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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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1There is also an other fast, which lieth not in our power. As when we being destitute of meat, have not whereof to eat. Here is need of patience, and we must pray unto god, that he would strengthen and encourage us. So the saints when they wandered about, and preached the Gospel, were compelled sometimes to hunger. And the disciples when they followed the Lord, were driven by hunger to pluck the ears of corn, and to rub out the corn. Elijah also desired meat of the widow, and waited at the brook for such meat as the Raven should bring him. This kind of fasting men do not take upon them of their own free will, but it is laid upon them by God.
1There is also an other fast, which lieth not in our power. As when we beinge destitute of meate, haue not wherof to eat. Here is nede of pacience, and we must pray vnto god, that he would strengthen and encourage vs. So the saints when they wandred about, and preached the Gospel, wer compelled somtimes to hunger. And the disciples when they followed the Lorde, were driuen by hunger to plucke the eares of corne, and to rubbe oute the corne. Elias also desired meate of the widow, and wayted at the brooke for such meate as the Rauen should bringe him. This kind of fasting men do not take vpon them of their own free wil, but it is layd vpon them by God.
- 1A fast compelled.A fast cōpelled.
1But omitting all those, as which nothing pertain unto our disputation, let ⟨p. 275⟩us come to our fast which we may call religious. And this fast is an abstinence,2 not only from meat and drink, but also from all other things which may delight and nourish the body, contrary to the accustomed manner, as much as strength will suffer, and it is done of a repentant mind and of a true faith, by prayers to desire the clemency of God, for miseries, either already oppressing us, or very nigh at hand. The form of this definition is abstinence,