their abode in courtes, or þ^t in anye other place doo vse to flatter, are no true Apostles but false Pophetes.

MarginaliaSigne. 13. is, that false prophets do circumuent men to haue their goods & care for nothing els.The xiij. signe is, that true Apostles or messengers, do not circumuent or subtilly go about to deceaue mē, that they should giue vnto them their goodes, either in theyr lyfe tyme or els at the tyme of their death: as in the 2. Cor. 7. We haue falsly deceaued no man. Glosse. By the subtill and deceatfull gettyng away of your substaunce as false Prophetes do, whiche get away from you those things that be yours, vnder pretence of great frendship. Also Math. 22. Wo be vnto you scribes and phariseis you hipocrites whiche spoyle widowes houses, by your longe prayers: Which meane nothing els by your superstition, but that you maye spoyle and robbe the people as in. Luke. 20. Whiche deuour widowes houses by dissemblyng of your longe prayer. Glose. The whiche make ouer longe prayers, to the intent they may seme more deuote, and that they may get both money and great commendation of al such as be sicke and troubled with the burdē of their sinnes: whose prayers be turned into sin, which neither are profitable for them selues nor any other. But rather shall haue for makyng those prayers greater dampnatiō, for as much as by the same they deceaue others. For by this that they receaue and take both gold and siluer, it appeareth that they preache not for soules healthes sake, but onely for filthy lucre & gayne sake. Math. 10. Be ye possessors neither of golde nor siluer. Glose. If they then haue these thynges, they canne not seame, or be thought to preache for the health of the soule, but for lucres sake. And so sayth Ierome vpon the Prophete Malachie. Because some Prophetes toke money, their Prophetie became deuination: that is to say, their Prophetie appeared not to be Prophetie but diuination, or inchaūtement: that is, that such Prophetie procedeth not from God, but from the deuil. And this appeared in. 1. q. 1. hauyng this begynnyng Nunquam diuinatio &c. Therfore those preachers which circumuent and beguile men, to the intent that they should giue them theyr goodes, eyther in their lyfe tyme or after their death: are not true Apostles but false Prophetes.

MarginaliaSigne. 14. is, that false prophets cannot abide to haue the truth preached.The. xiiij. signe is, that false prophetes, when any veritie is preached, which for the most part they are not aquainted withall, or that toucheth them: then begin thei to chafe and barke agaynst the same, whereupon the Apostle in the third chapter to the Philippians sayth: behold the dogs. Glossa. Vnderstand you that they are not dogs by nature, but by their vsage and condicions, barking against þ^e truth, which they were neuer aquainted w^t. And so he compareth thē right wel to dogges, because dogs folow rather custome, then reason: So, false apostels do keepe the custome of the lawe, and doo bite and barke agaynst the truth, as though they were without the gift of reason. And also in the second epistle to Timothe the. iiij. chapter, saying: They get thē instructors according to their own desires. Glossa. Which may teach them what thinges they themselues are willing to hear, because the truth seemeth nothing pleasant vnto them. Thefore, those preachers which barke agaynst the late reuealed truth, which toucheth them very neare, & therefore cause the same to be hidden and kept vnder: are not true Apostels, but false prophetes.

MarginaliaSigne. 15. is, false prophetes do inforce thē to heare that are not willing to heare.The. xv. signe is, that the true Apostels doo not enforce any to receaue or heare them, which be vnwylling therunto: but sende them away rather, least they should seeme to seeke after some earthly and transitory thing. Math. 10. Who soeuer wyl not receiue you, get you out of that Citie, and shake the dust from of your feete. &c. Glossa. That you may thereby shewe, that the desire of earthly things hath no power in you. Therefore, those preachers which wrastle and striue as it were to that intent they would be receaued and heard, are no true apostles: For as muche as the Apostle sayth. Corinth. 11. Ifanye man appeare amonge you to be ouer contentious or full of strife: such custome haue we none, nor yet the congregation of Christ.

MarginaliaSigne. 16. is that false prophets do cause princes to hate and punish such as wyll not heare them.The. xvj. signe is, that the Apostles dyd not procure the indignation of those princes with whom they were estemed and regarded, against such persons as woulde not receaue them and heare them, according as we rede in the life of Simon and Iude the Apostles: The chiefe ruler being very angry, commaunded a very great fire to be made, that the bishops might be cast in to þ^e same, and all other whiche went about to defame the doctrine of the Apostles of Christ: But the Apostles fell down before the Emperour saying: we beseche you syr, let not vs be the autors or causers of this destruction or calamitie: Nor that we which are sent to be the preseruation of men, and to reuiue those that are dead through sin, may seeme to be kyllers of those that be aliue. Therfore, those preachers which seeke to styr vp the displeasure of princes agaynst them, whose fauours now they enioy, that wyll not receaue and heare them, or rather whom they them selues hate, are no true Apostels but fals prophets.

MarginaliaSigne 17. is that false prophets do not know neyther what God hath done, nor yet will do as true prophets do.The. xvij. signe is, that the apostels of Christ haue not onely the knowledge of those thynges which God hath already done, but also of those things which he wil here after do, as in the Apoca. 3. The beastes were ful of eyes both behinde and before. Glose. Obtayning the knowledge of those things whych God had done, as also what he would hereafter do in the end of the world. Therfore those that say they know not the perils of the churche in the later tyme, which are prophecied afore: or that they care not for them, or els if they know thē not, they haue not eyes behinde and before: be no true Apostles. Therfore, what tyme as they call them selues Apostels they are false prophetes.

MarginaliaSigne. 18. is that false prophets preach for money, and are not to be discerned from Wolues.The. xviij. signe is, that true Apostels doo not desire the riches and goods of them to whō they preach, wherby they are discerned from wolues, that is to say, from false prophetes. Act. 20. I haue desired no mans golde nor siluer. Glose. By this are woolues discerned, for they desire suche thynges. And agayne in the same place: For those thinges which I had neede of, and to those whych were with me, these handes haue ministred. Glose. This example also of laboring, is a spectacle for bishops, wherby they are discerned from woolues. For suche as aske or beg of those to whom they preache, or set anye other to aske or beg in their names: do seeme to commit simonie: Like Gyezi, of whom it is red in the third booke of kinges the fift chapter, that craued certayne aparell of Naaman the Sirian, to whom his maister Elizeus had restored the benefit of health. Notwithstanding, he had gotten those garments, vnwitting to his maister. Wherupon Gregory Nazanzenus sayth, 1. q. 1. Qui isti debetur. But some man perhaps wyll say: Cannot the preacher aske money or money worth of those to whom he preacheth? Or at the least, may he not beg? To this maye be aunswered. MarginaliaIf the preacher do hys duetie in preaching he may take lawfully for his necessarye things.If the preacher by autoritie preach, & doth feede hys flocke as a true pastor with the foode of Gods word, he may take money, or money worth: but then it is not beggyng or crauing, but it is by autority, as the second to Timothe the second chapter: It is mete that the husband man that tylleth the ground, should fyrst & afore other receaue the cōmoditie of his increase. Glose. He putteth the verteous preacher out of doubt, not preaching for that intent to make marchaundise of the Gospell, and geueth hym to vnderstand: that it is lawful for him to take of them whom he feedeth as his flock, what things so euer he hath nede of: & doth it not by beggyng or crauing, but by good autority. It is manifest, that it cannot in any place of the holy scripture be found, that the preacher ought to beg. But begging is forbidden of all the Apostels of Christ, and is abhorred of Salomon, Saint Augustine, and reproued by diuers other holye