A68840:1853
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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They boast moreover that they themselves are greater in dignity, for that they exercise spiritual & heavenly things, where as princes are occupied only about earthly and civill things. Be it so: for we deny not but that ministers are occupied about things greater and more divine then magistrates are. But doth the Pope alone minister them? Yea rather he never doth it at all. Wherefore if the dignity of the ministry depend of those things, then will it follow that many bishops and priests do in dignity far excel the Pope, which never preacheth, & most rarely, and to very few, administereth the Sacraments.
They boaste moreouer that they themselues are greater in dignitye, for that they excercise spirituall & heauenly thinges, where as princes are occupied onely about earthly and ciuill thinges. Be it so: for we deny not but that ministers are occupied about thinges greater and more deuine then magistrates are. But doth the Pope alone minister them? Yea rather he neuer doth it at al. Wherfore if the dignity of the ministery depend of those things, then will it follow that many bishops and priestes do in dignity far excell the Pope, which neuer preacheth, & most rarely, and to very few, administreth the Sacraments.
Let us come to tenths,1 by the payment whereof Bonifacius laboureth to prove that all princes are subject unto him. This argument seemeth to have some show, because at the first sight it agreeth with the .7. chap. of the Epistle to the Hebrews, where Paul proveth the dignity of christ to be greater than the dignity of the priesthood of the Levites. For thus he gathereth: Abraham paid tenths unto Melchizedek, at which time Levi was not yet, but was at the time in the loins of Abraham, & so paid tenths in him. And he which payeth tenths to an other, by the self same thing professeth himself to be inferior unto him. Christ was priest according to the order of Melchizedek. Wherefore the Apostle concludeth that the priesthood of the Levites was much inferior unto the priesthood of Christ. I have opened the spring from whence Bonifacius derived his argument. The place is very dark, and needeth explication, and moreover Bonifacius doth not aptly apply it to his purpose. First we ought to understand that tenths in the old time pertained unto ceremonies, & that aswell in Melchizedek as in the Levites.