long continuance of his patience stroue continually with the malice of the whole people so the whole people is woorthily founde guilty of stubbornnesse which would not be amended but continued euen to the last of it and as all those ages slewe their Prophets as if they had agreed vpon the same so it was meete that they should be called to a generall iudgement and that all those slaughters which were done with one consent should be reuenged vppon them all From the bloude of Abel Thoughe Abel was not slaine by the Iewes yet Christ imputeth his death vnto them because there was a certaine kinred of vngodlinesse betweene them and Caine otherwise that which he saieth coulde not agree that the righteous bloude euen from the beginning of the worlde was shed by this generation Caine therefore is accounted as the heade and the prince and author of the Iewish people for since they began to kill the Prophets they succeeded in his roume whose steps they followed Further hee nameth Zachariah not as if that he were the last martyr for the Iewes made not an ende then of murthering the Prophets but their boldnesse and rage rather encreased therby and their posterities which followed them made themselues drūken with the blud which their fathers had only tasted neither yet for that his death were more famous and knowne though the holye scripture reporteth the same but there is an other reason which is worthye to be noted

that yet he shoulde preuaile nothing by hys deuices I sayeth he what guiles soeuer he deuiseth will to day to morowe doe the office laide vpon me of God and when I come to the ende of the race then shall I be offered vppe in sacrifice Yet that the meaning of the woordes may be more plainly sette downe vnto vs in the first part of the sentence Christe graunteth that the third day after that is shortly after he should die and thus he declareth that he can by no fear of death be driuen from doing his duetie to the whiche with a setteled purpose of the minde he goeth without feare Then he addeth that it is a vaine shew of feare which is obiected by those false fained warners because there is no daunger of death other where then at Ierusalem But in the seconde parte he reprooueth the Pharises sharply doe you who I see shall be my butchers warne me to take heede of Herode Though the vpbraidinge goeth further for he not only sayeth that he is ready to die at Ierusalem but that it also is a denne of theeues where almost all the Prophets were slaine It is true that many were slaine otherwhere and especially at that time when the cruell rage of Iesabel was hotte against them but because that continually the Prophets were not in any other place more cruelly dealt with Christ layeth woorthely this reproofe vppon the wicked inhabitants of the holy Citie And for the most part it befell the Prophets to be slaine there for sith the wickednesse came from thence wherewyth Iudea was filled that also was the fielde wherein God exercised his Prophets For we knowe that the more the doctrine of the Gospell shineth and the nearer it commeth to the wicked the madder they become Yet this is a horrible example that the place which was chosen to be the sanctuary of the worship of God and to be the house of the lawe and of the heauenly wisedome should be defiled not with one or two murders but with the ordinarie slaughter of the Prophets And heereby it appeareth howe obstinate the vnthankfulnessse of the world was in refusing sound doctrine Thoughe the exclamation which followeth presently after in Luke seemeth so to be ioyned to this as if Christ heereof taking occasion did then enuey against Ierusalem yet I rather thinke when Luke had sayd before that Ierusalem was embrued with Prophets bloude yea and that it was by continuall course of many ages the cruell and sacrilegious slaughter house occupied in murthering the Prophets presently according to his maner he addeth a sentence whiche agreed with that speache For we see in diuers places before that it was no vnwōted thing in him to gather into one place sayings of Christ vttered at sondry times Mathewe Marke Luke 11.     37. And as he spake a certain Pharisie besought him to dine with him and hee went in and sate downe at the table 38. And when the Pharisie sawe it hee marueiled that he had not first washed before dinner 39. And the Lord sayd vnto him in deede ye Pharisies make cleane the out side of the cuppe and of the platter but the inwarde parts is full of raueuing wickednesse 40. Yee fooles did not he which made that which is without make that which is within also 41. Therefore giue almes of those thinges which are within and beholde all things shal be cleane vnto you This heere sette downe agreeth in parte but not wholely wyth that doctrine in the fiftene chapter of Mat. that Christ of purpose neglected those outwarde rites inuented by men in obseruing whereof the Iewes were to too carefull that hee might correcte the superstition of the people and especially of the Scribes God had commaunded some certaine washings in his lawe in the whiche hee profitably exercised his people in the meditation of true puritie The Iewes not being content with thys mediocritie added many other washinges specially that no man shoulde eat except he had washed as Mark declareth more plainly in his 7. chapter and also appeareth in the 2. of Iohn Also to this fault was added a wicked confidence because they hauing no regard of the spirituall worship of God thought they had wel discharged themselues if they had set vp a figure in the place of God And Christe not being ignorant that the contempt of this ceremony woulde be offensiuely taken yet omitted the same that he might shewe that God made small account of the outwarde cleannesse of the flesh but required the spirituall righteousnes of the hart 3● In deede yee Pharisies Christe doeth not reproue the Pharisies in this place as he doth in Mathew and Mark because they preposterously worshipped God with mens inuentions and brake the lawe of God through their owne traditions but he onlye toucheth their grosse hypocrisie because they desired puritie but in the eyes of men as it they had nothing to do with God And this reproofe lighteth vpon all hypocrites which establish a righteousnesse in the ceremonies commanded by God And therfore Christe concludeth more then if he shoulde haue sayde that God is worshipped in vaine with the commandements of men for he generally condemneth that errour that God shoulde be worshipped with ceremonies and not with faith a pure affection of the heart And though the Prophets alwayes hadde a great controuersie about this matter wyth the Iewes yet the dispositions of men are so prone to hypocrisie that proud errour preuailed that God should be pleased with outward worshippings voide of faith But chiefly they were so astonied in Christes time that religion then only stode in mere trifles Therefore he enueyeth against the Pharisies which are busily occupied in washing the cuppes nourish inwardly in their harts most filthy spots of rauening wickednes And he cōdemneth their folly by this reason that God which created the inward soule of man as well as the body could not be pleased only with an outward shew For this chiefly deceiueth men that either they doe not consider that they haue to doe with God or else they transforme him according to the vanitie of their imagination as if he differed nothing from a mortall man 41. But of those thinges which are within Christ after his maner calleth the Pharisies backe from ceremonies to charitie affirming that men as wel as meats are not clēsed with water but with loue Yet he wold not in those woords lessen the grace of God nor reiecte the rites of the lawe as vaine and vnprofitable for he directeth his speach against them which carelesly mocke at God with naked signes as if he should haue sayd it is onely the lawfull vse which sanctifieth the meates And they onely doe vse the meates rightly and iustly which helpe the want of the poore with their aboundance Therefore it were better to giue almes of that abundance which we haue then by scrupulous washing of hands and cuppes to neglect the poore That which the Papists doe gather

altogeather or at the least to arise against him altogether inuenteth this subtill deuise to worshippe a shadow of GOD for God so it vseth the like mockery with the Prophetes VVhereof there is too plaine experience in Popery for they beeing not contente with the lawfull reuerence of the Apostles and Martyres doe worshippe them as Gods and what honours soeuer they doe heape vppe togeather they do not thinke that they doe exceede measure yet by their raging against the faithfull they doe declare how they would worshippe the Apostles and Martires if they were aliue at this day and shoulde doe their office they did in times past For why are they so outragious against vs but because we desire that the doctrine which the Apostles and Martyres sealed with their bloud might be receiued and flourish Further sith the holye seruauntes of God esteemed it more pretious then their owne life would they spare theyr life which doe so outragiously persecute the doctrine Therefore let them adorne the Images of Saintes with incense candelles flowers and with all kinde of pompes at theyr pleasure if Peter were now aliue they would teare him in peeces they would ouerthrow Paule with stones if Christ himself liued yet in the world they would roast him with a small fire And because the Lord saw the Scribes and sacrificers of his time seeke to be praysed of the people as holy worshippers of the Prophetes he reproueth them for deceitfull dealing because they doe not onely refuse the Prophets which were presently sent vnto them but they doe cruelly trouble them And therein doth their vile dissimulation and grosse impudency bewraye it selfe while they desire to seeme religious in worshipping of the dead and labour to ouerthrow them that are aliue 30. If we had beene in the dayes of our fathers Christ spake not this in vaine For though he doe not accuse them in the person of their Fathers nor doth impute it as a faulte to them for that they were murtherers chyldren yet he doth by the way reproue their vaine boasting because they vsed to glory of their kinred who yet were the offspring of bloudy enemies of GOD. The sentence therefore must bee expounded thus The worship which you do to the Prophetes which are dead is as you think a sacrifice for your fathers sinnes Therefore I doe nowe conclude this that you doe glory in vaine of a holy kinred when you come of vngodly and wicked parentes Goe now and couer your wickednes with their godlynes whose hands you confesse were defiled with innocent bloud But you commit a farre greater offence for the sacrilegious madnes of your fathers which you doe condemne in the sepulchres of the dead you doe follow in murthering them that liue VVherefore he concludeth at the length that in this matter they were not degenerate from theyr fathers as if that he should haue sayde your nation doth not begin nowe to rage against the Prophetes of God for this is an olde order this custome was vsed of the fathers to be short this manner of dealing is as it were planted in you But hee doth not commaund them to doe as they doe as to kill the holy teachers but he dooth figuratiuely declare that by right of enheritaunce they doe arise against the seruauntes of God and haue lybertie giuen them to oppresse the trueth for by this meanes they fulfill the wickednesse whiche was wanting in their fathers and they weaue vp the webbe which they beganne And in these wordes hee doth not onely say that they are past hope and such as cannot bee brought againe to their right minde but hee admonisheth the simple that it is no meruaile if the Prophetes of God be euill handled by murtherers children 33. O generation of vipers After that Christ hath shewed that the Scrib● are not onely wicked enemies of godlye doctrine and faithlesse corruptours of the worshippe of God but also deadly plagues of the Church he making an end of his speach inueigheth more sharpely against them as it is necessary that hypocrits should be violētly shaken or driuen from their dainties and drawne as it were before the tribunall seate of God that they might be terrified yet Christ had not onelye respect vnto thē but his purpose was to make all the people afraide that all might beeware of the like destruction But how hard and intollerable these sharpe wordes were to these reuerend maisters may bee gathered by this that their gouernment had now bene peaceably setled to them by longe custome so that no man durst murmur against them And without doubt many were offended at this freedome of Christ his words they were so bitter and he was accounted very froward and immodeste for that hee durst speake so reproachfully of the order of the Scribes as at this daye many dainty men cannot abide to heare any thing spoken sharply of the Popish cleargy But because that Christ had to doe with most vile hipocrites which were not onelye puft vp with a disdainefull contempte of God and were drunken with a vaine confidence in themselues but they had bewitched the common people with their vaine shewes therefore it was necessary that he should deale the vehementlyer against them therfore he calleth them serpentes aswell in nature as in manners then hee pronounceth a vengance against them which they shal not escape except they repent speedily 34. Therefore behold I send Luke setteth it downe somewhat plainelier VVherefore the wisdome of God also sayd which some interpreters doe expound thus I which am the eternall wisdome of God doe pronounce of you Yet I doe rather allow that God shoulde speake this vnder the person of his wisdome after the vsuall manner of the scripture so the sense should be this God hath spoken of you beefore in the spirite of prophesie what should come to passe I graunt that the very wordes of this sentence are not read in any place but because that God dooth euery where reproue the vntamed frowardnesse of this people Christe maketh as it were a briefe collection and sheweth more plainely in this mouing the Lord to speake againe what the iudgment of God was of the incurable wickednesse of this nation For it might seeme a wonder if the teachers hadde done nothing worthy the noting why the Lorde would tyre them out spidily For so men doe reason God loseth his labour when hee sendeth his word to the reprobate whom he knoweth to bee obstinate And the hypocrites doe hope that God is mercifull and fauourable to them because they had dayly preachers of the heauenly doctrine amongst them as though this onely were sufficient that the outward worde was preached amongst them though they would neuer learne any thing therby So the Iewes made great boast of themselues that they farre excelled all other nations in this their hauing of Prophetes and doctours as if they had deserued so great an honor and that this had bene an euident signe of their dignitie Christ that he might beate