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Rh And when they shal persecute you in this citie, flee into an other. Amen I say to you, you shal not finish al the cities of Israel, til the Sonne of man come.

* The Disciple is not above the Maister, nor the servant above his Lord. It suffiseth the Disciple that he be as his maister: and the Servant as his Lord. If they have called the Goodman of the house Beelzebub, ″ how much more them of his houshold? Therfore feare, ye not them. For nothing is hid, that shal not be revealed: and secret, that shal not be known. That which I speake to you in the dark, speak ye in the light: and that which you heare in the eare, preach ye upon the house tops. And feare ye not them that kil the body, and are not able to kil the soul: but rather feare him that can destroy both soul and body into Hel. ✠

Are not two sparowes sold for a farthing: and not one of them shal fal upon the ground without your Father? But your very haires of the head are al numbered. Feare not therfore: better are you then many sparowes. * Every one therfore that shal ″ confesse me before men, I also wil confesse him before my Father which is in Heaven. But he that shal denie me before men, I also wil denie him before my Father which is in Heaven. ✠ Do not ye think * that I came to send peace into the earth: I came ″ not to send peace, but the sword. For I came to separate * man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law agaynst her mother in law. And a mans enemies, they of his owne houshold. He that loveth father or mother ″ more then me, is not worthy of me: and he that loveth sonne or daughter above me, is not worthy of me. And he that taketh not his crosse, and foloweth me, is not worthy of me. He that hath found his life, shal lose it: and he that hath lost his life for me, shal find it.

* He that receaveth you, receaveth me: and he that receaveth me, receaveth him that sent me. He that receaveth a Prophet ″ in the name of a Prophet, shal receave the reward of a Prophet. and he that receaveth a just man in the name of a just man, shal receave the reward of a just man. And * whosoever shal give drinke to one of these litle ones a cup of cold water, only in the name of a Disciple, amen I say to you, he shal not lose his reward. ✠

ANNOTATIONS. C. X.

1. Power.) Miracles were so necessarie to the confirmation of their doctrine beginning then to be preached, that not only Christ himselfe did miracles, but also he gave to his Apostles power to doe them.

2. First Simon.) Peter the first, not in calling, but in preeminence. For (as S. Ambrose saith in 2. Cor. 12.) Andrew first folowed our Saviour before Peter and yet the Primacie Andrew receaved not, but Peter. Which preeminence of S. Peter above the other Apostles is so plainly signified in this word, First, by the judgement even of Heretikes, that Beza, Rh