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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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As touching the body, by drunkenness come oftentimes sudden deaths, dissolutions of the members,1 the disease called Apoplexia, and sundry and miserable chances. For the smooth and plain ground is unto drunkards a den: for they fall, break their legs, their arms, and sometimes their necks: and are burnt when they fall into the fire. The liver is inflamed with to much drink, ⟨p. 164⟩the head is pained, the members are made weak and tremble, the senses are corrupted, the natural heat is overwhelmed with overmuch wine, the stomach which is over largely distended, is sick with crudity or rawness, and with intolerable pains: the whole body is in a manner inflamed, and the thirst is augmented. Drunkards lye grovelling like blocks, and so are bereaved of their strength, that neither head nor foot can do their office. Wherefore it is written in the .23.2 chap. of the Proverbs: To whom is woe? to whom is sorrow? to whom is strife? to whom is sighing? and to whom are wounds without cause? Or to whom is the redness of the eyes? Even to them that tarry long at the wine, and to them that go and seek largely to pour in wine. Look not upon the wine when it is red, and when it showeth his colour in the cup, and goeth down pleasantly: in the end thereof it will bite like a Serpent, and put out his sting like a Cockatrice. Thine eyes shall look upon strange things, and thine hart shall speak lewd things. And thou shalt be as one that sleepeth in the middest of the sea, and as he which sleepeth in the top of the mast of a ship. They have stricken me, and it pained me not, they have bruised me, and I felt it not. When I awake, I will seek it again. &c. And behold with how many punishments God afflicteth drunkards. Isaiah in his .v. chapter, agreeth with Solomon: For he also saith,3 woe unto those which are mighty and strong to drink wine. And in the same v. chap. he saith that drunkards regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the work of his hands. Moreover, to such men is woe:4 because (as Jerome upon that place writeth) they are most unhappy, who being from morning to night occupied in drunkenness, gluttony, and sundry pleasures, they understand not the works of the Lord in them: and not considering wherefore they were created, sleep out in a manner their whole life. Wherefore Joel cried out unto them: