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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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To whom I might add the testimony of Cyprian against Demetrian. But if I should be asked the question, whether I thought that the bodies of men which were brought forth after the flood are less than those which were before the flood, I would peradventure grant unto it:1 but that they have always decreased from the flood even to our time, I would not easily consent to that, and especially because of Aulus Gellius words which he wrote in the third book, where he saith, that the measure of the growth of mans body is 7. feet, which seemeth also to be the measure at this day in men of the bigger sort. But lest I should dissemble any thing, we read in the Apocrypha of Esdras the 4. book about the end of the .5. chap. that our bodies are lesser now, and shall be every day less, because nature is always made more weak. And the same doth Cyprian (as I have a little before said) seem to affirm. But why I would not so easily assent thereunto, this is the cause, for that I can see almost nothing altered in our time from the measure which Gellius defineth.2 But now to Pliny again who saith in his 7. book, that in Crete, when a certain mountain was rent by an earth quake, a dead body was found standing which was 46. cubits long, which some believed to be Orion's body, other some Othus. It is also left in writing that the body of Orestes being digged up by the commandment of an oracle, was 7. cubits long. But that which Berosus affirmeth,3 that Adam & Seth his son were giants, and Noah also with his children, as it is put without testimony of holy scriptures, so may it also be rejected.
To whom I might adde the testimonie of Cipriane against Demetrian. But if I should be asked the question, whether I thought that the bodies of men whiche were brought forth after the floud are lesse than those whiche were before the floud, I would peraduenture graunt vnto it:1 but that they haue alwayes decreased from the floud euen to our tyme, I would not easely consent to that, and especially bycause of Aulus Gellius wordes whiche he wrote in the third booke, where he sayth, that the measure of the growth of mans body is 7. feete, whiche seemeth also to be the measure at this day in mē of the bigger sort. But lest I should dissemble any thing, we read in the Apochriphas of Esdras the 4. booke about the ende of the .5. chap. that our bodyes are lesser nowe, and shalbe euery daye lesse, bycause nature is alwayes made more weake. And the same doth Cipriane (as I haue a litle before sayd) seme to affirme. But why I would not so easely assent thereunto, this is the cause, for that I can se almost nothing altered in our time from the measure whiche Gellius defineth.