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A29671	The sacred and most mysterious history of mans redemption wherein is set forth the gracious administration of Gods covenant with man-kind, at all times, from the beginning of the world unto the end : historically digested into three books : the first setteth down the history from Adam to the blessed incarnation of Christ, the second continueth it to the end of the fourth year after his baptisme ..., the third, from thence till his glorious coming to judgement / by Matthew Brookes ...	Brookes, Matthew, fl. 1626-1657.	1657 (1657)	Wing B4918; ESTC R11708	321,484	292

they came and filled both the ships so that they began to sink When Simon Peter saw it he fell down at Jesus feet saying Depart from me 9 for I am a sinfull man O Lord. For he was astonished and all that were with him at the draught of the fishes which they had taken 10 And so was also James and John the sons of Zebedee which were partners with Simon And Jesus said unto Simon Fear not from henceforth thou shalt catch men 11. And when they had brought their ships to land they forsook all and followed him By the custome of the Hebrew tongue as venerable Bede observeth every gathering together of waters is called a Sea be they sweet or salt Hence the sea of Galilee The sea of Galilee which was little more then foure miles broad and in length from the north to the south not above twelve miles obtaineth the name of a sea The sea of Galilee because it bordered upon Galilee The sea of Tiberias from the city Tiberias that stood upon the shore of it The lake of Genezareth whether so called à crispantibus aquis because the waters of that sea or lake are continually moved and as it were curled by the winde if not rather from the pleasantness and fruitfulness of the soile lying upon the north side of it The water of this sea is said to be very sweet and pleasant abounding with fish for which cause many fishers inhabited thereabouts had boats and caught great store of fish These things therefore being thus transacted at the sea of Galilee and when the disciples who were called before seeing the miraculous draught of fishes and receiving his promise that from thenceforth they should catch men had forsaken all to be his disciples by adhesion Then Jesus goeth up to Hierusalem Christ goeth up to Hierusalem to the passeover It was the second passeover after his baptisme and in the one and thirtieth year of his age And being come thither he first of all visiteth his Fathers House He visiteth the temple findeth it sacrilegiously polluted and profaned a market was kept there sheep oxen and doves were sold and money was exchanged in the temple This market was not kept in the temple it selfe if by the temple you understand the sanctuary and other sacred places where divine offices were performed nor in Solomons porch which was the court of those that were clean nor in that spacious and beautifull court built by Herod into which the Gentiles might come to do their devotions therefore called vestibulum gentium the porch or outward court of the gentiles But yet within the sept or verge of the temple upon holy ground within the outermost enclosure for the temple is the sanctuary and all that which is enclosed with it Nor was this market weekly or monthly but once a year and at the passeover nor yet were the oxen and sheep and doves bought or sold for common and ordinary but only for sacred and religious uses The occasion of which market was this the Jewes were bound to feast before the Lord in the place which he should choose to put his name there thither therefore must they bring the tithe of their corn of their wine and of their oyle and the firstlings of their herds and flocks But because this could not be done by those that came from far it was indulged unto them to bring up money and to bestow it there on those things which they should have brought up by the law as is plain to be seen Deut. 14. Deut. 14.23 24 25 26. Now to the end that they might have these things at hand and no other but such as had been first inspected by the priests and had obtained approbation and allowance from them to be such as were warranted by the law to be brought and offered to God And to the end that they who came out of forraigne parts might not be destitute of current coin therefore the mony-changers had their tables and did sit there And this was the occasion of that market in the temple which when it began first so to be profaned we do not finde A thing doubtless both good and necessary had it not been in the temple but God who is jealous of his worship is no less jealous of the place of his worship He will not hold him guiltless that shal profane his name neither will he hold him guiltless who shall profane the place which is dedicated to the honour of his name Therefore when he had driven them all out of the temple with a scourge of small cords and the sheep and the oxen and poured out the changers money and overthrowne the tables thereby manifesting his divine power and pleasure which no creature is able to resist for we need not think that it was the fame of that miracle which he wrought in Cana or any other miracle or the opinion which they had of him for that miracles sake or any extraordinary fyery or sidereous brightness or sparkeling in his eyes or face that made them not to lift up a hand against him and thereby given occasion unto his disciples Psal 69.9 either then or at some other time most likely after his resurrection to remember that it was written of him in the book of Psalmes The zeal of thine house hath ea●en me up I say then he commanded them to be only taken away not condemning the market nor the merchandize but only the holding of the market in that place 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 make not my fathers house an house of merchandize S. Joh. 2.13 14 And the Jewes passeover was at hand and Jesus went up to Hierusalem And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep 15 and doves and the changers of mony fitting And when he had made a scourge of small cords he drove them all out of the Temple 16 17. and the sheep and the oxen and poured out the changers mony and overthrew the tables And said unto them that sold doves Take these things hence make not my Fathers house an house of merchandize And his disciples remembred that it was written The zeal of thine hous hath eaten me up This which Christ did sorely startled the Jewes principally the chief priests and scribes who were of the Synedrion and had the care of religion The Jewes offended require a sign and were by their office to see that nothing should be innovated in the Church therefore they require him to manifest his authority and extraordinary mission by some miracle visibly and before their eyes for so came Moses and the Prophets Neither is it tolerable that any private person by his own private authority should innovate any received rite or custom in the Church Therefore if his commission were immediately from God it was altogether necessary that he should manifest it by some present miracle It was that which he had done he came with commission from God to

His sixth apparition therefore was after eight daies that is to say His sixth apparition to St. Thomas with the other Apostles upon the eighth day the sunday or Lords day which was the first day of the week at what time the disciples were within and Saint Thomas also with them For then came he in the doors being shut and stood in the midst giving them his peace as before Peace be unto you This seemeth to be that apparition of which Saint Paul speaketh 1 Cor. 15.5 He was seen of Cephas then of the twelve And he saith of the twelve because they were twelve at first by election they were twelve before Judas fell away and that number was made up again by Saint Matthias chosen in his place Therefore Saint Thomas is said before v. 24. to be one of the twelve In his dealing with Saint Thomas for whose sake principally he appeared at that time we have to observe 1st that which Saint Chrysostome also observeth That he did not expect that Saint Thomas should ask him any thing but to shew that he knew what it was that he had spoken he answereth him according to the tenour of his owne words It was to convince him and to give him to understand that although he were absent by his humanity yet he was present by his Divinity to hear what it was that he said Then with a gentle increpation he condescendeth to his infirmity Reach hither thy finger and behold my hands and reach hither thy hand and thrust it into my side and be not faithlesse but believing Finally he awakens his faith which did as it were lie asleep in him for when he had done so then makes he a good confession acknowledging that he believed both natures in the unity of one and the same person S. Joh. 20.26 27 28. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 My Lord and my God All the Apostles no doubt had felt him and did see in his hands and feet the print of the nails to the end that they might not think themselves fascinated or deluded in the verity of his appearance whom they did believe to be risen from the dead But Saint Thomas his infidelity will not be cured neither by seeing nor by feeling unlesse he put his finger into the print of the nails and thrust his hand into his side Posset autem si vellet de corpore suscitato clarificato omnem maculam cujuslibet cicatricis abstergere sed sciebat quare cicatrices in suo corpore reservaret Sicut enim demonstravit Thomae non credenti nisi tangeret videret ita etiam inimicis suis vulnera demonstraturus est sua non quod eis dicat sicut Thomae Quod vidisti credidisti sed ut convincens eos veritas dicat Ecce hominem quem crucifixistis videtis vulnera quae inflixistis agnoscitis latus quod pupugistis quoniam per vos propter vos apertum est nec tamen intrare voluistis Aug. de Symb. Christ could if he would wipe away every spot of whatsoever scarre from that his body which was raised up clarified but he knew why he would reserve those scars in his body For like as he shewed them to St. Thomas who would not believe unlesse he should touch and see them Even so also will he shew unto his enemies his wounds not them as to Saint Thomas That which thou hast seen thou hast believed but to the end that the truth convincing them may say Behold the man whom ye crucified ye see the wounds which ye inflicted ye know the side which ye pierced which by you and for you was opened neither yet would ye enter in After which six apparitions which were in or nigh unto Hierusalem and the feast of the passeover being ended S. Mat. 26.32 S. Mar. 16.7 he went before them into Galilee according to his promise both before and after his resurrection There he appeared unto them the seventh time at the sea of Tiberias His seventh apparition at the sea of Tiberias and it is noted before out of venerable Bede that according to the custome of the Hebrew tongue every gathering together of waters is called a sea be they sweet or salt This sea of Tiberias was the sea of Galilee called the sea of Galilee because it bordereth upon Galilee And the sea of Tiberias from the city of Tiberias which stood upon the shore of it The vvaters of this sea are said to be very sweet and pleasant abounding with great variety of fishes for which cause it was much frequented by fishers who did fish there and caught great store of fishes The disciples being come into Galilee there were together saith the text Simon Peter and Thomas called Didymus and Nathaniel Saint Bartholomew I suppose of Cana in Galilee and the sons of Zebedee Saint James and Saint Iohn and two other of his disciples Those two disciples are not named I conjecture they might be those that went to Emaus The number seven Saint Peter who had not left off but intermitted his old profession told them that he would go a fishing they all concluded to go with him So they went forth and entered into a ship immediately and laboured all night but caught nothing In the morning Iesus stood on the shore but they did not know that it was he for as Saint Chrysostome saith he could not be knowne after his resurrection but by his owne condescention because his body was incorruptible He demanded of them if they had any meat if they had caught any fishes to be eaten and when they told him that they had not he directed them to cast the net on the right side of the ship and that there they should finde a draught A ship hath neither right side nor left side but according to the posture of those that are in it their right side is the right side of the ship For dextrum sinistrum aliae differentiae situs sunt in inanimatis quoad nos tantum sed in animatis secundum se Aquin. part 1. Q. 13. art 7. con The right side and the left side and other differences of scituation are in things without life only in respect of us but in things animate with respect to themselves The disciples understood his meaning S. Joh. 21.1 2 3 4 5 6. and did according to his direction and obtained a great draught so that they were not able to pull it up into the ship for the multitude of fishes By this miracle Saint Iohn knew him and told Saint Peter that it was the Lord. Which when he heard he girt his fishers coat unto him for he was naked and swam to land But the other disciples who were not far off came in the ship dragging the net with fishes because they were not able to take it in As soon as they came to land they see the provision which the Lord had made for their entertainment a fire of coles and fish laid upon