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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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Thou wilt ask peradventure: why did Christ command us, that we should be perfect like our heavenly father: which maketh his sun to arise as well upon the evil,1 as upon the good, and as it is written in Luke. 6. chap. He is good towards the ingrate? I answer: That this sentence of the Lord, is not against the §1definition now declared. For God hath two kinds of benefits. There are certain which are principal, as the revelation of the Gospel, faith, justification, & §2lastly glorification or eternal life. These he giveth only to his. There are certain other temporal and common gifts, which yet are in especial given for the elects sake: but because without a miracle it is not possible that they should come unto the good, unless the evil be also made partakers of them, therefore he giveth them as well to the one as to the other. How should a shower be prohibited, that it should not moisten the fields of the wicked? God might do it in deed: but yet not without a miracle. And for as much as he will not always work miracles, he will rather, that the ungodly also should be partakers of these benefits, then that the good should be destitute of commodities necessary for the life.2 Kings also do not make every Citizen a Ruler, a President, or other officer longing to a Magistrate, but only them that are just & wise: which thing if they do not, they execute not their office. But when they give unto their people liberal gifts, or a banquet, or distribute corn, because without great labour and grief they cannot separate the good Citizens from the evil, therefore they bestow such things which are of this kind, mixedly upon all men, and chose rather to deserve well of evil citizens, then to defraud the good of their liberality, for whose sakes they are chiefly moved to be bountiful towards the people.3 Let us also imitate this, that when we bestow private things, although we light upon one that is ingrate, let us not straightway withdraw from him our humanity, but let us behave our selves in such manner, as we have before declared, that if he stubbornly proceed to be ingrate, let us at the length cease for his correction, to bestow any benefit upon him.