Mark 9

^{1 a} The preaching of the Gospel receiued & increased: he spake this to comforte them, & that they shulde not thinke thei trauailed in vaine.

^{2 !} The transfiguracion.

^{3 b} Christ sheweth his maiestie so farre as their infirmitie was able to comprehend it.

^{6 c} Peter measured this vision according to his owne capacitie, not considering the end thereof.

^{7 d} Christ onely must be the chief teacher & instructour of all them, which profes them selues to be his members, seing that God the Father giueth him this autoritie & commandeth vs this obedience.

^{7 !} Christ is to be heard.

^{11 e} Their false opinion was that ether Elias shulde rise againe from the dead, or that his soule shulde enter into soem other bodie.

^{13 f} That is, John Baptist.

^{14 g} To the nine, which he left the daye before.

^{18 h} When the spirit cometh vpon him, he teareth him with inward sorow & pangs as in aco like a man feeleth suche grief, as if his bowels were rent a sunder.

^{19 i} It semeth that this man deserued not so sharpe an answer: but Christ speaketh in his persone to the Pharises, which were stubburne & desperate.

^{23 l} All things that are agreable to the wil of God, shalbe granted to him that beleueth: for faith seketh nothing, that is contrarie to his wil, or that is not reueiled in his worde.

^{23 k} The Lord is euer readie to help vs, for that we put him not backe through our incredulitie.

^{24 m} That is, the feblenes, and imperfection of my faith.

^{26 !} The domme spirit is cast out.

^{26 n} Meaning, the childe.

^{29 !} The force of prayer and fasting.

^{29 o} Meaning, that prayer which is surely grounded vpon faith and hathe fasting joyned vnto it as a profitable aide.

^{31 !} Of the death and resurrection of Christ.

^{32 p} Because thei imagined that Christ shulde reigne temporally, this matter of his death was so strange, that they colde perceiue nothing.

^{33 !} The disputacion who shulde be the greatest.

^{37 q} To wit, onely as man, but as him in whome is all perfection & fulnes of all graces & benefites.

^{38 !} Not to hinder the course of the Gospel.

^{39 /} Or, anie great worke.

^{40 r} Althogh he shewe not him self to be myne, yet in that he beareth reuerence to my Name, it is ynough for vs.

^{42 !} Offences are forbidden.

^{43 s} It is a maner of speache, which signifieth, that we shulde cut of all things, which hinder vs to serue Christ.

^{44 t} These similitudes declare the paines, & eternal tormentes of the damned.

^{49 u} He teacheth that it is better to be sacrificed to God by salte & fyre, that is, to be purged, & sanctified, then to be sent into hel fyre.

^{50 x} They which destroye the grace that thei haue receiued of God, are as salte, which hathe lost it sauour and are worse then infideltes.