CFzap.18. accorebng to St M A T T Fï E VV, 46:I. would fvolifhly found their Popes primacy and CIergies privi- ledgeofimmunity from paimenis tocivil Princes and Magiflrates: becaufe Chria and Peter are let together. But in what trove? In payingofhomage, not in receiving of honour. Chrift paid tribute, to free us from the fervitude of Satan that rigid tax-wa- fter. Peter paid, becaufe he had here an houle and family, Chap. $3.5. and further to let his fuccc(fours know, that they paid err- t u:e in Peter, and (hould learn in all due humility, to fubmit to Mag,ftracy : and not to with-draw from publike impcftions and taxations, farther thenoffavour they (ball be exempted and privilcdged. CHAP. XVIII. Vetfe T. At thefame time] Jj Hen he, by paying tribute, had been teaching them hu- V V mility and modetty, they moll unfeafonably diiéover their folly andambition : fo another time, after he had been wash- ing their feet, and giving them the Sacrament, Luk 22. See in them the pravity, thecanker of our natures, and what caufe God hid to complain, Hof7 z. when I would have healed Ifrael, then. the iniquity ofEphraimwas djeovered, as ifit had been on purpofe to fpite me, and fpet venom in my face. 'Came the `Difciplei, ] Peteralto with the ten, verf,2 t , though Bellarmine will needshave it other wife (as ifhe were now at (fa) becaufe he (hall bear no part of the blame : take heed of that, that werefin, Hcf t 2.8. who is the greatefl ] ; uzartent non guerenda, faith eXretirî they (hculd rather have enquired how to get into heaven, then Who ( hould be higheft inheaven. Ridiculum illstd ej?, initia igno- rare, &ultima rimari. But theydreamt.of a diftributicn of ho- naurs zndoffices (asonce in thedaies of David arad Solomon) a worldly Morarchy, like the Kingeoms of the earth ; as after- wards the Church was, and (till is trznsfòrmed by Antichrift in- to the imaged the beaft, that is, of the Roman Empire : yLt they call it the kingdomofkeaven, becaufe they had heard Chrift many times call it fo. In the Kingdomof heaven] i, e. In the flute and condition of the ChurchChrillian. So to this day among the j ews the King,- Hh dom
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