A harmony upon the the three Evangelists, Matthew, Mark and Luke with the commentary…A harmonie vpon the the three Euangelists, Matthew, Mark and Luke with the commentarie…

Matthew 5. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the Prophets. I am not come to destroy them, but to fulfil them. 18. For truly I say unto you: Till heaven and earth perish, one jot, or one title of the Law shall not scape, till all things be fulfilled. 19. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments and teach men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall observe and teach them, the same shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. | Mark. | Luke. 16. 17. Now it is more easy that heaven and earth should pass away, then that one title of the law should fall.

Mathewe 5. 17. Thinke not that I am come to destroy the lawe or the Prophets. I am not come to destroy them, but to fulfill them. 18. For truely I saye vnto you: Till heauen and earth pearish, one iote, or one title of the Lawe shall not scape, till all things be fulfilled. 19. VVhosoeuer therfore shall breake one of these least commaundements and teache men so, he shall be called the least in the kingdome of heauen: but whosoeuer shall obserue and teache them, the same shall be called great in the kingdome of heauen. | Marke. | Luke. 16. 17. Nowe it is more easie that heauen and earth shoulde passe awaye, then that one title of the lawe shoulde fall.

17. Think not. Though Christ was of that perfection of life, that he might rightly say that he came to fulfil the law, yet he doth not here entreat of life, but of doctrine. Because that he did proclaim that the kingdom of God was come, and did stir up the minds of men with an unwonted hope, and did also receive his disciples by baptism: It is probable that the minds of many doubted and diligently sought to what purpose that newness tended. Now Christ declareth that his doctrine is so far from any dissenting with the law, so that it agreeth very well with the law and the Prophets, and not so only, but it bringeth a full perfection to the same. And it seemeth that he was especially led by two causes to testify this consent of the law and the Gospel. As soon as there springs out any new kind of teaching, the common people take it, as if there should be an alteration of all things. And the preaching of the gospel was in that order, (as I said even now) that made them hope that the Church should be altered into an other estate then it was before: they did therefore think that the old and usual kind of government was abolished. Which opinion had been very hurtful many ways: for the godly worshippers of God, would never have embraced the Gospel, if it had been a defection from the law, and the light and troublesome spirits would assay by taking such an occasion greedily to overthrow the state of religion: for we know how overthwartly rashness lifts up it self in new things. Furthermore, Christ saw very many of the Jews, which though they professed that they believed the law, yet they were altogether profane and degenerate, for the estate of things amongest that people were so decayed, and all things were filled with such corruptions, so that through either sloth or malice, the Priests had quenched the pure light of doctrine, so that there remained no