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.

This is but a certain vision and dreame, by the whiche it was represen∣ted, as by a certaine figure, that the Lord would not forsake the prayers of the Iewes. If this place should proue the intercession of saints, then Iu∣das would haue cōmended him self to the prayers of Onias and Ieremias, but he conuerting vnto God onely, cried & prayed (whē he was in great distresse & daūger) after this sort. O Lord, thou that diddest send thine angel, in the time of Ezechias king of Iuda, who in the host of Sennache∣rib, slew an hundred foureschore and fiue thousand, Send now also thy good angell before vs, O Lord, for a feare and dread vnto thē. And let thē be discōfited by the strēght of thine arme, which come against thine holy people to blaspheme. This prayer was made vnto God and not to Onias or Ieremy the Prophet.

Agayne of what authoritie is the second booke, of the Machabees to cō∣firme any doctrine? truly of none, as both S. Hierome, Cypriane, Austen and other do declare, but of these bokes I haue spoken sufficiently before.