Matthew — Chapter 8

Ambrofe faith in perers Prima. 2 Cor.12.) Andrew .firft folowed our Sansour before Peter : and yet the Primacie vindreW receaued not, oe, but Peter, Which preeminence of §. Peter aboue the other Apoftles is fo playnly fignified in this Word, Fir, by the iudgement even of Heretikes, chat Beza, norwithftanding he confeffeth the conlent of al copies both Latin and Greeke,, yet is not afhamed to fay that he fifpedteth thar wis word Was thrultinto the text by fome fauourer of Peters Primacie. Wherby we haue alfo that they care no more for the Greeke then for the Latin, When it maketh agaynit them:but ac their pleature fay thac al is corrupted.

4. Priests.) Priests forgiue sinnes. The Priests of the old law (saith S. Chrisostom) had authoritie and priuilege only to discerne who were healed of leprosie, and to denounce the same to the people: but the Priests of the new law, have power to purge in very deed, the filth of the soule. Therfore whosoeuer despiseth them, is more worthie to be punished, then the rebel Dathan, and his complices. S. Chryso. li. 3 de Sacred.

a man, bee .ufe ne Was head of the Churche and our cheefe Bifnop and Priett according to his manhod, in refped wherof al power Was geuen him in heauen and earth. A€ar.20, v.18. .

Apoities, and confequentl« Priefts.Mat. 28, edi oWer w gewen me. Mat. 18. Whatforuer you (hal doojeinearth , (hal be loojed in beauen. loan. 20. Whore finnes you (nal forgeue, they are forgeuen. ; . External Sacri- 17. ‘Noor jacrifice.) Thefe are the wordes of the Prophete, Who {pake them euen then When fice. facrifices Where offered by Gods commaundement: tn that it maketh not agaynft facrifice,but he faith that facrifice onlv Without mercie and charitie,and generally with mortal tinne, is not acce- ptable. The lewes offered their facrifices dew. butan tne meane time they bad no pitie nor mercie on their bretiren : that is it Which God mifukerh. Fafting 14. Fatt often, By the often fatting of his difciples, we may eafely gather that he appointed ° them a prefcript maner cf fafting: as it is certaine he ranght them a forme of prayer, Lw.s. and 17. 17, New Wine.) By this new Wine, he doth playnly here fignifie fafting and the ftraiter kind of life:by the old bortels,them thar can not aWav tnereWith,

fun@ion, And 4s for neceflaries, they deferuc their temporal liuing at their hands for whom they labour fpirieually. 12, Peace to this howfe.} As Chrift him felf vied chele Wordes or this bleifing often, Peace be to Bifhops blef. dmp.i vit. MOM needes be of great grace and profite, when none but w ortay perfons (as bere We read )might take good thereof: and when icis neuer loft , but rerurneth ro the geuer, When the other partie is tr remirteth ve- s. Chil Secrat. li, not Worthy of it. Among other (piritual benefites it raketh away venial finnes. 4mb.in 9_Lie, rrr

wtug. li. «de Bapt. 6.19. +, Kings.) In the beginning Kings and Emperours perfecuted che Churehe, thar by the very- death and bloud of Martyrs it Chould grow more miraculou(ly. afterward when the Emperours and kings were them felues become Chriftians, they ved their power for che Churche, agaynift Infidels and Hererikes, dug. ep. +2.

anfwers confound the-Aduerfaries. as. How much more.) No maruel therefore if Heretikes call Chriftes Vicar Antichnft, when theig forefathers the faithles lewes called Chrift him felf Beelzebub. fing. nial finnes.

22. Let the dead.] By this we see that not only no worldly or carnal respect, but no other laudable dutie toward our parents, ought to stay vs from folowing Christ, and choosing a life of greater perfection.

26. He commanded.) The Church (here signified by the boate or ship) and Catholikes, are often tossed with stormes of persecution, but Christ who seemed to sleepe in the meane time, by the Churches prayers awaketh, and maketh a calme.

perfecuced the Churche,he iayd *him felf was pexfecured: Chia ano his foto confeile him,and his Churche ,is al one, Cétrariewile, fee how he abhorreth them that deny him before men, Which is not only to deny any one litle article of the Catholike faythcomended to vs by the Churohe : butalfo to allow os comfent co herefic by any meanes , as by fub{cribing, qe céming + . The Gofpel on the +. Sunday in Aduent, 28 THE GOSPEL Cua. XI, coming to their feruice and fermons, furthering them any Way agaynft Catholikes , and fuch like.

the Wite is a Catholike,and the huiband is nox. For to agree together in inhidelitie, hereite, or anv other tinne,is a naughty peace. This being the crue meaning of Chriftes wordes , marke that the derctikes interprete this to mainteine their rebel- lions and troubles which their new goipel breedeth, Bexa inno. Teh.an. 1565.

life) was rwelue yeres old, Luc. ¢.-Marke then the allegorie hereof in the lewes and Gentils. As thar woman fel ficke When the Wenche Was borne, fotne Gentils Went their owne Wavesinto idolatie, When th: lewesin Abraham beleeued, Agayne, as Chrilt here went to ravfe tae Wenche, and by the Way the Woman Was firft healed, and then the Wenche reuiued: fo Chrift came to the lewes, bur the Gentils beleeued frit and ware faued,and in the end the lewes Chal beleent alfo. Hiero, in Atat. a1, Touche only.) Not only Chriites wordes, but his garment and touche thereof or any thing to him belonging , might doe and did miracles , force proceding trom his holy perfon to them. . Relikes and Yea this woman returning home * fer vp an Image of Chrift, for memorie of this benehte, and Exleb. hi. Jmages. the hemine of rhe fame Image did alfo miracles. This image lulian the Apoftata three downe, 7 ¢ 1+ and fet vp his ownc in fteede therof, which Was immediatly dettroyed by fyre from heauen. But 4/*. the image of Chrift broken in peeces by the heathen,the Chriftians afterward gathering the peeces together, placed it in the Churche: Where it Was(as Sozomenus Writcth) vnto his ime, lis be2e, 31, Do Cura. X. ACCORDING TO Ss. MATTHEW, 25