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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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The people •eceavinge a benefit at Gideons hand, would have made him king, that they might not be counted ingrate. But seeing gratitude is a virtue, it ought to have no unjust thing joined with it: which these men observed not. For they appointed not their kingdom by the law of god. In Deut. the .27. chap. it is written, that he should be a king whom god had chosen.1 Neither pertained it unto the people, to appoint a king whom they would. Wherefore that which they do now, is not freely to give any thing that is their own, but to give ye which is an other mans. The right to appoint a king, belonged to god, and not unto men: which thing also Gideon wisely saw, neither was Christ ignorant thereof, when they which were filled with bread, came unto him to create him a king,2 he weighed the manner of his vocation, and for that his kingdom was not of this world, and understood that they usurped an other mans right, and were not moved thereunto: By just causes, he put of from himself such a burden. The same things happened in a manner unto the bishops of Rome. Which at the beginning were holy: for very many of them were notable by constancy of faith, & martyrdom. Farthermore their church was kindled with ferventness of charity, & towards the poor most liberal, so that it sent alms even into the east part, to the Islands and metal places, where the holy confessors of Christ lived in exile. All which things got that chair much favour and grace with the faithful.3 Wherefore the supreme power and kingdom in the church was in a manner offered, some times unto those bishops: which they like Gideon refused with a great spirit & singular modesty. Of which thing also what Gregorius the b. of Rome judged, I will briefly declare. In his .4. book of Epistles. in the .32.34.36.38. & .39. Epistles he of that matter writeth at large, both unto Mauritius the emperor, and also to Constantia Augusta, likewise to the Patriarchs, Alexandrinus, and Antiochenus, yea and to John the Patriarch of Constantinople, and lastly to Anianus Deacon of the same church.
The people •eceauinge a benefite at Gideons hand, would haue made him king, that they might not be coūted ingrate. But seing gratitude is a vertue, it ought to haue no vniust thing ioyned with it: whiche these men obserued not. For they appoynted not theyr kyngdome by the lawe of god. In Deut. the .27. chap. it is written, that he should be a king whom god had chosen.