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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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1Plutarch in his book de Sera numinis vindicta, hath very well taught this: The eye (saith he) is sick, & the vain of the arm is cut, so the father hath sinned, and the son is punished: the prince hath behaved himself ill, and the people is vexed: and such compassion or suffering together is there in things humane. That author justly accuseth the rashness of men,2 which as often as these things do chance, do complain that God dealeth cruelly. For the father (saith he) is either good or evil. If the son of a good father be peradventure afflicted with evil, straightway they cry out that God doth unjustly, neither is it meet that the son should be so miserably handled, which had so good a man to his father. But if the father be evil, and the son come into misery, again they make exclamation, that here also god is unjust. For the son ought not to have ben punished, when as the father sinned, wherefore the common people think that the son should by no means be afflicted. But what if the father be evil, and yet all things go prosperously with the son? here also they complain (as he saith) of the injustice of god. For they deny it is just that then the son should live prosperously, which hath so evil a father. These things this man, though he were an Ethnic, writeth very godly.
1Plutarche in his booke de Sera numinis vindicta, hath very well taught this: The eye (saith he) is sicke, & the vayne of ye arme is cut, so the father hath sinned, and the sonne is punished: the prince hath behaued himselfe ill, and the people is vexed: and such compassion or suffring together is there in things humane. That author iustly accuseth the rashenes of men,2 whiche as often as these thynges doo chaunce, do complayne that God dealeth cruelly. For the father (sayth he) is either good or euill. If the sonne of a good father be peraduenture afflicted with euill, straightway they crye out that God doth vniustly, neither is it meete that the sonne should be so miserably handled, which had so good a man to his father. But if the father be euill, and the sonne come into misery, agayne they make exclamation, that here also god is vniust. For the sonne ought not to haue ben punished, when as the father sinned, wherfore the common people thinke that the sonne should by no meanes be afflicted. But what if the father be euill, and yet all thinges go prosperously with the sonne? here also they cōplayne (as he sayth) of the iniustice of god. For they deny it is iust that then the sonne should lyue prosperously, whiche hath so euill a father. These thinges this man, thoughe he were an Ethnike, writeth very godltly.