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Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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¶Of Mercy.
Mercy is a grief of the mind, which we take for the adversity of other men,1 or (as Cicero saith) a grief taken for an others mans misery. Aristotle teacheth, ⟨image 149⟩that Mercy is stirred up, if we see any suffer grievous things which they have not deserved. For if wicked men be justly punished, Mercy is not therefore stirred up. Farther he thinketh, that those cases which we pity, should be terrible, otherwise if they be but light, we are by them little or nothing moved. Lastly that they are touched with mercy, which do think that such things may sometimes happen either unto themselves or to some of their friends. Which is the cause, that Aristotle supposeth, that they which are in prosperity, and do judge themselves happy, are not prone unto mercy, yea they are wont to scoff & mock those which are in misery, as they which think nothing can hurt them. Likewise he removeth this affection from such as are desperate and in a most miserable state, because they are not afraid that any worse thing can happen unto them, then that which they have already. Wherefore they seem in that desperate fortune to have become men without senses. But if this were true, a man might doubt, by what means mercy can be ascribed unto God, forasmuch as he without controversy is most blessed, and nothing can hurt him. But to this might be answered, that mercy is not properly attributed unto god, but by a metaphor taken of man, because he doth those things,2