Cap,23._ According to ScMATT 14 v V. 531 whole bare word you are to take , without further proof or pawn. e/4nd ye are brethren] Not as the Pope calls his Cardi- nails brethren, when in creating them, he uteth this form, Efote fratres notri, & Principes raundi. Odi faffum illius Eeclef,s, faith Bafil, which caufed the lamentable feperationof the Eaftern or Greek Church, from communion with the Latine, the other four Patriachs dividing themfelves from the Bifhop ofRome, for his encroaching upon them. Verfe 9. Call no man your father :I i.e. Give no man abfolute power over you ; be not the fervants of men, or (laves to their opinions or mandates, as Friers are to their fraperiours, to argue or debate on whole commands is held high prefumption : to fearch their reafons, proud curiofity : to detraft or ditobey them, breach of vow equal' to fàcriledge. uib unihil Verfe io. One is your mater] Where thenare Magifrino- ptacet qt104 7 e capitis ¡ui lí. gri Parif enfes ? our Dot-bores replutifmi . our Matters of rippio ipfapro opinions, whole word muft ftand for a law, whole tenets muft ruterint. paffe for Oracles? By the Canon -law, Omnes fnfl §ones A- Muche(ius. poffolicafedis irrefragabilitér funt obfervande. The Pope may Dí/t r9 e not be difobeyed. t,: mevnoriam. Verfe ii. Shall be jour fervant] The word fignifies one that is ready preft to raife duft, to dohis utmoft endeavour with q d. Prætfli. all poflible expedition in any bufinete, that he is let about. nant,expeditur, Verfe 12. And whofdever (ball exalt bimfelf, , &c.] Loe here paratus,promp- -agreat miracle, faith Augufin. God is on high, and yet the 1us. higher thou 11fteft up thy felf, the farther thou art from him : ridere magnum the lower thou humbleft thy felt, the nearer he draweth to thee. miracu[vrn Low things he lookethdole upon, that hemay raife them : proud Altuseft De, things he knows afarre off, that he may depreffe them. The ar, 8tc. proudPharifee preffed as near God as he coaald : the poor Publi- Aug- dc temp. can, not daring todo fo, flood aloof off: yet wasGod far from the Pharifee, near to the Publican. Verfe 13. Woe unto you Scribes, &c.] By there eight dread - full woes, as by fomany links of an adamantine chain, our Savi- our draws there hypocrites down to hell their place,and there leaves them to be referved unto judgement. St Hierom was called FulmenEcclefiaficum, the Churches thunderbolt. How much more might this be attributed toChrift ? How terriblydoth he here thunderttrike there ftu)id Pharifees though he faw well M in 4 ( with
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