69But Peter sate without in the court; and there came to him one ″ wench, saying: Thou also wast with Jesus the Galilean. 70But he denied before them all, saying: I wot not what thou sayest. 71And as he went out of the gate, an other wench saw him, and she saith to them that were there: And this felow also was with Jesus the Nazarite. 72And againe he denied with an oth: That I know not the man. 73And after a litle they came that stood by, and said to Peter: Surely thou also art of them: for even thy speach doth bewray thee. 74Then he began ″ to curse and to sweare that he knew not the man. And incontinent the cock crewe. To this time the LAUDES do answer in the Churches Service.75And Peter remembred the word of Jesus which he had said: Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrise. And going forth, ″ he wept bitterly.
ANNOTATIONS
Chap. XXVI.
Cost upon Churches, Altares, &c.8. This waste.) Cost bestowed upon Christs body then alive, being to the same not necessary, seemed to the Disciples lost and fruitles: so the like bestowed upon the same body in the Sacrament, upon Altars, or Churches, seemeth to the simple lost, or lesse meritorious, then if the same were bestowed upon the poore.
Releefe of the poore.10. Good worke.) Cost bestowed for religion, devotion, and signification, is a meritorious worke, and often more meritorious then to give to the poore; though both be very good, and in some case the poore are to be preferred: yea Ambr. l. 2. Off. c. 28.* in certaine cases of necessity, the Church wil breake the very consecrated vessels and jewels of silver, and gold, and bestow them in works of mercy. But we may remember very wel, and our Fathers knew it much better, that the poore were then best releeved, when most was bestowed upon the Church.
Christ alwayes with us in the B. Sacrament.11. Have not.) We have him not in visible manner as he conversed on the earth with his Disciples, needing releefe like other poore men; but we have him after an other sort in the B. Sacrament, and yet have him truly and really the self same body. Therfore he saith, they should not have him, because they should not so have him, but after an other manner. As when he said Luc. 24. When I was with you, as though he were not then with them.
A wonderful mysterie in the institution of the B. Sacrament.20. Twelve.) It must needs be a great mysterie that he was to worke in the institution of the new Sacrifice by the marvelous transmutation of bread and wine into his body and bloud: Whereas he admitted none (although many present in the citie) but the twelve Apostles, which were to have the administration and consecration thereof by the Order of Priesthood, which also was there given them to that purpose. Whereas at the eating of the Paschal lamb al the familie was wont to be present.
26. He tooke bread.) Here at once is instituted, for the continuance of the external office of Christes eternal Priesthood according to the order of Melchisedech, both a Sacrifice, and a Sacrament, though the Scriptures give neither of these names to this action, and our Adversaries without al reason or religion accept in a sort the one, and utterly deny the other. The holy Eucharist is both a Sacrifice and a Sacrament.A Sacrifice, in that it is ordained to continue the memory of Christes death and oblation upon the Crosse, and the application of the general vertue thereof to our particular necessities, by consecrating the several elements, not into Christes whole person as it was borne of the Virgin or now is in Heaven, but the bread into his body apart, as betrayed, broken, and given for us, the wine into his bloud apart, as shed out of his body, for remission of sinnes, and dedication of the new Testament; which be conditions of his Person as he was in Sacrifice and Oblation. In which mystical and unspeakable manner, he would have the Church to offer and Sacrifice him daily, and he in mysterie and Sacrament dyeth, though now not only in Heaven, but also in the Sacrament, he be indeed per Concomitantiam (as the Church calleth it; that is, by sequele of al his partes to ech other) whole, alive,
