eloquent, but false Prophetes are full of curious eloquence. Also vpon the same an other Glosse. The Corinthiās were led away from the Gospell by ouer nyce eloquence. The. 2. Cor. 7. Let vs shew our selues before all men as the minsters of God. Glosse. The ministers of God, do not flatter as false Prophetes do. And for this occasion those that be true Apostles haue not their abiding in Princes Courtes, and noble mens houses, knowyng this saying of Christ in S. Mathewes Gospel. Behold those that are clothed with silkes, dwell in kynges Courtes: And therfore true Apostles are not conuersaunt in Princes Courtes and noble mens houses. Glosse. Hard & strait lyfe with the preachyng of the Gospell, loueth not to come neare Princes pallaces, and noble mens houses. Often tymes it commeth to passe, that Courtiers are found great flatterers. Therfore those preachers that haue their abode in Courtes, or that in any other place do 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 nothyng els.The xiij. signe is, that true Apostles or messengers, do not circumuent or subtilly go about to deceaue men, that they should giue vnto them their goodes, either in their 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 substaūce as false Prophetes do, which get away from you those thynges that be yours, vnder pretence of great frēdshyp. Also Mat. 22. Wo be vnto you Scribes and Phariseis you hypocrites which spoyle widowes houses, by your long prayers: Which meane nothyng els by your superstition, but that you may spoyle and robbe the people as in. Luke. 20. Which deuoure widowes houses by dissemblyng of your long prayer. Glosse. The which make ouer long prayers, to the intent they may seme more deuout, & that they may get both money & great commendation of all such as be sicke and troubled with the burden of their sinnes: whose prayers be turned into sinne, which neither are profitable for themselues nor any other. But rather shall haue for makyng those prayers greater damnation, for as much as by the same they deceaue others. For by this that they receaue and take both golde and siluer, it appeareth that they preach not for soules healthes sake, but onely for filthy lucre and gayne sake. Math. 10. Be ye possessours neither of gold nor siluer. Glosse. If they then haue these thynges, they can not seeme, or be thought to preach for the health of þ^e soule, but for lucres sake. And so sayth Hierome vpon the Prophet Malachy. Because some Prophets tooke money, their Prophecy became deuinatiō: that is to say, their Prophecy appeared not to be Prophecie but diuination, or inchauntement: that is, that such Prophecy procedeth not frō God, but from the deuill. 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 their goodes, either in their life time or after their death: are not true Apostles but false Prophetes.

MarginaliaSigne. 14. is, that false prophetes cannot abide to haue the truth preached.The. xiiij. signe is, that false Prophetes, when any verity is preached, which for þ^e most part they are not equainted with all, or that toucheth them: then begyn they to chafe and barke agaynst the same, whereupon the Apostle in the 3. chapter to the Philippiās sayth: behold the dogges. Glossa. Vnderstand you that they are not dogges by nature, but by their vsage & conditions, barkyng agaynst the truth, which they were neuer aquainted with. And so he compareth thē right well to dogges, because dogges folow rather custome, then reason: So, false Apostles do keepe the custome of the law, & do byte and barke agaynst the truth, as though they were without the gift of reason. And also in the secōd Epistle to Timothy the. iiij. chapter, saying: They get them instructors accordyng to their owne desires. Glossa. Whiche may teach them what thynges they themselues are willing to heare, because the truth seemeth nothyng pleasaunt vnto them. Therfore, those preachers which barke agaynst the late reuealed truth, which toucheth them very neare, & therfore cause the same to be hiddē and kept vnder: are not true Apostles, but false prophetes.

MarginaliaSigne. 15. is, that false prophets do enforce them 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 vnwillyng therunto: but send them away rather, least they should seeme to seeke after some earthly and transitory thing. Math. 10. Who soeuer will not receiue you, get you out of that Citie, and shake the dust from of your feete. &c. Glossa. That you may thereby shew, that the desire of earthly things hath no power in you. Therefore, those preachers which wrastle & striue as it were to that intent they would be receaued and heard, are no true Apostles: For as much as the Apostle sayth. Corinth. 11. If any man appeare among you to be ouer contentious or full of strife: such custome haue we nonenor yet the congregation of Christ.

MarginaliaSigne. 16. is that false prophetes do cause princes to hate & punishe thein that wyll not heare them.The. xvi. signe is, that the Apostles did not procure the indignation of those princes with whom they were estemed and regarded, agaynst such persons as would not receaue them and heare them, according as we read in the life of Simon and Iude the Apostles: The chiefe ruler beyng very angry, commaunded a very great fire to be made, that the byshops myght be cast in to the same, and all other which went about to defame the doctrine of þ^e Apostles of Christ: But the Apostles fell downe before the Emperour saying: we beseech you syr, let not vs be the authors or causers of thys destruction or calamitie: Nor that we which are sent to be the preseruation of men, and to reuiue those that are dead through sinne, may seeme to be killers of those that be aliue. Therefore, those preachers which seeke to styrre vp the displeasure of Princes agaynst them, (whose fauours now they enioy) that will not receaue and heare them, or rather whom they themselues hate, are no true Apostles but false Prophetes.

MarginaliaSigne 17. is that false prophets do not know neyther what God hath done, nor yet will doe as true prophets do.The. xvij. signe is, that the Apostles of Christ haue not onely the knowledge of those thynges which God hath already done, but also of those thynges which he will hereafter doe, as in the Apoc. 3. The beastes were full of eyes both behinde and before. Glose. Obtayning the knowledge of those thinges which 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 Church in the later tyme, which are prophesied 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 themselues Apostles they are false prophetes.

MarginaliaSigne. 18. is that false prophetes preach for monie, and are not to be discerned from Wolues.The xviij signe is, that true Apostles doe not desire the riches and goods of them to whom they preach, whereby they are discerned from wolues, that is to say, from false Prophetes. Act. 20. I haue desired no mans golde nor siluer. Glose. By thys are wolues discerned, for they desire such thinges. And agayne in the same place: For those thynges which I had neede of, and to those which were wyth me, these handes haue ministred. Glose. Thys example also of labouring, is a spectacle for Byshops, whereby they are discerned from wolues. For such as aske or beg of those to whom they preach, or set anye other to aske or beg in their names: do seeme to commit simony: Like Gyezi, of whom it is red in the third booke of kynges the fift chapt. that craued certayne apparell of Naaman the Sirian, to whom his maister Elizeus had restored þ^e benefit of health. Notwithstanding, he had gotten those garmentes, vnwitting to hys maister. Wherupon Gregory Nazanzenus sayth, 1. q. 1. Qui isti debetur. But some man perhaps will say: Cannot the preacher aske money or money worth of those to whō he preacheth? Or at the least, may he not beg? To this may be aunswered. MarginaliaIf the preacher do his duetie in preaching he may take lawfully for his necessary thynges.If the preacher by autoritie preach, and 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 autoritie, as the second to Timothe the second chapter: It is meete that the husband man that tylleth the ground, should first and 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 lawfull for him to take of them whom he feedeth as hys flocke, what thyngs soeuer he hath neede of: and doth it not by begging 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 Apostles of Christ, and is abhorred of Salomon, Saint Augustine, and reproued by diuers other holy men. Therfore, it is manifest, that true Apostles do not desire the temporall goods of them to whom they preach, neyther do they beg or craue the same: They therefore that require any thyng of them to whom they preach, or els that any other man asketh for them, or in their names: do not seeme to be true Apostles, but false preachers.

MarginaliaSigne. 19. is that true Apostles do not tender euill for good as false doe.The. xix. signe is, that true Apostles are patient in tribulation, neyther doe they render euill for good, Mathew. 10. Behold I send you as sheepe among wolues. Glose. They that occupy the place of preachyng, ought not to procure any euill towarde their brethren, as the example of Christ teacheth. 1. Peter. 2. saying: who when he was reuiled, reuiled not agayne, but did submit hymselfe to hym that iudged him vniustly. They therfore that suffer not iniury, but rather do wrong themselues, are not true Apostles, but false Apostles.

The. xx. signe is, that true Apostles at their first comming are euill intertayned, as the Lord sayth in the. xxiij.