A68840:1808
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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1But in that the old man calleth it a villainy and a detestable thing, which they went about to commit, he sayeth most truly. For seed was given unto man for procreation's sake. But these pestiferous men abuse the gift given them of GOD, they resist his law, and against nature change men, in that after a sort they turn the male into the female. Augustine to Pollentius: Adultery (sayeth he) is more grievous then whoredom, and incest more heinous then adultery, but that which is done against nature, is of all most wicked and detestable. And he addeth: In things which GOD hath granted, it is more tolerable immoderately to transgress, then lightly to sin in those things which by no means are granted. And in his .3. book of Confessions he sayeth, that the fellowship of humane kind is violated with GOD, because nature which we have of GOD, is polluted. This was the cry of the Sodomites and the Gomorhites which ascended into heaven, and the grievousness ⟨p. 254⟩of their wickedness is most manifest by their destruction. For they were destroyed with fire and brimstone from heaven, punishments undoubtedly agreeable unto so great a heinous crime: by the fire was noted their burning filthy lust, and by brimstone their stinking and unpure wicked crime.2 Chrysostom writeth: Because they followed not fertility, but barrenness, therefore God made that so ill, barren, and infertile which before was most fertile. But he demandeth:3 Why are not they which are in the same fault in these days punished also after the same manner? He answereth, whom that punishment moveth not, for them abideth the unquenchable fire. And they are not so punished in this life, because such men for the most part are conversant among good men: and GOD promised Abraham, that he was ready to forgive Sodom, if there mought have been found there but only ten good men. Wherefore for as much as Cities at this day are not altogether so corrupt, as Sodom was then, therefore GOD dealeth more remissedly with them. It also oftentimes happeneth, that although these men are most wicked, yet they had good predecessors. And GOD (as he hath testified) tarrieth, and differreth the punishment unto the third and fourth generation. Farther, we must mark that this vice wheresoever it rangeth, it is not alone.