he cried vvith a loude voice Lazarus come forth ✠verse 44 And forthvvith he came forth that had been dead bound feete and handes vvith vvinding bandes and his face vvas tied vvith a napkin IESVS said to them Loose him and let him goe ✠verse 45 Many therfore of the Ievves that vvere come to Marie and Martha and had seen the things that IESVS did beleeued in him ⊢ ✠verse 46 And certaine of them vvent to the Pharisees and told them the things that IESVS did ✠verse 47 The cheefe priests therfore and the pharisees gathered a councel and said Vvhat doe vve for this man doeth many signes ✠verse 48 If vve let him alone so al vvil beleeue in him and the Romanes vvil come and take avvay our place and nation ✠verse 49 But one of them named Caiphas being the high priest of that yere said to them You knovv nothing ✠verse 50 neither doe you cōsider that it is expedient for vs that one man die for the people and the vvhole natiō perish not ✠verse 51 And this he said not of him self but ″ being the high priest of that yere he prophecied that IESVS should die for the nation ✠verse 52 and not only for the nation but to gather into one the children of God that vvere dispersed ✠verse 53 From that day therfore they deuised to kil him ✠verse 54 IESVS therfore vvalked no more openly among the Ievves but he vvent into the countrie beside the desert vnto a citie that is called Ephrem and there he abode vvith his Disciples ⊢ ✠verse 55 And the Pasche of the Ievves vvas at hand and many of the countrie vvent vp to Hierusalem before the Pasche to sanctifie them selues ✠verse 56 They sought IESVS therfore and they communed one vvith an other standing in the temple Vvhat thinke you in that he is not come to the festiual day And the cheefe Priests Pharisees had giuen cōmaundemēt that if any man should knovv vvhere he vvas he should tel that they might apprehend him ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XI 31. Being the high Priest Maruel not that Christ preserueth his truth in the Church as wel by the vnworthy as the worthy Prelates thereof the giftes of the Holy Ghost folowing their Order and office as we see here in Caiphas and not their merites or person And if this man being many waies wicked and in part an vsurper and the Law and Priesthod being to decline and to giue place to Christs new ordinance had yet some assistance of God for vtterance of truth which him self meant not nor knew not how much more may we be assured that Christ wil not leaue Peters Seate * whose faith he promised should neuer falle though the persons which occupie the same were as il as the blasphemous and malitious mouthes of Heretikes do affirme CHAP. XII The Rulers dealing as if he hid him self 1 he cōmeth to Bethania ◠Where by occasion of Iudas the theefe murmuring at Marie Magdalens costly deuotion he foretelleth his death 12 From thence though they did novv intend to kil Lazarus also he rideth openly into Hierusalem the people because he had raised Lazarus confessing with their acclamations that he is Christ 20 Where certaine Gentils desiring to see him 22 he foretelleth the conuersion of the vvhole vvorld from the Diuel to him to be novv instant as the effect of his death vpon the Crosse 28 The Father also ansvvering from heauen to his prayer made to that purpose 37 yet after al this the Ievves continevv incredulous as Esay prophecied of them 42 though many beleeued but vvere ashamed to confesse him 44 Wherevpon he shevveth that it is glorious before God and saluation to them selues to beleeue in him and confesse him and damnable to despise him verse 1 IESVS therfore sixe daies before the Pasche came to Bethánia vvhere Lazarus vvas that had been dead vvhom IESVS raised ✠verse 2 And they made him a supper there and Martha ministred but Lazarus vvas one of them that sate at the table vvith him ✠verse 3 Marie therfore tooke a povvnd of ointement of right spikenard pretious and anointed the feete of IESVS and vviped his feete vvith her heare and the house vvas filled of the odour of the ointmēt ✠verse 4 One therfore of his disciples Iudas Iscariote he that vvas to betray him said ✠verse 5 ″ Vvhy vvas not this ointment sold for three-hundred pence and giuen to the poore ✠verse 6 And he said this not because he cared for the poore but because he vvas ″ a theefe and hauing the purse caried the things that vvere put in ✠verse 7 IESVS therfore said Let her alone that she may keepe it for the day of my burial ✠verse 8 For the poore you haue alvvaies vvith you but me you shal not haue alvvaies ✠verse 9 A great multitude therfore of the Ievves knevv that he vvas there and they came not for IESVS only but that they might see Lazarus vvhom he raised from the dead ⊢ ✠verse 10 But the cheefe Priests deuised for to kil Lazarus also ✠verse 11 because many for him of the Ievves vvent avvay and beleeued in IESVS ✠verse 12 And on the morovv a great multitude that vvas come to the festiual day vvhen they had heard that IESVS commeth to Hierusalem ✠verse 13 they tooke the boughes of palmes and vvent forth to meete him and cried Hosanna blessed is he that commeth in the name of our Lord the king of Israel ✠verse 14 And IESVS foūd a yong asse and sate vpon it as it is vvritten ✠verse 15 Feare not daughter of Sion behold thy king commeth sitting vpon an asses colt ✠verse 16 These things his disciples did not knovv at the first but vvhen IESVS vvas glorified then they remembred that these things had been vvritten of him and these things they did to him ✠verse 17 The multitude therfore gaue testimonie vvhich vvas vvith him vvhē he called Lazarus out of the graue and raised him from the dead ✠verse 18 For therfore also the multitude came to meete him because they heard that he had done this signe ✠verse 19 The Pharisees therfore said among them selues Doe you see that vve preuaile nothing behold the vvhole vvorld is gone after him ✠verse 20 And there vvere certaine Gentiles of them that came vp to adore in the festiual day ✠verse 21 These therfore came to Philippe vvho vvas of Bethsaida of Galilee and desired him saying Sir vve are desirous to see IESVS ✠verse 22 Philippe commeth and telleth Andrevv Againe Andrevv Philippe told IESVS ✠verse 23 But IESVS ansvvered them saying The houre is come that the Sonne of man shal be glorified ✠verse 24 Amen amen I say to you vnles the graine of vvheate falling into the ground die it self remaineth alone but if it die it
By the often fasting of his disciples we may easely gather that he appointed them a prescript maner of fasting as it is certaine he taught them a forme of prayer Lu. 5. and 11. 17. New wine By this new wine he doth playnly here signifie fasting and the straiter kind of life by the old bottels them that can not away therewith 19. Twelue yeres This woman a Gentil had her disease twelue yeres and the Gouerners daughter a Iewe which is here raysed to life was twelue yeres old Luc. 8. Marke then the allegorie hereof in the Iewes and Gentils As that woman fel sicke when the wenche was borne so the Gentils went their owne wayes into idolatrie when the Iewes in Abraham beleeued Agayne as Christ here went to rayse the wenche and by the way the woman was first healed and then the wenche reuiued so Christ came to the Iewes but the Gentils beleeued first and were saued and in the end the Iewes shal beleeue also Hiero. in Mat. 21. Touche only Not only Christes wordes but his garment and touche thereof or any thing to him belonging might doe and did miracles force proceding from his holy person to them Yea this woman returning home * set vp an Image of Christ for memorie of this benefite and the hemme of the same Image did also miracles This image Iulâ—an the Apostata threwe downe and set vp his owne in steede therof which was immediatly destroyed by fyre from heauen But the image of Christ broken in peeces by the heathen the Christians afterward gathering the peeces together placed it in the Churche where it was as Sozomenus writeth vnto his time 2â— Do you beleeue that I can We see here that to the corporal healing of these men he requireth onely this faith that he is able Which faith is not sufficient to iustifie them How then doe the Heretikes by this and the like places pleade for their onely iustifying faith See the Annot. Mar. 5 36. 3â— Pray therfore Therfore doth the Churche pray and fast in the Imber dayes when holy Orders are geuen that is when workemen are prepared to be sent into the haruest See Act. 1â— â— CHAP. X. He giueth to the Tvvelue the povver of Miracles and so sendeth them to the lost sheepe of the lovves 5 vvith instructions accordingly to and by occasion of the sending foretelleth of the persecutions after his Ascension arming them and al other against the same 40 and also exhorting the people to harbour his seruants in such times of persecution verse 1 AND hauing called his tvvelue Disciples together * he gaue them ″ povver ouer vncleane spirites that they should cast them out and should cure al maner of disease and al maner of infirmitie ✠verse 2 And the names of the tvvelue Apostles be these the ″first Simon vvho is called Peter and Andrevv his brother ✠verse 3 Iames of Zebedee and Iohn his brother Philip and Barthlemevv Thomas and Matthevv the publican and Iames of Alphaeus Thaddaeus ✠verse 4 Simon Cananaeus and Iudas Iscariote vvho also betrayed him ✠verse 5 These tvvelue did IESVS send commaunding them saying Into the vvay of the Gentiles goe ye not and into the cities of the Samaritans enter ye not ✠verse 6 but goe rather to the sheepe that are perished of the house of Israel ✠verse 7 And going preache saying That the kingdom of heaueÌ„ is at hand ✠verse 8 Cure the sicke raise the dead cleanse the lepers cast out diuels gratis you haue receiued gratis giue ye ✠verse 9 Do not ″ possesse gold nor siluer nor money in your purses ✠verse 10 not a skrippe for the vvay neither two coates neither shoes neither rodde for the vvorkeman is vvorthie of his meate ✠verse 11 And into vvhatsoeuer citie or tovvne you shal enter inquire vvho in it is vvorthie and there tarie til you goe forth ✠verse 12 And vvhen ye enter into the house salute it saying ″ Peace be to this house ✠verse 13 And if so be that house be vvorthie your peace shal come vpon it but if it be not vvorthie your peace shal returne to you ✠verse 14 And vvhosoeuer shal not receiue you nor heare your vvordes going forth out of the house or the citie ″ shake of the dust from your feete ✠verse 15 Amen I say to you it shal be ″ more tolerable for the land of the Sodomites and Gomorrheans in the day of iudgement then for that citie ✠verse 16 Behold I send you as sheepe in the middes of vvolues Be ye therfore vvise as serpents and simple as dooues ✠verse 17 And take heede of men For they vvil deliuer you vp in Councels and in their synagogs they vvil scourge you ✠verse 18 And to Presidents and ″ to Kings shal you be ledde for my sake in testimonie to them and the Gentiles ✠verse 19 But vvhen they shal deliuer you vp * take no thought hovv or vvhat to speakeâ— for ″ it shal be giuen you in that houre vvhat to speake ✠verse 20 For it is not you that speake but the spirit of your father that speaketh in you ✠verse 21 * The brother also shal deliuer vp the brother to death and the father the sonne and the children shal rise vp agaynst the parents and shal vvorke their death ✠verse 22 and you shal be odious to al men for my name but he that shal perseuêre vnto the end he shal be saued ⊢ ✠verse 23 And vvhen they shal persecute you in this citie flee into an other Amen I say to you you shal not finish al the cities of Israel til the sonne of man come ✠verse 24 * The Disciple is not aboue the maister nor the seruant aboue his lord ✠verse 25 It suffiseth the disciple that he be as his maister and the seruaÌ„t as his lord If they haue called the goodmaÌ„ of the house Beelzebub ″ hovv much more them of his houshold ✠verse 26 Therfore feare ye not them For nothing is hid that shal not be reuealed and secrete that shal not be knovven ✠verse 27 That vvhich I speake to you in the darke speake ye in the light and that vvhich you heare in the eare preache ye vpon the house â—oppes ✠verse 28 And feare ye not them that kil the body and are not able to kil the soul but rather feare him that can destroy both soul and body into hel ⊢ ✠verse 29 Are not tvvo sparovves sold for a faâ—thing and not one of them shal fall vpon the ground vvithout your father ✠verse 30 But your very heares of the head are al numbered ✠verse 31 Feare not therfore better are you then many sparovves ✠verse 32 * Euery one therfore that shal ″ confesse me before men I also vvil confesse him before my father vvhich is in heauen ✠verse 33 But
✠verse 9 And in vaine do they vvorshippe me teaching doctrines and ″ commaundements of men ✠verse 10 And hauing called together the multitudes vnto him he said to them Heare ye and vnderstand ✠verse 11 ″ Not that vvhich entreth into the mouth defileth a man but that vvhich procedeth out of the mouth that defileth a man ✠verse 12 Then came his Disciples and said to him Doest thou knovv that the Pharisees vvhen they heard this vvord vvere scandalized ✠verse 13 But he ansvvering sayd All planting vvhich my heauenly father hath not planted shal be rooted vp ✠verse 14 Let them alone blinde they are guides of the blinde And if the blinde be guide to the blinde both fall into the ditch ✠verse 15 And Peter ansvvering sayd to him Expound vs this parable ✠verse 16 But he sayd Are you also as yet vvithout vnderstanding ✠verse 17 Do you not vnderstand that al that entreth into the mouth goeth into the belly and is cast forth into the priuy ✠verse 18 But the things that proceede out of the mouth come forth from the hart and those things ″ defile a man ✠verse 19 For from the hart come forth euil cogitations murders aduoutries fornications thefts false testimonies blasphemies ✠verse 20 These are the things that defile a man but to eate vvith vnvvashen hands doeth not defile a man ⊢ ✠verse 21 And IESVS vvent forth from thence and retired into the quarters of Tyre and Sidon ✠verse 22 And behold * a vvoman of Chanaan came forth out of those coastes and crying out sayd to him Haue mercie vpon me O lord the Sonne of Dauid my daughter is sore vexed of a Deuil ✠verse 23 Who ansvvered her not a vvord And his Disciples came and besought him saying Dimisse her because she crieth out after vs ✠verse 24 And he ansvvering said I vvas not sent but to the sheepe that are lost of the house of Israel ✠verse 25 But she came and adored him saying Lord help me ✠verse 26 Who ansvvering said It is not good to take the bread of the Children and to cast it to the dogges ✠verse 27 But she said Yea lord for the vvhelpes also eate of the crummes that fal from the table of their maisters ✠verse 28 Then IESVS ansvvering said to her O vvoman great is thy faith be it done to thee as thou vvilt and her daughter vvas made hole from that houre ⊢ ✠verse 29 And vvhen IESVS vvas passed from thence he came beside the sea of Galilee and ascending into the mountaine sare there ✠verse 30 And there came to him great multitudes hauing vvith them dumme persons blinde lame feeble and many others and they cast them dovvne at his feete and he cured them ✠verse 31 so that the multitudes marueled seeing the dumme speake the lame vvalke the blinde see and they magnified the God of Israel ✠verse 32 And * IESVS called together his Disciples and said I pitie the multitude because three dayes novv they continue vvith me and haue not vvhat to eate and dimisse them fasting I vvil not lest they fainte in the vvay ✠verse 33 And the disciples say vnto him vvhence then may vve gette so many loaues in the desert as to fil so great a multitude ✠verse 34 And IESVS sayd to them Hovv many loaues haue you but they sayd Seuen a fevv litle fishes ✠verse 35 And he commaunded the multitude to sit dovvne vpon the ground ✠verse 36 And taking the seuen loaues the fishes and geuing thankes he brake gaue to his disciples and the disciples gaue to the people ✠verse 37 And they did al eate and had their fill And that vvhich vvas left of the fragments they tooke vp seuen baskets ful ✠verse 38 And there vvere that did eate foure thousand men beside children vvomen ✠verse 39 And hauing dimissed the multitude he vvent vp into a boate and came into the coastes of Magedan ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XV. 8. With their lippes This is to be vnderstood properly of such as haue euer God in their mouth the word of our Lord the Scriptures the Gospel but in their hart and al their life be in deede Godles It may be applied also to such as say their prayers without attention or eleuation of mind to God whether he vnderstand the prayers or no that saith them For many a poore Christian man that vnderstandeth not the wordes he speaketh hath his hart neerer heauen more seruor and deuotion more edification to him self more profite in spirit as the Apostle speaketh and lesse distractions then not only al Heretikes Which haue no true feeling of such things but then many learned Catholikes And therefore it is not to be vnderstood of praying in vnknowen tongues as Heretikes sometime expound it farre wide from the circumstance of the place and Christes intention speaking of the hypocritical Iewes 9. Commaundements of men Such only are here called traditions doctrines or commaundements of men which be either repugnant to Gods lawes as this of defrauding their parents vnder pretense of religion or which at the lest be friuolous vnprofitable and impertinent to pietle or true worshipe as that other sort of so often Washing hands and vessels without regard of inward puritie of hart and mind Let no man therefore be abused with the Protestants peruerse application of this place against the holy lawes canons and precepts of the Church and our spiritual Gouernours concerning fastes festiuities and other rules of discipline and due order in life and in the seruice of God For such are not repugnant but consonant to Gods word and al pietie and our Lord is truely honoured worshiped and serued both by the making and also by the obseruing of them * S. Paul gaue commaundements both by his epistles and by word of mouth euen in such matters wherein Christ had prescribed nothing at al and he chargeth the faithful to obserue the same The Apostles and Priests at Hierusalem made lawes and the Christians were bound to obey them The keeping of Sunday in steede of the Sabboth is the tradition of the Apostles and dare the Heretikes deny the due obsentation therof to be an acceptable worshipe of God They prescribed the Festes of Easter and whitsontide and other Solemnities of Christ and his Saincts which the Protestants them selues obserue They appointed the Lent and Imber fastes and other as wel to chastise the concupiscence of man as to serue and please God thereby as is plaine in the fasting of * Anna Tobie Iudith Esther who serued and pleased God thereby Therefore neither these nor other such Apostolike Ordinances nor any precepts of the holy Church or of our lawful Pastors are implied in these Pharisaical traditions here reprehended nor to be compted or called the doctrines and commaundements of men because they are not made by mere humane power
me meate thirstie and you gaue me drinke c. Therfore doeth Christ say here It is not mine to giue because he is lust and wil not giue it to euery man without respect of their deserts yea nor alike to euery one but diuersly according to greater or lesser merits as here S. Chryso maketh it plaine when our Sauiour telleth them that although they suffer martyrdom for his sake yet he hath not to giue them the two cheefe places See S. Hiero. Vpon this place and li. 2 adu Iouin c. 15. This also is a lesson for them that haue to bestow Ecclesiastical benefices that they haue no carnal respect to kinred c. but to the worthines of the persons 〈◊〉 As the sonne of man Christ him self as he was the Sonne of man was their and our Superiour and * Lord and Maister notwithstanding his humility and therfore it is pride and haultinesse which is forbidden and not Superiority or Lordship as some Heretikes would haue it CHAP. XXI Being now come to the place of his Passion he entereth with humility and triumph together 12 Sheweth his zeale for the house of God ioyned with great maruels 15 And to the Rulers he boldly defendeth the acclamations of the children 〈◊〉 He â—urseth also that fruitles leaâ—â—e tree 23 auoucheth his power by the witnes of Iohn 28 and foretelleth his in two parables their reprobation with the Gentils vocation for their wicked deserts 42 and consequently their irreparable damnation that shal ensue therof verse 1 AND vvhen they drevv nigh to Hierusalem and vvere come to Beth-phagee vnto Mount-oliuet then IESVS sent tvvo disciples ✠verse 2 saying to them Goe ye into the tovvne that is against you and immediatly ″ you shal finde an asse tied and a colt vvith her loose them bring them to me ✠verse 3 and if any man shal say ought vnto you say ye that our Lord hath neede of them and forthvvith he vvil let them goe ✠verse 4 And this vvas done that it might be fulfilled vvhich vvas spoken by the Prophet saying ✠verse 5 Say ye to the daughter of Sion Behold thy king commeth to thee meeke sitting vpon an asse and a colt the fole of her that is vsed to the yoke ✠verse 6 And the disciples going did as IESVS commaunded them ✠verse 7 And they brought ″ the asse and the colt and laide their garments vpon them and made him to sit thereon ✠verse 8 And a very great multitude spred their * garments in the vvay and others did cut boughes from the trees and stravved them in the vvay ✠verse 9 and the multitudes that vvent before and that folovved cried saying ″ Hosanna to the sonne of Dauid blessed is he that commeth in the name of our Lord. ⊢ Hosanna in the highest ✠verse 10 And vvhen he vvas entred Hierusalem the vvhole citie vvas moued saying who is this ✠verse 11 And the people said This is IESVS the Prophet of Nazareth in Galilee ✠verse 12 And * IESVS entred into the temple of God and cast out al that sold and bought in the temple and the tables of the bankers and the chaires of them that sold pigeons he ouerthrevve ✠verse 13 and he saith to them It is vvritten My house shal be called the ″ house of prayer but you haue made it a denne of theeues ✠And there came to him the blinde and the lame in the temple and he healed them ✠verse 15 And the cheefe priestes Scribes seeing the maruelous things that he did and the children crying in the temple saying Hosanna to the sonne of Dauid they had indignatioÌ„ ✠verse 16 and said to him Hearest thou vvhat these say And IESVS said to them Very vvel haue you neuer read That out of the ″ mouth of infants and sucklings thou hast perfited praise ✠verse 17 And leauing them he vvent forth out of the citie into Bethania and remained there ⊢ ✠verse 18 And in the morning returning into the citie he vvas an hungred ✠verse 19 * And seeing a certaine figtree by the vvay side he came to it and found nothing on it but leaues only and he saith to it Neuer grovv there fruite of thee for euer And incontinent the figtree vvas vvithered ✠verse 20 And the disciples seeing it marueled saying Hovv is it vvithered incontinent ✠verse 21 And IESVS ansvvering said to them Amen I say to you * if you shal haue faith and stagger not not only that of the figtree shal you doe but and if you shal say to this mountaine Take vp and throvv thy self into the sea it shal be done ✠verse 22 And al things vvhatsoeuer you shal aske in prayer ″ beleeuing you shal receiue ✠verse 23 And vvhen he vvas come into the temple there came to him as he vvas teaching the cheefe Priests and auncients of the people saying * ″ In vvhat povver doest thou these things and vvho hath giuen thee this povver ✠verse 24 IESVS ansvvering said to them I also vvil aske you one vvord vvhich if you shal tell me I also vvil tel you in vvhat povver I doe these things ✠verse 25 The Baptisme of Iohn vvhence vvas it from heauen or from men But they thought vvithin them selues saying ✠verse 26 If vve shal say from heauen he vvil say to vs vvhy then did you not beleeue him but if vve shal say from men vve feare the multitude for al hold Iohn as a Prophet ✠verse 27 And ansvvering to IESVS they said We knovv not He also said to them Neither do I tel you in vvhat povver I doe these things ✠verse 28 But vvhat is your opinion A certaine man had tvvo sonnes and comming to â— the first he said Sonne goe vvorke to day in my vineyard ✠verse 29 And he ansvvering said I vvil not But aftervvard moued vvith repentance he vvent ✠verse 30 And comming to the other he said likevvise And he ansvvering said I goe Lord and he vvent not ✠verse 31 Which of the tvvo did the fathers vvil They say to him The first IESVS saith to them AmeÌ„ I say to you that the Publicans and vvhoores goe before you into the kingdom of God ✠verse 32 For Iohn came to you in the vvay of iustice and you did not beleeue him but the publicans and vvhoores did beleeue him but you seeing it neither haue ye had repentance aftervvard to beleeue him ✠verse 33 An other parable heare ye A man there vvas an housholder vvho * planted a vineyard and made a hedge round about it and digged in it a presse and builded a tovvre and let it out to husbandmen and vvent forth into a strange countrie ✠verse 34 And vvhen the time of fruites drevve nigh he sent his seruants to the husbandmen to receiue the fruites
Israel ✠verse 10 and they gaue them into the potters field as our Lord did appoint to me ✠verse 11 And IESVS stoode before the President and the President asked him saying Art thou the King of the Ievves IESVS saith to him Thou sayest ✠verse 12 And vvhen he vvas accused of the cheefe Priestes and auncients he ansvvered nothing ✠verse 13 Then Pilate saith to him Doest thou not heare hovv many testimonies they alleage against thee ✠verse 14 And he ansvvered him not to any vvord so that the President did maruel excedingly ✠verse 15 And vpon the solemne day the President had accustomed to release vnto the people one prisoner vvhom they vvould ✠verse 16 And he had then a notorious prisoner that vvas called Barabbas ✠verse 17 They therfore being gathered together Pilate said whom vvil you that I release to you Barabbas or IESVS that is called Christ ✠verse 18 For he knevve that for enuie they had deliuered him ✠verse 19 And as he vvas sitting in place of iudgment his vvife sent vnto him saying Haue thou nothing to doe vvith that iust man for I haue suffered many things this day in my sleepe for him ✠verse 20 But the cheefe Priestes and auncients persuaded the people that they should aske Barabbas and make IESVS avvay ✠verse 21 And the President ansvvering said to them Whether vvil you of the tvvo to be released vnto you But they said Barabbas ✠verse 22 Pilate saith to them what shal I doe then vvith IESVS that is called Christ They say al Let him be crucified ✠verse 23 The President said to them why vvhat euil hath he done But they cried the more saying Let him be crucified ✠verse 24 And Pilate seeing that he nothing preuailed but rather tumult vvas tovvard taking vvater he vvashed his hands before the people saying I am ◠innocent of the bloud of this iust man looke you to it ✠verse 25 And the vvhole people ansvvering said His bloud be vpon vs and vpon our children ✠verse 26 Then he released to them Barabbas and hauing scourged IESVS deliuered him vnto them for to be crucified ✠verse 27 Then the Presidents souldiars taking IESVS into the Palace gathered together vnto him the vvhole band ✠verse 28 * and stripping him put a scarlet cloke about him ✠verse 29 and platting a crovvne of thornes put it vpon his head and a reede in his right hand And bovving the knee before him they mocked him saying Haile King of the Ievves ✠verse 30 And spitting vpon him they tooke the reede and smote his head ✠verse 31 And after they had mocked him they tooke of the cloke from him and put on him his ovvne garments and led him avvay to crucifie him ✠verse 32 And in going they found a man of Cyréne named Simon him they forced to take vp his crosse ✠verse 33 And they came into the place that is called Golgotha vvhich is the place of Caluarie ✠verse 34 And they gaue him vvine to drinke mingled vvith gall And vvhen he had tasted he vvould not drinke ✠verse 35 And after they had crucified him they deuided his garments casting lottes that it might be fulfilled vvhich vvas spoken by the Prophet saying They deuided my garments among them and vpon my vesture they did cast lottes ✠verse 36 And they sate and vvatched him ✠verse 37 And they put ouer his head his cause vvritten THIS IS IESVS THE KING OF THE IEWES ✠verse 38 Then vvere crucified vvith him tvvo theeues one on the right hand and one on the left ✠verse 39 And they that passed by blasphemed him vvagging their heades ✠verse 40 and saying Vah thou that destroyest the temple of God and in three daies doest reedifie it saue thine ovvne self ″ if thou be the sonne of God come dovvne from the Crosse ✠verse 41 In like maner also the cheefe Priestes With the Scribes and auncients mocking said ✠verse 42 He saued other him self he can not saue if he be the King of Israel let him novv come dovvne from the Crosse and vve vvil beleeue him ✠verse 43 * He trusted in God let him novv deliuer him if he vvill for he said That I am the sonne of God ✠verse 44 And the self same thing the theeues also that vvere crucified vvith him reproched him vvithal ✠verse 45 And from the sixt houre there vvas darkenesse made vpon the vvhole earth vntil the ninthe houre ✠verse 46 And about the ninthe houre IESVS cried vvith a mighty voice saying Eli Eli lamma-sabacthani that is My God my God ◠vvhy hast thou forsaken me ✠verse 47 And certaine that stoode there and heard said He calleth Elias ✠verse 48 And incontinent one of them running tooke a sponge filled it vvith vinegre and put it on a reede and gaue him to drinke ✠verse 49 And other said Let be let vs see vvhether Elias come to deliuer him ✠verse 50 And IESVS againe crying vvith a mighty voice yelded vp the ghost ✠verse 51 And be hold the vele of the temple vvas rent in tvvo peeces from the toppe euen to the botome and the earth did quake and the rockes vvere rent ✠verse 52 and the graues vvere opened and many bodies of the saincts that had slept rose ✠verse 53 And they going forth out of the graues after his resurrection came into the holy citie and appeared to many ✠verse 54 And the Centurion and they that vvere vvith him vvatching IESVS hauing seen the earth-quake and the things that vvere done vvere sore afraid saying In deede this vvas the sonne of God ✠verse 55 And there vvere there many vvomen a farre of vvhich had folovved IESVS from Galilee ministring vnto him ✠verse 56 among vvhom vvas Marie Magdalene and Marie the mother of Iames and Ioseph and the mother of the sonnes of Zebede◠✠verse 57 And vvhen it vvas euening there came a certaine rich man of Arimathaea named Ioseph vvho also him self was disciple to IESVS ✠verse 58 He vvent to Pilate and asked the body of IESVS Then Pilate commaunded that the body should be deliuered ✠verse 59 And Ioseph taking the body ″ vvrapt it in cleane sindon ✠verse 60 and laid it in his ovvne nevve monument vvhich he had hevved out in a rocke And he rolled a great stone to the doore of the monument and vvent his vvay ✠verse 61 And there was there Marie Magdalene and the other Marie sitting ouer against the sepulchre ✠verse 62 And the next day vvhich is after the Parasceue the cheefe Priestes and the Pharisees came together to Pilate ✠verse 63 saying Sir vve haue remembred that that seducer said yet liuing After three dayes I vvil rise againe ✠verse 64 Commaund therfore the sepulchre to be kept vntil the third day lest perhaps his Disciples come and steale him
dewe place How much lesse can he abide the profaning of Churches now with Heretical seruice and preaching of heresie and blasphemie 17. Dâ—nne of theeues If the Temple was then a denne of theeues because of profane and secular merchandise how much more now when the house appointed for the Holy Sacrifice and Sacrament of the Bodie of Christ is made a denne for the Ministers of Caluins bread CHAP. XII He foretelleth to the Iewes in a parable their reprobation most worthy and the vocation of the Church of the Gentils in their place 10 him self being the headstone thereof 13 He defeateth the snare of the Pharisees and Herodians about paying tribute to Casar 18 answereth also the inuention of the Sadducces against the Resurrection 28 also the opposition of a Scribe 35 And so hauing put al the busie sectes to silence he turneth and poseth them on the other side because they imagined Christ should be no more but a man 38 Bidding the people to beware of the Scribes being ambitious and hypocrites 41 He commendeth the poore widovv for her two mites aboue al. verse 1 AND he began to speake to them in parables A man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it and digged a trough and built a tovvre and let it out to husbandmen and vvent forth into a strange countrie ✠verse 2 And he sent to the husbandmen in season a seruant to receiue of the husbandmen of the fruite of the vineyard ✠verse 3 Vvho apprehending him bette him and sent him avvay emptie ✠verse 4 And againe he sent to them an other seruant and him they vvounded in the head and vsed him reprochefully ✠verse 5 And againe he sent an other and him they killed and many other beating certaine and killing others ✠verse 6 Therfore hauing yet one sonne most deere him also he sent vnto them last saying That they vvill reuerence my sonne ✠verse 7 But the husbandmen said one to an other This is the heier come let vs kill him and the inheritance shal be ours ✠verse 8 And apprehending him they killed him and cast him forth out of the vineyard ✠verse 9 What therfore vvil the lord of the vineyard doe He vvil come and destroy the husbandmen and vvil giue the vineyard to others ✠verse 10 Neither haue you read this scripture The stone vvhich the builders reiected the same is made the head of the corner ✠verse 11 By our Lord was this done and it is maruelous in our eies ✠verse 12 And they sought to lay hands on him and they feared the multitude for they knevv that he spake this parable to them And leauing him they vvent their vvay ✠verse 13 * And they send to him certaine of the Pharisees and of the Herodians that they should entrappe him in his vvord ✠verse 14 Vvho comming say to him Maister vve knovv that thou art a true speaker and carest not for any man for thou doest not looke vpon the person of men but teachest the vvay of God in truth is it lavvful to giue tribute to Caesar or shal vve not giue it ✠verse 15 Vvho knovving their subteltie said to them Vvhy tempt you me bring me a penie that I may see it ✠verse 16 But they brought it him And he saith to them Vvhose is this image and inscription They say to him Caesars ✠verse 17 And IESVS ansvvering said to them Render therfore the things that are Caesars to Caesar and that are Gods ″ to God And they marueled at him ✠verse 18 And * there came to him the Saducees that say there is no resurrection and they asked him saying Maister ✠verse 19 * Moyses vvrote vnto vs that if any mans brother die and leaue his vvife and leaue no children ″ his brother shal take his vvife and raise vp seede to his brother ✠verse 20 There vvere therfore seuen brethren and the first tooke a vvife and died leauing no issue ✠verse 21 And the second tooke her and died and neither this left issue And the third in like maner ✠verse 22 And the seuen tooke her in like sort and did not leaue issue Last of al the vvoman also died ✠verse 23 In the resurrection therfore vvhen they shal rise againe vvhose vvife shal she be of these for the seuen had her to vvife ✠verse 24 And IESVS ansvvering said to them Do ye not therfore erre ″ not knovving the scriptures nor ″ the povver of God ✠verse 25 For vvhen they shal rise againe from the dead they shal neither marrie noâ— be married but are as the Angels in heauen ✠verse 26 And as concerning the dead that they do rise againe haue you not read in the booke of Moyses hovv in the bush God spake to him saying I am the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Iacob ✠verse 27 He is not the God of the dead but of the liuing You therfore are much deceiued ✠verse 28 And * there came one of the Scribes that had heard them questioning and seeing that he had wel answered them asked him vvhich vvas the first coÌ„maundement of al. ✠verse 29 And IESVS ansvvered him That the first commaundement of al is Heare Israel the Lord thy God is one God ✠verse 30 And thou shalt loue the Lord thy God from thy vvhole hart and vvith thy vvhole soul and vvith thy vvhole minde and vvith thy vvhole povver This is the first commaundement ✠verse 31 And the second is like to it Thou shalt loue they neighbour as thy self An other commaundement greater then these there is not ✠verse 32 And the Scribe said to him Vvel Maister thou hast said in truth that there is one God and there is none other besides him ✠verse 33 And that he be loued from the vvhole hart and vvith the vvhole vnderstanding and vvith the vvhole soule and vvith the vvhole strength and to loue his neighbour as him self is a greater thing then al holocaustes and sacrifices ✠verse 34 And IESVS seeing that he had ansvvered vvisely said to him Thou art not farre from the kingdom of God And no man novv durst aske him ✠verse 35 And * IESVS ansvvering said teaching in the temple Hovv do the Scribes say that Christ is the sonne of Dauid ✠verse 36 For Dauid him self saith in the holy Ghost Our Lord said to my Lord sit on my right hand vntil I put thine enemies the foote-stoole of thy feete ✠verse 37 Dauid therfore him self calleth him Lord and vvhence is he his sonne And a great multitude heard him gladly ✠verse 38 And he said to them in his doctrine * Take heede of the Scribes that vvil vvalke in long robes and be saluted in the market-place ✠verse 39 and sit in the first chaites in the Synagogs and loue the highest
ynough S. Matthew addeth these wordes also of our Sauiour teaching them to obserue al things whatsoeuer I haue commaunded you which conteineth al good workes and the whole iustice of a Christian man 17. These signes shal folow It is not meant that al Christians or true beleeuers should doe miracles but that some for the proofe of the faith of al should haue that gift The which is the grace or gift of the whole Church executed by certaine for the edification and profite of the whole THE ARGVMENT OF S. LVKES GOSPEL S Lukes Gospel may be diuided into fiue partes The first part is of the Infancie both of the precursor and of Christ himselfe chap. 1 and 2. The second of the Preparation that vvas made to the manifestation of Christ chap. 3 and a piece of the 4. The third of Christes manifesting him selfe by preaching and miracles specially in Galilee the other piece of the 4 chap. vnto the middes of the 17. The fourth of his comming into Iurie tovvards his Passion the other piece of the 17 chap. vnto the middes of the 19. The fifth of the Holy weeke of his Passion in Hierusalem the other part of the 19 chap. vnto the end of the booke S. Luke vvas sectator saith S. Hierome that is a disciple of the Apostle Paul and a companion of 〈◊〉 his peregrination And the same vve see in the Actes of the Apostles Vvhere from the 16 chap. S. Luke putteth him selfe in the traine of S. Paul vvriting thus in the storie Forthwith we sought to goe into Macedonia and in like maner in the first person commonly through the rest of that booke Of him and his Gospel S. Hierom vnderstandeth this saying of S. Paul Vve haue sent with him the brother vvhose praise is in the Gospel through al Churches where also he addeth Some suppose so often as Paul in his Epistles saith According to my Gospel that he meaneth of Lukes booke And againe Luke learned the Gospel not onely of the Apostle Paul who had not been with our Lord in flesh but of the other Apostles which him selfe also in the beginning of his booke declareth saying As they deliuered to vs who them selues from the beginning saw and were ministers of the word It foloweth in S. Hierome Therfore he wrote the Gospel as he had heard but the Actes of the Apostles he compiled as he had seen S. Paul vvriteth of him by name to the Colossians Luke the Physicion saluteth you and to Timothee Luke alone is with me Finally of his end thus doth S. Hierome vvrite He liued fourescore and foure yeres hauing no wife He is buried at Constantinople to vvhich citie his bones vvith the Relikes of Andrew the Apostle were translated out of Achaia the twentith yere of Constantinus And of the same Translation also in another place against Vigilantius the Heretike It grieueth him that the Relikes of the Martyrs are couered with pretious couerings and that they are not either tied in cloutes or throwen to the dunghil why are we then * sacrilegious when we enter the Churches of the Apostles Was Constantinus ' the Emperour sacrilegious who translated to Constantinople the holy Relikes of Andrew Luke and Timothee at which the Diuels rore and the inhabiters of Vigilantius confesse that they feele their presence His sacred body is novv as Padua in Italie Vvither it vvas againe translated from Constantinople THE HOLY GOSPEL OF IESVS CHRIST ACCORDING TO LVKE CHAP. I. The Annunciation and Conception first of the Precursor 26 and sixe moneths after of Christ also him self 39 The Visitation of our Ladie vvhere both the mothers do Prophecie 5â— The Natiuitie and Circuâ—cision of the Precursor vvhere his father doth prophecie 80 The Precursor is from a childe an Eremite verse 1 BECAVSE many haue gone about to compile a narration of the things that haue been accomplished among vs ✠verse 2 according as they haue deliuered vnto vs vvho from the beginning them selues savv and vvere ministers of the vvord ✠verse 3 it seemed good also vnto me ″ hauing diligently atteined to al things from the beginning to vvrite to thee in order good * Theophilus ✠verse 4 that thou maist knovv the veritie of those vvordes vvhere of thou hast been instructed ✠verse 5 There vvas in the daies of Herod the king of Ievvrie a certaine Priest named Zacharie of the * course of Abia and his vvife of the daughters of Aaron and her name Elizabeth ✠verse 6 And they vvere both ″ iust before God vvalking ″ in al the commaundements ″ and iustifications of our Lord vvithout blame ✠verse 7 and they had no sonne for that Elizabeth vvas barren and both vvere vvel striken in their daies ✠verse 8 And it came to passe vvhen he executed the priestly function in the order of his course before God ✠verse 9 according to the custome of the Priestly function he vvent forth by lot * to offer incense entring into the temple of our Lord ✠verse 10 and * al the multitude of the people vvas praying vvithout at the houre of the incense ✠verse 11 And there appeared to him an Angel of our Lord standing on the right hand of the altar of incense ✠verse 12 And Zacharie vvas troubled seeing him and feare fel vpon him ✠verse 13 But the Angel said to him Feare not Zacharie for thy praier is heard and thy vvife Elizabeth shal beare thee a sonne and thou shalt cal his name Iohn ✠verse 14 and thou shalt haue ″ ioy and exultation and many shal reioyce in his natiuitie ✠verse 15 for he shal be great before our Lord and vvine and sicer he shal not drinke and he shal be replenished vvith the Holy Ghost euen from his mothers vvombe ✠verse 16 and he shal * conuert many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God ✠verse 17 and he shal goe before him * in the spirit and vertue of Elias that he may conuert the hartes of the fathers vnto the children and the incredulous to the vvisedom of the iust to prepare vnto the Lord a perfect people ⊢ ✠verse 18 And Zacharie said to the Angel Vvhereby shal I knovv this for I am old and my vvife is vvel striken in her daies ✠verse 19 And the Angel ansvvering said to him I am Gabriel that assist before God and am sent to speake to thee and to euangelize these things to thee ✠verse 20 And behold thou shalt be dumme and shalt not be able to speake vntil the day vvherein these things shal be done for-because thou hast not beleeued my vvordes vvhich shal be fulfilled in their time ✠verse 21 And the people vvas expecting Zacharie and they marueled that he made tariance in the temple ✠verse 22 And comming forth he could not speake to them and they knevv that he had seen a
and grace that ensued by CHRIST IESVS Note also that as then in Circuncision so novv in Baptisme vvhich ansvvereth therevnto names are giuen And as vve see here and in al the old Testament great respect was had of names so we must beware of strange profane and secular names now a daies to common and rather according to the * Catechisme of the holy Councel of Trent take names of Saincts and holy men that may put vs in minde of their vertues 75. Iustice before him Here also we see that we may haue true iustice not only in the sight of men or by the imputation of God but in deede before him and in his sight and that the comming of Christ vvas to giue men such iustice 78. The orient Maruel not if Heretikes controule the old authentical translation as though it differed froÌ„ the greeke vvhereas here they make much a doe to coÌ„troule not only al the greeke interpreters of the old testament but also S. Luke him self for the vvord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as differing from the Hebrevv CHAP. II. The Natiuitie of Christ 8 and manifestation thereof to the Shepheards by an Angel and by them to others 21 His Circuncision 22 His Presentation together with Simeons as also Annes attestation and prophecying of his Passion of the Iewes reprobation and of the Gentils illumination 41 His annual ascending to Hierusalem with his parents to whom he was subiect and his fulnes of wisedom shewed among the Doctors at twelue yeres of his age verse 1 AND it came to passe in those daies there came forth an edict from Caesar Augustus that the vvhole vvorld should be enrolled ✠verse 2 This first enrolling vvas made by the President of Syria Cyrinus ✠verse 3 And al vvent to be enrolled euery one into his ovvne citie ✠verse 4 And Ioseph also vvent vp from Galilee out of the citie of Nazareth into Ievvrie to the citie of Dauid that is called Bethâ—lehem for-because he vvas of the house and familie of Dauid ✠verse 5 to be enrolled vvith MARIE his despoused vvife that vvas vvith childe ✠verse 6 And it came to passe vvhen they vvere there her daies vvere fully come that she should be deliuered ✠verse 7 And she brought forth her first begotten sonne and svvadled him in clothes and laid him dovvne in a manger because there vvas not place for them in the inne ✠verse 8 And there vvere in the same countrie shepheards vvatching and keeping the night vvatches ouer their flocke ✠verse 9 And behold an Angel of our Lord stood beside them and the brightnes of God did shine round about them and they feared vvith a great feare ✠verse 10 And the angel said to them Feare not for behold I euangelize to you great ioy that shal be to al the people ✠verse 11 because this day is borne to you a SAVIOVR vvhich is Christ our Lord in the citie of Dauid ✠verse 12 And this shal be a signe to you You shal finde the infant svvadled in clothes and laid in a manger ✠verse 13 And sodenly there vvas vvith the Angel a multitude of the heauenly armie praising God and saying ✠verse 14 Glorie in the highest to God and in earth peace to â—men of good vvil ⊢ ✠verse 15 And it came to passe after the Angels departed from them into heauen the shepheards spake one to an other Let vs goe ouer to Bethlehem and let vs see this vvord that is done vvhich our Lord hath shevved to vs. ✠verse 16 And they came vvith speede and they found MARIE and Ioseph and the infant laid in the manger ✠verse 17 And seeing it they vnderstood of the vvord that had been spoken to them concerning this childe ✠verse 18 And al that heard did maruel and concerning those things that vvere reported to them by the shepheards ✠verse 19 But MARIE ″ kept al these vvordes conferring them in her hart ✠verse 20 And the shepheards returned glorifying and praysing God in al things that they had heard and seen as it vvas said to them ⊢ ✠verse 21 And * after eight daies vvere expired that the childe should be circuncised his name vvas called IESVS vvhich vvas * called by the Angel before that he vvas conceiued in the vvombe ⊢ ✠verse 22 And after the daies vvere fully ended of her purification * according to the lavv of Moyses they caried him into Hierusalem to present him to our Lord ✠verse 23 as it is vvritten in the lavv of our Lord That euery male opening the matrice shal be called holy to the Lord. ✠verse 24 and to giue a sacrifice * according as it is vvritten in the lavv of our Lord a paire of turtles or tvvo yong pigeons ✠verse 25 And behold there vvas a man in Hierusalem named Simeon and this man vvas iust and religious expecting the consolation of Israel and the Holy Ghost vvas in him ✠verse 26 And he had receiued an ansvver of the Holy Ghost that he should not see death vnles he savv first the CHRIST of our Lord. ✠verse 27 And he came in spirit into the temple And vvhen his parents brought in the childe IESVS to doe according to the custome of the Lavv for him ✠verse 28 he also tooke him into his armes and blessed God and said ✠verse 29 NOW THOV doest dimisse thy seruant O Lord according to thy vvord in peace ✠verse 30 Because mine eies haue seen thy SALVATION ✠verse 31 Vvhich thou hast prepared before the face of al peoples ✠verse 32 A light to the reuelation of the Gentils and the glorie of thy people Israel ⊢ ✠verse 33 And his father and mother vvere marueling vpon those things vvhich vvere spoken concerning him ✠verse 34 And Simeon blessed them and said to MARIE his mother Behold this is set ″ vnto the ruine and vnto the resurrection of many in Israel and for a signe vvhich shal be contradicted ✠verse 35 and thine ovvne soule shal a svvord pearce that out of many hartes cogitations may be reuealed ✠verse 36 And there vvas Anne a prophetisse the daughter of Phanuel of the tribe of Aser she vvas farre striken in daies and had liued vvith her husband seuen yeres from her virginitie ✠verse 37 And she vvas ″ a vvidovv vntil eightie and foure yeres vvho departed not from the temple ″ by fastings and praiers seruing night and day ✠verse 38 And she at the same houre sodenly comming in confessed to our Lord and spake of him to al that expected the redemption of Israel ✠verse 39 And after they had vvholy done al things according to the lavv of our Lord they returned into Galilee into their citie Nazareth ✠verse 40 And the childe grevv and vvaxed strong ' ful of vvisedom and the grace of God vvas in him âœ
to them ✠verse 5 And they vvere glad and bargained to giue him money ✠verse 6 And he promised And he sought opportunitie to betray him apart from the multitudes ✠verse 7 * And the day of the Azymes came vvherein it vvas necessarie that the Pasche should be killed ✠verse 8 And he sent Peter and Iohn saying Goe and prepare vs the Pasche that vve may eate ✠verse 9 But they said Vvhere vvilt thou that vve prepare it ✠verse 10 And he said to them Behold as you enter into the citie there shal meete you a man carying a pitcher of vvater folovv him into the house into vvhich he entreth ✠verse 11 and you shal say to the good manof the house The Maister saith to thee Vvhere is the inne vvhere I may eate the Pasche vvith my Disciples ✠verse 12 And he vvil shevv you a great refectorie adorned and there prepare ✠verse 13 And they going found as he said to them and prepared the Pasche ✠verse 14 And vvhen the houre vvas come he sate dovvne and the tvvelue Apostles vvith him ✠verse 15 And he said to them ″ Vvith desire I haue desired to eate this Pasche vvith you before I suffer ✠verse 16 For I say to you that from this time I vvil not eate it til it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God ✠verse 17 And ″ taking the chalice he gaue thankes and said Take and deuide among you ✠verse 18 for I say to you That I vvil not drinke of the generation of the vine til the kingdom of God doe come ✠verse 19 * And taking bread he gaue thankes and brake and gaue to them saying ″ THIS IS MY BODY ″ VVHICH IS GIVEN FOR YOV ″ Doe this ″ for a commemoration of me ✠verse 20 In like maner the chalice also after he had supped saying THIS IS THE CHALICE ″ THE NEVV TESTAMENT IN MY BLOVD ″ VVHICH SHAL BE SHED FOR YOV ✠verse 21 * But yet behold the hand of him that betraieth me is vvith me on the table ✠verse 22 And the Sonne of man in deede goeth according to that vvhich is determined but yet vvo to that man by vvhom he shal be betrayed ✠verse 23 And they began to question among them selues vvhich of them it should be that should doe this ✠verse 24 * And there fel also a cōtention betvvene them vvhich of them seemed to be greater ✠verse 25 And he said to them The kinges of the Gentiles ouerrule them and they that haue povver vpon them are called beneficial ✠verse 26 But you not so but he that is the greater among you let him become as the yonger he that is the leader as the waiter ✠verse 27 For which is greater he that sitteth at the table or he that ministreth is not he that sitteth but I am in the middes of you as he that ministreth ✠verse 28 you are they that haue remained vvith me in my tētations ✠verse 29 And I dispose to you as my father disposed to me a kingdō ✠verse 30 that you may eate drinke vpon my table in my kingdom may sit vpon thrones iudging the tvvelue tribes of Israel ✠verse 31 And our Lord said ″ Simon Simon behold Satan hath required to haue you for to sift as vvheate ✠verse 32 BVT I HAVE PRAIED FOR THEE that thy faith faile not and thou once conuerted confirme thy brethren ✠verse 33 Vvho said to him Lord vvith thee I am readie to goe both into prison and vnto death ✠verse 34 And he said * I say to thee Peter the cocke shal not crovv to day til thou denie thrise that thou knovvest me ✠verse 35 And he said to them Vvhen I sent you * vvithout purse and skrippe and shoes did you lacke any thing But they said Nothing ✠verse 36 He said therfore vnto them But novv he that hath a purse let him take it likevvise also a skrippe and he that hath not let him sel his coate and bie a svvord ✠verse 37 For I say to you that yet this that is vvritten must be fulfilled in me And vvith the vvicked vvas he reputed For those things that are concerning me haue an end ✠verse 38 But they said Lord Loe tvvo svvordes here But he said to them It is ynough ✠verse 39 * And going forth he vvent according to his custome into mount-Oliuet And his Disciples also folovved him ✠verse 40 And vvhen he vvas come to the place he said to them Pray lest ye enter into tentation ✠verse 41 And he vvas pulled avvay from them a stones cast and kneeling he praied ✠verse 42 saying Father if thou vvilt transferre this chalice from me But yet not my vvil but thine be done ✠verse 43 And there appeared to him an Angel from heauen strengthening him And being in an agonie he praied the longer ✠verse 44 And his svveat became as droppes of bloud trikling dovvne vpon the earth ✠verse 45 And vvhen he vvas risen vp from praier and vvas come to his Disciples he found them sleeping for pensifenes ✠verse 46 And he said to them Vvhy sleepe you arise pray lest you enter into tentation ✠verse 47 As he vvas yet speaking behold a multitude and he that vvas called Iudas one of the Tvvelue vvent before them and approched to IESVS for to kisse him ✠verse 48 And IESVS said to him Iudas with a kisse doest thou betray the sonne of man ✠verse 49 And they that vvere about him seeing vvhat vvould be said to him Lord Shal vve strike vvith the svvord ✠verse 50 And one of them smote the seruant of the high Priest and cut of his right eare ✠verse 51 But IESVS ansvvering said Suffer ye thus farre And vvhen he had touched his eare he healed him ✠verse 52 And IESVS said to them that vvere come vnto him the cheefe Priests and magistrates of the temple and auncients As it vvere to a theefe are you come forth vvith svvordes and clubbes ✠verse 53 Vvhen I vvas daily vvith you in the temple you did not lay handes vpon me but this is your houre and the povver of darkenesse ✠verse 54 And apprehending him they led him to the high Priests house but Peter folovved a farre of ✠verse 55 And a fire being kindled in the middes of the court they sitting about it Peter vvas in the middes of them ✠verse 56 Vvhom vvhen a certaine vvenche savv sitting at the light and had beheld him she said This fellovv also vvas vvith him ✠verse 57 But he denied him saying Vvoman I knovv him not ✠verse 58 And after a vvhile an other man seeing him said And thou art of them But Peter said O man I am not ✠verse 59 And after the space as it vvere of one houre a certaine other man affirmed
testament and the lavv giuing and the seruice and the promisses ✠verse 5 vvhose are the fathers of vvhom Christ is according to the flesh vvho is aboue al things God blessed for euer Amen ✠verse 6 But not that the vvord of God is frustrate For ″ not al that are of Israël they be Israëlites ✠verse 7 nor they that are the seede of AbrahaÌ„ al be children ″ but in Isaac shal the seede be called vnto thee ✠verse 8 that is to say not they that are the childreÌ„ of the flesh they are the children of God but they that are the childreÌ„ of the promisse are esteemed for the seede ✠verse 9 For the vvord of the promisse is this According to this time vvil I come and Sarae shal haue a sonne ✠verse 10 And not only she But * Rebecca also conceiuing ″ of one copulation of Isaac our father ✠verse 11 For vvhen they vvere ″ not yet borne nor had done any good or euil that the purpose of God according to election might stand ✠verse 12 not of vvorkes but of the caller it vvas said to her That the elder shal serue the yonger ✠verse 13 as it is vvritten Iacob I loued but Esau I hated ✠verse 14 Vvhat shal vve say then ″ Is there iniquitie vvith God God forbid ✠verse 15 For to Moyses he saith I vvil haue mercie on vvhom I haue mercie and I vvil shevv mercie to vvhom I vvil shevv mercie ✠verse 16 Therfore it is ″ not of the vviller nor the runner but of God that shevveth mercie ✠verse 17 For the Scripture saith to Pharao That ″ to this very purpose haue I raised thee that in thee I may shevv my povver and that my name may be venovvmed in the vvhole earth ✠verse 18 Therfore on vvhom he vvil he hath mercie and vvhom he vvil he doth indurate ✠verse 19 Thou saiest therfore vnto me Vvhy doth he yet complaine for vvho resisteth his vvil ✠verse 20 O man ″ vvho art thou that doest ansvver God Doth the vvorke say to him that vvrought it Vvhy hast thou made me thus ✠verse 21 Or hath not ″ the potter of clay povver of the same masse to make one vessel vnto honour and an other vnto coÌ„tumelie ✠verse 22 And if God vvilling to shevv vvrath and to make his might knovven susteined in much patience the vessels of vvrath apte to destruction ✠verse 23 that he might shevv the riches of his glorie vpon the vessels of mercie vvhich he prepared vnto glorie ✠verse 24 Vvhom also he hath called vs not only of the Ievves but also of the Gentiles ✠verse 25 as in Osee he saith I vvil call that vvhich is not my people my people and her that vvas not beloued beloued and her that hath not obteined mercie hauing obteined mercie ✠verse 26 And it shal be in the place vvhere it vvas said to them you are not my people there they shal be called the sonnes of the liuing God ✠verse 27 And Esaie crieth for Israel If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea the remaines shal be saued ✠verse 28 For consummating a vvord and abridging it in equitie because a vvord abbridged shal our Lord make vpon the earth ✠verse 29 And as Esay foretold Vnles the Lord of Sabaoth had left vs seede vve had been made like Sodom and vve had been like as Gomorrha ✠verse 30 What shal vve say then That the Gentiles vvhich pursued not after iustice haue apprehended iustice but the iustice that is of faith ✠verse 31 But Israel in pursuing the lavv of iustice is not come vnto the lavv of iustice ✠verse 32 Vvhy so Because not of faith but as it vvere of vvorkes for they haue stombled at the stone of stombling ✠verse 33 as it is vvritten Behold I put in Sion a stone of stombling and a rocke of scandal and vvhosoeuer beleeueth in him shal not be confounded ANNOTATIONS CHAP. IX â— Anáthema Anáthema by vse of Scripture is either that vvhich by separation from profane vse and by dedication to God is holy dreadful and not vulgarly to be touched or contrarievvise that which is reiected seuered or abandoned from God as cursed and detested and therfore is to be auoided And in this later sense according as S. Paul taketh it 1 Cor. 16. If any loue not our Lord IESVS CHRIST be he Anathema that is to say Avvay vvith him Accursed be he Bevvare you company not vvith him the Church and holy Councels vse the vvord for a curse and excommunication against Heretikes and other notorious offenders and blasphemers Novv hovv the Apostle vvishing him self to be Anathema from Christ to saue his Countrie mens soules did take this vvord it is a very hard thing to determine Some thinke he desired onely to die for their saluation Others that being very loth to be kept from the fruition of Christ yet he could be conâ—ent to be so still for to saue their soules Others that he vvished vvhat inalediction or separation from Christ so euer that did not imply the disfauour of God tovvards him nor take avvay his loue tovvard God This only is certaine that it is a point of vnspeakable charitie in the Apostles breast and a paterne to al Bishops and Priests hovv to loue the saluation of their flocke As the like vvas vttered by Moyses vvhen he said Either forgiue this people or blot me out of thy booke 6. Not al of Israel Though the people of the Ievves vvere many vvaies honoured and priuiledged and namely by Christes taking flesh of them yet the promis of grace and saluation vvas neither onely made to them nor to al them that carnally came of them or their fathers Gods election and mercie depending vpon his ovvne purpose vvil and determination and not tied to any nation familie or person 7. But in Isaac The promisse made to Abraham vvas not in Ismael vvho vvas a sonne borne onely by flesh and nature but in Isaac vvho vvas a sonne obtained by promisse faith and miracle and vvas a figure of the Churches children borne to God in Baptisme 10. Of one copulation It is proued also by Gods choosing of Iacob before Esau vvho vvere not onely brethren by father and mother but also tvvinnes and Esau the elder of the tvvo vvhich according to carnal count should haue had the preeminence that God in giuing graces folovveth not the temporal or carnal prerogatiues of men or families 11. Not yet borne By the same example of those tvvinnes it is euident also that neither nations nor particular persons be elected eternally or called temporally or preferred to Gods fauour before others by their ovvne merites because God vvhen he made choise and first loued Iacob and refused Esau respected them both as il and
the sacrifice of Christes body and bloud and al the sacraments and graces giuen by the same is named the Nevv mandatum for vvhich our forefathers called the Thursday in the holy vveke Maundy thursday because that in it the new law and Testament was dedicated in the Chalice of his bloud the old mandatum law Priesthod and sacrifices for that they vvere insufficient and vnperfect being taken avvay and this new sacrifice after the order of Melchisedec giuen in the place thereof 19. The introduction Euer obserue that the abrogation of the old law is not an abolishing of al Priesthod of al Priesthod but an introductiō of a new conteining the hope of eternal things vvhere the old had but temporal 21. With an othe This othe signifieth the infallible and absolute promis of the eternitie of the new Priesthod and state of the Church Christ by his death and bloud shed in the sacrifice of the Crosse confirming it sealing it and making him self the surety and pledge therof For though the new Testament vvas instituted giuen and dedicated in the Supper yet the vvarrant confirmation and eternal operation therof vvas atchieued vpon the Crosse in the one oblation and one general and euer lasting redemption there made 23. Being many The Protestants not vnderstanding this place feine very folishly that the Apostle should make this difference betvvixt the old state and the new that in the old there were many Priests in the new none at all but Christ Which is against the Prophet Esay specially prophecying of the Priests of the new Testament as S. Hierom declareth vpon the same place in these vvordes You shal be called the Priests of God the ministers of our God shal it be said to your it taketh away al visible Priesthod consequently the lawful state that the Church and Gods people haue in earth vvith al Sacraments and external vvorship The Apostle then meaneth first that the absolute sacrifice of cōsummation perfection and vniuersal redemption vvas but one once done and by one onely Priest done and therfore it could not be any of the sacrifices or al the sacrifices of the Iewes law or vvrought by any or by all of them because they vvere a number at once and succeding one an other euery of their offices and functions ending by their death and could not vvorke such an eternal redemption as by Christ onely vvas vvrought vpon the Crosse Secondly S. Paul insinuateth therevpon that Christ neuer loseth the dignitie or practise of his eternal Priesthod by death nor othervvise neuer yeldeth it vp to any neuer hath successors after him that may enter into his roome or right of Priesthod as Aaron and al other had in the Leuitical Priesthod but that him self vvorketh and concurreth vvith his ministers the Priests of the new Testament in al their actes of Priesthod as vvel of sacrifice as Sacrament blessing preaching praying and the like vvhat so euer This therfore vvas the fault of the Hebrues that they did not acknowledge their Leuitical sacrifices and Priesthod to be reformed and perfited by Christes sacrifice on the Crosse and against them the Apostle onely disputeth and not against our Priests of holy Church or the number of them vvho al confesse their Priesthod and al exercises of the same to depend vpon Christes onely perpetual Priesthod 27. This did he once This is the special preeminence of Christ that the offereth for other mens sinnes onely hauing none of his owne to offer for as al other Priests both of the old and new law haue And this againe is the special dignitie of his owne person not communicable to any other of vvhat order of Priesthod so euer that he by his death which is the onely oblation that is by the Apostle declared to be irreiterable in it self paied the one full sufficient ransom for the redemption of all sinnes CHAP. VIII Out of the same Psalme 109 he vrgeth this also Sit thou on my right hand shevving that the Leuitical tabernacle on earth vvas but a shadovv of his true Tabernacle in heauen vvithout vvhich he should not be a Priest at all 6 Vvhereas he is of a better Priesthod the◠they as also he proueth by the excellencie of the nevv Testament aboue the old verse 1 BVT the summe concerning those things vvhich be said is Vve haue such an high priest vvho is sette on the right hand of the seate of maiestie in the heauens ✠verse 2 a minister of the holies and of the true tabernacle vvhich our Lord pight not man ✠verse 3 For euery high priest is appointed to offer giftes and hostes vvherfore it is ″ necessarie that he also haue some thing that he may offer ✠verse 4 ″ if then he vvere vpon the earth neither vvere he a priest vvhereas there vvere that did offer giftes according to the Lavv ✠verse 5 that serue the exampler shadow of ″ heauenly things As it vvas ansvvered Moyses vvhen he finished the tabernacle * See quod he that thou make al things according to the exampler vvhich vvas shevved thee in the mount ✠verse 6 But novv he hath obtained a better ministerie by so much as he is mediatour of a better testament vvhich is established in better promises ✠verse 7 For if that former had been void of fault there should not certes a place of a secōd been sought ✠verse 8 For blaming them he saith Behold the daies shal come saith our Lord and I vvil consummate vpon the house of Israel and vpon the house of Iuda a nevv Testament ✠verse 9 not according to the testament vvhich I made to their fathers in the day that I tooke their hand to bring them out of the land of Aegypt because they did not continue in my testament and I neglected them saith our Lord. ✠verse 10 For this is the testament vvhich I vvil dispose to the house of Israel after those daies saith our Lord Giuing my lavves ″ into their minde in their hart vvil I superscribe them and I vvil be ″ their God and they shal be my people ✠verse 11 and eueryone ″ shall not teach his neighbour and euery one his brother saying Knovv our Lord because al shal knovv me from the lesser to the greater of them ✠verse 12 because I wil be merciful to their iniquities their sinnes I wil not now remember ✠verse 13 And in saying a nevv the former he hath made old And that vvhich grovveth auncient and vvaxeth old is nigh to vtter decay ANNOTATIONS CHAP. VIII 3. Necessarie that he also Euen now being in heauen because he is a Bishop and Priest he must needes haue somewhat to offer and vvherein to do sacrifice and that not in spiritual sort onely for that could not make him a Priest of any certaine order And it is most false and vvicked to hold vvith the Caluinistes that Melchisedecks Priesthod