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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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But grant that the thing was at the first instituted for this cause, let them consider what it is now fallen to at the length, undoubtedly into mere superstition, whereby nothing else is obtruded unto the people, then choice of meats, old wives fables, ungodly songs, and pilgrimages (which they commonly call stations) very profane and idolatrous. In the mean time there is no mention made for the abolishing of covetousness, lust, lechery, and other wicked acts. Farther, men ought by so long a fast to have been made better, but they are made much worse after Easter.
But graunt that the thinge was at the first institued for this cause, let them consider what it is now fallen to at the lengthe, vndoubtedlye into mere superstition, whereby nothing els is obtruded vnto the people, then choise of meates, olde wyues fables, vngodly songs, and pilgrimages (whych they commonly call stations) very prophane and idolatrous. In the meane time there is no mencion made for the abolishinge of couetousnesse, luste, lecherye, and other wicked actes. Farther, menne oughte by so longe a fast to haue beene made better, but they are made much worse after Easter.
1But to return to the vow of a Nazarite, Paul seemeth to have vowed it, when as in the .18. chapter of the Acts of the Apostles, he poled his head in Cenchre. And in the .21. chapter he was persuaded of the Elders to do it. There are here (say they) four men, which have a vow: Thou shalt be with them. There the shaving of the head declareth, that that vow pertained unto a Nazarite. For as it is written in the law, if it had happened that the Nazarite in the time of the vow which he had taken upon him, had defiled himself upon the dead, or by any other means, then the vow was violate. And the Nazarite ought to come unto the Tabernacle, and to declare unto the priests what had happened, and to cut of his hear, to offer sacrifice, and so to begin the vow of a Nazarite a new again. For what soever he had before observed, it was counted as defiled and of no force. So Paul, as though some thing had happened unto him among the Gentiles where he had been conversant, would be purified in the Temple, as though he should have begun the observation of his vow again.