A68840:1548
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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The Parents when they knew and understood their sons will, and peradventure had knowledge of the instinction of god, do not only assent, but also follow him, that the wedding might be the more honestly accomplished, the parents not only requiring, but also being present. In this place appeareth the will of God both hidden and manifest. The will of God was declared by the law that a Jew should not take to wife a stranger,1 but by his secrete and hidden will he contrarily decreed of Samson. But we must follow the will of God expressed by a common rule, and sealed by his law: to that will we must direct both life and manners. For the other will we must not be to much careful, unless ⟨image 220⟩we feel it most apertly. And we must with great diligence take heed, that when we think we are led by the impulsion of the holy Ghost, we be not led by our affections. Of the secrete will of God Paul entreated, when he made mention that of Jacob and Esau, before they had done any good or evil, it was said: Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. This will of God is obscure and hidden from the eyes of men: therefore no man can render a reason of it. Wherefore when we hear any thing of it, we must say with Paul: O the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God, &c. But by the will revealed we may understand that we are acceptable unto god, when we trust in him, when we detest vices, and renew our life and manners by the grace of god, not because these things are the causes of the goodness of God towards us,2 but because they are certain sure tokens thereof. But how these two wills are not in very deed separated in God, but are one and a simple will, we shall declare more opportunely in an other place,
The Parentes when they knew and vnderstode their sonnes wil, and paraduenture had knowledge of the instinction of god, do not onely assent, but also follow him, that the wedding might be the more honestly accomplished, the parentes not onely requiring, but also being presente. In this place appeareth the will of God both hidden and manifest. The will of God was declared by the law that a Iewe shoulde not take to wife a straunger,1