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Most learned and fruitful commentaries of D. Peter Martyr Vermilius Florentine, professor of divinity…Most learned and fruitfull commentaries of D. Peter Martir Vermilius Florentine, professor of diuinitie…
Most learned and fruitful commentaries of D. Peter Martyr Vermilius Florentine, professor of divinity in the school of Tigure, upon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romans wherein are diligently [and] most profitably entreated all such matters and chief common places of religion touched in the same Epistle. With a table of all the common places and expositions upon divers places of the scriptures, and also an index to find all the principal matters contained in the same. Lately tra[n]slated out of Latin into English, by H.B.Most learned and fruitfull commentaries of D. Peter Martir Vermilius Florentine, professor of diuinitie in the schole of Tigure, vpon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romanes wherin are diligently [and] most profitably entreated all such matters and chiefe common places of religion touched in the same Epistle. With a table of all the common places and expositions vpon diuers places of the scriptures, and also an index to finde all the principall matters conteyned in the same. Lately tra[n]slated out of Latine into Englishe, by H.B.
London: printed by John Daye. Cum gratia & privilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per decennium. These books are to be sold, 1568London: printed by Iohn Daye. Cum gratia & priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis per decennium. These bookes are to be solde, 1568
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But let us return unto Paul, and see for what he now prayed.
But let vs returne vnto Paule, and sée for what he now prayed.
That I may have (saith he) a prosperous journey, to come unto you, by the vvill of God] He desired to come unto the Romans: wherefore his prayer was that impediments might be removed, which were partly objected by Satan, and partly had their beginning of sundry necessities of Churches, which impediments, as they daily happened a fresh, so they with held Paul, that he could not go whether he would. A prosperous journey he calleth not only as touching commodity of the life, but also a fruitful journey, that his labour1 might not be spent in vain. He remembered also, that he was by the oracle of God prohibited some times to speak, or to go, whether he had appointed. As we may see in the Acts the. 16. chapter: where he was forbidden to speak in Asia: and when he would have gone into Mysia, and Bithynia, he was letted, and by night admonished in a dream, to get him unto Macedonia. For there stood before him a man of Macedonia, which said: Come and succour us. This thing therefore he desired as touching the Romans: namely, that he might not have any such impediment. And though we hear, that he desired a prosperous journey yet we must not persuade our selves, that he referred these things to his own commodity or to gain. The prosperous journeys which God granted2 him to Macedonia, served to the increase of the Gospel. For otherwise he was both beaten there, and also cast into prison. And when at the last he should go, unto Rome, God, which heard his prayers, brought to pass, that he was compelled to appeal unto Cesar. And when he was in a ship wrack, he bad him to be of good cheer, for that he should be, a witness of Christ at Rome also, as he had been at Jerusalem, whereby appeareth what prosperity or success is to be3 looked for in the works of the elect. Undoubtedly that kind of prospe[…]cy is to be looked for, not wherein the flesh may rest, but whereby may come abundant fruit of the Gospel. And whereas the Apostle saith, by the will of God, it is not so to be understand, as though he thought that any thing could be done be sides the will of God: but he desireth such a will, which should favour and prosper his enterprise that his labour might not be in vain. And he addeth: