A68840:1825
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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Some Astronomer will peradventure say that these changes or mutations are imported by the stars: but Daniel the minister of the truth, saith that it is God which changeth times. For even as he hath in the year appointed courses of times,1 so hath he as it pleaseth him sometimes ordained & sometimes taken away princes. He did cast down Saul, & he also promoted David. And he foretold that he would so do: least it should seem to have happened rashly or by chance. Yea and kingdoms & public wealths may be called certain work houses or shops of the will of god. For that is done in them, which god himself hath decreed to be done, although princes oftentimes understand it not. God called the Medes and the Assyrians to afflict the Israelites, & them (when it seemed good unto him) he repulsed & toke a way. He raised up the Persians against the Chaldeans, and the Grecians against the Persians, and lastly the Romans against all other nations. Who divided the kingdom of the Hebrews into Judah and Israel? Undoubtedly God. Ahias the Silonite did foretell that it should so come to pass, and said ⟨image 262⟩that the word was come forth from the Lord, that it should so be. Who overthrew Ahab? Who caused Jehu to be anointed, but only God? But there are certain Tyrants which destroy public wealths.2 I grant that. But our wicked acts deserve it. For there are oftentimes so grievous wicked acts and so many, that they cannot be corrected by the ordinary magistrate, and by a gentle and quiet governance of things, and therefore god doth then provide tyrants to afflict the people, and yet for the most part he tempereth and lenyfieth his punishment in raising up good and godly princes.3 After the fall of Nero he set up Vespasian: after Domitian, he sent Nerva and Trojan: after Commodus, Pertinax and Severus: after Heliogabalus, Alexander. But they which say: The wicked acts of Tyrants are not of God, yet do they range and spread abroad in kingdoms and Empires, therefore Empires and kingdoms are not of god: they (I say) make a false Silogismus a secundum quid ad simpliciter that is, from that which appeareth to that which is indeed, neither doth this rightly follow: Certain things in a magistrate are not of God: therefore the magistrate is not of God.