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.

Notio.

Al men for the most part, do confes & beleue, that God onely, & that neither men nor the church did institute the sacraments.

A certain scholmā doth warne the church y^e she should remember her self, not to be the lady of the sacraments, but the minister of them.

Aquinas in his question doth write saying. Ille instituit aliquid, qui dat ei robur et virtutem: sed virtus sacramenti est a solo deo: solus ita∣que deus potest instituere sacramenta.

He doth make any thing, which geueth vnto it strength and vertue: But the vertue of the sacrament is onely of God. Therfore God onely can and doth institute the Sacraments.

Saint Austen hath a sentence which is common in euery mās mouth. Accedit verbum ad elementum et fit secramentum. The word commeth to the element, & a sacrament is made: wherof you may gather, a sacra∣ment to consist of two special partes. The first is the swoord of God, not the word of man. The second is, the signe appointed by God, not by man.

Chrisostome writing De causis sacramentorū.* 1.1 Nihil sensibile (inquit) tradidit nobis dominus. Res quidē sensibiles sunt, omnia tamen intelli∣gibilia. Sac in baptismo per rem sensibilem datur aqua, quod autem per∣ficitur nempe regeneratio & renouatio, mente percipitur &c.

The matters of the sacraments are sensible, yet al things are ther intel∣ligible, So in baptisme by a sensible thing water is geuen, but the thing which is made perfecte, is perceiued by mind, as regeneration, and re∣nouation. For if thou wer wythout bodye, God woulde deliuer all his gifts vnto thee naked & simple: but bicause the soul is ioyned to y^e bodie, he hath deliuered in things sensible, those things which are perceiued in mind. The holy scriptures do nūber to be among the christiās onely. 2. sa¦craments, y^t is baptism, & the supper of the lord. But Petrus Lūbardus doth accōt. 7. baptisme, penāce, the Eucharist, confirmatiō, extreme vnc∣tion, order, & matrimony. Of this iudgemēt is, for the most part y^e whole cōpany of the interpreters, & the felowship of al the scholastical diuines But the auncient doctors of the church do reherse onely. 2. sacramentes.* 1.2

Tertullian, in hys booke Contra Martionem, and in his booke De corona militis doth recite onely two, Baptisme, & the Eucharist.

Saint Austen de doctrina Christiana, writeth saying. Domin{us} signis nos non oncrauit (inquit) sed quaedam pauca pro multis eadem{que} factu facil sima, et intellectu augustisima, et obseruatione castissima, ipse dominus et Apostolica tradidit disciplina, sicuti est baptismi sacramentum et cele bratio corporis et sanguinis domini! The Lord hath not burdened vs w^t signes, but for many, he & the apostolike discipline hath geuen vs a few, and those in doing, very easy, in vnderstāding, very noble, & in obserua∣tion, very pure, as the sacrament of baptisme, & the celebratiō of the bo∣dy & bloud of the Lord. Again in his epistle Ad Ianuarium, he saith. Sa∣cremētis numero paucissimis, obseruatione facillimis, significatione pre∣stantissimis, societatem noui populi colligauit, sicuti est baptismus trini¦tatis nomine consecratus, communicatio corporis et sanguis ipsius. &c. The lord hath tied together the congregation of the people of the new te¦stament, with sacraments in number very few, in obseruation, very easy, in fignification, most worthy, as baptisme, consecrated in the name of the Trinitie, & communication of his body, and of his bloud.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Homilia in Math. 83
• * 1.2

  Lib 1. &. 4. & in lib. de coro¦na malitis.