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A15874	A briefe rehersal of the death resurrectio[n], [and] ascension of Christ gathered together oute of ye foure euangelistes and actes of the apostles by the most godly and great learned man Huldriche Zuinglius, written first in Latin, and now tra[n]slated into Englishe, that such as vnderstande not the Latin tongue should not wante the vse of so worthy and profitable a treatise. Perused and allowed according to the order appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.	Zwingli, Ulrich, 1484-1531.	1561 (1561)	STC 26135; ESTC S106617	105,568	216

to preache the gospel which he that beleueth is loosed frō his sinnes Iohn repeated the words of Mathew in the .xvi. Chapi Baptize thē in the name c. It semeth to me that to baptize is takē in al the new testament al most for to bee admitted accepted that no man should obstinately vrge the letter as do the Anabaptists To baptise Baptize thē that is admit thē to Christ grafte thē in the name of the father of the holy ghost that is lead thē by water doctrine into the knowledge power vertue of the father the sonne the holye ghost But we haue entreated of this againste the Anabaptistes in an other place and we wil speake more amply of it afterward He that beleueth Saluation eternall life consisteth in election for his hand is not shut or shortened that he will saue none amongest the Gentiles For God can poure faith into the hearts of the Gentiles Rom. ii which they proue and shew forth by workes as I iudge and that not rashelye of Socrates Seneca and many others Some man will say why they beleued not I aunswere if they beleue not they are not saued The words therefore of Christ ought to bee vnderstanded thus that they be spoken vnto such as the spopell is preached vnto who are dampned if thei beleue not the gospell preached vnto thē Iohn xv For Christ sayth If I had not come spokē vnto them they should not haue sinned This place therfore he that beleueth not shal be condempned appertayneth nothing vnto those whiche neuer had the Gospel preached vnto them For although the outward gospel of Christ be not preached vnto them yet can god saue them by Christ For as many as are saued are saued by Christ that is by the mercy of God whiche he offred to the world in Christ For there is none so iuste or so innocent which can stand before the iustice of god We must al flie therfore to the mercy of god by Christ And signes shall follow the beleuers This is a promise which muste be vnderstād by Synechdoche For the Apostles wrought many signes ▪ whē nede required And it doth not debilitate the promis of christ Acres v. bicause ther are no signes wrought now a daies by the preachers of the word For it was necessary thē the signes should be wrought to cōfirme the new vnaccustomed busines preached by the apostles wherby the whole world should be made new And to stirre vp their mindes to receaue the doctrine of the Apostles But now is the doctrine of Christ the Apostles sealed with diuerse signes the whiche signes he that beleueth not neither wil he beleue if signes should be presētly done We muste marke the ordre Fyrste the ministers of the word are chosē out by Christ Then thei are instructed with his word doctrine Thirdly thei are cōfyrmed by the spirite Fourthly they are sent to preach the Gospell Thei which thrust thē selues in by arte or violence they which are not sent whiche preache not or els preach not the Gospell which seke for theyr own things not the things whiche be of Iesus Christ such I saye are not the ministers of Christe but thieues robbers and wolues Hitherto we haue intreated of the glorious Resurrection of oure Lord and nowe wil we speake of hys Ascention into heauen IEsus led hys Disciples forth to Bethania and gathered thē together in the same place and spake vnto them of the Kingdome of God cōmaunded them that they should not depart from Ierusalem but to wayte for the promise of the Father wherof saide he ye haue heard of me how Iohn baptised with water but ye shall be baptised with the holy ghoste within these few dayes when they therfore were come together they asked of him saying Lord wilt thou at this time restore againe the kingdome of Israel And he said vnto thē It is not for you to know the tymes and seasons which the father hath put in his own power but ye shal receaue power after the holy ghoste is come vpon you ye shal be witnesses vnto me not only in Ierusalem but olso in al Iewry Samaria and euen to the endes of the earthe Then the Lorde Iesus after that he had spoken these things with them he lifted vp his handes blessed them And it came to passe when he had blessed them he departed frō thē whyle they behelde he was taken vp on hihg was caried vp in to heauen and a clowde toke him vp frō theyr eyes setteth at the right hād of god while they loked stedfastly vp toward heauen as he wēt beholde two men stode by them clothed in white garments which also said ye men of Galiley why stād ye gasyng vp into heauen This same Iesus which is taken vp from you into heauen shall so come euen as ye haue sene him go into heauen And they worshipped him retourned to Ierusalem with great ioy frō the mount which is called Oliuete which is from Ierusalem a Sabaothes dayes iourney And when they were come in they went vp into a parler where abode Peter and Iames Iohn Andrewe Phillip and Thomas Barthelmew and Mathew Iames the sonne of Alpheus and Symon zelotes and Iudas the sonne of Iames. These all continued wyth one minde in prayer supplication with the womē and Mary the mother of Iesus and with his brethren MArk doth compendiously briefly touch all thinges describing together things whiche were not done together For he sayeth as the eleuen disciples sat at meat c. It is most likely that Christ dayly appeared vnto his Apostles all the whole forty dayes after his resurrection commaunded and prescribed them an ordre wherby they shoud prech the Gospel through out the whole world This doth he put thē in memory of at his departure more strongly beat it into them For to this end wer they chosen Ther is no cause therfore why we should vrge the letter and draw this history of Mark only to the ascētiō but to the whol time that was betwene the resurrectiō ascentiō of Christ But nowe let vs come nerer to the hystory whych Luke hath in the actes Luke deuideth his Gospel into two partes In the first he describeth what Christe did in his life time In the latter he seteth forth what things were done after his ascention He spake vnto thē of the kingdō of god The kingdome of God is in a manner called the gospell wherof he spake vnto them fourty dayes continuallye The kyngdome of god and commended vnto them the preachinge therof Christ therfore speaketh vnto them of the kyngdome of God of the gospell of his grace and of the mercy of god and that out of the Scriptures namely of the law of the prophets as Luke sayd before he opened theyr vnderstāding in the scripturs But with what word or after what sort he

spake vnto them it is not here written but that may be gathered by theyr doctrine The Apostles were chosen out by Christ to spread abroade the kyngdome of God throughout the world and to dilate extēd the territories of the heauēly kingdō but thei being yet after a sort carnal dream of a certein carnal kingdō enquire therof acording to the iugemēt of the flesh which carnal opiniō of the restoring again of Israel sticketh also yet at thys day in the Iewes in some christians Christ in deede semeth somewhat to acknowledge the restoryng of Israel when he sayth It is not for you to knowe the times and seasons c. Which Paule also declareth in the xi to the Romaynes But together therewith drawing thē frō theyr carnal sense he speaketh somewhat deeper of the kingdōe of god saying but ye shal receaue the holy Ghost As thogh he would saye that is your kingdōe to receaue the sprite of god by the which ye shal be taght led into the true knowledge of God so that ye maye also testifye of the same before others And ye shall preache of me also euen in that place where ye forsooke me fledde awaye and denyed me so greate shall the power of the heauenuenly sprite be They had bene so long time cōuersāt with Christ they had hard so many and so great thinges out of his moth they had sene so many myracles and yet they reason of a certeyne carnal kingdome They hoped that some body should be sēt which should deliuer thē out of the power of the Romaines The Lord doth stil reuoke them back to the sprite They were very weake still as long as Christ was presēt corporally with them yea and then also when he beyng glorified was presente with them after his resurrection There came therefore no strengh to thē by the flesh of Christ being corporally presente as he himselfe testifieth It was expedient for them that he wente otherwise the spirite shoulde not come He taketh therfore from his disciples what soeuer is corporall and outward euen in him selfe ▪ to affixe them wholye to the spirite of God They had neade of a certaine other power from aboue which Christ had promised them Now therfore he repeteth the promise Iohn 14. cōmādeth thē not to depart from Ierusalem till the spirite were geuen them Iohn saith he baptized you with water water is the signe of doctrine and instruction As though Christ would say Iohn taught and enstructed you after a sorte namely he brought you to me by the outward word and sign but that sprite of God which I haue promised you whom I will send which shal come and whome ye ought to loke for he also shal baptise you within that is he shal teache you and enstructe you more playnlye and perfectly Ye are hitherto baptized with the baptisme of Ihon for the baptisme of Iohn and Christe are all one as touchynge the outwarde water and outwarde preachinge for euen as the preaching of the gospell which was done by thapostles is caled forgeuenes of sins whiche longeth only to Christe so also is the baptism of Iohn called Christs baptisme that is Iohn did the same by the commaundemēt and aucthority of Christ but or euer it be lōg ye shal be baptised with an other baptisme namely with the holy Ghost The baptisme therefore of the holye Ghoste whereby faithe commeth followeth the baptism of water whiche I speake to refel the error of the Anabaptistes and in that it is called the baptisme of Ihō it is done because he dipped mē in water and taughte them by the commaundement of christ which were both outward signes And euē Ihō him self doth testify that of him self saying that he only dippid men in water but ther shuld come one after him which shud baptise with the spirite The meaninge therefore of Christes woordes is Math ● All the thinges whiche hitherto were done outwardlye as the water of Iohn my doctrine yea euen that breathing which when I rose agayne I breathed vpon you are to weak to sanctify purge and strēgthen you within they were only signes of the holy ghost which ye shal receaue most perfectly ther be not a few which euen now in these dayes seeke follow onely the flesh in Christe and which thinke that they are sanctified and purged by certayne outwarde ceremonies and signes But these are but outward signes and so they continew neyther can they moue any thynge in the harte of manne excepte the powere and operation of the Spirite of God be ioyned thereunto We must therefore moste earnestlye desire that spirite at Gods handes which may draw vs illustrate confirme and make vs perfect This sprite because the Philosophers wanted therefore were their moste learned wrytinges nothing els but subtile disputations and also cauilations and not the true Philosophye for they had not within thē the liuing sprite of God Dead and colde therfore are theyr writinges and not inspired and illuminated by the holye Ghoste Let vs then passe ouer all those outwarde signes and fixe our eys vpon the operation of the spirite and desire the same continually with most feruente prayers The godlye which are endewed with the holy Ghoste dare yea and enterprise greate things the spirite doth kindle and draw theyr hartes vpwarde and encourageth them to all thinges be they neuer so perillous and to heroicall vertues which procede from God and are directed to God as to be humble to denye him self to be pleased with him self in nothing to suffer many thyngs to be meake mercyfull and liberal But flesh seaketh his owne it laboreth for riches and glory and enterpriseth gret and perillous thyngs but yet such thinges as hurt his neyghbor He lifted vp his hāds after the manner of one that prayeth and not of one that blesseth For this word here he blessed thē in greake 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I thinke is put here as a signe of farewel as they vse to wish good luck which depart They worshipped him namely because he was god which could ascend by hys owne powre they reioysed in the meane time bicause they were the legates of such so great a Lorde And in that it is wrytten that they were alwayes in the temple it must be vnder stād that they werin the tēple in due tyme. For sometymes they assembled together in a certen house as appereth by the acts for feare of the Iewes So is it sayd of Anna the widow that she was day and night in the temple This is according to the hebrew manner of speakinge that is she was often in the temple In like manner the Apostles came very often into the temple although sometimes they were gathered to gether in some certeyne house to auoyde the snares of the Iewes Loke in Plinis Epistles to Traian de more Christianorum They did euen as many christians in these dayes ar compelled to do in those places where it is not