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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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1This word cruelty is derived either of this latin word Cruor, which signifieth blood, wherein cruel men like wild beasts do delight, either of Crudae earns which signifieth raw flesh, which fierce & barbarous people sometimes do eat, & may be defined to be a vicious habit whereby we are inclined to sharp & hard things above reason.2 And sometimes it happeneth ye cruelty is counted for a pleasure, with which wicked affection or habit how tyrants have sometimes ben infected, it is manifestly to be seen by many examples. This holy history setteth now before our eyes this Adonibezek, & the evangelical history maketh mention of Herod. The Ethnic poets have made report of the cruelty of Atreus & Thyestes: ⟨p. 13⟩and the most horrible wicked act of Xerxes king of the Persians is set forth by Seneca in his third book de ira, & .xvii.3 chap. which Xerxes when a certain man named Pithius, who had well deserved at his hands, came unto him and desired him to spare him one of his five sons which he had, and he bad him as though he would grant him his request, to chose him whom he listed to abide at home from battle. And he did as he was bidden. But this most cruel tyrant commanded that the young man whom he had chosen should be drawn one side of him one way, and an other the other way, so that at the length he was torn a sunder, of the which one part he commanded to be fastened in one corner of the way, by the which the soldiers should go, and the other in an other corner, saying that after this sort he purged his host. But not long after he was with much dishonour overcome and beaten of the Grecians, and constrained to fly through heaps and dead carcasses of his own men.4 Sulla banished an infinite number of Citizens of Rome, but at the length he was most horribly eaten up of Life. Even after the like sort dyed that most cruel Herod, as it is manifestly declared by Josephus. Unto this most wicked vice, clemency is directly contrary, which as a wonderful virtue doth marvellously well agree with princes, & is a singular ornament of Christian men. Augustine in his book of .83.5