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A16049	The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ, translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages; vvith arguments of bookes and chapters, annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the corruptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the controversies in religion, of these daies: in the English College of Rhemes; Bible. N.T. English. Douai.	Martin, Gregory, d. 1582.	1582 (1582)	STC 2884; ESTC S102491	1,123,479	852

Holy Ghost 15 Exhorting them to liue also accordingly in al holines 15 considering the holines of God the vprightnes of his iudgement the price of their redemption by Christ 22 and the vertue of the seede in them ●hich is grace regeneratiue in Baptisme foretold by the Prophet also verse 1 PETER an Apostle of IESVS Christ to the electe strangers of the dispersion of Pontus Galatia Cappadocia Asia and Bithynia ✝ verse 2 according to the prescience of God the Father into sanctification of the Spirit vnto the obedience and sprinkling of the bloud of IESVS Christ Grace to you and peace be multiplied ✝ verse 3 Blessed be God and the father of our Lord IESVS Christ vvho according to his great mercie hath regenerated vs vnto a liuely hope by the resurrection of IESVS Christ from the dead ✝ verse 4 vnto an inheritance incorruptible and incontaminate and that can not fade conserued in the heauens in you ✝ verse 5 vvho in the vertue of God are kept by faith vnto saluatiō ready to be reuealed in the last time ✝ verse 6 wherin you shal reioyce a litle novv if you must be made heauy in diuerse tentations ✝ verse 7 that the probation of your faith much more pretious then gold vvhich is proued by the fire may be found vnto praise and glorie and honour in the reuelatiō of IESVS Christ ⊢ ✝ verse 8 vvhom hauing not seen you loue in vvhom novv also not seing you beleeue and beleeuing you reioyce vvith ioy vnspeakable and glorified ✝ verse 9 receiuing the end of your faith the saluation of your soules ✝ verse 10 Of the vvhich saluation the Prophetes inquired searched vvhich prophecied of the grace to come in you ✝ verse 11 searching vnto vvhich or vvhat maner of time the Spirit of Christ in them did signifie foretelling those passions that are in Christ and the glories folovving ✝ verse 12 to vvhom it vvas reuealed that not to thē selues but to you they ministred those things vvhich novv are told you by them that haue euangelized to you the holy Ghost being sent from heauen on vvhom the Angels desire to looke ✝ verse 13 For the vvhich cause hauing the loines of your minde girded sober trust perfectly in that grace vvhich is offered you in the reuelation of IESVS Christ ✝ verse 14 as children of obedience not configurated to the former desires of your ignorance ✝ verse 15 but according to him that hath called you the Holy one be you also in al conuersation holy ✝ verse 16 because it is vvritten You shal be holy because I am holy ✝ verse 17 And if you inuocate the Father him vvhich * vvithout acception of persons iudgeth according to euery ones vvorke in feare conuerse ye the time of your peregrination ✝ verse 18 Knovving that * not vvith corruptible things gold or siluer you are redeemed from your vaine conuersation of your fathers tradition ✝ verse 19 but vvith the pretious bloud as it vvere of an immaculate and vnspotted lambe Christ ✝ verse 20 * foreknovven in deede before the constitution of the vvorld but manifested in the last times for you ✝ verse 21 vvhich by him are faithful in God vvho raised him from the dead and hath giuen him glorie that your faith and hope might be in God ✝ verse 22 Making your soules chaste in obedience of charitie in the sincere loue of the fraternitie from the hart loue ye one an other earnestly ✝ verse 23 borne againe not of corruptible seede but incorruptible by the vvord of God vvho liueth and remaineth for euer ✝ verse 24 For al flesh is as grasse and al the glorie thereof as the floure of grasse the grasse is vvithered and the floure thereof is fallen avvay ✝ verse 25 But the vvord of our Lord remaineth for euer and this is the vvord that is euangelized among you CHAP. II. Novv after their Baptisme vvhat must be their meate 4 and being come to Christ hovv happie they be abou● their incredulous brethren according to the Scriptures also 11 Wherevpon he beseecheth them to shine in good life among the Heathen so to procure their conuersion 13 to be obedient subiects to higher Povvers hovvsoeuer some misconster Christian libertie 14 and seruants to obey their Maisters 19 And so doing vvel though they suffer for it it is very meritorious 21 vvhereas Christ also not onely gaue them example 24 but also by his death hath made them able to liue iustly verse 1 LAYING avvay therfore al malice and al guile and simulations and enuies and al detractions ✝ verse 2 as infants euen novv borne reasonable milke vvithout guile desire ye that in it you may grovv vnto saluatiō ✝ verse 3 if yet you haue tasted that our Lord is svveete ✝ verse 4 Vnto vvhom approching a liuing stone of men in deede reprobated but of God elect and made honorable ✝ verse 5 be ye also your selues superedified as it vvere liuing stones spiritual houses ' a holy priesthod to offer ″ spiritual hostes acceptable to God by IESVS Christ ✝ verse 6 For the vvhich cause the Scripture conteineth Behold I put in Sion a principal corner stone elect pretious and he that shal beleeue in him shal not be confounded ✝ verse 7 To you therfore that beleeue honour but to them that beleeue not the stone vvhich the builders reiected the same is made into the head of the corner ✝ verse 8 and * a stone of offense and a rocke of scandal to them that stumble at the vvord neither doe beleeue wherin also they are put ' ✝ verse 9 But you are an * elect generation a kingly priesthod a holy nation a people of purchase that you may declare his vertues vvhich from darkenesse hath called you into his maruelous light ✝ verse 10 Vvhich sometime not a people but novv the people of God Vvhich not hauing obtained mercie but novv hauing obtained mercie ✝ verse 11 My deerest I beseche you as strangers pilgrimes * to refraine your selues from carnal desires which vvarre against the soule ✝ verse 12 hauing your conuersation good among the Gentiles that in that vvherein they misreport of you as of malefactors by the good vvorkes considering you * they may glorifie God in the day of visitation ✝ verse 13 * ″ Be subiect therfore to euery humane creature for God vvhether it be ″ to king as excelling ✝ verse 14 or to rulers as sent by him to the reuenge of malefactors but to the praise of the good ✝ verse 15 for so is the vvil of God that doing vvel you may make the ignorance of vnvvise men to be dumme ✝ verse 16 as free ″ not as hauing the freedom for a cloke of malice but as the seruants of God ✝ verse 17 Honour al men Loue the fraternitie Feare God Honour

his coate And his coate vvas vvithout seame vvrought from the toppe through out ✝ verse 24 They said therfore one to an other Let vs not cut it but let vs cast lottes for it vvhose it shal be That the scripture might be fulfilled saying They haue parted my garments among them and vpon my vesture they haue cast lottes And the souldiars did these things ✝ verse 25 And there stoode beside the crosse of IESVS his mother and his mothers sister Marie of Cléphas and Marie Magdalene ✝ verse 26 Vvhen IESVS therfore had seen his mother and the disciple standing vvhom he loued he saith ″ to his mother Vvoman behold thy sonne ✝ verse 27 After that he saith ″ to the disciple Behold thy mother And from that houre the disciple tooke her to his ovvne ⊢ ✝ verse 28 Aftervvard IESVS knovving that al things vvere novv consummate that the * scripture might be fulfilled he saith I thirst ✝ verse 29 A vessel therfore stoode there ful of vinegre And they putting a spongeful of vinegre about hyssope offered it to his mouth ✝ verse 30 IESVS therfore vvhen he had taken the vinegre said It is cōsummate And bovving his head he gaue vp the ghost ✝ verse 31 The Ievves therfore because it vvas the Parasceue that the bodies might not remaine vpon the crosse on the Sabboth for that vvas a greate Sabboth day they desired Pilate that their legges might be broken and they might be taken avvay ✝ verse 32 The souldiars therfore came and of the first in deede they brake the legges and of the other that vvas crucified vvith him ✝ verse 33 But after they vvere come to IESVS vvhen they savv that he vvas dead they did not breake his legges ✝ verse 34 but one of the souldiars vvith a speare opened his side and incontinent there came forth ″ bloud and vvater ✝ verse 35 And he that savv it hath giuen testimonie and his testimonie is true ⊢ And he knovveth that he saith true that you also may beleeue ✝ verse 36 For these things vvere done that the scripture might be fulfilled You shal not breake a bone of him ✝ verse 37 And againe an other scripture saith They shal looke on him vvhom they pearsed ✝ verse 38 And after these things Ioseph of Arimathaea because he vvas a disciple of IESVS but secrete for feare of the Iewes desired Pilate that he might take avvay the body of IESVS And Pilate permitted He came therfore and tooke avvay the body of IESVS ✝ verse 39 * Nicodemus also came he that at the first came to IESVS by the night bringing a mixture of myrrhe and a●oés about an hundred poundes ✝ verse 40 They tooke therfore the body of IESVS and bound it in linnen clothes vvith the spices as the maner is vvith the Ievves to burie ✝ verse 41 And there vvas in the place vvhere he vvas crucified a garden and in the garden a nevv monument vvherein no man yet had been laide ✝ verse 42 There therfore because of the Parasceue of the Ievves they laid IESVS because the monument vvas hard by ANNOTATIONS CHAP. XIX 15. His owne crosse This crosse for that it was the instrument of our redemption and as it were the altar of the supreme sacrifice highly sanctified by the touching bearing and oblation of the sacred body and bloud of our Lord is truely called the HOLY CROSSE and hath been endued vvith vertue of miracles both the whole and euery litle peece thereof For the which causes and specially for the most neere memorial of Christes Passion it hath been visited in Pilgrimages honoured by festiual daies and otherwise reserued reuer●nced of the ancient fathers with al deuotion as contrariwise it hath been abused of Pagans Apostaraes and Heretikes seeking in vaine to deface and destroy it See S. Cyril li. 6. cont Iulian. S. Hierom ep 17. S. Paulinus ep 11. Ruffinus li. 1. c. ● 8. Euagr. histo li. 4. c. 25. S. Leo ep 72. and Ser. ● de Passione Paulus Diac. li. 18. 26. To his mother The maruelous respect that Christ had to his mother vouchsauing to speake to her and to take order for her euen from the crosse in the middes of his infinite anguishes and mysteries a working for mankind 27. To the Disciple A great honour to Iohn and charge to haue that blessed iewel in keeping and an vnspeakable comfort that from that day forward the one was to the other mother and sonne virginem virgini cōmendauit saith S. Hierom. He cōmended the virgin to a virgin 34. Bloud and vvater This pearsing of Christs side though on the souldiars part it was done blindly and insolently yet by Gods ordinance it conteined great mysteries and was presigured by Moyses striking the rocke with his rodde as this streame of bloud and water drawen miraculously out of his dead body running in the Sacraments of the Church after the people of God was signified by the water of the same rocke folowing the Israelites in the desert Out of this side saith S. Augustine issued the Sacraments Hence saith S. Chrysostom the great mysteries haue their beginning Who vvarneth vs that vvhen vve come to drinke of the holy chalice vve should so approche as though vve drevv the bloud out of Christes side And both bloud and vvater apart did flovv forth to shevv vs the fountaine of the tvvo principal Sacraments and their seueral matters Baptisme and the Eucharist springing to life euerlasting in the Church The fathers also say that the Church vvho is Christs spouse and his coadiutrice in applying the bloud and vvater to the benefite of the Faithful was here formed builded and taken out of this holy side of Christ sleeping on the Crosse as * Eue was of Adams side when he was cast a sleepe in Paradise CHAP. XX. Vpon Easter day his body is missed in the Sepulcher first by M. Magdalene 3 secondly by Peter also and Iohn the vvinding clothes yet remayning 11 Then to M. Magdalene after she had seen tvvo Angels IESVS also him self appeareth 〈◊〉 She hauing told to the Disciples he appeareth to them also the same day and sendeth them as him self vvas sent giuing them the Holy Ghost to remitte and to reteine sinnes 26 Againe vpon lovv Sunday he appeareth to them letting Thomas see that he might beleeue and commending such as not seeing yet do beleeue 30 The effect of this booke verse 1 AND the first of the Sabboth Marie Magdalene commeth early vvhen it vvas yet darke vnto the monument and she savv the stone taken avvay from the monumēt ✝ verse 2 She ranne therfore and cōmeth to Simon Peter and to the other disciple vvhom IESVS loued and saith to them They haue taken our Lord out of the monument and vve knovv not vvhere they haue laid him ✝ verse 3 Peter therfore vvent forth and that other disciple

testament and the lavv giuing and the seruice and the promisses ✝ verse 5 vvhose are the fathers of vvhom Christ is according to the flesh vvho is aboue al things God blessed for euer Amen ✝ verse 6 But not that the vvord of God is frustrate For ″ not al that are of Israël they be Israëlites ✝ verse 7 nor they that are the seede of Abrahā al be children ″ but in Isaac shal the seede be called vnto thee ✝ verse 8 that is to say not they that are the childrē of the flesh they are the children of God but they that are the childrē of the promisse are esteemed for the seede ✝ verse 9 For the vvord of the promisse is this According to this time vvil I come and Sarae shal haue a sonne ✝ verse 10 And not only she But * Rebecca also conceiuing ″ of one copulation of Isaac our father ✝ verse 11 For vvhen they vvere ″ not yet borne nor had done any good or euil that the purpose of God according to election might stand ✝ verse 12 not of vvorkes but of the caller it vvas said to her That the elder shal serue the yonger ✝ verse 13 as it is vvritten Iacob I loued but Esau I hated ✝ verse 14 Vvhat shal vve say then ″ Is there iniquitie vvith God God forbid ✝ verse 15 For to Moyses he saith I vvil haue mercie on vvhom I haue mercie and I vvil shevv mercie to vvhom I vvil shevv mercie ✝ verse 16 Therfore it is ″ not of the vviller nor the runner but of God that shevveth mercie ✝ verse 17 For the Scripture saith to Pharao That ″ to this very purpose haue I raised thee that in thee I may shevv my povver and that my name may be venovvmed in the vvhole earth ✝ verse 18 Therfore on vvhom he vvil he hath mercie and vvhom he vvil he doth indurate ✝ verse 19 Thou saiest therfore vnto me Vvhy doth he yet complaine for vvho resisteth his vvil ✝ verse 20 O man ″ vvho art thou that doest ansvver God Doth the vvorke say to him that vvrought it Vvhy hast thou made me thus ✝ verse 21 Or hath not ″ the potter of clay povver of the same masse to make one vessel vnto honour and an other vnto cōtumelie ✝ verse 22 And if God vvilling to shevv vvrath and to make his might knovven susteined in much patience the vessels of vvrath apte to destruction ✝ verse 23 that he might shevv the riches of his glorie vpon the vessels of mercie vvhich he prepared vnto glorie ✝ verse 24 Vvhom also he hath called vs not only of the Ievves but also of the Gentiles ✝ verse 25 as in Osee he saith I vvil call that vvhich is not my people my people and her that vvas not beloued beloued and her that hath not obteined mercie hauing obteined mercie ✝ verse 26 And it shal be in the place vvhere it vvas said to them you are not my people there they shal be called the sonnes of the liuing God ✝ verse 27 And Esaie crieth for Israel If the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea the remaines shal be saued ✝ verse 28 For consummating a vvord and abridging it in equitie because a vvord abbridged shal our Lord make vpon the earth ✝ verse 29 And as Esay foretold Vnles the Lord of Sabaoth had left vs seede vve had been made like Sodom and vve had been like as Gomorrha ✝ verse 30 What shal vve say then That the Gentiles vvhich pursued not after iustice haue apprehended iustice but the iustice that is of faith ✝ verse 31 But Israel in pursuing the lavv of iustice is not come vnto the lavv of iustice ✝ verse 32 Vvhy so Because not of faith but as it vvere of vvorkes for they haue stombled at the stone of stombling ✝ verse 33 as it is vvritten Behold I put in Sion a stone of stombling and a rocke of scandal and vvhosoeuer beleeueth in him shal not be confounded ANNOTATIONS CHAP. IX ● Anáthema Anáthema by vse of Scripture is either that vvhich by separation from profane vse and by dedication to God is holy dreadful and not vulgarly to be touched or contrarievvise that which is reiected seuered or abandoned from God as cursed and detested and therfore is to be auoided And in this later sense according as S. Paul taketh it 1 Cor. 16. If any loue not our Lord IESVS CHRIST be he Anathema that is to say Avvay vvith him Accursed be he Bevvare you company not vvith him the Church and holy Councels vse the vvord for a curse and excommunication against Heretikes and other notorious offenders and blasphemers Novv hovv the Apostle vvishing him self to be Anathema from Christ to saue his Countrie mens soules did take this vvord it is a very hard thing to determine Some thinke he desired onely to die for their saluation Others that being very loth to be kept from the fruition of Christ yet he could be con●ent to be so still for to saue their soules Others that he vvished vvhat inalediction or separation from Christ so euer that did not imply the disfauour of God tovvards him nor take avvay his loue tovvard God This only is certaine that it is a point of vnspeakable charitie in the Apostles breast and a paterne to al Bishops and Priests hovv to loue the saluation of their flocke As the like vvas vttered by Moyses vvhen he said Either forgiue this people or blot me out of thy booke 6. Not al of Israel Though the people of the Ievves vvere many vvaies honoured and priuiledged and namely by Christes taking flesh of them yet the promis of grace and saluation vvas neither onely made to them nor to al them that carnally came of them or their fathers Gods election and mercie depending vpon his ovvne purpose vvil and determination and not tied to any nation familie or person 7. But in Isaac The promisse made to Abraham vvas not in Ismael vvho vvas a sonne borne onely by flesh and nature but in Isaac vvho vvas a sonne obtained by promisse faith and miracle and vvas a figure of the Churches children borne to God in Baptisme 10. Of one copulation It is proued also by Gods choosing of Iacob before Esau vvho vvere not onely brethren by father and mother but also tvvinnes and Esau the elder of the tvvo vvhich according to carnal count should haue had the preeminence that God in giuing graces folovveth not the temporal or carnal prerogatiues of men or families 11. Not yet borne By the same example of those tvvinnes it is euident also that neither nations nor particular persons be elected eternally or called temporally or preferred to Gods fauour before others by their ovvne merites because God vvhen he made choise and first loued Iacob and refused Esau respected them both as il and

″ much more the ministerie of iustice aboundeth in glorie ⊢ ✝ verse 10 For neither vvas it glorified vvhich in this part vvas glorious by reasō of the excelling glorie ✝ verse 11 For if that which is made void is by glorie much more that vvhich abideth is in glorie ✝ verse 12 Hauing therfore such hope vve vse much confidence ✝ verse 13 and not * as Moyses put a vele vpon his face that the children of Israël might not behold his face vvhich is made voide ✝ verse 14 but their senses vvere dulled For vntil this present day ″ the self same vele in the lecture of the old testament remaineth vnreuealed because in Christ it is made voide ✝ verse 15 but vntil this present day vvhen Moyses is read a vele is put vpō their hart ✝ verse 16 But vvhen he shal be conuerted to our Lord the vele shal be taken avvay ✝ verse 17 And * our Lord is a Spirit And vvhere the Spirit of our Lord is there is ″ libertie ✝ verse 18 But vve al beholding the glorie of our Lord vvith face reuealed are transformed into the same image from glorie vnto glorie as of our Lordes Spirit ANNOTATIONS CHAP. III. 1. The Epistle of Christ S. Paul and other holy vvriters of Scriptures did set dovvne many thinges in vvriting by penne inke and paper al vvhich be of the Holy Ghost but the special and proper booke of Christes truth and Gospel is not the external vvriting in those dead creatures but in the hartes of the faithful being the proper subiecte of these truthes and graces preached in the nevv Testament and the habitacle of the Holy Ghost In the vvhich booke of faithful mens hartes S. Paul vvrote diuers thinges not vttered in any Epistle as sundrie of the Apostles vvrote the Christian religion in the hartes of their hearers onely and in other material bookes not at all Vvhereof S. Irenaeus li. 3. ● 4. saith What and if the Apostles also had left no Scriptures ought vve not to folovv the order of the tradition vvhich they deliuered vnto them to vvhom they committed the Churches● to the vvhich ordinance many nations of those barbarous people that haue beleeued in Christ do consent vvithout letter or inke hauing saluation vvritten in their hartes and keeping diligently the tradition of the elders And S. Hierom 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hiero● c. 9. ad Pa● In the Greede of our faith and hope vvhich being deliuered by tradition from the Apostles is not vvritten in paper and inke but in the tables camal of the hart And this is the Churches booke also vvhereby and vvherein she keepeth faithfully al truth vvritten in the hartes of those to vvhom the Apostles did preach vvith the like diligence as she keepeth and preserueth the other booke vvhich is of holy Scriptures from al corruption of Heretikes and other iniuries 5. Of our selues This maketh first against the Heretikes called Pelagians that hold our meritorious actions or cogitations to be of free vvil onely and not of Gods special grace Secondly against the Protestantes vvho on the contrarie side referre al to God and take avvay mans freedom and proper motion in his thoughtes and doings the Apostle confessing our good cogitations to be our ovvne but not as comming of our selues but of God 6. The letter killeth As the letter of the old Lavv not truely vnderstood nor referred the Christ commaunding and not giuing grace and spirit to fulfil that vvhich vvas commaunded did by occasiō kill the carnal Iew so the letter of the nevv Testamēt not truely taken nor expounded by the Spirit of Christ vvhich is onely in his Church killeth the Heretike vvho also being carnal and void of spirit gaineth nothing by the external precepts or good lessons of the Scriptures but rather taketh hurt by the same See S. Augustine to 〈◊〉 Ser. 70 1000 de tempore li. de Sp. lit c. 5. 6. seq 9. Much more The preeminence of the new Testament and of the priesthod or Ministerie thereof before the old is that the nevv by al her Sacraments and Priests as ministers immediate of grace and remission of sinnes doth so ex opere operato giue the spirit of life and charitie into the hartes of the faithful as the old did giue the letter or external act of the Lavv. 14. The self same vele As the Ievves reading the old Testament by reason of their blindnes vvhich God for the punishment of their incredulitie suffereth to remaine as a couer vpon their eies and hartes can not see Christ in the Scriptures vvhich they daily heare read in their Synagogs but shal vvhen they beleeue in him and haue the couer remoued perceiue al to be most plainely done and spoken of him in their law Scriptures euen so Heretikes hauing as S. Augustine noteth a farre greater couer of blindnes and incredulitie ouer their hartes in respect of the Catholike Church vvhich they impugne then the Iewes haue concerning Christ can not see though they read or heare the Scriptures read neuer so much the maruelous euidence of the Catholike Church and truth in al pointes but vvhen they shal returne againe to the obedience of the same Church they shal finde the Scriptures most cleere for her and her doctrine and shal vvonder at their former blindnes 17. Libertie The Spirit and grace of God in the nevv Testament dischargeth vs of the bondage of the Lavv and sinne but is not a vvarrant to vs of fleshly licence as S. Peter vvriteth nor dischargeth Christians of their obedience to order lavv and power of Magistrates spiritual or temporal as some Heretikes of these daies do seditiously teach CHAP. IIII. That according as so glorious a ministerie requireth he liueth and preacheth sincerely 〈◊〉 the vvhich glorie his Aduersaries can not count vaine considering his persecutions because persecution is to Gods glorie and to our humilitie and hope and meritorious of increase of grace in this life and of most glorious bodies and soules aftervvard verse 1 THERFORE hauing this ministration according as vve haue obteined mercie vve faile not ✝ verse 2 but vve renounce the secrete things of dishonestie not walking in crastines nor ″ adulterating the vvord of God but in manifestation of the truth commending our selues to euery conscience of men before God ✝ verse 3 And if our Gospel be also hidde in them that perish it is hidde ✝ verse 4 in vvhom the God of this vvorld hath blinded the mindes of the infidels that the illumination of the Gospel of the glorie of Christ vvho is the image of God might not shine to them ✝ verse 5 For vve preache nor our selues but IESVS Christ our Lord and vs your seruants by IESVS ✝ verse 6 because God that commaunded light to shine of darkenes he hath shined in our hartes to the illumination of the knovvledge of the glorie of God in the face of Christ IESVS ✝ verse 7

as the Anabaptistes argue falsely against Gentlemen and the Caluinistes applie it peruersely against the vacant life of the Clergie specially of Monkes and other Religious men But it is a natural admonitiō onely giuen to such as had not vvherevvith to liue of their ovvne or any right or good cause vvhy to chalenge their finding of others and to such as vnder the colour of Christian libertie did passe their time idly curiously vnprofitably and scandalously refusing to do such vvorkes as vvere agreable to their former calling and bringing vp Such as these vvere not tolerable specially there and then vvhen the Apostle and others that might lavvfully haue liued of the altar and their preaching yet to disburden their hearers and for the better aduancement of the Gospel vvrought for their liuing * protesting neuertheles continually that they might haue done othervvise as vvel as S. Peter and the rest did vvho vvrought not but vvere found othervvise iustly and lavvfully as al sortes of the Clergie preaching or seruing the Church and the alter be and ought to be by the lavv of God and nature Vvhose spiritual labours far passe al bodily trauailes where the dueties and functions of that vocation be done accordingly as S. Augustine affirmeth of his ovvne extraordinarie paines incident to the Ecclesiastical affaires and regiment in steede of vvhich if the vse of the Church and his infirmitie vvould haue permitted it he vvisheth he might haue laboured vvith his handes some houres of the day as some of the Clergie did euer voluntarily occupie them selues in teaching vvriting grauing painting planting sovving embrodering or such like seemely and innocent labours See S. Hierom ep 114 seu praef in Iob. and in vit Hilario And Monkes for the most part in the primitiue Church fevv of them being Priests and many taken from seruile vvorkes and handicraftes yea often times professed of bondmen made free by their maisters to enter into religiō vvere appointed by their Superiors to vvorke certaine houres of the day to supply the lackes of their Monasteries as yet the Religious do vvomen specially in many places vvhich standeth vvell vvith their profession And S. Augustine vvriteth a vvhole booke de opera Monachorum to 3. against the errour of certaine disordered Monkes that abused these vvordes Nolite esse soliciti he not careful c. and Respicite v●latilia cali behold the foules of the aire c. to proue that they should not labour at al but pray only and commit their finding to God not only so excusing their idlenes but preferring them selues in holines aboue other their fellowes that did worke and erroneously expounding the said Scriptures for their defence as they did other Scriptures to proue they should not be shauen after the maner of Monkes Vvhich letting their heads to grow he much blameth also in them See li. 2. Retract c. 21. ● op Monach. c. 31. and S. Hieromes ep 48. c. 3. of Nonnes cutting their heare Vvhere by the vvay you see that the Religious vvere shauen euen in S. Augustines time vvho reprocheth them for their heare calling them Crinitos Hearelings as the Heretikes novv contrarievvise deride them by the vvord Rasos Shauelings So that there is a great difference betvvene the auncient Fathers and the nevv Protestant And as for hand labours as S. Augustine in the booke alleaged would not haue Religious folke to refuse them vvhere necessitie bodily strength and the order of the Church or Monasterie permit or require them so he expresly vvriteth that al can not nor are not bound to vvorke and that vvho so euer preacheth or ministreth the Sacraments to the people or serueth the altar as al Religious men commonly now do may chalenge their liuing of them vvhom they serue and are not bound to vvorke * no nor such neither as haue been brought vp before in state of Gentlemen and haue giuen avvay their lands or goods and made them selues poore for Christes sake Vvhich is to be noted because the Heretikes affirme the said Scripture and S. Augustine to condemne al such for idle persons 14. Obey not Our Pastors must be obied and not onely secular Princes and such as vvill not be obedient to their spiritual gouernours the Apostle as S. Augustine saith giueth order and commaundement that they be corrected by correption or admonition By degradation excommunication and other lavvful kindes of punishments Cont. Donatist post collat c. 4. 20. Read also this holy fathers answer to such as said Let our Prelates commaund vs onely vvhat vve ought to do and pray for vs that vve may do it but let them not correct vs. Vvhere he proueth that Prelates must not onely commaund and pray but punish also if that be not done vvhich is commaunded Li. de correp grat c. 3. 14. Note him Disobedient person to be excommunicated and the excommunicated to be separated from the companie of other Christians and the faithful not to keepe any companie or haue conuersation vvith excommunicated person neither to be partaker vvith them in the fault for vvhich they are excommunicated nor in any other act of religion or office of life except cases or mere necessitie and other prescribed and permitted by the law al this is here insinuated and that al the Churches censures be grounded in Scriptures and the examples of the Apostles THE ARGVMENT OF THE FIRST EPISTLE OF S. PAVL TO TIMOTHEE AFTER the Epistles to the Churches novv folovv his Epistles to particular person as to Timothee to Titus vvho vvere Bishops and to Philémon Of Timothee vve reade Act. 16. hovv S. Paul in his visitation tooke him in his traine at Lystra circumciding him before because of the Ievves he vvas then a Disciple that is to say a Christian man Aftervvard the Apostle gaue him holy Orders and consecrated him Bishop as he testifieth in both these Epistles vnto him 1. Tim. 4. v. 14. and 2. Tim. 1. v. 6. He vvriteth therfore vnto him as to a Bishop and him self expresseth the scope of his first Epistle saying These things I vvrite to thee that thou maiest knovv hovv thou oughtest to conuerse in the House of God vvhich is the Church And so he instructeth him and in him al Bishops hovv to gouerne both himself others and touching himself to be an example a spectacle to al sortes in al vertue as touching others to prohibit al such as goe about to preach othervvise then the Catholike Church hath receiued and to inculcate to the people the Catholike faith to preach vnto yong and old men and vvomen to seruants to the riche to euery sort conueniently Vvith vvhat circumspection to giue orders to vvhat persons for vvhom to pray vvhom to admit to the vovv of vvidovvhod c. This Epistle vvas vvritten as it seemeth after his first emprisonmēt in Rome vvhen he vvas dismissed and set at libertie and therevpon it is that he might say here I hope