Ptōchomuseion [sic]. = The poore mans librarie Rapsodiæ G.A. Bishop of Exceter vpon the first epistle of saint Peter, red publiquely in the cathedrall church of saint Paule, within the citye of London. 1560. Here are adioyned at the end of euery special treatie, certaine fruitful annotacions which may properly be called miscellanea, bicause they do entreate of diuerse and sundry matters, marked with the nombre and figures of Augrime. 2.

¶ The third circumstaunce.

* 1.1As the precious stone, called Drachonites, can not be polished,* 1.2 nor nedeth any arte or cunnyng, to make it either trimmer or fayrer, for it is both pleasaunt and bright of it selfe: Euen so the holy scripture hath her glorye and brightnes of her selfe, and nedeth not the artificiall coloures and shewes, eyther of Philosophie,* 1.3 Rhethoricke, or any other arte.

* 1.4Paul in dede calleth y^e Church Columnā & firmamentū veritatis, y^e piller, steye, & foundatiō of all truth, not bycause she is Lady, & head, of the Scriptures, but by∣cause she doth preserue, imparte, & declare the Scriptures vnto other, & in all her doings specially for the cōfirmatiō of all true doctrine, doth vse the testimonie of the scriptures, which whē she doth not, but trusteth to her owne inuentiōs, tradi∣tions & gloses, she is not to be coūpted the Churche of Christ,* 1.5 but the synagoge of Antichrist. Saint Austen, Contra Epistolā fundamēti, hath these wordes. Definita in sacris literis, omnibus aliis debent preferri. Thinges defined in the holy scriptu∣res,* 1.6 ought to be preferred and set before all other thinges.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Eras. in si∣milibus.
• * 1.2

  Draconi∣tes. 8.
• * 1.3

  Philoso∣phie. 9.
• * 1.4

  1. Timoth. ca. 3.
• * 1.5

  Sinagoge. 10.
• * 1.6

  Cōt. Epist. fundamēti.