A68840:1678
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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When Samson was kept in prison, his hear in the mean time grew to the same length that it was before it was shaven by the harlot. God at the length took vengeance of the Philistines, when yet he had first begone at his own house. For Samson for his sin, came into the power of his enemies, and his eyes being put out, he was compelled to grind in prison, and was utterly made a mocking stock. Howbeit the wicked Philistines in the mean time escaped not unpunished.1 Thus God useth to do, first to punish his own, before he afflict strangers. Physicians also, when a man hath taken poison, have this as their chief care, to drive away the poison from the hart, from the liver, and other principal parts of the body, then they apply medicines unto the other men bers of the body. So also the good man of the house first instructeth and chastiseth his children, and afterward he instructeth other. Wherefore Paul writeth of a Bishop: If he cannot well govern his own family, how shall he govern the church of God? Wherefore it is no marvel if god chastised Samson first, & afterward grievously afflicted the Philistines. But in that it is written that his hear was grown again, we must not believe that his strength lay in his hear, for it was a gift of god given him freely,2 but yet God required, that for that gift he should be a Nazarite: unto which it belonged, to let the hear grow, and not to cut it with a razor. But if a man had transgressed, he did not therefore straight way cease to be a Nazarite, but ought to let his hear grow, and be cleansed, and so begin again his institution, which he took in hand. Wherefore Samson repented that he had violated his vow, and returned to the rule of a Nazarite, and when his hear was grown, and he restored both unto god, and to his old state and strength, being assured of the help of god, he took vengeance of his enemies.
When Samson was kept in prison, hys heare in the meane time grew to the same length that it was before it was shauen by the harlot. God at the lengthe tooke vengeaunce of the Philistines, when yet he had first begone at hys owne house. For Samson for his synne, came into the power of hys enemyes, and hys eyes being put out, he was compelled to grinde in prison, and was vtterly made a mocking stocke. Howbeit the wicked Philistines in the meane tyme escaped not vnpunished.1