The Nevv Testament of Iesus Christ, translated faithfully into English, out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages; vvith arguments of bookes and chapters, annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the corruptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the controversies in religion, of these daies: in the English College of Rhemes

CHAP. I.

After the foundation laide in the salutation, •• 6 he exclaimeth against the Galatians, and their false apostles, 1•• considering that the Gospel vvhich he preached to thē, he had it immediatly of Christ him self. 13 Vvhich to shevv he beginneth to tel the storie of his conuersion and preaching since then, that as he learned nothing of the other Apostles; so yet he had their approbation.

[verse 1] PAVL an Apostle not of men, ″ nei∣ther by man, but by IESVS Christ, and God the Father that raised him from the dead, ✝ [leftJustify 2] and al the brethren that are vvith me: to the churches of Galatia. ✝ [leftJustify 3] Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord IESVS Christ, ✝ [leftJustify 4] vvho gaue him self for our sinnes, that he might deliuer vs from this present vvicked vvorld, according to the vvil of our God and father: ✝ [leftJustify 5] to vvhom is glorie for euer and euer. Amen.

✝ [leftJustify 6] I maruel that thus so soone you are transferred from him that called you into the grace of Christ, vnto an other Go∣spel: ✝ [leftJustify 7] vvhich is not an other, vnles there be some that trou∣ble you, and vvil∷ 1.1 inuert the Gospel of Christ. ✝ [leftJustify 8] But al∣though we, ″ or an Angel from heauen, euāgelize to you be∣side that vvhich vve haue euangelized to you, be he anáthe∣ma. ✝ [leftJustify 9] As vve haue said before, so novv I say againe, If any euangelize to you, beside that vvhich you haue receiued, be he anáthema. ✝ [leftJustify 10] For do I novv vse persuasion to men, or to God? Or do I seeke to please men? If I yet did please men, I should not be the seruant of Christ.

✝ [leftJustify 11] c 1.2 For I doe you to vnderstand, brethren, the Gospel that

vvas euangelized of me, that it is not according to man. ✝ [rightJustify 12] For neither did I receiue it of man, no•• learne 〈◊〉〈◊〉: but by the reuelation of IESVS Christ.

✝ [rightJustify 13] For you haue heard my cōuersation sometime in Iudaisme, that aboue measure I persecuted the Church of God,* 1.3 and ex∣pugned it, ✝ [rightJustify 14] and profited in Iudaisme aboue many of mine equales in my nation, being more aboundantly an emulator of the traditions of my fathers. ✝ [rightJustify 15] But vvhen it pleased him that separated me from my mothers vvombe, and called me by his grace, to reueale his sonne in me, ✝ [rightJustify 16] that I should euan∣gelize him among the Gentils, incontinent I condescended not to flesh and bloud, ✝ [rightJustify 17] neither came I to Hierusalem to the Apostles my antecessors: but I vvent into Arabia, and a∣gaine I returned to Damascus. ✝ [rightJustify 18] Then, after three yeres I came to Hierusalem ″ to see Peter: and taried with him fiftene daies. ✝ [rightJustify 19] But other of the Apostles savv I none: sauing Iames ∷ 1.4 the brother of our Lord. ✝ [rightJustify 20] And the things that I vvrite to you: behold before God, that I lie not. ⊢ ✝ [rightJustify 21] After that, I came into the partes of Syria and Cilicia. ✝ [rightJustify 22] And I vvas vnknowen by sight to the churches of Ievvrie, that vvere in Christ: ✝ [rightJustify 23] but they had heard only, That he vvhich persecuted vs sometimes, doth novv euangelize the faith vvhich sometime he expugned: ✝ [rightJustify 24] and in me they glorified God.

ANNOTATIONS CHAP. I.

1. Neither by man.]* 1.5 Though he vvere not first by mans election, nomination, or assignement, but by Gods ovvne special appointmēt, chosen to be an Apostle: yet by the like expresse ordinance of God he tooke orders or imposition of hands of men, as is plaine Act. 18. Let vs bevvare then of such false Apostles, as novv a daies intrude them selues to the office of Ministerie and preaching, neither called of God, nor rightly ordered of men.

••. Or an Angel.]* 1.6 Many vvorthie obseruations are made in the fathers vvritings, of the earnest admonition of the Apostle, and much may vve gather of the text it self, first, that the credit of any man or Angel for vvhat learning, eloquence, shevv of grace or vertue so euer, though he vvrought miracles, should not moue a Christian man from that truth vvhich he hath once receiued in the Catholike Church: of vvhich point Vincentius Li••inensis excellently treateth. li. cont. profan. hares. Nouitates. Vvhereby vve may see that it is great pitie and shame, that so many folovv Luther and Caluin and such other Ieude fellovves, into a nevv Gospel, vvhich are so farre from Apostles and Angels, that they are not any vvhit comparable vvith the old Heretikes in giftes of learning or elo∣quence,* 1.7 much lesse in good life.

Secondly S. Augustine noteth vpon the vvord,* 1.8 Beside, that not al other teaching, or more preaching then the first, is forbidden▪ but such as is contrarie and disagreing to the rule of faith. The Apostle did not say, saith he, If any man euangelize to you more then you haue receiued, but, beside that you receiued. for if he should say that, he should be preiudi••ial to him self, vvho coueted to come to the Thessalonians, that he might supply that vvhich vvas vvanting to their faith. Novv he that supplieth,

addeth that vvhich vvas lacking, taketh not avvay that vvhich vvas, &c. By vvhich vve see hovv fri∣uolously and calumniously the Heretikes charge the Church vvith addition to the Scripture.

Thirdly,* 1.9 as vvel by the vvord euangelizamus (vve euangelize) as the vvord accepistis (you haue receiued) vve may note that the first truth, against vvhich no second Gospelling or doctrine may be admitted, is not that onely vvhich he vvrote to the Galatians, or vvhich is conteined either in his or any other of the Apostles or Euāgelistes vvritings, but that vvhich vvas by vvord of mouth also preached, taught, or deliuered them first, before he wrote to them. Therfore the Aduersaries of the Church that measure the word of God or Gospel by the Scriptures onely, thinking them selues not to incurre S. Paules curse, except they teach directly against the vvritten vvord, are fouly beguiled. As therein also they any shamefully erre, when they charge the Catholikes with addint to the Gospel, when they teach any thing that is not in expresse wordes written by the Apostles or Euangelistes. not marking that the Apostle in this Chapter, and els where, commonly calleth his & his fellovves whole preaching, the Gospel, be it written or vnvvritten.

Fourthly,* 1.10 by the same wordes we see condemned al after-preachings, later doctrines, new sectes and authors of the same: that onely being true, which was first by the Apostles and Apo∣stolike men as the lavvful husbandmen of Christes fild, sovved and planted in the Church: and that false, which was laten and as it vvere ouersovven by the enemie. By which rule not onely Tertul∣lian (de praescript. nu. 6 & 9.) but all other aūcient Doctors, and specially S. Irenaeus (li. 3. c. 2. 3. 4.) tried truth from falsehod, and condemned old Heretikes, prouing Marcion, Valentine, Cerdon, Menander, and such like, false Apostles, because they came in with their nouelties long after the Church was settled in former truth.

Sixthly,* 1.11 This curse or execration pronounced by the Apostle, toucheth not onely the Gala∣tians, or those of the Apostles time, that preached othervvise then they did, but it perteineth to al times, preachers, and teachers, vnto the worldes end, and it concerneth then. (as Vincentius Liri∣nensis saith) that preach a new faith, or change that old faith which they receiued in the vnitie of of the Catholike Church.* 1.12 To preach any thing to Christian Catholike men (saith he) besides that vvhich they haue receiued, neuer vvas it lavvful, neuer is it, nor neuer shal it be lavvful, to say anathema to such. it hath been, and is, and shal be alvvaies behooful. So S. Augustine by this place holdeth al accursed, that draw a Christian man from the societie of the whole Church, to make the seueral part of any one sect: that call to the hidden conuenticles of Heretikes, from the open and knovven Church of Christ: that allure to the priuate, from the common: finally al that draw with chatting curiositie the children of the Catholike Church, by teaching any thing besides that they found in the church. ep. 48. Psal. 103. Con. 2.* 1.13 mentioning also that a Donatist feined an Angel to haue admonished him to call his frende out of the Communion of the Catholike Church into his sect. and he saith, that if it had been an Angel in deede, yet should he not haue heard him. Lastly S. Hierom vseth this place, wherein the Apostle giueth the curse or anáthema to al false teachers not once but tvvise, to proue that the zeale of Catholike men ought to be so great tovvard al Heretikes and their doctri∣nes,* 1.14 that they should giue them the anáthema, though they vvere neuer so deere vnto them. In which case, saith this holy Doctor, I would not spare mine ovvne parents. Ad Pammach. c. 3. cont. Io. Hieros.

18. To see Peter.]* 1.15 In what estimation S. Peter was with this Apostle, it appeareth: seing for respect and honour of his person, and of duety as Tertullian de praescript. saith (notvvithstanding his great affaires Ecclesiasticall) he vvent so farre to see him.* 1.16 not in vulgar maner, but (as S. Chry∣sostom noteth the Greeke word to import) to behold him as men behold a thing or person of name, excellencie, and maiestie. for vvhich cause, and to fill him self with the perfect vew of his behauiour, he abode with him fiftene daies. See S. Hierom ep. 10•• ad Paulinum. to. ••. who maketh also a mysterie of the number of daies that he taried with S. Peter. See S. Ambrose in Comment. huius loci. and S. Chrysostome vpon this place, and ho. 87 in Ioan.

Notes

• ∷ 1.1

  New Gos∣pellers that peruert, cor∣rupt, or alter the one onely true and first deliuered Go∣spel, are to be auoided. See S. Augustine Cont. Faustum li. 32. c. 27.
• c 1.2

  The Epistle vpon the Com∣memoration of S. Paul, Iun. 30.
• * 1.3

  Act. 9, 1.
• ∷ 1.4

  S. Iames was called our Lordes bro∣ther after the hebrew phrase of the Iewes, by vvhich neere kinsmen are called brethrē. for they were not brethren in deede, but rather susters children.
• * 1.5

  S. Paul sent to preache by or∣dinarie impo∣sitiō of hādes.
• * 1.6

  No shevv of learning or vertue must moue vs from the faith.
• * 1.7

  Preaching cō∣trarie to the saith, recei∣ued is forbid∣den, not other preaching.
• * 1.8

  Tra••t. 98 in Ioan.
• * 1.9

  The Gospel is not onely in the written word of scrip∣ture, but in vnwritten tra∣dition also.
• * 1.10

  After-prea∣ching & ouer∣sowing of no∣uelties, ••r¦gueth false doctrine.
• * 1.11

  The Apostles curse vpon al that teache nevv doctrine, and dravv men from the Cath. Church.
• * 1.12

  Li. cont. proph. haer. nouit.
• * 1.13

  Aug. ep. 165.
• * 1.14

  Zeale against heretikes.
• * 1.15

  B. Paul doth visite S. Peter of honour and reuerence to∣vvard him.
• * 1.16

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