Matthew — Chapter 21

2. You shal find.) Christ by diuine power both knew where these beasts were, being absent, and commanded them for his vse, being an other mans, and suddenly made the colt fit to be ridden on, neuer broken before.

7. The asse and the colt.) This asse vnder yoke signifieth the Iewes vnder the Law and vnder God their Lord, as it were his old and ancient People: the yong colt now first ridden on by Christ, signifieth the Gentils, wild hitherto and not broken, now to be called to the faith and to receaue our Sauiours yoke. And therfore the three last Euangelists writing specially to the Gentils, make mention of the colt only. Hiero. in Mat. Aug. li. 12 cont. Faust. c. 42.

8. Garments in the way.) Procession on Palme-sunday with the B. Sacrament. These offices of honour done to our Sauiour extraordinarily, were very acceptable: and for a memorie hereof the holy Church maketh a solemne Procession euery yeare vpon this day, specially in our Countrie when it was Catholike, with the B. Sacrament reuerently caried, as it were Christ vpon the asse, and strawing of rushes and floures, bearing of Palmes, setting up boughes, spreading and hanging vp the richest clothes, the quire and queristers singing as here the children and the People; al done in a very goodly ceremonie to the honour of Christ, and the memorie of his triumph vpon this day. Al deuout offices in that kinde, exceeding grateful. The like seruice and the like duties done to him in al other solemne Processions of the B. Sacrament, and otherwise, be vndoubtedly no lesse grateful.

9. Hosanna.) HOSANNA. These very wordes of ioyful crie and triumphant voice of gratulation to our Sauiour, holy Church vseth alwayes in the Preface of the Masse, as it were the voice of the Priest and al the people (who then specially are attent and deuout) immediatly before the Consecration & Eleuation, as it were expecting, & reioycing at his comming.

13. House of prayer.) Note here that he calleth external Sacrifice (out of the Prophet Esay) prayer. For he speaketh of the Temple, which was builded properly and principally for Sacrifice.

16. Mouth of infants.) Yong childrens prayers proceeding from the instinct of Gods spirit, be acceptable: and so the voices of the like, or of other simple folke now in the Church, though them selues vnderstand not particularly what they say, be maruelous grateful to Christ.

22. Beleeuing.) Prayers not vnderstood of the partie, are acceptable. In respect of our own unworthinesse, and of the thing not alwayes expedient for vs, we may wel doubt when we pray, whether we shal obtaine or no: but on Gods part we must beleeve, that is, we must have no diffidence or mistrust either of his power or of his wil, if we be worthie, and the thing expedient. And therfore S. Marke hath thus, Have ye faith of God. *Mark. 11, 22.

23. In what power?) Heretikes runne, not sent. The Heretikes presumptuously thinke themselves in this point like to Christ, because they are asked, in what power they come, and who sent them: but when they have answered this question as fully as Christ did here, by that which he insinuateth of Iohns testimonie for his authority, they shal be heard, and til then they shal be stil taken for those of whom God speaketh by the Prophet: *They ranne, and I sent them not. Ier. 23.

figuratiue Thus u my body,and, Thu u my bloud, Damajc. li. ¢¢.14. Theophyl. in hunc locum, Conc, 2. DLic. af. 6, but a real pre- t0. « cinfdem aétionu in fine. When fometachers cal it a figure or figne, they meanc the ourward fence, formes of bread and wine. 24, Bloud of the new Teffament.) As the old Teftament Was dedicated with bloudin thefe Wordes, Thu u the bloud of the Teftament gc. Heb, 9. 10 here is the inftitution of the new Tefta- . ment in Chriftes bloud, by thefe wordes , Thus us the bloud of tre new Teftament ge. Which is here teXtweptrey. myttically Ched, and not only afterward vpon the Croife:ror the Greeke is the prefent tenteinal xasusvor. the Evangelittes,aud S. Paulzand likewife {peaking of the body : Cor, i, icisin the Greeke the pre- Ad wey fent rente, and Lue.2z, andin the Latinhere. And the Heretikes them ielues fo purcit in their wee tranflations . :

of Meichifedec, both a Sacrifice and a Sacrament, though the Scriptures geue neither of thefe names to this adtion: and our Aduerfaries Withour al The holy Eu- seafon or religion accept ina {ort the one, and vererly deny the other. A Sacrifice , in that it is or- chariftis botha Geined to continew the memory of Chriftes death and oblarion vpon the Croffe, and the appli- Sacrifice and a cation of the general vertue thereof to our particular neceilities, by cGfecrating the feueral eleméts, Sacrament, not into Chriftes Whole perfon as it was borne of the virgin or now isin heaven , but the bread into his body apart, as betrayed, broken, and geuen for vs : the Wine into his bloud apart, as {hed out of his body for remiilion of finnes and deaicauon of the new Teftament, which be conditions of his perton ashe wasin facrifice and oblation. In Which myftical and vnipeakable maner, he Would baue the Church to orfer and Lacrifice him daily , and he in mylterie and Sacrament dyeth, though CHa. XXVI. ACCORDING TO S. MATTHEW, 79 Mat. 22, 29. r. Cor. £0. Gen. a, Exo, 7, fo. 3. De orat. De nu. aa *Adu.Vi gilane, ep. S3e though now not only in heauen, but alfo in the Sacramér, he be in deede per Concomitantiam (as the Church calleth ie, that is,by fequele of al his partes co ech other) Whole,aliue,and immortal. Which poinc becaule our Aduerfaries vnderftand not, nor knoWing the Scriptures nor the poWer of God, they blafpheme, and abuie the people to their damnation. Itisalfo a Sacrament, in that iris or- deined to be receiued into our bodies and co feede the fame to returrection and immorality , and to geue grace and jaluation to our foules , if we Worthely receiue ict. 26, Blefed ’ Our Aduerfaries for the two Wordes that are in Greeke and Latin, benedixit, and, gratias egit, he bleffed, he gaue changes, vie only the later, of purpofe co fignifie thar Chrift bleffed nor TB* blefling of Dor contecrated the bread and the Wine, and fo by that bleifing Wrought any effect vpon them, Chrift referred but gaue chankes only to his facher,as We doe in faying grace. Bucche cruthis thatthe word obasyav . fignifieth properly co bleife, and is referred tothe thing tharis bleffcd, as Lue. 9 of the fifhes, sbrsyacw aortas, benedixic ew , he blefed them, and thereby Wrought in them that Wonderful multiplication. So the bleffing of God is alwayes effe€tual : and therfore here alfo he bleifed the bread , and by thar bletling, With the wordes folowing, made it his body, Confecrati Ambrof. li. de nu qui initi, myft. 6.9. dug. ep. s9 ad Paulinum, Now whereas taking the cuppe itis onlecraion. faid , be gaue thantes We Gy that itis al one With bletling , and thar he bleiled the cuppe, as before the bread:as ir is euident by hele Wordes of S. Paul, Calax cus benedicimus, the cuppe Which we bletIe: and therfore he callech it, Calicem benedsftionss , the cuppe of blefling, viing the fame Greeke W ord thatis (poken of the bread. But Why is it then faid here, he gaue thankes 2 because We trant- lare the Wordes faichtull, as in the Greeke and the Latin, and becaute che tenfe is al one, as We are taught by S, Paul before alleaged , and by rhe fathers, Which cal this geuing ofthankesouerthe . , cuppe or ouer the bread, the bleiling theroft. S. Iuitin. in fin.2.Apol. Panem Euchariftifacum: S.Irenee TV apTev ob- lie. ¢.34, Panem in quo gratie atte fant S.Cyprian decan.do, Calix folenni benedifione facratw. thatis, xapira fevlot. The bread blejJed by geuing thankes upon it , The cuppe confecrated by jolemne blefsing,

28. The first.) The first sonne here is the People of the Gentils, because Gentilitie was before there was a peculiar and chosen people of the Iewes, and therfore the Iewes here as the later, are signified by the other sonne.

the Patchai lambe, and therfore namethit, the fruire ot che vine. burit he (peake of the Wine Which Was now his bloud,he nameth it norwithita- ding Wine,as S, Paule nameth the other bread, for three caufes:firit becaule it was fo betorezas Eue is called Adams bone,and, 4arons rod dexoured their roddes: Whereas they Were not now roddes, bur ferpents, And, He safted the Water rurned into Wine: Whereas it Was now Wine and nor Water: and fuch like, fecondly, becaufe it keepeth the formes of bread and wine, and things are called as they appeare:as when Raphael is cailed a yong man Tob. 5. and, Three men appeared 20 Abraham Gen. :8, Whereas they Were three Angels, thirdly, becaufe Chrilt in this Sacramentis very true and principal bread and wine, feeding and refref hing vs in body and fouleto euerlafting lite.

fhould deire nothing temporal, bur vnder the condition of his holy pleaiure and appointment.

Church. of al Chriftians,as is plaineby S$. Cyprian and* S$. Gurnes, Hierom : but afterward and vntil this day, {pecially of Religious perions. :

336 to lay hands vpon him, they fearedthe multitudes: becaufe weeke. they held him asa Prophet. 4