they can not erre How Christendome hath bene replenished by them with sectes he that vnderstandeth knoweth the swarmes the number the diuersitie of Monkes Friers Nunnes Eremites Iesuits and such like can not doubt And for blasheming which is the sixt he that hath read of the Popes spéech that he called the Gospel the fable or tale of Christ can not doubt but that this note also is verified of your holie father now acquite your selues well and shewe vs some good defence of your popes against these properties 2. Pet. 2. 12. The text But these men as vnreasonable beastes naturallie tending to the snare and into destruction ⸫ in those things which they know not blaspheming shall perish in their corruption The note So heretikes blaspheme the highest misteries of our faith through ignorance The answer If a man should go about to recken vp the bold blasphemies of your popish heretikes against Christ him selfe and his holie word the day would sooner faile him then matter But no maruell when your great challenging champions can make them selues good sport and pastime of the greatest and most reuerend mysteries of our religion 2. Pet. 2. 18. The text For speaking the proud things of vanitie they allure in the desires of fleshlie riotousnesse those that escape a little which conuerse in error ⸫ promising them libertie whereas them selues are the slaues of corruption The note Who euer promised more libertie to their followers then Luther and Caluin and the like taking away penance fasting continenâ—ie or chastitie keeping of vowes necessitie of good workes because faith doeth all obedience to Ecclesiasticall pastors and Councels and such like The answer You are nothing ashamed of lieng These things which you set downe of Caluine and Luther are starke lies which you shall neuer be able to iustifie But you haue set open the flood gates to sinne by promising manie daies of pardon to the saieng of a set number of praiers and such like 1. IOHN 1. Iohn 2. 16. The text Because all that is in the world is the concupiscence of the flesh and the concupiscence of the eies and the pride of life which is not of the Father but is of the world The note How all sinne and temptation proceede of these three see Saint Thomas Summ. 1. 2. quaest 77. arti 5. The answer Your labours I perceiue are bestowed vpon them that least néede them that is vpon the learned for I do not suppose you to be such fooles as to send the vnlearned multitude to search in the doctors and schoolemen 〈◊〉 2. 19. The text They went out from vs but ⸫ they were not of vs for if they had bene of vs they would surelie haue remained with vs. The note They were of vs for a time that is of and in the church otherwise they could not haue gone out but they were not of the constant sort or of the elect and predestinate for then they had taried within or returned before their death The answer You dare conclude contrarie to the Apostle he saith they were not of vs you say they were of vs otherwise they could not haue gone out and therefore I can not maruell that you are so bold with vs. The societie and companie of men whom we call the church do nurse as it were in their bosome manie hipocrites and enemies to Christ which in time shew them selues who though they go out from the church yet in trueth were neuer of the church for if they had bene of the church truelie then at the least they shuld not haue seuered them selues from the church at their end for none are truelie of the Church but those whom God hath elected and chosen â— Iohn 1. 24. The text You that which you haue ⸫ heard from the beginning let it abide in you The note Keepe that firmly and constantly which you heard euen from the beginning by the mouth of the Apostles and not that which you haue receiued by writing The answer If the apostles taught one thing by mouth and another thing by writing then your note hath some reason in it I would faine see some papists collect this vnwritten doctrin and then shew vs how we may be assured that they had it from the apostles For the things that haue béene heretofore forged vnder the apostles names the papists themselues do not obserue the tenth part of them In the meane space they shall giue vs leaue to beléeue that the apostles whole doctrine is conteined in the Canonicall Scriptures 1. Iohn 2. 29. The text If you know that he is iust know yee that euery one also ⸫ which doth iustice is borne of him The note Wee see that that it is an apostolical doctrine that men may do or work iustice and that so dooing they be iust by works proceeding of Gods grace and not by faith or imputation onely The answer We sée indéed that it is an apostolical doctrin that a man may do or worke iustice and farther that that doing and working is an assured testimonie that we are regenerate and borne of God But that by so doing we are made iust or iustified afore God that is your owne addition without warrant of this text or anie other For though whomsoeuer God hath sanctified him also he hath iustified yet regeneration and sanctification whereof the apostle speaketh here are things distinct from iustification wherof he speaketh not here And bicause iustice is a word of generall signification and somtimes spoken of iustification that is of that righteousnes whereby we are made iust and sometime as here of sanctification that is of that righteousnes whereby we are declared to be iust this ambiguitie serueth your humor to dallie and deceiue withall 1. Iohn 3. 1. The text See what maner of charitie the father hath giuen vs that we should be named and be ⸫ the sonnes of God The note Not by nature as Christ but by grace and adoption The answer And can we be both named and be the sonnes of God and yet doubt of our saluation Were not that to doubt either of the power or goodnes of our father Why are you then the doctors of doubtfulnes 1. Iohn 3. 2. The text We know that when he shall appeere we shall be like to him bicause we shall ⸫ see him as he is The note How we shall see God and be like to him in the next life See S. Aug. ep 111. 112. de Ciuitate dei lib. 12. cap. 29. The answer It is well that you affoord vs so good a schoolemaster but how shall they do that either vnderstand not the latin toong or are not able to buy the fathers It is manifest that your meaning is not to helpe the poorer and more ignorant sort 1. Iohn 3. 3. The text And euery one that hath this hope in him ⸫ sanctifieth himselfe as he also is holie The note This teacheth vs that man sanctifieth himselfe by his free wil working togither with Gods grace
commonlie of vncircumcised nations were vncleane as also they estéemed of the vncircumcised persons them selues Rom. 14. 14. The text But to him that supposeth anie thing to be common to him it is common The note Though he wish the weake to be borne withall yet he vttereth his minde plainlie that in deed all the meates forbidden and vncleane in the law are now through Christ clensed and lawfull for euery man to vse The answer As Paul was plaine in deliuering his doctrine concerning daies and meats so the papists doctrine thereof is obscure darke and doubtfull so that the greatest number of their simple followers haue their consciences snarled and intangled in daies and meates and know not the indifferencie of them Rom. 15. 4. The text For ⸫ what things soeuer haue bene written to our learning they are written that by patience and consolation of the scriptures we may haue hope The note He meaneth all that is written in the old Testament much more all things written in the new Testament are for our learning and comfort The answer If both the Scriptures of the old new Testament be written for our learning what meaneth the church of Rome neither to prouide teachers in number sufficient nor yet to suffer the people to reade them in a language that they may vnderstand is it not bicause you are content to haue men nusseled in ignorance and so spoiled of the comfort which God hath prouided for them I thinke pope Paul and you be of one iudgement Rom. 15. ◠The text And the God of patience and of comfort giue you to be of one mind one toward another according to Iesus Christ that of ⸫ one minde with one mouth you may glorifie God and the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ. The note Vnitie in religion commended The answer Popish vnitie consisteth in this that seruice bée in one language through Christendome whether people vnderstand it or no Otherwise what vntie is and hath bene in your religion they that are acquainted with your writers and stories can tell As for example your great professor Martinius whilest he is caried with an enuious stomacke to carpe at our English translations doeth condemne yours in more then an hundred places But I confesse howsoeuer you haue dissented in other things you haue held and do hold a marueilous vnitie against al verity and that is the cause that not one of you maketh anie conscience of lieng And though there are amongst vs also some contentions yet they are not about waightie points of doctrine for therein is a verie great consent but such as hath happened amongst the Apostles them selues and are all about bearing with or rooting out some leauings of yours Rom. 15. 8. The text For I say Christ Iesus to haue bene ⸫ minister of the circumcision for the veritie of God to confirme the promises of the fathers The note Christ did execute his office and ministerie onlie towards the people of circumcision that is the Iewes The answer This note is true but yet so as that in diuerse Christ afore shewed the calling of the Gentiles Rom. 15. 25. The text Now therefore I will go to Hierusalem to minister to the ⸫ Saints The note He meaneth the holie persons that hauing forsaken all their goods for Christ were wholie conuerted to serue the Lord with all their mind Saint Hierome against Vigilantius the heretike reprehending the almes giuen to such as do the heretikes also of our time The answer What heretikes of our time finde fault with reléeuing the néedie saints of God but you meane them that iustlie finde fault that a great number of roging Friers being lustie and able to get their liuing by the sweat of their browes should be reléeued and so deuoure and consume that which is due to the poore néedie sicke and impotent people contrarie to the precept of Paul He that laboureth not let him not eat But at Hierusalem there were then none of those that professed witfull pouertie Rom. 15. 30. The text I beseech you therefore brethren by our Lord Iesus Christ and by the charitie of the holie Ghost that you ⸫ helpe me in your praiers for me to God The note In that the Apostle desireth to be praied for we may be mooued to seeke the same as a great benefit The answer The praiers of the faithfull are very forcible helps to aduance forward the good desires and endeuors of Gods ministers Rom. 16. 3. The text Salute Prisca and Aquila my helpers in Christ Iesus The note The onely salutation of so woorthie a man is sufficient to fill him with great grace that is saluted Chrysost. in 2. Timoth. 4. The answer I maruell you are not ashamed to alledge the doctors for that which you your selues beléeue not Can any man by saluting bestow Gods graces where it pleaseth him to salute The fathers prooue the holie Ghost to be God bicause the gifts and graces of God are distributed as he will And I pray you how much inferior do you make Paul to the spirit of God if his salutation be sufficient to fill with graces whom it pleaseth him to salute Wel let your note haue that credit that Chrysostoms bare word without further matter may giue it Rom. 16. ◠The text Who for my life haue laid downe their necks to whom not onely I giue thanks but also the churches of the Gentils and their domesticall church The note This domesticall church was either that faithfull and Christian houshold or rather the Christians meeting togither there and in such good houses to heare diuine seruice and the Apostles preaching in those times of persecution The answer Why do you not in stead of diuine seruice say mattens and masse For we now vnderstand by diuine seruice that they praied togither in a toong they vnderstood and that likewise some parcel of scripture was read which was by their Apostles or pastors interpreted to them Which how far it disagreeth with the maner and custome of your church he that hath halfe an eie may sée Rom. 16. 15. The text Salute Philologus and Iulia Nereus and his sister and Olympias and all the saints that are with them The note The protestants heere reason thus Peter is not heere saluted Therfore he was neuer at Rome See the annotation The answer You slander the protestants Their maner of reasoning is not so loose They reason thus Paul who so carefully reckoned and saluted the chéefe and principall Christians at Rome by name would not haue forgotten Peter as the principall and chéefe if he had then béene there Therefore it is very likely that he was not then there bicause he was not then saluted We know that it is not materiall whether Peter were at Rome or no or whether he were bishop there or no. And therfore they are not points that we greatly sticke on But those that tell the time of his comming thither and how long he liued they are manifestly confuted by the truth
but to our benefit but preposterous desire to stablish the merits of men carieth you you wot not whither For it maketh you to suppose that the maiestie of God which is proper to himselfe for that was the glorie wherewith Christ is crowned may be the deserued reward of mans works which is horrible once to thinke Hebr. 2. 16. The text For no where doth he take Angels but ⸫ the seed of Abraham he doth take The note The dignitie of man in that Christ tooke our nature vnto his person in deitie and not the nature of Angels The answer Nay rather the great and maruellous goodnes of God that was better to men than to Angels and that vouchsafed rather to vnite our miserable vile nature to his Godhead rather than the eternall excelling nature of Angels Hebr. 3. 3. The text For this man is esteemed woorthie of more ample glorie aboue Moises by so much as more ample glory than the house hath he that framed it The note The excellencie of Christ aboue Moises The answer Christ far excelled Moises but you make him far inferior For from Moises doctrine no man might swarue to the right hand or to the left no man might ad or take away but to Christs doctrine vnder the name of traditions you may make as manie additions as you list Hebr. 3. 14. The text For we be made partakers of Christ yet so if we keepe the ⸫ beginning of his substance firme vnto the end The note Faith is the groundworke of our creation in Christ which if we holde not fast all the building is lost The answer Such a faith as a man in some measure is able to render a reason of out of the word and not a blinde perswasion to beléeue as other men beléeue neither knowing what we beléeue and whie as the greatest number of your blinde followers do Hebr. 4. 1. The text For he said in a certaine place of the ⸫ seuenth day thus And God rested the seuenth day from all his workes The note If the Apostle had not euidentlie shewed that the Saboaths rest was a figure of the eternall repose in heauen who durst to haue applied that Scripture of Gods rest the seuenth day to that purpose Or how can our aduersaries now reprehend the like application manifoldlie vsed in all holie ancient writers to that end The answer What conscience is in you for applieng Scriptures without example warrant or anie other necessarie collection I know not but this I know that in your handling of the scriptures there appeareth none All things that happened to the fathers in the old Testament were figures as the Apostle teacheth of things happening in the new testament to vs. As therfore the diligence of the fathers was commendable in séeking and searching what was prefigured in the old law so the immoderate desire and delight of some to draw all things in both testaments into perpetuall allegories and to make figures where none are to wrest their fansies out of what place they list is iustlie by your aduersaries found fault withall Hebr. 4. 12. The text For the ⸫ word of God is liuely and forcible and more piersing then anie two edged sword and reaching vnto the diuision of the soule and the spirit of the ioints also and of the marowes and a discerner of the cogitations and intents of the hart The note Whatsoeuer God threatneth by his word concerning the punishment of sinne and incredulitie shalbe executed be the offence neuer so secret deepe or hidden in our harts bicause Gods speech passeth easilie searcheth throughlie euerie part power and facultie of mans soule The answer This note is true though but in a litle part expressing the meaning of the text and verie hardlie agréeable with other parts of your doctrine For if secret and hidden sinnes which by no meanes breake foorth and discouer them selues by acte can not escape the threatned vengeance of God then what sinnes can you can veniall Hebr. 6. 9. The text But ⸫ we confidentlie trust of you my best beloued better things and neerer to saluation although we speake thus The note It is euident by these words against the Nouatians and the Caluinists that Saint Paul meant not preciselie that they had done or could do anie such sinne where they should be put out of all hope of saluation and be sure of damnation during their life The answer It is euident by your words that you flatter your selues with mercie more then there is cause whie whiles you thinke that you can not commit anie such sinne as for which you should be sure during your life to be damned For herein you do not contend with the Nouatians and Caluinists as it pleaseth you to terme them onlie but with Saint Iohn and with our Lord and Sauior Christ. For what will ye say of those sinners which S. Iohn forbiddeth vs to pray for or of that sin which our Sauior Christ hath told vs shall neuer be forgiuen neither in this world nor in the world to come The same sinne the Apostle in this Chapter describeth not bicause the Hebrewes to whom he wrote had committed it but because it was possible for some of them to fall into it therefore he forewarneth them of the great and wonderfull danger of it Hebr. 7. 2. The text To whom also Abraham diuided tithes of all first in deede by interpretation ⸫ the king of iustice and then also King of Salem which is to say King of peace The note When the fathers and catholike expositers picke out allegories and mysteries out of the names of men the protestants not indued with the Spirit whereby the Scriptures were giuen deride their holie labours in search of the same but the Apostle findeth high mysteries in the names of persons and places as you see The answer That we deride the Fathers or anie other Catholike expositors is one of your woonted slanders but we saie that measure in all things is a merrie meane For though in the names of such speciall persons as were figures of Christ and in the names of other persons places and things as had their names giuen for some speciall causes and considerations the mysteries shadowed in the signification of those names are wel and profitably sought yet to do or endeuour the like in all names or in many other names is labor néedlesse causelesse and curious Hebr. 7. 8. The text And heere indeede ⸫ men that die receiue tithes but there he hath witnes that he liueth The note The tithes giuen to Melchisedech were not giuen as to a meere mortall man as all of the tribe of Leui and Aarons order were but as to one representing the sonne of God who now liueth reigneth and holdeth his priesthood and the function thereof for euer The answer Your note is true and bicause he holdeth his priesthood and the functions thereof for euer therefore you offer him great iniurie to appoint other priests to do
his office that is to offer propitiatorie sacrifice for vs. Hebr. 7. â—5 The text Whereby he is able to saue vs for euer going by himselfe to God ⸫ alwaies liuing to make intercession for vs. The note Christ according to his humaine nature praieth for vs and continuallie representeth his former passion and merit to God the father The answer You would make vs beléeue that Christ was our priest onlie in respect of our nature directly against the worde and against this present place For the priests appointed by the lawe were men hauing infirmitie but our priest is the sonne for euer perfect where perfection is opposed to infirmitie and the sonne of God is opposed to men which sheweth the coupling of both natures aswell in exercising of his office as in his person But you of purpose in your translation haue omitted the worde men to obscure and darken the sense of the text Hebr. 8. â—2 The text We haue such an high priest who is set on the right hand of the seate of maiestie in the heauens a ⸫ minister of the holies and of the true tabernacle which our Lord pight and not man The note Christ liuing and reigning in heauen continueth his priestly function still and is minister not of Moyses Sancta and tabernacle but of his owne bodie and blood which be the true holies and tabernacle not formed by man but by Gods owne hand The answer Paule setteth Christ in heauen at the right hand of maiestie you set him in earth in the sacrament of the altar Paule teacheth that he continueth in his priestly function you haue appointed priests to offer propitiatorie sacrifice as if his priesthood were ceased Paule saith that if Christ were vpon the earth againe he were no priest you teach that he is againe vpon earth therefore your doctrine maketh him no priest Hebr. 8. 7. The text For ⸫ if that former had beene voide of fault there should not certes a place for a second been sought The note The promises and effects of the law were temporall but the promises and effects of Christs Sacraments in the church be eternall The answer This is plaine and flat Manicheisme If the high priest were a figure of Christ if Sancta sanctorum were a figure of heauen if the sacrifices of the old law were figures of Christs sacrifice then how can the promises or effects perteining to them be temporal The differences that I haue learned betwéene the sacraments of the law and the Gospell do not consist in diuersitie of promises and effects but in cléerenes number and time Cléerenes bicause that which then was obscurely shadowed is now cléerely reuealed number bicause they had a great multitude of sacramentall figures we as few in number and as effectual in signification as possible may be in time bicause theirs nursed in them the faith of Christ to come and ours confirmeth to vs the faith of Christ which is alreadie come and hath accomplished all things which are necessarie for our redemption Hebr. 9. 8. The text The holie Ghost signifieng this that the way of the holies â—as ⸫ not yet manifested the former tabernacle yet standing The note The way to heauen was not open before Christs passion and therfore the Patriarks and good men of the old testament were in some other place of rest vntill then The answer You dreame of a drie sommer Christ was alwaies the waie but Christ was not alwaies manifested or made openly knowne during the former tabernacle as now he is What maketh this for your dream of shutting the fathors out of heauen and causing them to go séeke another place of rest Was not Christ the lambe slaine from the beginning of the world And was not faith in his blood as auailable to the fathers as to vs Hebr. 9. 9. The text Which is a ⸫ parable of the time present The note All things done in the old testament and priesthood were figures of Christs actions The answer If all things done in the olde Testament and priesthoode haue relation to Christ and that which he perfourmed for vs then how are the promises temporall as before you said Liars had néed of good memories or els with one breath they denie and ouerthrow that which they affirme with another Hebr. 9 19. The text For all the commandement of the lawe being read of Moises to all the people he taking the blood of calues and goates with ⸫ water and skarlet wooll and ysope sprinkled the verie booke also it selfe and all the people saieng This is the blood of the Testament which God hath commanded you The note Heere we may learne that the Scriptures conteine not all necessarie rites or truthes when neither the place to the which the Apostle alludeth nor anie other mentioneth halfe these ceremonies but he had them by tradition The answer The Scriptures you say containe not all necessarie rites and truthes whie do you couple rites and truthes togither You know that we hold that rites and ceremonies may be variable according to diuersitie of times places and maners of people so the generall rules of Scriptures giuen to frame them by be obserued But truth is alwaies one and the same not to be found but in the word of truth and therefore though you could haue prooued that some of these rites were had by tradition yet it would not followe that anie necessarie truth were omitted in scriptures But let vs sée how doughtilie you prooue that forsooth halfe the ceremonies here spoken of are not mentioned in the place of Scripture to the which the Apostle alludeth nor in anie other place and therfore it can not be otherwise but he had them by tradition As you are true in this so I would you might finde credit in all things els first in the place by your selues quoted the reading of the Lawe the sprinkling of the people and the book with the blood of the sacrifices with the words here rehearsed are mentioned Then resteth water skarlet wool and hissope to be shewed els where In Leuiticus we finde that water was mingled with the blood which was to be sprinckled and that the sprinckle it selfe was made of cedar wood of hissope and of a skarlet lace Thus haue you one place for the sprinckling and another for the sprinkle and nothing héere at all by tradition which you so contend for Hebr. 9. 28. The text And as it is appointed to men to die once and after this the iudgement so also Christ was offered once to ⸫ exhauste the sinnes of manie The note By this word which signifieth to emptie or draw out euen to the bottome is declared the plentifull perfect redemption of sinnes by Christ. The answer When the holie Ghost by such significant and forcible wordes hath taught vs to ascribe our whole and full remission of sinnes to Christ what impudencie and shamelessenes is in you to ioine to Christ a number of trumperies of your own and as it were
is that can be picked out of his speciall naming But to graunt that he had some petit prerogatiue what is that to those which you chalenge to his pretended successors LVKE Luke 1. 10. The text And all the multitude of the people were ⸫ praying without at the houre of the incense The note We see here that the Priest did his dutie within the people in the meane time praying without and that the priestes functions did profit them though they neither heard nor sawe his doings The answer You would faine finde warrant for your chauncels and as gladlie would you prooue that your masses mumbled in a corner were profitable not onelie to them which being present vnderstand not but to those also which neither heare nor sée them but you must séeke better proofe than the abolished figures of the old lawe For by this diuision of priest and people in sundrie places of the same temple is nothing els taught vs but that heauen is shut to vs by reason of our sinnes and that we can not enter into the presence of God there but in the person of our Priest our Mediatour and that in him and by him our prayers are accepted as at large the Apostle in the Epistle to the Hebrewes doth teach vs. But if you would prooue any thing for your selues shew vs that either priest or people praied in a toung they vnderstood not or that either in the temple or in the synagogues the scriptures were read in a strange language Or that they which read were shut vp in some odde corner of the synagogue where that which they read could not be heard of the people If you could finde warrant for any of these then you had some defence for your ordinarie church seruice but because you want this therefore you flie to the figures of the old law to wring out of them that which neuer was to be learned by them But in this dealing you do but bewray your penurie Luke 1. 15. The text For he shalbe great before our Lord ⸫ and wine and sicer he shall not drinke The note This abstinence foretold and prescribed by the angel sheweth that it is a worthie thing and an acte of religion in Saint Iohn as it was in the Nazarites The answer The abstinence foretold and prescribed shewed that sanctimonie should not be wanting in him neither in déed nor in outward shew but that he should liue as a man wholie dedicate to God The prescription and appointment of God maketh the acte good bicause it was a testimonie of holy obedience But what maketh this for your will worships whereof you haue no warrant but your owne wisedome Luke 1. 20. The text And behold ⸫ thou shalt be dumme and shalt not be able to speake vntill the day wherein these things shall be done For bicause thou hast not beleeued my wordes which shall be fulfilled in their time The note Zacharie punished for doubting of the Angels word The answer And thinke you papistes to escape the punishment of God for teaching men to doubt of the trueth of Gods promises Luke 1. 28. The text Haile full of grace our Lord is with thee Blessed art thou amongst women The note The beginning of the Aue Marie See the rest verse 42. The answer A profound note Mary tooke it for a salutation but the church of Rome haue vsed it as a praier Luke 1. 34. The text And Marie said to the Angell ⸫ How shal this be done Bicause I know not man The note She doubted not of the thing as Zacharie but inquired of the means The answere If you would haue giuen to euerie man his due praise I do not doubt but you might haue quoted Master Beza for you borrowed this out of his annotations Luke 1. 38. The text And Marie said ⸫ Behold the handmaid of our Lord be it done to me according to thy word The note At this very moment when the blessed virgin gaue consent she conceiued him perfect God and perfect man The answer That she conceiued him perfect God and perfect man is by many places well warranted But concerning the very moment of the time when she conceiued I take it to be one of Gods secrets which he hath kept to himselfe and which the holie Ghost hath not reuealed bicause it is not necessarie for vs to know Luke 1. 41. The text And it came to passe as Elizabeth heard the salutation of Marie the ⸫ infant did leape in hir wombe The note Iohn Baptist being yet in his mothers wombe reioiced and acknowledged the presence of Christ and his mother The answer What sense the child had in his mothers wombe of the presence of Christ I know not and yet I doubt not but it was the secret force of Gods holy spirit that caused that motion in the child But if your note be true then grace was conferred vpon this child afore he was partaker of any sacrament except you will say that the ioyfull acknowledging of the presence of Christ may be without grace Luke 1. 46. The text My soule doth magnifie our Lord. The note Magnificat at Euensong The answer I thinke your meaning is that Magnificat is vsed at Euensong and not that our Ladie sang Euensong or that it was héere appointed to be song at Euensong Luke 1. 48. The text Bicause he hath regarded the humilitie of his handmaid For behold from hencefoorth ⸫ all generations shall call mee blessed The note Haue the Protestants alwaies had generations to fulfill this prophesie or do they call hir blessed that derogate what they can from hir graces blessings and all hir honor The answer The Protestants had their generations afore any papists were in the world And as they giue to the blessed virgin all honor that is due to hir so neither she nor they can abide that you should rob God of his honor to giue it hir Luke 1. 80. The text And the child grew and was strengthened in spirit and was ⸫ in the deserts vntill the day of his manifestation to Israel The note Marke that he was a voluntarie Eremite and chose to be solitarie from a child till he was to preach to the people insomuch that antiquitie counted him the first Eremite The answer You do but bleare the eies of the ignorant with the likenes of the name Antiquitie neuer knew what the profession of your Eremites meant And if you vouchsafed to giue vs a definition of Eremites then we should easily exclude from it either Iohn or your superstitious hipocriticall Eremites For it is one thing to liue in a desert as Iohn did it is another thing to liue without societie and companie as yours do and Iohn did not And further you must prooue that he shut vp himselfe to satisfie for his sins and that he was a paterne or example for others so to do without further warrant or vocation Which bicause you cannot do Iohn will not serue for a shield or defence for your
17. The text And ⸫ they did all eate and had their fill The note The miraculous prouidence of God towards such as follow Christ into deserts prisons banishment or whether soeuer The answer Manie things besides may be noted as to giue thanks to God for his gifts though they séeme neuer so small or course and to marke that he can make so small a matter to suffice great multitudes and such like Luk. 9. 41. The text And Iesus answering said ⸫ O faithles and peruerse generation how long shall I be with you and suffer you The note Incredulitie hindreth the effect of exorcismes and other miraculous power giuen to the church The answer The power of myraculous working was granted to the church but for a time for the better confirming of men in the doctrine then deliuered The doctrine continuing one and the same new miraculous confirmations are not to be looked for Yet exorcismes in your church are verie common and how bad soeuer your popish priests are yet they must worke or else you beguile both your selues and others Luk. 9. 46. The text And there entred ⸫ a cogitation into them which of them should be greater The note Desire of preheminence is an humane infirmitie often euen among the good Against which Christ teacheth humilitie but forbiddeth not superioritie The answer Ambition in truth is a disease very common and good men very often haue béene therewith infected But for pride and preheminence ambiciously sought and tyrannously kept the pope hath no péere the diuell and great Turke onely excepted But by this it appéereth that the Apostles knew not which of them Christ had appointed to be greatest Luk. 9. 50. The text And Iesus said to him ⸫ prohibite not For he that is not against you is for you The note There be some that follow not Christ precisely in life and doctrine of whom we may make our aduantage toiâ—â—e propagation of Christs honor and religion when they do any thing for the aduancement thereof of what intention soeuer they do it The answer If you preached Christ and not your selues you might be the better borne with So his honor were aduanced your intentions néeded the lesse to be looked vnto But now you aduance the power of the pope the abilitie of fréewill and the valure of merits into the place of Christ the power of God to saluation to beléeuers and therefore are iustly prohibited Luke 9. 58. The text Iesus said to him ⸫ the foxes haue holes and the foules of the aire nests but the sonne of man hath not where to repose his head The note This man would haue followed him for temporall commodities and therefore was not suffered The answer This man then was méete to haue made a papist For it is plaine and euident that there was neuer any religion in the world deuised so gainefull and so apt and méete to bring in all maner of worldly coÌ„modities to the teachers thereof as popery Luk. 10. 1. The text And after this our Lord designed also other ⸫ seuentie two and he sent them two and two before his face into euery citie and place whether himselfe would come The note As the twelue Apostles did represent the higher degree of the cleargie called bishops So these seauentie two beare the figure of the inferiour cleargie called priests Beda The answer It is apparant and euident as well by the scriptures as by testimonie of antiquitie that at the first there was no such distinction of higher and lower orders of cleargie men called bishops and priests but that they were al one till for the better order of gouernment some one among a multitude of priests being chosen to gouerne guide and direct the rest had the name of bishop for distinctions sake giuen to him And therfore this prefiguring or representing that which then was not thought of is but a dreame of Master Beda But I maruell that Master Beda found no more of your cleargie orders there prefigured especially the pope and his cardinals belike the one was not growne then to his full height and the other scant hatched Luk. 10. 12. The text I saie to you it shall bee more tolerable for Sodom in that daie then for that citie The note Difference of pains and damnation in hell according to the difference of demerits August Lib. 5. cap. 5. contra Iulianum The answer It was néedlesse for you in this matter to quote your doctor considering that in it at this day so far I know you haue none aduersaries I hope you do not take hell for purgatorie nor make any of the differences temporall and then I sée no great cause to contend with you Howbeit in citing the place of Augustine either you delt very negligently or else you trusted your note booke too well for in the place you sende vs to Augustine hath no such thing Luk. 10. 13. The text Wo be to thee Chorozaim wo be to thee Bethsaida for if in Tire and Sidon had been wrought the myracles that haue been wrought in you they had done penance sitting ⸫ in sackcloth and ashes long ago The note True penance not onely to leade a new life but to punish the body by such things as heere be recorded for the ill life past The answer Who euer denied that penitent men should shew outward tokens of the greatnes of their inward sorrow conceiued for their sinnes or that they should not punish their bodie to the end that by not satisfieng the lusts and desires thereof it may be the lesse rebellious and more obedient to the spirit But all this is farre from that which you imagine concerning satisfieng by that meanes for ill life past Luk. 10. 16. The text ⸫ He that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me The note It is all one to despise Christ and to despise his priests and ministers in the catholike church to refuse his doctrine and theirs The answer I will not quarrell with you about your word priests though I iustly might being taken of you for sacrificers But I returne your note against your selfe that therefore you despise Christ and his doctrine bicause you despise vs whom Christ hath sent to be teachers of his people in the Catholike Church Luk. 10. 35. The text And the next day he tooke foorth two pence and gaue to the hoast and said haue care of him and whatsoeuer thou shalt supererogate I at my returne will repaie thee The note Saint Augustine saith that the Apostle 1. Cor. 9 according to this place did supererogate that is did more than he needed or was bouÌ„d to do when he might haue required all duties for preaching the Gospel but would not Lib. de oper monachor cap. 5. whereof it commeth that the works which we do more than precept be called works of Supererogation and whereby it is also euident against the protestants that there be such works See Optatus
monument tremble and roare as if they stood before the iudgement seat of Christ. The answer We will not striue with you for your author For though women beare the name of that epistle yet I thinke Hierome was their pen man But we are not bound to beléeue what S. Hierome speaketh further then he prooueth his speeches by the word And we easilie beléeue that the diuell might worke there strong illusions to deceiue and to draw people into an admiration of such things as God hath no where commended to them in his word Iohn 20. 21. The text He said therefore to them againe ⸫ peace be to you The note Though he gaue them his peace hard before yet now entering into a new diuine action to prepare their harts to grace and attention he blesseth them againe The answer Christ by repetition of his vsual blessing or salutation séeketh to make his Apostles being astonished at his sodaine and maruellous comming amongst them to know vnderstand and be assured who he is Iohn 20. 26. The text Iesus commeth ⸫ the doores being shut and stood in the midst and said peace be to you The note See the annotations on the 19. verse of this chapter The answer We haue séene stale stuffe of it and refer the answer to him that answereth your other annotations Iohn 20. 29. The text Bicause thou hast seene me Thomas thou hast beleeued ⸫ blessed are they that haue not seene and haue beleeued The note They are more happie that beleeue without sensible argument or sight then such as be induced by sense or reason to beleeue The answer Bicause that sensible experience which Thomas had of Christ and by which he was induced to beleeue the resurrection was granted but to a few therefore generally the happines of Christians doth consist in beléeuing the testimonie of the word preached without any farther sensible experiments Yet not withstanding in matters subiect to sense we are no where commanded to beléeue that to be cheese which is chalke neither that to be flesh which our eies tell vs to be bread Iohn 21. 7. The text ⸫ Simon Peter when he heard that it is our Lord girded his coat vnto him for he was naked cast himselfe into the sea The note See in Saint Augustine tract 122. In Io. the great mysterie hereof concerning the church and in Saint Gregorie hom 24. in Euang. and Saint Barnard lib. 2. cap. 8. de consi Peters primacie here mystically signified The answer Hungrie dogs are glad of dirtie puddings Our papists haue béene these 27. yéeres séeking a néedle in a bundle of haie that is they haue béene seeking the fathers to finde the bishop of Rome to be called the vniuersall bishop or head of the vniuersal church and cannot finde it Therefore they hunt for other things in stéed thereof to bleare the eies of the simple withall and there is nothing so sillie and simple that they finde but it must serue their turne It hath béen told them that their reasons hold not which they deduce from Peter to the bishops of Rome It hath béene tolde them also that primacie is one thing and the supremacie which they chalenge for the bishop of Rome is an other being things verie far vnlike And yet bicause they cannot finde better stuffe for their purpose they are still faine to finde themselues plaie with these But let vs sée your authorities The mysteries which Saint Augustine gathereth out of this place are taken out of the net throwen out of the right side Christs being on land the number of the fish taken and such like which he applieth to the church at the resurrection and neither to the name nor authoritie of Peter Gregorie toucheth the same mysteries and addeth onely this concerning Peter that he drâ—w the net to lande bicause the church was committed to him And that he drew the elect to the stability of the shore by preaching writing and myracles And then I pray what did Peter here that the other apostles did not Iohn 21. 14. The text This now the ⸫ third time Iesus was manifested to his disciples after he was risen from the dead The note Not the third apparition but the third day of his apparition for he appeared in the verie daie of his resurrection often againe vpon Lowe Sunday then this third time and Saint Marke saieng Last he appeared cap. 16. 14. meaneth his last apparition the first daie The answer A note so true and so necessarilie collected vpon the place so plaine for the capacitie of the simple reader as this afore will hardly be found and with you is a verie rare birde Iohn 21. 22. The text So will I haue him to remaine til I come what to thee Follow thou me The note So readeth Saint Ambrose in Ps. 45 serm 20. in Ps. 118. Saint August tract 124. in Io. and most ancient copies and seruice bookes extant in Latin ⸫ other read if I will other if so I will c. The answer Against the consent of all copies of the Gréeke against the greatest number of ancient copies of your old translator against the generall consent of the enterpretors both Grecians and Latinists and especially against the manifest truth appearing in the circumstances of the text it selfe you follow those copies which you know to be corrupt and al to vpholde a lie and a fable You enforce Augustine to giue you credit against his wil knowing that that which you alledge is but the fault of the printer or writer not his minde For his long doubtful disputation whether Iohn were dead or no doth plainly declare that he read not as you haue set it downe For then he would neuer haue made doubt of that which Christ so plainelie spake And againe how can your reading stand with that which Iohn saith after Christ said not that he should not die Iohn 21. 25. The text But there are manie ⸫ other things also which Iesus did which if they were written in particular neither the world it selfe I thinke were able to conteine those books that should be written The note How few things are written of Christs actes and doctrine in comparison of that which he did and spake And yet the heretikes will needes haue all in Scripture trusting not the Apostles owne preaching or report of any thing that our master did or said if it be not written The answer Now for vnwritten verities I pray you for my learning shew me one of those heretikes that hold that all that Christ said and did are written in the Scriptures If you cannot do that then you abuse your reader with a lie We saie that enough is written in the Scriptures to bring beleeuers to life eternall and so hath Iohn written before vs. But it greeueth you that we giue not credit to a number of lies which you obtrude to vs vnder the name of the apostles If all that vnder their names you haue set out be true how chance their
persecutors he promiseth to his worshippers his manifest intercession and suffrages in homilia S. Stephani And Saint Augustine Si Stephanus non sic orasset ecclesia Paulum non haberet ser 1. de Stephano The answer Euerie one séeth that it is a very foolish collection to gather a promise of intercession to his worshippers out of this praier for his persecuters and therfore it is not the authoritie of Eusebiâ—s Emissenus that can mooue vs except he bring better reason with him But you would haue your ignorant followers to thinke that Saint Augustine helpeth you in this case and therefore you haue set him downe in latine that they might not espie that his words make nothing to your purpose for who euer mooued doubt whether Saint Steuens praier did obteine at the hand of God mercie for some of his persecuters or els the conuersion of the Apâ—stle Paul but what maketh that for the intercession of saints when they are dead and gone Actes 8. 4. The text They therefore that were dispersed passed thorow â—uangelizing the word The note This persecution wrought much good being an occasion that the dispersed preached Christ in diuers countries where they come The answer God turneth all things to good to them that loue him and your persecutions also haue had the like effect of spreading the Gospel which though you sée and can not but confesse yet you furiouslie stil rage against God and stirre vp what princes you can to persecute the Gospell and the professors thereof 〈◊〉 8. 14. The text And when the Apostles who were in Hierusalem had heard that Samaria had receiued the word of God they sent to them Peter and Iohn The note Saepè sibi socium petens facit esse Iohannem Ecclesiae quia virgo placet Arator apud Bedam in Act. The answer How chaunce you set not downe your note in English did you meane that no bodie should know it but such as could vnderstand latine If the ministerie of married men had not béene as wel accepted and liked of the church then as the ministerie of others neither would Philips dealing at Samaria béene so well allowed of as it was neither yet had saint Peter béene a méete messenger to haue bene sent about that businesse But Iohn was liked of bicause he was a virgin it well appeareth that neither Philip nor Peter were disliked bicause they were married But I praie you tell me what church now may be so bold as to send the Pope on their errand or about their businesse Either the Church then had greater authoritie then now and Peter lesse then his supposed successors haue now or els the Popes now are prouder and take more vpon them then hée did Actes 8. â—7 The text And behold a man of Aethiopia an eunuche of great authoritie vnder Candace the Queene of the Aethiopians who was ouer all her treasures was come to Hierusalem ⸫ to adore The note Note that this Ethiopian came to Hierusalem to adore that is on pilgrimage Wherebie we may learne that it is an accptable acte of religion to go from home to places of greater deuotion and sanctification The answer All that euer were Iewes borne or Iewes by conuersion were bound by the law of God to offer their sacrifices at IerusaleÌ„ at certaine times in person to appéere there before him Now if yoâ— can shew any of your places of pilgrimage so by God himselfe chosen sanctified for that purpose than we yéeld to you Otherwise your reason holdeth not as being drawen from worship commanded by God to will worship that is worship deuised by men Acts 8. 31. The text And he said Trowest thou that thou vnderstandest the things which thou readest Who said And ⸫ how can I vnles some man shew me The note The scriptures are so written that they cannot be vnderstood without an interpreter as easie as our protestants make them See S. Hierom Epistola ad Paulinum de omnibus diuinae historiae libris set in the beginning of Latin bibles The answer How easie do protestants make them Do they not take continuall paines to interpret the scriptures to the people They are hard but not all That it was not the custome of the church and people of God to fray men from them bicause of the hardnes of them which is the controuersie betwixt you and vs appéereth in that the eunuch read euen those scriptures which he vnderstood not And that God blesseth such endeuors of humble harted Christians appéereth also in that God sent him an interpreter of that which he vnderstood not And what can you gather out of Ierom to the contrarie of this Acts. 9. 4. The text And falling on the ground he heard a voice saieng to him ⸫ Saul Saul why persecutest thou me The note The heretikes that conclude Christ so in heauen that he can be no where else till the day of iudgement shall hardly resolue a man that would know where Christ was when he appeered heere in the way and spake these words to Saul The answer We answer shortly and plainly as difficult a matter as you make of it that his bodie was then in heauen when his maiestie appéered and his voice was heard vpon earth What can you oppose to this Acts. 9. 18. The text And foorthwith there fell from his eies as it were scales and he receiued sight and rising he was ⸫ baptized The note Paul also himselfe though with the diuine and heauenly voice prostrated and instructed yet was sent to a man to receiue the sacraments and to be ioined to the church Augustine in doctrina Christiana in prooemio The answer You néeded much a doctor for this which euery man confesseth and no man denieth But it is euident that you hunt for nothing but vainglorious estimation Acts. 9. 31. The text The ⸫ church truly through all Iewrie and Galile and Samaria had peace and was edified walking in the feare of our Lord and was replenished with the consolation of the holie Ghost The note The church visibly proceedeth still with much comfort and manifold increase euen by persecution The answer God in the midst of persecution sendeth sometimes peace and rest to his as he hath done to his church of England to your great griefe whose rage and furie God hath bridled and to their singular comfort Acts. 9. 36. The text This woman was full of ⸫ good works and almes deedes which she did The note Behold good works and almes deeds and the force thereof reaching to the next life The answer Though this note be but sorâ—ly collected out of this place yet we confesse that the dead resting from their labors their works follow them and yet you neuer the nigher to the proouing of your merits Acts 9. 39. The text And Peter rising vp came with them and when he was come they brought him vp into the vpper chamber and all the widowes stood about him weeping ⸫ and shewing him the cotes and
But their care is far vnlike for they are seldome in their charge they visit once in thrée yéere most commonly by their deputes neither to reforme life nor maners but either to shewe themselues abroad like lords or else to fill their purses This I am sure they neither learned of Paule nor Barnabas Act. 15. 41. The text And he walked thorough Siria and Cilicia confirming the churches ⸫ commanding them to keepe the precepts of the apostles and ancients The note Not onely the things commanded by Christs expresse word or written in the Scriptures as our heretikes hold but whatsoeuer the apostles and rulers of the church command is to be kept and obeied So these words repeated againe cap. 16. 4. and that in the Greeke least any man cauill bicause here the Greeke hath them not The answer You do well to ioine apostles with rulers else no man would beléeue you But I pray you where may we â—inde those things which the apostles haue commanded and are not expressed in the scriptures If you obtrude those things which you falsely call the canons and constitutions of the apostles then we bid you first reforme your church by them For though there be some corruptions in them vnknowen in the apostles time yet your church if it had no more should want at least thrée quarters of her corruptions It were woonderfull if other men should credite your forgerie which you your selues haue small regard to If you alledge this present text it is manifest that the precepts which the apostles commanded to be kept were sent in writing by the hands of Paule and Barnabas which writing is set downe by Luke word for word How then can you gather from hence anie defence of your vnwritten verities or any credite to your deuises not warranted by the Scriptures Act. 16. 4. The text And when they passed through the cities they deliuered vnto them to keepe the ⸫ decrees that were decreed of the Apostels and ancients at Hierusalem The note Here againe they take order that the decrees and articles of faith agreed vpon in the councell of Hierusalem should be executed and obserued whereby we see both the great authoritie of councels and the diligence that all prelates ought to haue to see the decrees and canons of the councels put in execution The answer In the former note these decrées you did insinuate to be matters vnwritten and now in this note they are articles of our faith and so consequently some articles of our faith are not written O miserable men What state are they in whom you lead When you pull from them the foundation and groundworke of their faith The authoritie of lawfull councels we reuerence as much as is lawfull to reuerence men But by this councel we gather that a councell may be lawfully called though the bishop of Rome call it not and that it is not néedful that he or his legate à latere should be president in councels and that it is not of necessity requisite that he should confirme and ratifie councels For it is manifest that no bishop of Rome bare stroke in this councel Acts. 16. 6. The text And passing through Phrigia and the countrie of Galatia they were ⸫ forbidden by the holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia The note This people had not the Gospell denied vnto them altogither but for a time bicause as venerable Bede thinketh God foresaw they would not beleeue and so should haue beeâ— more grieuously damned The answer Modestie requireth that you leaue the Lords secrets to himselfe The holie Ghost hath not reuealed the cause why he forbad them to preach in Asia and permitted them not to go into Bithinia and therefore we are to leaue it as a thing which God hath not thought necessary for vs to know But this is manifest that the good desires of Gods saints are not in their owne power to bring to passe when they will Acts. 16. 12. The text And from thence to Philippie which is the first citie of Macedonia a ⸫ Colonia The note Colonia is such a citie where the most inhabitants are strangers sent thither from other great cities and states namely from the Romans The answer Your interpretation of Colonia we receiue as a thing wherof our Grammar boies are not ignorant Acts. 16. 17. The text The same following Paul and vs cried saieng These men are the seruants of the high God which preach vnto you the waie of saluation The note Either the diuell was compelled by vertue of Paules presence to saie truth or else as such do often times he spake truth now that they might the more trust him and he better beguile them at other times The answer Your later coniecture I receiue as a thing that you can speake in by great experience as hauing learned that péece of cunning of the diuell neuer to vse truth but to the end to giue color and credit to lies withall Acts. 16. 3â— The text Masters what must I do to be saued But they said ⸫ Beleeue in the Lord Iesus and thou shalt be saued and thy house The note It is none other faith that saueth but that which worketh by charity August Enchirid. cap. 67. The answer Grant vs that that faith is the onely hand whereby we take hold of Christ our saluation and then a great part of our controuersie is at an end Acts. 16. 33. The text And he taking them in the same hower of the night ⸫ washed their wounds and himselfe was baptized and all his house incontinent The note Happie gailers that do mercie toward their godly prisoners and receiue againe by them such spirituall benefits The answer It was the greatest happines that could fall vpon him and his house to receiue such vnder his â—oofe by whom God so blessed him and his On the contrarie side it is a dangerous matter for gailers and keepers to be cumbred with wicked seditious and traiterous Iesuits and seminarie priests Acts. 17. 5. The text But the Iewes ⸫ enuieng and taking to them of the rascall sort certaine naughtie men and making a tumult stirred the citie and besetting Iasons house sought to bring them foorth vnto the people The note Zelantes This is the zeale of heretikes and a liuely paterne of their dealing at this day against the catholike priests and preachers and the good Iasons that receiue them The answer Looke vpon the late storie of France and there you shall sée that it is the practise of you papists to stir vp the rascall sort to misuse nay to kill and cut the throtes of Gods déere saints Acts. 17. 23. The text For passing by and seeing your idols I found an altar also whereupon was written To the vnknowen God The note The aduersaries in the new Testament 1580. translate your deuotions most corruptly against the nature of the Greeke word 2. Thes. 2. 4. and most wickedly against the laudable deuotion of good Christians calling the pagans idolatrie and superstition their
condemned in the Scriptures and not the holie images of Christ and his saints The answer Lo here be popish images manifestlie condemned for you can not denie for all the world knoweth it that you change the glory of the incorruptible God into the image of a corruptible man There were at that time no images of Christ and his saints to speake against But the reasons by which the prophets and apostles condemned the former images of the Gentiles do beate downe also the images and idolatrie of the papists Rom. 1. 24. The text For the which cause God ⸫ hath deliuered them vp vnto the desires of their hart into vncleannes for to abuse their owne bodies among themselues ignominiouslie The note Ephes. 4. 19. he saith they haue deliuered or giuen vp themselues to all vncleannes By which conference of Scriptures we learne that themselues are the cause of their owne sinne and damnation God of his iustice permitting and leauing them to their owne will and so giuing them vp into passions c. The answer By conference of Scriptures we learne that the matter and cause of sinne and so consequently of damnation resteth in the wicked themselues and that God also in iustice punisheth sinne by sinne As in this chapter God punisheth the idolatrous with a most filthy sinfull life Peruse ouer your stories of Rome and sée whether euer this iudgement of God vpon men for idolatris were more manifestly laid vpon any people then it hath béene and is vpon Rome And tell vs what other people haue set out the praises of Sodomitrie in print most impudently to the face of all the world Rom. 2. 7. The text To them truly that according to patience in good works seeke glorie and honor and incorruption life eternall The note Good men also according to the merits of their good will shall haue their reward August ep 47. The answer And why do you not adde that their good will is the gift of the grace of God séeing Augustine addeth it Further merits with Augustine are taken simply for works and not as it commonly soundeth with the papist for a desert equiualent and correspondent to the reward Lastly he acknowledgeth that God rewardeth and crowneth his owne gifts in vs. How this can make for your doctrine of merits I pray you tell vs. Rom. 2. 〈◊〉 The text Thou therefore ⸫ that teachest another teachest not thy selfe that preachest men ought not to steale thou stealest c. The note It is a shamefull and a damnable thing for preachers teachers or other guides of mens life to commit the same things themselues which they reprooue in other The answer And can the pope and his cardinals be damned or must we secretly except them I pray you tell vs whether For in the whole world it is impossible to find any mans sinnes more plain or more monstrous Rom. 2. 〈◊〉 The text For ⸫ the name of God is blasphemed through you among the Gentils The note It is a great sinne that by the ill life of the faithfull our Lords name should be ill spoken of among the misbeleeuers and manie withdrawen from the true religion thereby The answer I do not take it that you meane that murdering of princes treason periurie sedition rebellion to set vp popish religion to be any sinne at all and yet it maketh your profession euill spoken of and alienateth therefrom all that carrie not bloodie minds and harts Rom. 2. 25. The text Circumcision indeed profiteth if thou obserue the law but if thou be a preuaricator of the law thy circumcision is become ⸫ prepuce The note Prepuce is the foreskin not circumcised and therefore signifieth the Gentils or the state or condition of the Gentils as circumcision the Iewes and their state The answer You can find in your hart to borrow of master Beza but not to be thankfull for that he lendeth you Rom. 3. 4. The text God forbid but God is true and euery man a lier as it is written That thou maist be iustified in thy words and ouercome when thou art iudged The note God onely by nature is true all men by nature may lie deceiue and be deceiued yet God by his grace and spirit may and doth preserue the Apostles and principall gouernors of his people and the church and councels in all truth though they were and are meere men The answer If you meane by these principall gouernors the pope and his cardinals as I do not doubt but you do then we answer That as they are méere men so they shew themselues for they both haue erred and do erre I would faine see one plaine place in all the ancient fathers that no bishop of Rome can err in saith That position is a late heresie vnknowen for a whole thousand yéeres after Christ. And the generall consent of the diuines of Christendome against it till within these two hundred yéeres as may appéere in the councell of Basill where pope Eugenius was condemned for an obstinate heretike and therefore deposed Rom. 3. 14. The text The venim of aspes vnder their lips The note Aspidum a little kind of serpents The answer We acknowledge it Rom. 3. 22. The text And the iustice of God by faith of Iesus Christ vnto all and vpon all that ⸫ beleeue in him The note To beleeue in him heere compriseth not onely the act of faith but of hope and charitie as the Apostle explicateth himselfe Gilat 5. 6. The answer I neuer saw so loose dealing of any but of such as both willingly deceiue themselues and labour to beguile others The Apostle telleth that faith worketh by charitie and you thereupon conclude that to beléeue compriseth the acts of faith hope and charitie How this conclusion followeth neither I sée neither can you make it euident But let it he granted you then how can you excuse your selues of intollerable lieng and slandering when almost euery where you speake of the doctrine of iustification by faith and beléeuing as though hope and charitie were from faith exiled and banished But your shifts are foule and manifest slanders where you may and when by plaine euidence of the text you are beaten from them then it is not ynough for hope and charitie to accompanie faith but they must be also comprised of faith Rom. 3. 24. The text Iustified ⸫ gratis by his grace by the redemption that is in Christ Iesus The note No man attaineth his first iustification by the merits either of his faith or workes but meerelie by Christs grace and mercie though his faith and works proceeding of grace be dispositions and preparations thereunto The answer Is Pelagius aliue againe or why do ye not cite him that your followers may know your doctrine to be ancient and also whom you follow therein In all that Augustine wrote against Pelagius and his adherents let vs sée somewhat to iustifie your note First you acknowledge Christs méere grace and mercie in our first iustification and
wils but that they be sweetely drawen mooued and induced to do good August Euchiridion cap. 64. de verb. domini ser. 43. ca. 7. de verb. Apost ser. 13. cap. 11. 12. The answer Here you bring authorities thicke where néede none Who euer expounded this leading of the spirit of forcible constreining men against their wils Bicause your fréewill is denied you would haue your followers to beléeue that we make men blocks and stocks As for you you are so far from being led by the spirit that you haue no sence nor féeling of it and therfore dare not say that you haue the spirit of God And good reason why you should not bicause the holy Ghost hath not wrought in you any change or alteration from your superstitions follies Rom. 9. 11. The text For when they were not yet borne nor had done any good or euill that the purpose of God according to election might stande not of works but of the caller it was said to her That the elder shall serue the yoonger The note S. Hierom q. 10. ad Hedibiam All the Epistle surely to the Romaines needeth interpretation and is enwrapped with so great obscurities to vnderstand it we neede the helpe of the holie Ghost who by the Apostle did dictate these same things but especially this place Howbeit nothing pleaseth vs but that which is Ecclesiasticall that is the sense of the Church The answer Saint Hierome did not vse this spéech to fraie any from reading anie part of the scriptures and inquiring the sense of them For he himselfe séeketh to satisfie the questions propounded and that to a woman whom he scarcely knew That this epistle néedeth interpretation and especially the illumination of that spirit which caused it to be written it hath common with the rest of the Scriptures For the naturall man vnderstandeth not the things of the spirit of God which are spiritually discerned We would be loath to please our selues with any priuate interpretation not receiued nor allowed of the true church of God But you would gladly haue this whole Epistle out of the way and especially this chapter bicause it setteth out plainely Gods frée election and choise without respect or regard had to works either aforegoing or following Which sense though contrarie to the sense of your church Saint Hierome holdeth as the sense of the church then And therefore he concludeth that question that Hedibia should for euer hold her peace from inquiring anie causes of Gods will why he is mercifull to one seuere to another Rom. 9. 22. The text And if God willing to shew wrath and to make his might knowne ⸫ susteined in much patience the vessels wrath apt to destruction c. The note That God is not the cause of any mans reprobation or damnation otherwise then for punishment of his sins he sheweth by that he expecteth all mens amendment with great patience and consequently that they haue also freewill The answer The cause and matter of mans damnation is in himselfe And yet God did prepare the wicked or damned to be vessels of ignominie or dishonor It is wel that you rake so diligently amongst the vngodly and reprobate for your fréewill For they sin frankly and fréely And if you finde it not amongst the slaues of sinne you shall finde it no where But I haue told you and do tell you againe that this fréedome to do euill is the seruitude of sinne and that therefore this fréewill cannot do any thing but sinne Rom. 10. 4. The text For the end of the law is Christ vnto ⸫ iustice to euery one that beleeueth The note The law was not giuen to make a man iust or perfect by it selfe but to bring vs to Christ to be iustified by him The answer If the law were not giuen to make a man iust then how can a man be iustified by his owne works and obedience Againe how then do you holde it possible to be fulfilled by men for no doubt it maketh iust the fulfillers thereof Though you bring all your suttle shifts and euasions togither yet if you holde fast this note your inherent iustice to make a man iust withall shall be iust woorth two strawes Rom. 10. 5. The text For Moyses wrote ⸫ that the iustice which is of the law the man that hath done it shall liue in it The note The iustice of the law of Moyses went no further of it selfe but to saue a man from temporall death and punishment prescribed to the transgressors of the same The answer Were not the ten commandements part of the law of Moses And doth not Christ answer the yoong man that would know by what doing he should haue life euerlasting Kéepe the commandements Did the curse of the law from which Christ deliuered vs extend no further than to temporall punishment Perfect righteousnes bringeth perfect life The law is a perfect rule of righteousnes therefore if it could be fulfilled of vs it should bring vs to perfect eternall life What meaneth Paul by his opposition of those two sentences The iust shall liue by faith And he that doth these things shall liue in them if one and the same life eternall be not promised in both in the one to beléeuers in the other to doers Againe if this your note were true the law of it selfe and in it selfe had béene too weake to iustifie or sanctifie but saint Paul saith not it was too weake in it selfe but it was weakened by the flesh and therefore could not iustifie But as all poperie is patched togither of old and new heresies so this patch was borrowed of the Manicheans Rom. 10. 13. The text For euerie one ⸫ whosoeuer shall inuocate the name of our Lord shall be saued The note To beleeue in him and to inuocate him is to serue him with all loue and sincere affection All that so do shall doubtlesse be saued and shall neuer be confounded The answer If to inuocate him be to serue him then why teach you men to inuocate others and so consequently to serue others which are but men And thus whilest you are loth to attribute saluation to faith alone but would make it common to works also you cut your owne throtes and shew your selues to all the world to be manifest impostors and deceiuers Rom. 10. 16. The text But all ⸫ do not obey the Gospell The note We see then that it is in a mans freewill to beleeue or not to beleeue to obey or disobey the Gospell or truth preached The answer Your sight is sharpe you can sée far into a mill stone no reasonable man can sée how your consequence followeth All do not obey ergo they haue frée will to obey or not to obey It is like this All papists go not whither they list ergo no papists are in prison or restrained of libertie Rom. 11. 4. The text I haue left me seuen thousand men that haue not bowed their knees to ⸫ Baal The note The heretikes adde
heere image to the text as Acts. 19. 35. The answer A very great corruption sure to call an image an image Your owne consciences do accuse you of grosse idolatrie of bowing to the works of your owne hands and therefore you wince and kicke if a man put his hand but nigh the sore But I pray you what meaneth the feminine article in the Gréeke text ioined with Baal Doth it not inforce vs to vnderstand the word Image Rom. 11. 11. The text I say then haue they so stumbled ⸫ that they should fall God forbid But by their offence saluation is to the Gentils that they may emulate them The note The Iewes are not reiected wholy and incurably for euer but for a part and for a time suffered to fall which God did turne to the Gentils generall good The answer If you would alwaies borow your notes from such as in simplicitie and singlenes of hart haue sought to lead the people into truth as you haue done this the blotting of much paper and the losse of much time might be spared Rom. 11. 12. The text And if the offence of them be the riches of the world and the diminution of them ⸫ the riches of the Gentils how much more the fulnesse of them The note If God could and did turne their fall and sinne into the good of the Gentils much more will he worke good of their general conuersion which shall be at length the accomplishment of the church consisting of both the nations The answer God which doth turne all things to the good of those which are his hasten if it be his will their conuersion and so the comming of his sonne to abolish Antichrist and end our miseries Rom. 11. 20. The text Well Bicause of incredulitie they ⸫ were broken but thou by faith doest stand be not too highly wise but feare The note We see that he which standeth by faith may fall from it and therfore must liue 〈◊〉 feare and not in the vaine presumption and securitie of heretikes The answer I see no such thing but onely this that the seuere iudgment of God against others should make men walke more carefully in their calling and to feare and tremble at the sight and view of God heauie iudgments but you as you haue not the spirit of adoption so you know no feare but seruile which the loue of God exileth and banisheth from it For the sonnes of God though they know and are well assured that they shall abide in their fathers house for euer yet feare tremble and quake at euery threat of his Therefore this feare and certaintie of saluation are not opposed one against the other But to turn home your note to your selues God hath not spared the Iewes nor Ierusalem how shal he then spare the Romans and Rome Which therefore doth aptly agrée with the scope and purpose of the Apostle bicause he compareth not ech particular man with other but nation with nation For many particular men of the Iewes were not reiected and in other nations multitudes haue not the faith which they professe themselues to haue And therefore it followeth that as God reiected the Iewes so he may reiect any other nation of the Gentils Which is the more diligently to be considered of you for that the holie Ghost by the Apostle made speciall choise to set downe this threat to the Romans who as you imagine can neuer erre or fall Rom. 12. 3. The text For I say by the grace that is giuen me to al that are among you ⸫ not to be more wise than behooueth to be wise but to be wise to sobrietie to euery one as God hath diuided the measure of faith The note None must presume to meddle aboue the measure of God gift or out of the compasse of his state and vocation The answer Your note is true And if your proud Antichrist tooke not vpon him without this compasse then there had not béen at this day so much war and bloodshed so many mischiefes miseries throughout Christendome as now there is through his procurement and setting on Rom. 12. 6. The text And hauing gifts according to the grace that is giuen vs different either ⸫ prophesie according to the rule of faith c. The note Prophesie is interpretation of the scriptures which is according to the rule of faith when it is not against the right faith or when it is profitable to edifie charitie as saint Augustine speaketh Lib. 3. doct Christ. c. 25. lib. 1. c. 36. and in effect he saith the same Lib. 12. Confess cap. 18. vnto cap. 32. The answer How happeneth it that you haue left all Augustines rules of interpreting and left vs one onely rule of your owne deuising to interpret by that is the sense and vnderstanding of your church of Rome And if that faile howsoeuer it agréeth with the rule of faith how profitable soeuer it be to edifie withall howsoeuer it be vpholden with most plaine and manifest texts of scripture what consent of antiquitie soeuer there be for it you reiect it Rome with you must be the rule of truth whatsoeuer procéedeth from thence must be holden for an oracle Rom. 1◠14. The text Blesse them that persecute you blesse and ⸫ curse not The note Cursing is a vice whereunto the common people is much giuen who often curse them on whom they cannot otherwise be reuenged they may see heere that it is a great fault The answer The common people learned of your holie father of Rome to curse them on whom they cannot otherwise be reuenged And that they haue not espied this to be a great fault the fault hath béen in you which haue kept till now of late this and other scriptures from the eies of the common people to the end they should not sée it And we sée yet at this day that this vice there rageth and raigneth most where the people are most ignorant and most inclined to poperie Rom. 13. 8. The text For he that loueth his neighbor hath ⸫ fulfilled the law The note Heere we learne that the law may be and is fulfilled by loue in this life against the aduersaries saieng it is impossible to keepe the commandements The answer The Apostle héere doth commend vnto vs the loue of our neighbor not as a particular precept but as a generall comprehending the whole law Therefore he that loueth as he ought fulfilleth the law but that any man Christ onely excepted loueth his neighbor in that perfection that he ought neither the Apostle affirmeth nor you can prooue Therefore your aduersaries may and do truly hold that it is impossible to fulfill the law by exact obedience and kéeping of the commandements Rom. 14. 1. The text I know and am persuaded in our Lord Iesus Christ that nothing is ⸫ common of it selfe c. The note Common that is vncleane See the annotation Marke 7. 2. The answer An Hebraisme bicause they thought that the things vsed
Augustine found in this Iland better Christians then he made anie whom bicause they could not like that gallie mawfrie which he brought from Rome he caused to be most cruellie murdered in great numbers And yet this is to be noted also that a great number of our popish corruptions in his time were neither bred nor borne as for example the vniuersalitie of the popes power and transubstantiation 1. Cor. 5. 2. The text And you are puffed vp and ⸫ haue not mourned rather that he might be taken away from among you that hath done this deede The note Christian men should be sorowfull to see greeuous offences borne withall and ought zealouslie to seeke the offenders punishment by excommunication The answer This note agréeth not with the open practise of your church of Rome wherein not onlie Curtisans are maintained for money but also the sinne of Sodom both fréelie practised and also praised and commended 1. Cor. 5. 9. The text I wrote to you in ⸫ an Epistle not to keepe companie with fornicators The note Either this epistle in the words before or some other The answer I take it to be some other for that I sée no reason to lead me to thinke it to be this 1. Cor. 5. 11. The text But now I wrote to you not to keepe companie if he that is named a brother be a fornicator or a couetous person or a ⸫ seruer of idols or a railer or a drunkard or an extortioner with such a one not so much as take meate The note A notorious wilfull corruption in the Bible 1562. translating in the verse before idolaters and here worshippers of images the Apostles word being one 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 idolater The answer A marueilous iudgement of God is vpon you that contrarie to the expresse commandement of God contrarie to the whole course of scriptures you maintaine that worshipping of images is not idolatrie Your quarrell to the translation is answered by Doctor Fulke against Martinius As for your selues you bow to the wood whereof part hath serued to warme men and part to dresse their meat denie it if you can 1. Cor. 6. 2. The text Or know you not that the ⸫ saints shall iudge of the world The note The faithfull iudge and giue sentence with God at the latter daie speciallie the Apostles and the perfect Christians that haue forsaken all for Christs sake The answer The promise of iudging the world is generall to all true christians and not restrained to perfect Christians But that is intollerable that you plant the perfection of Christians in them selues that is in their owne doing whereas our perfection is the doing and perfect obedience of our Lord Sauiour Iesus Christ. 1. Cor. 6. 10. The text Do not erre neither fornicators nor ⸫ seruers of idols nor adulterers nor the effoeminate nor the liers with mankinde nor theeues nor the couetous nor drunkards nor raâ—â—ers nor extortioners shall possesse the kingdome of God The note For this the English Bible 1562. falselie translateth worshippers of images The answer A foole must be alwaies plaieng with his bable your quarell is not woorth the answering so oft An idol in Gréeke is the same that we call image in English but you can not abide that an image should be called an image but you can abide to commit as grosse and foule idolatrie as euer there was anie in the world 1. Cor. 6. 18. The text Euerie sinne whatsoeuer a man doeth is without the bodie but he that doeth fornicate sinneth ⸫ against his owne bodie The note Fornication is not onely an enimie to the soule but wasteth weakeneth corrupteth and defileth the bodie more properly and directly than any other sinnes do The answer Your note is true and yet some of your side do prefer fornication before marriage in some persons and all your priests refuse the remedie that God himself hath ordained against fornication 1. Cor. 7. 5. The text Defraud not one another except perhaps by consent for a time ⸫ that you may giue your selfe to praier and returne againe togither least sathan tempt you for your incontinencie The note If the lay man can not pray vnlesse he abstaine from his wife the priest that alwaies must offer sacrifices and alwaies pray must therefore alwaies be free from matrimonie Hierom lib. 1. c. 19. cont Iouin The answer Will you admit all Ieroms reasons in that booke to be good I know you will not Amongst other this is a very loose one Remember I pray you your owne note vpon the first to the Romans He is said to pray continually that euery day at some certaine time praieth Therefore there is no such necessitie for anie man to abstaine continually from marriage bicause married men may very well haue time for both the duties 1. Cor. 7. 8. The text ⸫ But I say to the vnmarried and to widowes it is good for them if they so abide euen as I also The note Before he treated of the continencie of such as were married now he giueth lessons for the vnmarried also The answer But you refuse to learne both the one and the other For neither you will admit euery man to haue his owne wife neither yet will you leaue the profession of virginitie to be taken or left as euery man feéeleth in himselfe strength for that to be giuen to him or not to be giuen to him of God 1. Cor. 7. 23. The text You were bought with price be not made the ⸫ bond men of men The note You must not serue men so that you obey or please them more than God The answer The pope exacteth that seruice his extollers flatterers and clawbacks bestow it vpon him and generally all papists vnder that color and pretence withdraw euen their lawfull obedience from their soueraignes and lawfull princes 1. Cor. 7. 28. The text Art thou loose from a wife seeke not a wife But if thou take a wife ⸫ thou hast not sinned The note Virginitie counselled as the better marriage not forbidden bicause it is no sinne The answer Why haue you not thrust virginitie in amongst your sacraments sith you hold it absolutely better than matrimonie You speake very nicely of marriage being one of your sacrements Uirginitie counselled marriage not forbidden The reasons bicause virginitie is the better but marriage no sinne Is that the best reason you can giue for the not forbidding of marriage or can you affoord it no better commendation Is marriage a sacrament and no where counselled nor commanded Sure that were very strange The admirers of virginitie make marriage no better than sinne For the end of it is death saith Ierom in his first booke against Iouinian But to leaue your fansies of marriage and virginitie this I say that either of them is better than other as time place persons and other circumstances do serue for the choise of the one or the other Marriage is the holie ordinance of the almightie commanded to all
that haue not the gift of continencie Uirginitie is a vertue rare onely to be kept of those to whom God hath giuen speciall gifts for that purpose 1. Cor. 7. 40. The text But ⸫ more blessed shall she be if she so remaine according to my counsell And I thinke that I also haue the spirit of God The note The state of widowhood more blessed than the state of matrimonie The answer This also is not absolute but in respect of many encumbrances that commonly accompanie the married 1. Cor. 8. â— The text ⸫ Knowledge puffeth vp but charitie edifieth The note Knowledge without charitie puffeth vp in pride and profiteth nothing at all when it is ioined with charitie then it edifieth Aug. lib. 9. ciuit Dei cap. 20. The answer Héere againe saint Augustine might haue béen spared for you haue giuen testimonie sufficient of your reading 1. Cor. 9. 5. The note Haue not we power to lead about a woman a sister as also the rest of the Apostles and our Lords brethren and ⸫ Cephas The note He nameth Cephas that is Peter to prooue his purpose by the example of the chiefe and prince of the Apostles Saint Ambrose Saint Chrysost. Oecum vpon this place The answer You plaie altogether the sophisters to racke a word or two beyond the meaning of the writers I haue told you before that it was no péece of their meaning to giue to Peter anie soueraignty ouer the rest of the Apostles aswell bicause they giue those additions to others as to Peter as also for that in expresse words they make all the Apostles equall in authoritie of Paul and Peter they know not whether of them to preferre But what néede we fathers are not the scriptures in this case plaine did not Iames Peter and Iohn giue to Paul and Barnabas the right handes not of soueraigntie but of societie and Paul estéemed not him selfe inferior to the best and chiefest of the Apostles And if your desire for Peter were graunted yet for the Bishop of Rome you were neuer the nigher your purpose 1. Cor. 9. 9. The text For it is written in the Law of Moises Thou shalt not muzzel the mouth of the oxe that ⸫ treadeth out the corne The note In that countrie they did tread out their corne with oxen as we do thresh it out The answer A néedlesse note for what could anie man els imagine of it 1. Cor. 9. 13. The text Know you not that they which worke in the holie place eate the things that are of the holie place and they that serue ⸫ the altar participate with the altar The note The English Bible 1562 here and in the next chapter saith thrise for altar temple most falselie and hereticallie against holie altars which about the time of that translation were digged downe in England The answer An ouersight we graunt but false or hereticall meaning we denie For if these places make nothing for your altars howe could the leauing out of the word altar be of purpose against your altars Besides the translator sufficientlie cleareth him selfe of anie such purpose in that in diuers and sundrie places he translateth altars as he findeth it For it had béene to verie small purpose in a place or two to shunne the name of altars and to reteine them in infinite other places 1. Cor. 9. 2â— The text To all men ⸫ I became all things that I might saue all The note Not by fiction or simulation but by compassion of the infirmities of all sortes August epist. 9. The answer A verie good and necessarie example for those which labour in the word to beare so farre as they lawfullie may or can with the infirmities of manie to the end to winne and gaine them to God 1. Cor. 10. 1â— The text Therefore he that thinketh him selfe to stand let him take heed ⸫ least he fall The note It is profitable to all or in a maner to all for to keepe them in humilitie not to know what they shalbe saith Saint Augustine which maketh against the vaine securitie of the protestants The answer You alledge Saint Augustine at randon without telling vs where we might finde this place which maketh me to doubt that it is but some patch of a place which being violentlie pulled from that which goeth before and from that which followeth may séeme to make for that which he meant not In which coniecture whether in this place true or false yet I do you none iniurie First because Augustine giueth me occasion so to coniecture whom I suppose in this point not to be against him selfe who alwaies teacheth christians not to doubt of that which God hath promised them Secondlie your selues haue often giuen occasion of this coniecture who manie times make the fathers seeme to speake that which they neuer meant as both alreadie hath bene shewed and héerafter shall be shewed in these answers to your marginall notes 1. Cor. 11. 2. The text And I praise you brethren that in all things you be mindefull of me and as I haue deliuered vnto you you keepe my ⸫ precepts The note In the Greeke traditions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The answer Could not your vulgar translator abide traditions or hath the Gréeke worde some other signification Against vs Martinius maketh manie and mightie outcries if we do not alwaies translate it tradition He cannot abide that we should learne any more significations of the word And all the stur is to giue some colour to your vnwritten verities â— Cor. 11. â—5 The text For I receiued of our Lord that which also I haue deliuered vnto you ⸫ that our Lord Iesus in the night that he was betraied tooke bread c. The note The Apostles drift in all that he saith here is against vnwoorthy receiuing as S. Augustine also noteth ep 118. cap. 3. and not to set out the whole order of ministration as the heretikes do ignorantly imagine The answer Saint Augustine doth not saie that the whole order of the administration of the Lords supper is not to be gathered hence For if the whole institution of Christ be not a direction to vs for that whence shall we haue it But it is best for you to stand vpon deniall of this bicause you break the whole institution of Christ. How did Paule deliuer that which he receiued of the Lord if he deliuered not the order of the administration of the sacrament did not Christ leaue vnto his church an order for it Though the Apostles drift here be agianst vnreuerent and vnwoorthy receiuing yet that could not be better reformed then by teaching the reuerende and orderly vse of it But bicause you haue in your larger annotations bestowed great labor about this point therefore I refer it ouer to the answer of them 1. Cor. 12. 8. The text To one certes by the spirit is giuen ⸫ the word of wisdome and to another the word of knowledge according to the same spirit to another faith in the same
me hath not been ⸫ voide but I haue labored more aboundantly then all they yet not I but the grace of God with me The note In him Gods grace is not voide that worketh by his freewill according to the motion and direction of the same grace The answer As you haue drawen fréewill from philosophie so you plant grace in the roome of that which the philosophers called right reason and you giue vnto it no more then they did to right reason that is to mooue and direct the will But Paule on the contrary side so attributeth all to grace that he leaueth nothing to himselfe I haue labored saith he yet not I but the grace of God with me that is to saie which is with me 1. Cor. 15. 14. The text And if Christ be not risen againe then vaine is our preaching vaine also is your faith and we are found also ⸫ false witnesses of God c. The note So we may say if the catholike faith in all points be not true then our first apostles were false witnesses then hath our countrie beleeued in vaine all this while are all our forefathers dead in their sins perished which presupposing Christ to be God were the greatest absurditie in the worlde The answer And whie did you not say if the faith which the church of Rome at this day professeth be not in al points true for that we know you meane by the Catholike faith but you would haue your words true howsoeuer your meaning was But we denie your Romish faith to be the catholike faith By our first Apostles also you meane neither Peter nor Paul nor anie of Christes Apostles but Augustine the monke pope Gregories apostle but if his doctrine were Catholike neither yours nor ours is in all points Catholike For our forefathers which you speake of you meane those which liued of late yeeres for those of elder time knew not your faith they could not tell that the Pope could not erre they thought him subiect to the whole church they knew nothing of transubstantiation of concomitance and of a number of such toies as you of late haue coined And therefore let men vnderstand that the Catholike faith is that which Paul and Peter and the other Apostles of Christ left vnto vs taught in the scriptures and that which the first church of Christ beléeued and embraced at their hands and which the church of Rome at this day persecuteth and then your note may stand vntouched 1. Cor. 15. 42. The text For ⸫ starre differeth from starre in glorie so also the resurrection of the dead The note The glorie of the bodies of saints shall not be all alike but different in heauen according to mens merits The answer The Apostle putteth no difference here betwéene the glorified bodies of the saints but betwéene the state of our bodies afore the resurrection and after the resurrection betwixt which two states of the selfe same bodies there shalbe as great difference as betwixt the glorie of the sunne the glorie of anie other starre therefore you do but according to your accustomed order wrest this text to bring men to put confidence in their owne merits 1. Cor. 15. 44. The text It is sowen a naturall bodie it shall rise a spirituall bodie The note As to become spirituall doeth not take away the substance of the bodie glorified no more when Christes bodie is said to be in spiritual sort in the sacrament doth it import the absence of his true bodie substance The answer Hungrie dogges eate durtie puddings this stuffe must serue where better can not be had Our bodies though spiritual and configured as you call it to the bodie of his glorie yet are true bodies not in manie places at once whereof it followeth that Christes bodie being a true glorified bodie is not in manie places at once for that can not stand with the trueth of his bodie 1. Cor. 15. 5◠The text This I say brethren that flesh and blood can not possesse the kingdome of God neither shall corruption possesse incorruption The note Flesh and blood signifie not here the substance of those things but the corrupt qualitie incident to them in this life by the fall of Adam The answer If you should light on men as froward and contentious as your selues they might with as great reason contend with you for the litterall sense of flesh and blood as you do for the litterall sense of This is my bodie which spéech being of a Sacrament you will by no means admit to be of the same nature and to haue like interpretation as all other spéeches of Sacraments haue 1. Cor. 16. 2. The text In ⸫ the first of the Sabaoth let euerie one of you put a part with him selfe laying vp what shall well like him that not when I come collections be made The note That is Sunday Hierome q. 4. Hedibiae So quickelie did the Christians keepe Sunday holie day and assembled to diuine seruice on the same The answer For Sunday that it was appointed by the Apostles to bée kept for the Saboath that it was so solemnized in their times it is manifest you needed not Saint Hieroms authoritie for it sauing that you loue to vse the fathers where you least need them 1. Cor. 16 8. The text But I will tarie at Ephesus till Pentecost The note The heretikes and other new fangled striue amongst themselues whether Pentecost signifie here the terme of fiftie daies or els the Iewes holie day so called But it commeth not to their minds that it is most like to be the feast of Whit suntide kept and instituted euen then by the Apostles as appeareth by the fathers See Augustine epist 119. cap. 15. and 16. Ambrose in cap. 17. Lucae The answer In Augustine I find certaine mysteries in the number of fifty noted as well out of the new testament as out of the old and that the feast of Pentecost was in his time kept of Christians but what was meant by it in this place or whether the Apostles did institute that feast to be kept of Christians or not I find nothing there In Ambrose I find that the beginning of the eighth wéeke after Easter maketh the Pentecost and that Paul in this place promised to tarrie till that time and that they kept all the fiftie daies as Easter but whether by the apostles tradition or no that is left vncertain So we sée not by your fathers that the apostles instituted the feast of Whitsuntide But we sée that you loue to trouble your selues and others with trifles 1. Cor. 16. 2◠The text If any man loue not our Lord Iesus Christ be he Anathema ⸫ Maran-atha The note That is our Lord is come Hierom ep 173. Therefore Anathema to all that loue him not or beleeue not Theophilact vpon this place The answer In matter not in controuersie betwixt vs you make vnnecessarie shew of reading If you did either in loue or in faith
that meaning procéedeth out of diuellish pride and hath no ground nor warrant out of this place For the Apostle héere doth nothing else but commend the liberalitie of the Macedonians in contributing to the reléefe of Gods afflicted saints Whereby they gaue good testimonie that they had wholy addicted themselues to God to be ruled and aduised by the Apostle and other ministers of Gods word All which the Apostle doth to that end to stirre vp them of Achaia to the like liberalitie 2. Cor. 9. 4. The text Least when the Macedonians shall come with me and find you vnreadie we that may not ye may be ashamed in this substance The note That is in this matter of almes Chrysost. Theophilact The answer This is well noted you might haue spared your fathers 2. Cor. 9. 9. The text As it is written he distributed he gaue to the poore his iustice remaineth for euer The note The fruit of almes is the increase of grace in all iustice and good works to life euerlasting God giuing these things for reward and recompence of charitable works which therefore be called the seed or meritorious causes of these spirituall fruits The answer I pray you tell vs how you collect this What necessarie consequence out of this place you can make thereof Otherwise wée must estéeme it as we estéeme of the most part of your other notes as of collections tied to your texts with poynts that will scant hold the tieng 2. Cor. 11. 2. The text For I haue ⸫ despoused you to one man to present you a chaste virgin vnto Christ. The note The Apostles and their successors did despouse the people whom they conuerted to Christ in all puritie and chastitie of truth and wholy vndefiled and void of error and heresie The answer The pope and his cleargie do despouse the people whom they seduce to the purpled whoore of Babylon in all spirituall impuritie and fornication and vntruth full of error and lies 2. Cor. 11. 4. The text For if he that ⸫ commeth preach another Christ whom we haue not preached or you receiue another spirit whom you haue not receiued or another Gospel which you haue not receiued you might well suffer it The note The note of a false teacher to come that is without lawfull calling or sending to thrust and intrude him selfe in another mans charge The answer This note is true but not well collected out of this text For I suppose you do not thinke that false teachers may well be suffered But howsoeuer you haue gathered it your note doth most liuely describe your wandering Iesuits and seminarie priests which without all lawfull calling or sending do secretly thrust themselues into other mens charges preach a new Christ and a new Gospell vnheard of in the daies of Paul 2. Cor. 11. 13. The text For such Apostles are ⸫ craftie workers transfiguring themselues into Apostles of Christ. The note A proper terme for heretikes that shape themselues into the habit of true teachers specially by often allegation and commendation of the scriptures Read the notable admonition of the ancient writer Vincentius Lirinensis in his golden booke against the prophane nouelties of all heresies The answer It is indéed a proper terme and no heretike euer did beare a more glorious shew than the papist Uincentius Lirinensis was carefull both to auoid all heresies himselfe and also to admonish others to take héed thereof His lessons be good such as we practise and you refuse For first he alloweth the canonical scriptures as perfect and sufficient to determine al controuersies which you refuse Secondly to auoid the wrangling of heretikes about the true interpretation of them he adioineth tradition which he doth not take to be vnwritten verities not spoken of in the scriptures as you do but for the sense and interpretation of them which was held and beléeued in the first churches planted by the Apostles by the Apostles I say and their coadiutors direction Thirdly he thinketh that not only the men of greatest fame and estimation in the church might erre but also that the whole or greatest part of the visible church might erre contrarie to your assertion which hold that the church cannot erre and that in that case he that will not be caried into error with multitude and companie must repaire vnto antiquitie which is far from suspition of prophane noueltie euen as we at this day appeale to the scriptures and primitiue church Now then if you will be iudged by his rules it will appéere that papists are craftie workers and so consequently heretikes and bringers in of profane nouelties 2. Cor. 11. 28. The text My daily ⸫ instance the earefulnes of all churches The note 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 S. Chrysostom and Theophilact interpret it of daily conspiracie against him Others of the multitude of cares instant and vrgent vpon him The answer Your latter exposition whereof you kéepe close the authors is the better and to be preferred bicause it is Paules owne who so interpreteth his owne meaning in the next words following 2. Cor. 12. 2. The text I know a man in Christ aboue fourteene yeeres ago whether in bodie I know not or out of the bodie I know not God doth know such a one ⸫ rapt euen into the third heauen The note By this we may prooue that it is neither impossible incredible nor indecent that is reported by ancient fathers of some that haue beene rauished or rapt whether in bodie or out of the bodie God knoweth and brought to see the state of the next life as well of the saued as of the damned The answer Bicause that which hath béene done may be done and it is neither impossible nor incredible must we therefore beléeue all fabulous narrations whereof great number are forged vnder the names of fathers others too readilie receiued and beléeued of men not espieng at that time the subtiltie of the diuell in working those illusions If this foundation faile you your purgatory goeth to the ground Paul vttereth nothing of that he heard and saw there bicause they were secrets vnlawful to be vttered Shal not that condemne the rash boldnesse of others that take vpon them to vtter and tell all and more then all 2. Cor. 12. 21. The text Least againe when I come God humble me amongst you and I mourne manie of them that sinned before and ⸫ haue not done penance for the vncleannes fornication and incontinencie that they haue committed The note 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Saint Augustine epist. 108. is spoken heere of doing great penance for hainous sinnes as paenitents did in the Primitiue church So that it is not onlie to repent or amend their liues as protestants translate it The answer You haue béene often inough answered for our translations in this case If amendment of life true repentance could be without anie tokens or testimonies of heartie griefe and sorrow for sinnes passed then your quarrell might haue some probable shew in it
prooued thus the wisedome of God hath taught vs to praie to our father in heauen and not to anie other what is it then to teach men to praie to others but to controll that wisedome of God that it hath not taught the wisest way to pray and thus in that wherein you thought to shew his humilitie you set foorth his intollerable pride ◠Thess. 2. 11. The text Therefore ⸫ God will send them the operation of error to beleeue lieng c. The note Deus mittet saith Saint Augustine libro 20. de Ciu. cap. 19. quia Deus diabolum facere ista permittet God will send bicause God will permit the diuell to do these things whereby we may take a general rule that Gods action or working in such things is his permission See annot Rom. 1. 24. The answer Now Augustine must helpe you with a generall rule that expresselie both against the whole course of scripture and also against his owne minde if you meane by permission onlie permission for he saith who doeth not tremble at these horrible iudgements of God by which he doth in the hearts of the wicked what he will rendring to euerie man according to his merits And againe he saith it is out of doubt that God doeth worke in the mindes of men to encline their willes either to good according to his mercie or els to euill according to their deserts by his iudgement sometimes open and sometimes secret but alwaies iust This I trowe is somewhat more then only permission therefore you must racke some other for that generall rule for Augustine will not yéeld it you and it groweth out of a foolish nicenes for men to be afraid to speake as the holie Ghost hath spoken afore them 2. Thess. 2. 17. The text And our Lord Iesus Christ him selfe and God our Father which hath loued vs and hath giuen eternall consolation and good hope in grace ⸫ exhort your hearts and confirme you in euerie good worke and word The note This word of exhorting implieth in it comfort and consolation 2. Corinthes 1. verse 4. and 6. The answer Trueth doeth well but neuer when it is intermedled with vntruthes If this note were not defiled with the former these that follow but had passed alone then we would haue ioined with you 2. Thess. 3. 6. The text And we denounce vnto you brethren in the name of our Lord Iesus Christ that you withdraw your selues from euery brother walking inordinately and not according to the ⸫ tradition which they haue receiued of vs. The note Here also as is noted before 1. Thessalonians 2. 15. the aduersaries in their translations auoid the word tradition being plaine in the Greeke least them selues might seeme to be noted as men walking inordinatelie and not according to Apostolicall tradition as all Schismatikes heretikes and rebels to Gods church do The answer If corrupt vse had not in your times made tradition to bée commonlie taken of the people for a doctrine deliuered by word of mouth onlie and neuer published in the holie Scriptures by writing contrarie to the sense and meaning of the Apostle then had there not béene anie iust cause of auoiding the word But you can not iustlie blame vs though we flie a word corrupted by you and therefore dangerous to deceiue withall and set downe for it some other worde no lesse aptlie agréeing to the signification of the Gréeke word and better with more plainnesse expressing vnto the vnlearned the minde and meaning of the Apostle in that place But bicause you charge other men with inordinate walking contrarie to the traditions Apostolicall answer for your selues and yeeld vs reason if you can whie you breake those which you call the Apostles constitutions why do you not commonlie and ordinarilie choose married men to be Bishops why haue you kept the common people from reading the scriptures why suffer you women to baptize why fast you not continuallie on Wednesdaies whie doo ye exclude the people both from election and approbation of Bishops and priests If these bée not the ordinances of the Apostles why do ye abuse the world with alledging the authoritie of that booke for you if they bée with what face can you obiect to others wherein you are most manifestlie faultie your selues 1. TIMOTHIE 1. Tim. 1. 5. The text But the end of the precept is charitie from a pure heart ⸫ a good conscience a faith not fained The note Saint Augustine saith he that list to haue the hope of heauen let him looke that he haue a good conscience let him beleeue and worke well For that he beléeueth he hath of faith that he worketh he hath of charitie praefat in Psalm 31. The answer As you alledge Saint Augustine so I would that you caried his syncere mind and loue to the truth so should we not onlie agrée in this but throwing away all minde and desire of contending enter into a most earnest search for truth with al humilitie 1. Tim. 1. 19. The text This precept I commend to thee O Timothie according to the prophecies going before on thee that thou warre in them a good warfare hauing faith and a good conscience ⸫ which certaine repelling haue made shipwracke about the faith The note Euill life and no good conscience is often the cause that men fall to heresie from the faith of the Catholike church Againe this plainlie reprooueth the heretikes false doctrine seeing that no man can fall from the faith that he once trulie had The answer True and liuelie faith is one thing and the outward profession of faith is another You loue to dallie with equiuocations knowing that that hindereth the consecution of an argument The outward profession and not true faith is meant héere By such arguments as you make it is easie to prooue that the crowe is white 1. Tim. 2. 1. The text I desire therefore first of all things that obsecrations praiers postulations thankesgiuings be made for all men ⸫ for Kings and al that are in praeeminence that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all pietie and chastitie The note Euen for heathen Kings and Emperors by whom the church suffreth persecution much more for all faithfull princes and powers and people both spirituall and temporall for whom as members of Christes bodie and therefore ioining in praier and oblation with the ministers of the Church and priests more properlie and particularlie offer the holie sacrifices See Saint August de origine animae lib. 1. cap. 9. The answer The spirit that guideth and directeth the bishops of Rome now is full contrarie to the spirit that guided and directed Paul and the whole primitiue church For now such princes as punish papists or fauour not poperie must be murdered disinherited excommunicated deposed depriued giuen to the diuell and not praied for They may not looke for the dutie which was giuen to persecuting princes then For our holie father of Rome will not
triall you flie And if anie time you make a shew of comming to it then by and by your church must giue credite to your doctrine your church cannot erre your pope cannot erre we must beléeue your doctrine not bicause you can prooue it to haue come from the Apostles but bicause your church and pope haue giuen sentence for it but if you durst abide by your note we would easily shew your doctrin to be erronious 1. Tim. 6. 10. The text For the roote of all euill is couetousnes ⸫ which certaine desiring haue erred from the faith and haue intangled themselues in manie sorrowes The note As in the first chapter the lacke of faith and good conscience so here couetousnes and the desire of these temporall things and in the ende of this chapter presumption and boasting of knowledge are causes of falling from the faith heresie often being the punishment of former sins The answer It is very true that God punisheth sin by sin and that there be many causes for which wicked men are wont to forsake the faith which they do or did somtimes professe The causes in your note assigned lacke of faith and good conscience couetousnes presumption and boasting if all the world be sought from one end to the other there cannot any be founde in whom these causes haue so euidently concurred and wrought as in your most holy fathers of Rome wherein I referre my selfe to the credite of your owne stories 1. Tim. 6. 19. The text Command the rich of this world not to be high minded nor to trust in the vncertainty of riches but in the liuing God who giueth al things aboundantly to enioy to do wel to become rich in good works to giue easelie to communicate to heape vnto themselues a good ⸫ foundation for the time to come that they may apprehend the true life The note Almes deeds and good works laid for a foundation and ground to attaine euerlasting life So say the doctors vpon this place The answer If you had shewed vs what doctors had so spoken we woulde haue shewed you their meaning But we know that neither they nor the apostles ment by the word foundation to put Christ out of his office or place but onlie to oppose against the vncertaintie of riches here the certaintie of promised blessednes in the time to come According to the saieng of our Lord and Sauiour Christ Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtaine mercy 2. TIMOTHIE ◠Tim. 1. 6. The text For the which cause I admonish thee that thou resuscitate the grace of God which is in thee by imposition of my hands The note Heere againe it is plaine that holy orders giue grace and that euen by and in the externall ceremonie of imposing the bishops hands And it is a maner of speech specially vsed in this Apostle and S. Luke that orders giue grace to the ordered and that to take orders or authoritie to minister sacrament or preach is to be giuen or deliuered to Gods grace Acts. 14. 25. The answer Héere you say that that is plaine which no wise man can sée namely that holy orders giue grace in and by the externall ceremonie of imposing of the bishops hands For if that were so what néeded there be any choise of men furnished with gifts and graces for that purpose sith in the very ordering they should be sufficiently indued with gifts and graces necessarie and néedfull And how fel it out that there were so great a number of popish priests void and destitute of al gifts graces after their ordering when the bishop had conferred and bestowed vpon them all that he could It is euident by the manifold commendations that the Apostle giueth to Timothie as well for his owne studie in the scriptures as also for his bringing vp vnder his mother and grandmother that he was a man furnished with gifts afore Paul and the elders ordered him But bicause the praiers of the church in that his consecrating to the worke of God were not in vaine that blessing and increase of aptnesse and fitnesse which God at their petitions gaue him at that time is called the gift or grace by imposition of hands In the like order it is true that all those which be rightly ordered are deliuered to the grace of God bicause the same God who of his mercifull goodnes afore indued them with gifts made them fit and méete for the worke of his ministerie and mooued his church to call them thereunto afterward by and in the imploieng of their talents to his glorie and the benefit of his church and people increaseth and augmenteth their gifts 2. Tim. 1. 13. The text Haue thou a forme of sound words which thou hast heard of me in faith and in ⸫ the loue in Christ Iesus The note Faith and loue coupled commonly togither in this Apostles writing The answer Paul so speaketh of them bicause faith and loue be companions inseparable But such mates as you are bend themselues to vncouple these to the end they might haue some probable shew of matter to prate withall against iustification by onely faith 2. Tim. 1. 16. The text Our Lord giue mercie to the house of Onesiphorus bicause he hath often refreshed me and hath ⸫ not beene ashamed of my chaine The note What an happie and meritorious thing it is to releeue the afflicted for religion and not to be ashamed of their disgrace yrons or what miserie so euer The answer Put meritorious into your purse and vnderstand true religion and then we agrée to your note 2. Tim. 2. 10. The text Therefore ⸫ I sustaine all things for the elect that they also may obtaine the saluation which is in Christ Iesus with heauenly glorie The note Marke heere that the elect though sure of their saluation yet are saued by the means of their preachers and teachers as also by their owne endeuor The answer Marke héere the force and might of truth which hath héere wrested this confession of truth from you that the elect are sure of their saluation to which the whole course of your doctrine is opposite The ministerie of the word and mens owne endeuors to attaine the knowledge of the truth we acknowledge to be meanes appointed of God to saue those which be his 1. Tim. 2. 16. The text But profane and vaine speeches auoid The note See the annotation before 1. Timoth. 6. verse 20. The answer We haue séene your note and do sée that both your reasons and authorities there stand very well against your selues But I refer the answer of it to the answer of all your annotations 1. Tim. 2. 25. The text But the seruant of our Lord must not wrangle but be mild towards all men apt to teach patient with modestie admonishing them that resist the truth least sometime ⸫ God giue them repentance to know the truth The note Conuersion from sinne and heresie is the gift of God and of his speciall grace yet
downe granted you or else your conclusion carieth not so much as anie shew or likelihood of following That diuers take this Angell to be Christ you your selues confesse and that Christ is many times in scriptures called an Angell I am sure you will not denie That one Angell offereth and not many what can it signifie but that we haue one mediator not many and if we haue but one then why may not Christ be he That of the 24. elders in the fift chapter is a vision of the saints vpon the earth offering their owne praiers For Iohn in that chapter doth not describe the state of the church as it shall be in heauen but as it is héere vpon the earth and therefore setteth it downe magnifieng and praising the lambe by whom the booke was opened that is Gods will in his word reuealed and made knowen But you did well to tell vs that saints héere are taken for holy persons vpon earth for your blind schollers do not imagine that there be any saints but those which are dead and gone and which the pope hath canonized and are to be found in his calendar If the superior saints offer the praiers of the inferior then we néed to learne the orders of saints and Angels in heauen that we go not to them that themselues néed the helpe and intercession of others But who can so tell vs that we may beléeue him You say it is not against the scriptures If it be scripture that telleth vs that we haue an aduocate with the father Iesus Christ who is the propitiation for our sinnes and that we haue one mediator then multitude of mediators and aduocates is against scripture We dare not beléeue your dreames which are no where warranted in the word And we maruell not that you thinke it no derogation to Christ to take away his mediatorship of intercession when you make him but halfe a redéemer and halfe a sauiour As for that of Raphaell it may serue to deceiue your simple followers withall but not to confirme any matter of controuersie against your learned aduersaries who know it not to be canonicall scriptures Apoc. 9◠1. The text And the fift Angell sounded with the trumpet and I saw ⸫ a star to haue fallen from heauen vpon the earth and there was giuen to him the key of the pit of bottomlesse depth The note Most vnderstand all this of heretikes The fall of an archheretike as Arius Luther and Caluin out of the Church of God which haue the key of hell to open and bring foorth all the old condemned heresies buried before in the depth The answer And we also vnderstand this of archheretikes But as you erre in your iudgement of heresie so you set them downe for archheretikes who were not but principall and woorthie ministers of God in his church Your odious coupling of Luther and Caluin with Arius is ridiculous when neither they had nor held any of Arius heresies It is true and signified by the star that heretikes rise of those that haue béen of great account amongst Christians and therfore haue the more opportunitie to deceiue with and become sectmasters as the bishops of Rome who were sometimes most highly and woorthily estéemed and now are become apostataes These as they rightfully challenge to themselues the keies of hell so haue they let abroad in a maner al condemned heresies Ebions heresie in denieng that faith alone sufficeth for iustification Montanus heresie in making lawes for fasting daies The Manichées heresie in forbidding priests to marrie and so consequently of most heresies one péece or other Apoc. 9. 3. The text And from the smoke of the pit there issued foorth ⸫ locusts into the earth and power was giuen to them as the scorpions of the earth haue power And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grasse of the earth nor any green thing nor any tree but onely men which haue not the signe of God in their foreheads The note Innumerable petie heretikes following their maisters after the opening and smoke of the bottomlesse pit The answer The innumerable locusts that deuour the wealth of the earth and with their vaine speculatious sting and poison those which loue not the truth are by the pope let out of hell and haue sparsed ouer the christian world in infinite multitudes as both his schoolemen and the sundry and diuers orders of his religious do testifie For what estimate may be made of the whole number when only one order namely the Franciscane friers were able to spare to the pope thirtie thousand able men to beare armour at one time Apoc. 9. 11. The text And they had ouer them a king the angell of the bottomlesse depth whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon The note The cheefe master of heretikes The answer You say that in English his name is destroyer We sée then the diuell who was an homicide and a destroier from the beginning is this king and captaine ouer the archheretike and his locustes and that they vnder him worke the great and mightie destruction of men which here is prophesied And this agréeth with the prediction of the apostle Paule That antichrist should come by the working of sathan with all power and signes and lieng woonders The pope therefore and his cleargie haue both a mightie and a cunning king and captaine to conduct them to destroy and to be destroied Apoc. 9. 20. The text ⸫ And the rest of men which were not slaine with these plagues neither ⸫ haue done penance from the works of their hands not to adore deuils and idols of gold siuer and brasse and stone and wood which neither can see nor heare nor walke and haue not done penance from their murders nor from their sorceries nor from their fornication nor from their thefts The note Pagans infidels and sinfull impenitent catholikes must be condemned also This phrase being the like both in Greeke and Latin signifieth such sorrowfull and penall repentance as causeth a man to forsake his former sinnes and to depart from them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 See the same phrase cap. 2. 21. 22. Acts. 8. 22. The answer Your two notes being both out of one sentence which could not well be deuided I haue coupled togither And bicause I am sure that by catholikes you meane none other but papists therefore you do well to couple them with pagans infidels For touching saluation and damnation they stand all in one state case that is in the state of damnation except they repent As for your phrase which you make so much a doo about it hath alreadie béen diuers tunes examined prooued that your imagined satisfactorie penance can not be gathered out of it Otherwise we do think that repentance to be but counterfet which wanteth the testimonies of true repentance doth not cause men to forsake their former sins and to depart from them But I pray you tell me your images of gold siluer
brasse stone and wood can they see heare or walke haue you done penance from the works of your hands or will you wilfully go to the diuell Apoc. 10. ◠The text And I saw an other angell strong descending from heauen clothed with a cloud and a rainbowe on his head and his face was as the sunne and his feet as a pillar of fier The note Christ the valiant angell is heere described The answer I maruell that you followed not your Liranus to expounde this of the bishop of Rome but that flatterie you are ashamed of though in other things you excéede him But the circumstances make it plaine his dignitie power strength his decking from top to toe the greatnes of his voice the brightnes of his countenance his vnused steps comprehending lande and sea togither can not well agrée to any other Apoc. 10. ◠The text And when the seauen thunders had spoken their voices I was about to write And I heard a voice from heauen saieng vnto me Signe the things which the seauen thunders haue spoken and ⸫ write them not The note Manie great mysteries and truths are to be preserued in the church which for causes knowen to Gods prouidence are not to be written in the booke of holie Scripture The answer Farre fetched and déere bought is good for ladies Iohn was forbidden to write Ergo they are kept in the church When you can prooue that your church knoweth those things which Saint Iohn was forbidden to write and those things which Saint Paule heard and sawe in heauen and might not vtter then will I beléeue all your vnwritten verities Apoc. 10. ◠The text And the angell which I saw standing vpon the sea and vpon the land ⸫ lifted vp his hand to heauen and he sware by him that liueth for euer and euer c. The note This was the maner of taking an othe by the true God as Deut. 32. The answer There were diuers and sundrie maners of taking othes by the true God which I do not thinke so necessarie here to be noted as that you haue taught men to forsake God and to sweare by those which are not Gods and as the thing which is héere sworne that is that time shalbe no more which is most necessarie for men to consider that they flatter not them selues with the eternall continuance of the world Apoc. 10. ◠The text And he said to me Take the booke and ⸫ deuoure it The note By earnest studie and meditation The answer You say well adde this I pray you that it is not onlie to be read studied and thought vpon but also in as large measure as we are able to attaine to vnderstood and laied vp in our harts Apoc. 10. 9. The text And it shall make thy bellie to be bitter but in thy mouth it shalbe ⸫ sweete as it were honie The note Sweete in the reading but in the fulfilling somewhat bitter bicause it commandeth works of penance and suffring of tribulations The answer The promises of the most gratious fauour of God and good life to beleeuers are swéete and delectable but that we must passe through manie and bitter tribulations to come to life to flesh and blood can not be but bitter As for your satisfactorie workes of penance which your mind runneth on are not to be found any where in this booke but your hart is alwaies on your half penie Apoc. 11. 2. The text But the court which is without the temple cast foorth and measure not that bicause it is giuen to the Gentiles and they shall tread vnder foot the holie citie ⸫ two fourtie moneths The note Three yeeres and an halfe which is the time of Antichrists raigne and persecution The answer But that these moneths are to be measured here by our ordinarie moneths that resteth to be prooued The onlie thing that we can learne by this is that Antichrists raigne shall not endure alwaies but in comparison of Christes raigne which shalbe eternall if shalbe verie short But how long or how short so euer the time is this is certaine and plaine against the papists that during Antichrists raigne the holie citie that is the church shall be troden vnder foote Apoc. 11. 7. The text And when they shall haue finished their testimonie the ⸫ beast which ascended from the depth shall make warre against them and shall ouercome them and kill them The note The great Antichrist The answer The bishop of Rome who though in the eies of the world séeme to preuaile and to kill the witnesses of Gods truth yet he can not do it till they haue finished their testimonie that is the time that God hath appointed them for the execution of their office Apoc. 11. 8. The text And their bodies shall lie in the streets of the ⸫ great citie which is called spiritually Sodom and Egypt where the Lorde also was crucified The note He meaneth Hierusalem named Sodome and Egypt for imitation of them in wickednes so that we see his chiefe raigne shalbe there though his tirannie may extend to all places of the world The answer How faine you would turne mens eies from Rome to looke for the great Antichrist els where Séeing the names and other attributes are spirituall descriptions of this citie and that Rome resembleth Hierusalem in killing Christ in his members is like Sodom in beastlie filthinesse and like Egypt both in ambition and superstition and in indeuor to hold the people of God in seruitude and thraldom I sée not why we should still thinke that to be the great citie here spoken of Apoc. 11. 10. The text And the inhabitants of the earth ⸫ shall be glad vpon them and make merrie The note The wicked reioice when holie men are executed by the tirants of the world bicause their life and doctrine are burdenous vnto them The answer This is verie true and taught by dailie experience vnder the Pope and such tirannous princes as bend their might force and authoritie to aduance his dignitie Apoc. 11. 15. The text And the seuenth Angel sounded with a trumpet and there were made loud voices in heauen saieng ⸫ The kingdome of this world is made our Lordes and his Christes and he shall raigne for euer and euer Amen The note The kingdome of this world vsurped before by Satan and Antichrist shall afterward be Christs for euer The answer This last trumpet summoneth all the dead to rise againe and so to come to iudgement at which time all enemies shalbe destroied and God sole seazed in quiet possession for euer and euer of the whole world Apoc. 11. 18 The text And the Gentiles were angrie and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead to be iudged and ⸫ to render reward to thy seruants the prophets and saints and to them that feare thy name little and great c. The note To repaie the hire or wages for so both the Greeke word and the Latin signifie due to holie men proueth against
thankesgiuing that the saints of God vse for his benefits It is called the song of Moyses and Christ bicause the benefits of all times of the lawe and of the Gospell are therein considered the deliuerie of the children of Israel and the redemption of all nations vnder heauen It consisteth of thrée parts namely in considering the woonderfulnes and gloriousnes of Gods works the iustice and truth of God in his waies and the terriblenes and fearefulnes of his iudgements Apoc. 1◠6. The text ⸫ Bicause they haue shed the blood of the saints and prophets and thou hast giuen them blood to drinke for they are woorthie The note The great reuenge that God will do at the later daie vpon the persecutors of his saints The answer The great reuenge that God hath done and shewed vpon all the persecuting tyrants of the primitiue church And this withal is to be diligently remembred that Gods arme is not shortened and his hand is stretched out still And therefore still blood must be the drinke of them that delight in blood and they that loue darknes shall haue their rewarde in the kingdome of darknes and they that loue not the truth must be giuen ouer to beléeue lies Apoc. 16. 9. The text And men boiled with great heate and ⸫ blasphemed the name of God hauing power ouer these plagues The note The desperate and damned persons shall blaspheme God perpetuallie which shall be such onely as do not repent in this life The answer If I did not perceiue that these plagues are referred to former times I would referre this to you whome I sée blinded with hipocrisie and drunken with the confidence of your owne merits so that when you intend and purpose to serue God you commit idolatrie and bicause you sée not your sinnes you can not abide anie admonition or reproouing and when God striketh and punisheth you bicause you vnderstand not the cause you are neuer the better but grudge and blaspheme and runne headlong to the diuell without repentance But when I looke vnto those former times which are here spoken of I finde the same rootes of euill in them which are in you although not so déepe rooted in them as in you that is the philosophicall doctrine of frée will and confidence in them selues and their workes which made them suppose that they pleased God when they killed his saints enemies to those opinions and bicause they did not imagine that they did amisse therefore no maruell though they repented not but grudged and blasphemed at the plagues which God powred vpon them For the same causes must néedes in euerie one haue like effectes Apoc. 16. 11. The text And they blasphemed the God of heauen bicause of their paines and woundes and ⸫ did not penance from their works The note See chapter 9. verse 2. in the margent The answer The foole will not giue his bable for the tower of London for then he should misse a great deale of good sport Your marginall annotation hath bene viewed and answered the substance wherof being friuolous and foolish you haue repeated I knowe not howe oft in these annotations Apoc. 16. 13. The text And I sawe from the mouth ⸫ of the dragon and from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false prophet three vncleane spirits in maner of frogges The note The dragon is the diuell the beast Antichrist or the societie whereof he is the head the false prophet either Antichrist him selfe or the companie of heretikes and seducers that follow him The answer That by the dragon the diuell is signified and by the beast the Pope or the societie whereof he is the head we easilie consent with you but the false prophet here we suppose to be Mahomet that hath seduced the whole empires of the Turkes and Persians And al these by euill wicked and seducing spirits bend them selues and all their force against the Church and kingdome of Christ. Apoc. 16. 16. The text And he shall gather them into a place which in Hebrewe is called Arina-gedon The note The hill of theeues by Saint Hieroms interpretation The answer The coniectures of interpreters is very diuers vpon this word but this is plaine that being in the time of the sixt Angels powring foorth his viall it is a matter to be accomplished néere about our times and it is therefore the diligentlier to be considered and weighed of vs with the issue of it The summe of it is that the diuell and Antichrist shall by their false prophets perswade the Kings of the earth to bend all their whole force against the church and against the Gospel of God to extinguish and destroy it By all likelihoode the time of accomplishing this is nowe at hand for I suppose there was neuer afore anie such conspiracie of princes for that purpose But God who drewe Iabin and Sisera to Magiddo which bicause it was placed by a mountaine is called héere Arma-gedon to giue them and all their great armie into the hand of a woman to destruction hath promised to doe the like héere to the great comfort and consolation of his church and people especiallie of those which are now gouerned by Deborah Apoc. 16. 19. The text And ⸫ the great citie was made into three parts and the cities of the Gentiles fell The note The citie or common welth of the wicked diuided into three partes into infidels heretikes and euill Catholikes The citie is here called Babylon whereof see the next chapter verse 5. The answer The citie still I take for Rome called héere Babilon The diuision of it I take to be into Epicurean Atheists close hipocrites and cruell superstitious and yet openlie wicked ignorant people Apoc. 17. ◠The text And there came to me one of the seuen Angels which had the seuen vials and spake with me saieng Come I will shewe thee the damnation of the great harlot The note The small damnation of the whole companie of the reprobate called heere the great whore The answer The finall damnation of the popes of Rome and their church there so euidentlie described by their maners nature properties conuersation of life apparell power ouer the kings of the earth that neither man nor place vpon the earth can be found to which euerie part of this description can so aptlie agrée to as to these Open therefore your eies and espie her whom the holie Ghost laieth out so openlie before you and flie from her betimes least you be partaker of her plagues and damnation Apoc. 17. 1. The text Which sitteth vpon ⸫ many waters The note These many waters are many peoples verse 15. The answer Héere you haue found scripture for your vniuersalitie The whoore hath a large dominion and many people vnder hir euen as many as without all iudgement receiue whatsoeuer it pleaseth the bishops of Rome to obtrude to them Apoc. 17. 8. The text The beast which thou sawest ⸫ was and is not and shal come vp out of
the bottomlesse depth and go into destruction The note It signifieth the short raigne of Antichrist who is the chiefe horne or head of the beast The answer I would it had pleased God to make it so short as you imagin it it had saued the blood of a great number of saints and bred quietnes in our daies but sith it hath pleased God otherwise God open our eies that we may sée know and take héed in time Apoc. 17. 12. The text And the ten horns which thou sawest are ⸫ ten kings which haue not yet receiued kingdome but shall receiue power as kings one hower after the beast The note Some expound it of ten small kingdoms into which the Roman empire shall be diuided which all shall serue Antichrist both in his life and a little after The answer I consent to them that interpret this of our kingdoms in Europe England France Spaine Scotland Nauar Denmarke Sweueland Beame Poland Hungarie which all haue serued Rome But the continuance of their seruice the beasts whole life and a little after is one of your dreames Apoc. 17. 1◠The text And the ten hornes which thou sawest in the beast these shal hate the harlot and shal make hir desolate and naked and shal eate hir flesh and hir they shal burne with fire For ⸫ God hath giuen into their harts to doo that which pleaseth him that they giue their kingdom to the beast till the words of God be consummate The note Not forcing or moouing any to follow Antichrist but by his iust iudgement and for punishment of their sinne permitting them to beleeue and consent to him The answer Of Gods working in the minds of men and of your foolish friuolous flieng to permission we haue spoken diuers times afore I cannot learne of you to speake otherwise than the holy Ghost hath taught me but héere it is manifest that those kings shall not serue the whoore so long as you dreamed of but that though by the iust iudgement of God they for a time gaue their crowns and dignities vnto Antichrist yet God hath alreadie altered the minds and wils of some of these and will when his good pleasure is alter the rest that they shall hate the harlot and make hir desolate and naked according to the words of this prophesie Apoc. 18. 7. The text As much as she hath glorified hir selfe and hath been in delicacies ⸫ so much giue hir torment and moorning bicause she saith in hir hart I sit a Queene and widow I am not and moorning I shall not see The note The measure of paines and damnation according to the wicked pleasures and vnlawfull delights of this life which is a sore sentence for such people as turne their whole life to lust and riot The answer Though this be properly spoken and meant of the paines and damnation of the whoore of Babylon yet it may be well extended to all those that after hir example excell in pride and ambition and other impieties For as they haue folowed hir in sinning so no doubt they shall follow hir in the punishment of sinne Apoc. 18. 9. The text And ⸫ the kings of the earth that haue fornicated with hir and haue liued in delicacies shall weepe and bewaile themselues vpon hir when they shall see the smoke of hir burning The note Kings and marchants are most encumbred endangered and drowned in the pleasures of this world whose whole life and traffike is if they be not exceeding vertuous to find varietie of earthly pleasures Who seeing once the extreme end of their ioies and of all that made their heauen heere to be turned into paines and damnation eternall then shall howle and weepe too late The answer Kings and marchants and all other that haue had hir in reuerence shal be astonied at the iudgements of God vpon hir and shall moorne especially all maner of shauen marchants bicause by hir decay they lose their corporall commodities For thereby their Romish marchandise wherein consisted their whole traffike becommeth dead ware and hangeth on their hands For that they haue no vent for it Apoc. 18. 20. The text ⸫ Reioice ouer her heauen and ye holie Apostles and prophets bicause God hath iudged your iudgement of her The note The angels and all saints shall reioice and laude God to see the wicked confounded and Gods iustice executed vpon their oppressors and persecutors and this is that which the martyrs praied for chapter 6. The answer All celesticall creatures togither with the saints of God are called to celebrate and shew foorth their spirituall ioie and gladnes for the destruction of the enimies of Gods church and for the notable reuenge that God hath made for the blood of his saints that hath béene spilled Apoc. 18. 21. The text And one strong angell tooke vp as it were a great milstone and threw it into the sea saieng with this violence shall ⸫ Babylon that great citie be throwen and shall now be founde no more The note By this it seemeth cleere that the apostle meaneth not any one citie but the vniuersal companie of the reprobate which shal perish in the day of iudgement the old prophets also naming the whole number of Gods enimies mistically Babylon as Ierem. cap. 52. The answer How cléere can any thing here make it that by Babylon one citie is not ment The whole number of the reprobate shall perish at the day of iudgement What then Doth that hinder that the head and principall citie of the diuels kingdome is not ment here by Babylon Babylon is taken in the scriptures mystically for the whole number of Gods enimies Ieremie 52. Babylon in that chapter is not named and though it be by circumstance desciphered I sée nothing why there also it should not be taken for the citie it selfe But howsoeuer it be taken there it is most manifest that here it must be taken for Rome For what other citie is situate on seauen hils what other citie hath had kingdome ouer the kings of the earth what other city hath made the nations to erre in her inchauntments and in what citie else may a man finde the blood of the prophets and saints that haue béene slaine vpon the earth So that the reasons that lead vs to vnderstand it of Rome are so many and so plaine that except a man would shut his eies against the light he cannot choose but sée it Yet this is farther to be gathered that the head and principall citie of the diuels kingdome can not fall without the ruine and fall of the whole kingdome Apoc. 19. ◠The text And againe they said Allelu-ia The note This often repeating of Allelu-ia in times of reioising the church doth follow in her seruice The answer And where all things in the church ought to be done to edifieng the people who vnderstand neuer a word are neuer the better neither for your Latine Gréeke nor Hebrew And yet you thinke it sufficient to tell vs that such a
sée that he that maketh a lie can not enter considering it appéereth in all your workes and especiallie in these notes that you thinke it not dishonestie or shame commonlie to lie And another thing I would haue you to consider of why this celestiall citie is called rather by the name of Ierusalem then of Rome séeing that if your doctrine be true Rome hath greater priuiledges vpon earth then euer had Hierusalem and therefore were méeter to shadow that celestiall citie Apoc. 22. â— The text In the middest of the streete thereof and on both sides of the riuer ⸫ the tree of life yeelding twelue fruits rendring his fruit euerie moneth and the leaues of the tree for the curing of the Gentiles The note Christ is our tree of life in the Church by the blessed Sacrament and in heauen by his visible presence and influence of life euerlasting both to our bodies and soules of whom Salomon saith The tree of life to all that apprehend him Prouerb 3. The answer It is true that Christ is this trée of life and that he worketh life and health by the ministerie of his worde and sacraments to beléeuers And that the knowledge of the benefits which we haue by Christ is the leaues wherebie the Gentiles receiue health and are cured and that Christes bodilie presence not in the Sacrament but in heauen preserueth eternallie the bodies soules of them that shalbe saued Apoc. 22. 8. The text And I Iohn which haue heard and seene these things and after I had heard and seene I fell downe ⸫ to adore before the feete of the angell which shewed me these things and he said to me Stand vp for I am thy fellow seruant The note You see it is all one to adore before the feete of the Angell and to adore the Angell though to adore him be not expressed as in the 19. chapter See the annotation there verse 10. The answer If your note be true then how can you adore before images and not adore images For if to adore before an Angel to adore an angell be all one then how is it not also al one to adore before an image and to adore an image Your annotation shall receiue answer amongst the rest Apoc. 22. 11. The text And he that is iust ⸫ let him be iustified yet and let the holie be sanctified yet The note Man by Gods grace and doing goodworkes doth increase his iustice The answer This is according to your accustomed maner dallieng and deluding with words ambiguous It is manifest that the Apostle reiterating one and the same thing in diuerse wordes doeth by the latter expresse the meaning of the former Our iustice therefore but not our iustification before God may be increased by the meanes you speake of for it is properlie Gods iustice and not ours whereby we are iustified before him Gods iustice I call the obedience of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ which God imputeth to those whose sinnes he pardoneth and which can onlie abide the rigour of Gods examination according to his perfect rule of iustice that is the lawe Mans iustice I call the fruits and effects of the spirit of regeneration which do more and more dailie abound and increase in the godlie as knowledge and faith doeth more and more encrease The text Behold I come quickelie and my reward is with me to render to euerie man ⸫ according to his workes Apoc. 22. 12. The note Heauen is the reward hire and repaiment for goodworkes in all the Scriptures and yet the aduersaries will not see it The answer That our good workes deserue or merite heauen is the thing which we can not sée nor you shew through all the Scriptures And yet you cease not to make lame and halting arguments that followe not for if alwaies vpon reward deseruing necessarilie followeth then it must follow that your fellowes which haue bene rewarded with the gallowes haue also deserued the gallowes which if you graunt then you ouerthrowe the concertation of your Catholike church the chéefe purpose whereof was to iustifie traitors FINIS Deut. 6. vers 7. 8 9. Psal. 1. vers â— Psal. 78. v. â—â— Psal. 19. veâ— 7. Iohn 5. v 39. Rom. v. 1â— v. â— Clemeâ— l. b. 1. cap. â— Epistla ad Marcellam In the homilie quoted in their epistle In the fift part of his answere to the apologie Chap. 16. 〈◊〉 Iib. 14. cap. 8. Lib. 15. cap. 13. Iohn 2. v. 4. Iohn 21. vers 22. Rom. 5. vers 18. Vers. 23. Vers. 16. Vers. 8. Vers. 2. Vers. 21. Vers. 13. Vers. 〈◊〉 Vers. 〈◊〉 Actes 2. vers â—7 1. Peter 3. ver 19. Mat. 2. ver 16. Mat. 3. ver 10. Mat. 3. vers 8. Mat. 5. ver 10. Mat. 18. vers 17. Mat. 18. vers 18. August epist. 19. Hos. de side symbolo ca. 19. Retract lib. 1. cap. 23. Hieronimuâ— Euagrâ—o Nicenum concilium canone 6. August nus ad Epistola Parmemam libro prâ—mo cap 5. contra literas Petiliam lib. 3. cap. 25. In quest ex nouo veteri testamento cap. 70. De salutaribus documentis cap. 64. Eusebius de preparatione Euangelica lib. 11. cap. 20. â—am 5. 15 16. Rom. 1. 1â— As Thursdayes August epist. â—6 Huldericus Augusta episcopus in epist. ad papam Nicholaum Nicholaus Clemangis Concilium Constantiense sessione 19. Iohn 10. 29. Iohn 15. 16. Retract primo cap. 23. De natura gratia cap. 67. Retract lib. 1. cap. 9. Session 12. 1. Cor â— 11. Hebr. 11 9. Matth. 9. 10. Iohn 11. 1. Matth. 27. 57. Matth. 8. 14. Canon 6. Urbanus sextus drowned fiue Cardinals Sergius tertius digged pope Formosus out of his graue Mille miracula beatae Mariae Ephes. 14. â— Luk. 23. 43. Ezec. 18. 22. Prouerb 10. 7 Psalm 112. 7. Matth. 21. 25. Luke 7. 30. Iohn 1. 33. Iohn 1. 26. Matth. 3. 11. August de vnico baptismo cap. 7. August Retraâ—â—ationum 1. cap. 13. Act. 3. 12. 16 Mark 5. 30. Iohn 13. slâ—ine being taken in adulterie 1. Cor. 6. 16. Psal. 19. 7. 2. Cor. 8. 12. 2. Cor. 9. 7. Rom. 8. 38. â—pistol 57. Ad ThrasimunduÌ„ regem lib. 2. cap. 5. Libro 1. cap. 3. â—ib 4. cap. 4. Tract in 8. 〈◊〉 Io. 50. â—udg 6. 31. Iohn 1. 29. Ecclesiastica historia lib. 5. cap. 18. Epistola 86. Ecclesiastica historia lib. 5. cap. 24. Epiphanius in compend fideâ— Lib. 9. cap. 38. Rom. 8. 7. Hieronima Eâ—agrio Rom. 11. 32. Ad Paulam super obitu Blâ—sillâ—e Epistola 57. Epistola 99. Hipognosticon 〈◊〉 5. Hebr. 12. 6. 1. Cor. 12. 14. Ephes. 4. 14. Galaâ— 3. 1â— 1. Cor. 3. 11. 1. Peter 2. 3. Iohn 1. 37. Iohn 1. 19. Psal. 25. 9. 12. Mille miracula beatae Mariae Deut. 12. 5. Ierem. 7. 4. Harding against the Apologie 6. part c. 5. diuision 1. Rom. 8. â—6 Augustine â—pist 5â— For the pope can dispence against the new and the old Testament Rom. 12. 1. Heb. 10. 10. Iohn 20. 31. Matth. 10. 6. Actes 1. 15. Actes 2. 24. Iohn 20. 19. Acts. 1. 15. Stapleton de â—â—tente Ecclesia capâ—te 2. Acts. 14. 9. Rom. 8. 28. Deut. 16. 16. Platina in viâ—ta Pauli secundi Hebr. 11. 6. As appeereth in the report of the death of doctor Parrie Rom. 1. 20. Ieronimus Eâ—uagrio Platinâ—sâ—â—â— that Liberâ—â— was an Arrian Sessione 34. August de peccato originali cap. 1. 〈…〉 Rom. 5. 1â— 1. Ioh. 4. 18. Pope Paul the second esteemed all that were learned for heretiks dâ—dwish the Romanes to set their children no longer to schoole but till they could write reade Platina â—â—emeus Eusebius lib. 4. cap. 6. Ecclesiasticae historiae Ecclesiastica historia lib. 20. cap. 1. De simplicitate praelatorum sermone 66. Antoninus de Dominico Augustin de â—â—mtate Ecclesie capite 4. 1. Cor. 3. 5. 1. Cor. 3. 7 Esai 44. 18 19. Smith de votis caeâ—batu Galat. 2 9. 2. Cor. 11. 5. August 1. râ—tract cap. 13. Despiritu â—â—â—ma cap. 29. Luk. 18. 14. Rom. 4. 5. Psal. 33. 1. Ephes 2. 8. 2. Cor. 5. 2. 〈…〉 6. 〈…〉 Clemens lib. 7. cap. 16. Ecclesiast hâ—st lib. 3. cap. 34. Tomo 3. cap. â— In catalogâ— scriptorum Libro 3. contra haereses cap. 3. Lib. 2. aduersus Donatistas 〈…〉 Ecclesiast hist. l. b. 7. cap. 14. Psal. 113. 3. Esaic 42. 8. Lib. de â—id c. 13 Hosias saith that we haue no other shield but the signe of the crosse De gratia libero arbitrio cap. 21. Libr. 2. cap. 2. Libr. 1. cap. 6. Libr. 3. cap. 9. Lib. 7. cap. 24. Libr. 8. cap. 2. As the charter house moonks 1. King 12. 31. 1. Tim. 4. 16. 2. Tim. 3. 14. 15. Rom. 8. 7. verse 15. Deut. 4. 2. Deut. 28. 14. 1. Iohn 5. 16. Matth. 12. 32. Exod. 14. 8. Leuit. 14. 4. Rom. 5. 1â— Iosua 24. â—â— Galat. 2. In the beginning of this chapter Pope Alexander Mille 〈◊〉 la beatâ— Mars Abbas vrspergensis Platâ—na Pope Hildebrand called Gregorie the 9. Pope Victor the third was poisoned in the chalice The Emperor Henrie of Lucemburgh was poâ—soned in the consecrate bread Leo the tenth Master Camâ—pion in the 3. dais conference in the Tower Innocentius de maioritate obedientia cap. Solita 2. Cor. 10. veâ— 4. 5. 6. Rom. 5. 23. Psal. 51. 10. Iohn 17. 5. 2. Tim 2. 19. 〈…〉 lib. 3. cap. 27. Idem lib. 5. cap. 18. Sabâ—licâ—â— 2. Thes. 2. 9. Ierem. 5. ◠〈◊〉 de 〈◊〉 ecclesia cap. 2. The consessor to Henrie the sixt Emperor Hildebrand Leo the tenth â— Cor. 11. 2. De ciuitate dei lib. 15. ca. 5 Iudges 4. the whole chap. and 5. ver 19. Mat. 7. 22. 23. Rom. 6. 23. 1. Cor. 6. 19. 1. Cor. 13. 9.