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me, and shal not find; And where I am, you can not come.

³⁷And in the last, the Levit. 23, 36.* great day of the festivitie Jesus stood and cried, saying: If any man thirst, let him come to me, and drinke. ³⁸He that beleeveth in me, as the scripture saith, Joel 2. 28.Out of his belly shal flow rivers of living water. Lev. 23, 36.³⁹(And this he said Act. 2, 1.* of the Spirit that they should receive which beleeved in him.✠ ^[1] For as yet the Spirit was not given: because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

⁴⁰Of that multitude therfore, when they had heard these words of his, some said: This is the Prophet indeed. ⁴¹Others said: This is Christ. But certaine said: Why, doth Christ come from Galilee? ⁴²Doth not the Ps. 131, 11. Mich. 5, 2.* scripture say: That of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem the towne where David was, Christ doth come? ⁴³Therfore there arose dissension in the multitude for him. ⁴⁴And certaine of them would have apprehended him: but no man laid hands upon him. ⁴⁵The Ministers therfore came to the cheefe Priests and the Pharisees. And they said to them: Why have you not brought him? ⁴⁶The ministers answered: Never did there man so speake, as this man. ⁴⁷The Pharisees therfore answered them: Why, are you also seduced? ⁴⁸Hath any of the Princes beleeved in him, or of the Pharisees? ⁴⁹but this multitude that knoweth not the law, are accursed. ⁵⁰Nicodemus said to them, ^[2] he Joa. 3, 2.* that came to him by night, who was one of them: ⁵¹Doth our Law judge a man, unles it first heare him, and know what he doth? ⁵²They answered and said to him: Why, art thou also a Galilæan? ‘Search the scriptures’.‘Search’, and see that from Galilee a Prophet riseth not. ⁵³And every man returned to his house.

 

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Chap. VIII.

 

Againe in the Temple (absolving an advoutresse after his merciful manner, and yet withal declaring against his enemies that he is not a favourer of sinne, no more then Moyses) 12. he teacheth openly, and is not for al that apprehended: telling them both of his Godhead, 21. and of their reprobation, 28. of his exaltation also by their Crucifying of him: 31. exhorting the beleevers to persever, 33. and shewing them that seeke his death, that they are neither free, 39. nor of Abraham, 41. nor of God, 44. but of the Divel. 45. But that himself is of God, 52. and greater and ancienter then Abraham. 59. For the which they goe about to stone him, but in vaine.

 

The Ghospel upon Saturday the 3. weeke of Lent.AND Jesus went into the Mount-olivet: ²and early in the morning againe he came into the Temple, and the people came to him, and sitting he taught them.

³And the Scribes and Pharisees bring a woman taken in advoutrie: and they did set her in the middes, ⁴and said to him: Maister, this woman was even now taken in advoutrie. ⁵And Lev. 20, 10.* in the law Moyses commanded us to stone such. What sayest thou therfore? ⁶And this they said tempting him, that they might accuse him. But Jesus bowing himself downe, with his finger

1. This was fulfilled on whitsunday Act. 2. and afterward alwayes by imposition of hands in the Sacrament of Confirmation: visibly in the primitive Church, and invisibly to the end of the world.
2. Christ hath some good alwayes even among the wicked, which secretly serve him and by wise delayes avert the execution of injust lawes against him and his people, as Nicodemus and Gamaliel.