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 seconde circumstaunce,

The second circūstance is, that in y^e old Testament wer many types, shadowes and figures, but we in the new Testament haue receyued the thing it selfe,* 1.1 that was then figured, and fore signified.

Therfore what God promised vnto them, he hath performed and geuen vnto vs. They beleued Christ to come, and to deliuer the faithfull: We beleue, that he is come,* 1.2 and hath accomplished all things. Our Lord Christ said in Mathew. Lex & Prophetae vs{que} ad Iohannem. As Eo tempore regnum dei annunciatur, & qui vis in illud vim facit.

The law and the Prophets Prophecied vnto Iohn,* 1.3 and from the tyme of Iohn the kingdome of heauen suffred violence, and the violent take it by force. By the whiche this is deriued, that all shadowes and figures then signifieng thinges to come, do ceasse and fall away, when the thing it selfe that was figured, is come and made present.

Moreouer the yoke and burthen whiche our fathers did beare, are taken from our shoulders. Their kinde of worshipping God was onerous and paynfull, as the Aaronical priesthoode. The tabernacle or temple decked and furnished with thinges most exquisite and costly, the diuerse kind of sacrifices, with a great nom∣ber of such like things. But Christ the complement and fulfiller of all lawes and sacrifices, hath deliuered vs from such rites & ceremonies, both onerous & sump∣tuous, & hath geuen vnto vs very few extern things: that is to say, Only y^e prea∣ching of his word, and the administration of his Sacramentes, whiche are but two in nomber.

Sainte Paule in the Epistle to the Galathians bringeth for this purpose a goodly allegorie of two mothers,* 1.4 the one named Agar,* 1.5 whiche gendreth vnto bondage, the other named Sara, whiche gendreth vnto libertie and fredome.

By the whiche two women, he signifieth two maner of doctrines, the legall doctrine, and the Euangelicall.

The law gendred the holy fathers and the Prophets vnto bondage, not y^t they should be bond slaues, but that they should be retained vnder a discipline, which as a scholemaister should lead them to Christe the perfection and performaunce of the law. The Gospel gendreth vnto libertie, and maketh vs free from al bonds and burthens of the lawe, And that is, that Sara the free mother, whiche geueth vs the seede of life, doth fashion vs forth into the light, doth norishe vs in her bo∣some, hauing for vs both milke and whole meate, that is, the holy Gospell wher∣with she bringeth vs vp, noorisheth vs, and preserueth vs.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Typus. 10
• * 1.2

  〈◊〉〈◊〉. 10.
• * 1.3

  Vnto Iohn .11. Violēt take it. 12.
• * 1.4

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 4.
• * 1.5

  Agar et Sa∣ra. 13.