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Rh wil tel you in what power I doe these things. The baptisme of John was it from Heaven, or from men? answer me. But they thought with them selves, saying: If we say, from Heaven; he wil say, why then did you not beleeve him? If we say, from men, we feare the people. For al accounted John that he was indeed a Prophet. And they answering say to : We know not. And answering saith to them: Neither do I tel you in what power I doe these things.

ANNOTATIONS. XI.

16. Vessel through the temple.) He could not abide to see the Temple of God profaned, no nor suffred those things to be done in it, which otherwise were not unlawful but honest, if they had been done in due place. How much lesse can he abide the profaning of Churches now with Heretical service and preaching of heresie and blasphemie?

17. Denne of theeves.) If the Temple was then a denne of theeves, because of profane & secular marchandise? how much more now, when the house appointed for the Holy Sacrifice & Sacrament of the Bodie of Christ, is made a denne for the Ministers of Calvins bread?

XII.

ND he began speake to them in parables, A man planted a vineyard and made a hedge about it, and digged a trough, and built a towre, and lett it out to husbandmen; and went forth into a strange countrie. And sent to the husbandmen in season a servant, to receave of the husbandmen, of the fruit of the vineyard. Who apprehending him, beatt him; and sent him away emptie. And againe he sent to them another servant; and him they wounded in the head, and used him reprochfully. And againe he sent another, & him they killed: and many other, beating certaine, and killing others. Therefore having yet one sonne most deare; him also he sent unto them last saying: That they wil reverence my sonne. But the husbandmen said one to an other: This is the heire; come, let us kil him; and the inheritance shal be ours. And Apprehending him, they killed him, and cast Rh