Chap.23. accordirs3.*o SC M A T T H E VV. 527 contciences, as he did for Mt Bradfrd and many more of the Martyrs, whom as they could not outreafon, fo neither could they but conceive well of the Martyrs innocency, triumphing in their perfecutours confciences. CHAP. XXIII. Verte i. Then sfiake: Iefus to the multitude, &c.] Hriifl having confuted and confounded the Scribes and Pharr fees, turns him to the people and to his Difciples : and that he might do nothing to the detriment of the truth, he here can - tionateth, that they defpife not the doEtrineof the Pharifees, fo far as it was found and fincere without leaven but try all things, N4, xxi A holding fail that which was good. Be advifed, and remember to vttsv.ir -civ. fearch into the truth of what you hear, was the counfell of Ytde. ss cut flou. rEpicharmnr. etigaa quern Verte a. Sit in Moles chair ] i. e. Have the ordinary officeof dstriae. teaching the people, but quo iure, he queflioneth nor. The Preifis and Lvites flaould have done it,but the Scribes and Pharifees had uxó%w. sedeo. for prefent taken it upon them, {dept into the chair, and there ratioó. fet themfelves. R',m. 2. 2 o. So Hildebrand and his fucceflours, have invadedPeters chair, as they call the fea ofRome, but what faid an Ancient ? Nonhabent Petri htereditarem, qui Petrifid m non habent. They have no right to Peters chaire, that have not Peters faith. The Index expeergatorius, commands (rble» fide,) infdead of Fidem `Petri, to print it Seders Petri. Perfr` ira frontem, Paid C:3lases to Vatiriees, c digniorem te dit qui Praror' fieris gsteìmCatonem, Put ona good face, and fay that thou art fitter for theoffice then Cato himfeif. But whata bold facehad Barcana the je'uite who meeting the devil, required hischair of vi i4o'o adv him, as one that better deferved it? He had his defire f doubt not. cart But if Scribes and Phariíees far in Mofes chair, ifsno news thri °i°`" PE' forbad men to fit_ceed better ; as Tinsothesr Herulua did Prote- ` µr 'artreL r,. a s eyes aocu,a.r, rias the good Bitliop of Alexandria:, andas Arnminios did 3r.ai- quì icru,i f: . us in the Profeflhurs -place at Leyden. actor, Verte-3. therejre What(3ever] Not their traditions, fu- perflitionss,,4nd'corrupt gloffes upon the Law, but Whatfuevee they teach; that is :agreable to truth : to long as .they tic clofe to Mofes chair, and !veep it warm, as it were, hearken to them'. Mm a (Gads 11111111111`
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