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228 thinke you, in that he is not come to the festival day? And the cheefe Priests and Pharisees had given commandement, that if any man should know where he was, he should tel, that they might apprehend him.

ANNOTATIONS. XI.

51. Being the high Priest.) Marvel not that Christ preserveth his truth in the Church as wel by the unworthy as the worthy Prelates thereof: the guifts of the Holy Ghost following their Order and office, as we see here in Caiphas, and not their merites or person. And if this man being many wayes wicked, and in part an usurper, and the Law and Priesthood being to decline and to give place to Christs new ordinance, had yet some assistance of God for utterance of truth which himself meant not, nor knew not: how much more may we be assured, that Christ wil not leave Peters Seat, whose faith he promised should never faile, though the persons which occupie the same, were as il as the blasphemous and malicious mouthes of Heretikes doe affirme.

XII.

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