C;hap.I7. accordinto St MAr T H !IVY. 45f tent me, he it is that beareth witneffe of me. J =a A bright cloud everfhado'ed them] As á curtain drawn hc- twixtthem and the heavenly glory ; to the contemplation where- of they were not yet fufficient. Hereby alfsa their fentes were drawn oft from beholding Chrifts glory, to hear the voice from Heaven, which by the cloud, as by acharet, was carried into their ears with greater found and iolemnity, No loquendum de Dea fine !amine, was a laying ofPythagoras : God may not be men- tionedwithout a light. This is my belovedSon, in Whom] Here God maketh Life of three divertepaffages and places of his ownbook, `Pfal.2.7 1' t.4, r i. 4t.a. Deat.18.18. to teach us when we fpeak, to fpeak as the Oracles ofGod, to inure our (elves to Scripturelanguage. The voice alto whichChrift heard from heaven at his baptitine, in his firft inauguration is here repeated totidem verbis in his transfigu- ration, which was no (mall confirmation to him doubtleffe : as is was alto to Peter and the reft, that thisvoice was the fame in ef- fe& with his and their confetlion of Chrift in the former Chap- ter,vcr. t6.Thou art Chrift the Sonneofthe LivingGod. f n Whom /amwellpleafed] In whoml doe acquitfï , and have .,^';,zx, perfe& and full complacency, Gngular contentment. And as in hiin,fo inus thorow him, Zeph.3.17. he rolls in his love-To his, he will feekno further ; effecit nosfibi diletlos in i /la D ilec`fo,he bath made us accepted in that beloved one. Here we have Gods ac- quittance for our better fccurity. Hear ye him] As the Archprophet of the Church, D cut. i 8 is. that Palnaoni hammedabber, as Daniel callethhim, that ex- Dan,8,1 ; cellent fpeaker, that matterof tpeech that came out of the botonte of his father, and bath his whole minde at his fingers ends, as we fay,Hearye hira,Hear nonebut hicn,and fuch as cone in his name, andword.Hnc aox[hunc audite](mmam authoritatem arrogar Chriìlo (faith erafmus) At none videmus pail i,n dormitari ad Cbri(ìi do5.irinam feucraffàmac rodent, &concio:aisaurihusin- calcari quid dixerit Scotus, quidThomas, quid Durandss &c. Butwhat laid S. Aquiline ? when A'Tanichcus, contetting with him for audience faid, Hear me, Hear me : Nay, laid that Father, Nec ego tu, nec tome, fed ambo audiamus rlpoftolum,&c. cher hea-re thou me, nor I thee, but let us both hear Chritf. Cyril faith,that in a fynod ac Ephefus,upon anhi,h throne in the Temple, there layfiviaamEvangeliura, to flew that Chrift was both pre.- Cg 4 tent
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