A68840:1154
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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But leaving these Metaphors,1 let us return unto drunkenness properly taken, whereof we now entreat, & let us declare by testimonies of the holy scriptures, that such abuse of wine is prohibited and forbidden. To the Ephesians Paul saith: Be ye not made drunk with wine, wherein is wantonness. But be ye filled with the spirit, speaking to your selves by Psalms, Hymns, & spiritual songs. Upon which place Jerome saith:2 we cannot at one time be filled with wine and the holy ghost: For the Apostle putteth these things as contraries, even as we cannot serve two masters. He that is filled with the spirit, hath wisdom, meekness, shamefastness, and chastity: and he which is filled with wine, hath foolishness, furiousness, malapertness, and filthy lust. They which are not filled with wine, can easily sing Psalms, Hymns, and spiritual songs: which thing they cannot do, which have gorged themselves with wine. The same Paul also writeth: Have no care of the flesh, for the lusts thereof. And Christ by express words saith unto his Disciples: Take heed your hearts be not overcome with surfeiting and drunkenness. And in the old testament in the Proverbs the .31. chap. it is written: Give not wine unto kings. And in the .23. chap. Look not upon the wine when it is red, and when it showeth his colour in the cup, and goeth down pleasantly. And in the .2. chap of Ecclesiastes, Solomon saith, that he thought to give his hart to wine and pleasant things, and at the length he found that this study and purpose was mere vanity. Laughter (saith he) I thought to be error: and I said unto joy, why doest thou in vain deceive? This mirth of wine and pleasant things, ought not to be often used of holy men, for as much as Christ hath taught that they are blessed which mourn: they (saith he in Matthew) shall receive consolation. But in Luke the .7. chapter it is added, that they shall ⟨image 169⟩laugh. And it is the surest way, that we presently want some joy, to laugh perpetually. In the .v. of Isaiah it is written, woe unto you which rise up carely to follow drunkenness, and to drink even till night, to be inflamed with wine: and the harp, and viol, timbrel and pipe, and wine are in your feasts. &c. And again in the same chap. woe unto you that are mighty to drink wine, and are strong men to mingle drunkenness. Joel also in the first chapter writeth: