Mark — Chapter 8

yvhica *may be done to no man norcrea- utus. Li Lara. ture, and chertore che Apottles refufe ic vvith al poilible diligence, and al the Angels and Sainétsin ;o, de Cis Beauen refule that adoration by facrifice. The Catholike Church turereth no Prieft nor other{o Dei nt, to vvori hip any Sain@ in heauen or earch. She hacn but one exterial Sacrifice, yvhich is in the holy Maile , of Chrifts body and bloud : that flie offereth to God alone, and neicher to Peter nor to Pad (faith $. Auguftine) shough the Pric/t that facrificerh,/tandeth oner their bodies,and cRereth in there meme- ~48E- 1.5. Dutia. ries, But other kindes of honours and dueties, interior vvithout al compariton (hovy great {0 euer de Chm fe they be) to this, we do,as the Scriptures and Nature teache vs, to al Superiorsin heauen and earth, 27+ according to the degrees of grace, honour, and bleifecnes that God-hasa cailed them vnco, troin our B. Ladie Chrifts ovwne mother, to the left Cernanc he hath in the world. for vvbich the Herey tikes yvould never accufe Chrittian people of Idolarrie, ifthey had either grace , learning, taith, os natural affedtion. .

to pray for their Bithopes and Paftors in rifon. P 6. Tuvochaines.) Thefe chaines are famous for miracles,and vvere brought from Hierufalera to Rome by Eudoxia the Empereffe ,wvife ro Theodofius che yonger,vvhere they vvere matched 8 placed vvith an other chaine thar the {ame Apoftle vvas tied With by Nero, 8¢ a Church fotided therevpon, named Perri ad vincula, Vvhere they are religioufly kept and reuerenced vntil chis day, and there isa Feaft in the vvhole Church forthe fame,the frit of Auguit, vvhich wve call, Lammas day. rs. Hu Angel} If proper Angels (faith S. Chryfoftom) be depated by otsr Lord ta (uch as haue only ebarge of their ovune life, (46 one of theiuft faid,* The dngel uvvbich bath delinered me frommy youth Gen.at,16 upuvard) much more are fupernal Spirits at band to helpe them unto vuhom the charge and burdex of the vvorld is committed, Chryf.in laud. Pauli. ho, 7, to. +

6. Gaue to his disciples.) He serueth the People not immediatly himself, but by the Apostles ministerie: to teach vs that we must receiue Christes Sacraments and doctrine, not at our owne hand, but of his Priests and our Pastours.

7. Blessed them.) εὐλογήσας αὐτὰ. Blessing of creatures worketh an effect in them. So is it in some ancient Greek copies, agreable to our Latin, and in S. Luke expresly in the common Greek text, *that he blessed the fiue loaues and the two fishes: which must be alwayes marked against the Heretikes, which denie this blessing to pertaine to the creatures, but feine it alwayes to be referred to God for thanks giuing. For if it were so, he would haue said grace but once for that whole refection: but he did seuerally blesse both the bread first, & afterward the fishes also, multiplying them by his said blessing (as **he did mankind and other creatures in the beginning by blessing them) and so working effectually some change or alteration in the very creatures them selues. *Luke 9,16. **Gen. 1,22. 28.

thac they neede no other Ordering or Confecration by K@f#'cv8 Bifhops, pretfing the protane vie of the * Grecke wword more then the very natural lignification Tenes requireth and Ecclefiaftical vic beareth, tranflate thus, Ordained by election. Vvnereasin deede this vvord in Scripeure fignifierh, Ordering by impolition of hands, as is plaiae by other vvordes equi- +7 Inely ordess. yalent,.id. 6, 13.1 Tim. «. 5. 2 Tim. 1. Vvbere the Ordering of Deacons, Prieits,and others is called imtfeais * Impofition of hands: not of the people, bur of che Apoiiles,And this to be che Ecclefialtical yte TH” Ate of yt’: Meretical tran- flation againk Cu a. XV. OF THE APOSTLES, 335 Wiere. js ofthe vvord, appeareth by S. Hierom faying (asis before alleaged} that Kegiuviec wu the Ordering yt. Efas of Clerkes or Clergie men by prater of o1ce ana impojition of hand.

35. For me and the Ghospel.) What is to suffer for the Ghospel. By the Ghospel is signified, not only the foure Euangelists, but al Scriptures, and whatsoeuer Christ said that is not in Scripture; for he saith in this very place: *He that shal be ashamed of my wordes, the Sonne of man wil be ashamed of him &c. Neither his owne wordes only, but whatsoeuer the Apostles taught in word or writing; for our Sauiour saith: He that despiseth you, despiseth me. For defense of any of al these, and of euery Article of the Catholike faith, we ought to die, and this is to lose our life for Christ and his Ghospel. *Luke 9.

36. Gaine the whole world.) Doing against our owne conscience. Let such note this, that for feare or flattery of the world condescend to obey the vniust lawes of men touching religion, against their owne consciences: and be content for the rest of a few daies of this life, and for sauing their temporal goods, to lose their soule and the ioyes of heauen.