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.

Responsio.

To the first I answer: Saint Austen doth not say, et si quae alia, but & si quid aliud. That is: & if any other things are commended in the holy scriptures: but, if any other thing, in the singular number, which doth e∣uidently declare, that he spake not of sacraments, but of certain obserua∣tions, vsed & receiued of y^e church, as his words following in y^e same place doo shewe. To the second I answer, that S. Austen doth cal chrisma, pro∣phecy, praier, and other such like, sacraments, as wel as order. Therfore when he maketh mention of order, as of a sacrament, he taketh not sacra mentum, in the proper signification: for if he did, then you must make al∣so preaching & praying sacraments, which wer very absurde to graunt. Furthermore S. Austen hath often times in his mouth, scripturarū sacra∣menta. Now I dare say ye wil not graunt, the scriptures to be properly a sacrament: wherupon it is euident that this word Sacramentum is vsed in his writings, somtime in one significatiō, somtime in an other. He cal∣led these sacraments, bicause as holy things they came from the holy sprit of God, & bicause they be the ordinaūces of god, obserued of al holy men. But the other, that is baptisme, and the supper of the lord, do differ from those, for these be holy actions, consisting of words & ceremonies, bin∣ding

the congregation into one fellowship.

Rabanus bishop of Mentes, in his booke De institutione clericorum, doth say: Sunt sacramenta, baptismus, et chrisma, corpus et sanguis: quae ob id sacramenta dicuntur, quia sub tegumento corporalium rerum vir∣tus diuina salutem eoruudem sacramentorum operatur, vnde et a secre∣tis virtutibus, vel sacris sacramenta di cuntur. Baptise and Chrisma, the body & the bloud be sacraments, which for this cause are called sacra∣ments, bicause vnder the couer of corporal things, the diuine power doth worke secretly the helth of the same sacraments, wherof they are called A secretis vel sacris virtutibus sacramenta, of secrets & holy vertues sa∣craments. As for the authority of the bookes of Dionisius, it is manifest what euery learned man doth iudge of them.