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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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therefore if I be shaven, my strength will go from me, and I shall be weak, and be like all other men. 18 And when Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent, and called for the princes of the Philistines, Saying: Come up once again: for he hath showed me all his heart. Then the princes of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought the money in their hands. 19 And she made him sleep upon her knees, and she called a man, & made him to shave of the seven locks of his head, and she began to vex him, and his strength was gone from him. 20 Then she said: the Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he a woke out of his sleep, and said: I will go out now as at other times, and shake my self, but he knew not that the Lord was departed from him.
therfore if I be shauen, my strength will go from me, and I shall be weake, and be like all other men. 18 And when Delila sawe that he had tolde her all his hearte, she sent, and called for the princes of the Philistines, Saying: Come vp once agayne: for he hath shewed me all his heart. Then the princes of the Philistines came vp vnto her, and brought the money in theyr handes. 19 And she made hym slepe vpon her knees, and she called a man, & made him to shaue of the seuen lockes of his head, and she began to vexe hym, and his strength was gone from him. 20 Then she sayd: the Philistines be vpon thee, Samson. And he a woke out of hys sleepe, and sayde: I will go out nowe as at other tymes, and shake my selfe, but he knewe not that the Lord was departed from hym.
By the outrageous love of Samson unto women, we easily understand, that the desire of lust is never satisfied, so long as we obey it. Samson had played the whoremonger before, & yet not being content with that, he toke unto him a harlot again. Wherefore no man ought to cocker his sins, as though he might afterward leave them at will. Seneca hath rightly admonished Lucillus: 1That we must not add to lusts, but rather pluck away from them: otherwise they will grow unto unmeasurablenes. We see in this history as in a glass the perverseness of mans nature, when God winketh, and defereth the punishment, we are made worse, and the more forward he goeth in forgiving, so much the more & more do we go forward in sinning. Wherefore Paul to the Romans writeth truly and profitably: doest thou not know that the goodness of God calleth thee to repentance? but thou according to thy hardness and unrepentant hart, heapest unto thyself wrath in the day of wrath. God seemed to spare Samson, but he was never a whit the better.