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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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Augustine in his .2. book of Confessions the .15. and 16. chap. complaineth and sorroweth, that he being a child and young man, learned profitable words.1 But yet in things vain. I would to god (saith he) I had been instructed in profitable writings: I hard Jupiter thundering and therewithal committing adultery. The minds and affections of men are prone enough unto vices: wherefore it is wickedly done, that children and young men should in that age be by vile and filthy fables stirred up unto sins. Apologies are profitable, which consisting both of honest words, and good arguments, do rightly instruct that first age.2 Aesop the ancient writer haply exercised himself in this kind, although there are some which refer his Apologies unto Hesiodus, who was ancienter than Aesop. But this our Apology (whereof we now entreat) was written long before Aesop and Hesiodus time. For the time of the judges, and namely of Gideon, was an hundred years and more, before the war of Troy. There is an other Apology also in the .2. book of kings the .14. chap. where Amasias obtaining the victory of the Edomites, provoked the king of Israel to make war with him. Unto whom the king Joas answered thus: The thistle of Lebanon sent unto the Cedar that is of Lebanon, and said: Give thy daughter to my son to wife. And the wild beast went out of Lebanon and trod down the thistle. By which Apology he showed that he was so much greater, than Amasia the king of Judah, as the Cedar excelleth the thistle, and admonished him that he should after that sort be trodden down & oppressed of his host, as was the thistle by wild beasts.
Augustine in his .2. booke of Confessions the .15. and 16. chap. complaineth and soroweth, that he being a child and younge man, learned profitable words.1 But yet in thinges vayne. I would to god (sayth he) I had beene instructed in profitable writings: I hard Iupiter thūdring and therwithall cōmitting adoultry. The mindes and affections of men ar prone inough vnto vices: wherfore it is wickedlye done, that children and younge men should in that age be by vyle and filthye fables stirred vp vnto sins. Apologies are profitable, whych consisting both of honest wordes, and good arguments, do rightly instruct that first age.