A68840:1950
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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1These things have not only the Hebrews learned out of the laws of God, but also the Ethnics by the instinct of nature. For when Jonah preached unto the Ninevites that their City should within .40. days be overthrown, they despaired not of the mercy of God, but got themselves to repentance, and every one of them, even from the king unto the lowest Citizen, with their beasts also and cattle, fasted. And when they vehemently and with a fervent zeal cried unto the Lord,2 they were heard. Augustine de civitate dei, writeth that Porphyrius taught, that abstinence from flesh and gross meats, doth purify the minds of men, whereby they are made the more prompt to things divine, and to familiarity with good spirits.3 Plutarch also in his litle book de Iside & Osiride saith, that the Priests of Heliopolis utterly abstained from all meats, which might nourish and augment the wantonness of the flesh, and that they never brought wine into the temple of their God. For they counted it a villainy to drink wine in the day time in the sight of their God: other men said he, used wine, but not much, and they had many purifications without wine. The same Plutarche de cohibenda Iracundia showeth,4 that among the Athenienses were certain holy sacrifices, which were done only with water without wine. And this is notable, which is written in the same book,5 that Empedocles was wont to say, that a man ought most of all to fast from malice. Titus Livius maketh mention, that when at Rome there happened many portentous things, which seemed to foreshow ⟨p. 276⟩some great evil, the decemviri were sent to look into the books of the Sibyls, and that there was answer made, that they should institute a public fast in the honour of Ceres, which fast should also be repeated again every .5. year. And that by that means the anger of the gods should be pacified. Wherefore the Ethnics being smitten with the fear of the evils, which hung over their heads, fled unto the oracles, fasted, and prayed the gods to turn away their anger. But Christians, not only seeing so many & so great evils, but also hearing them told from all parts of the world: yet turn they not unto GOD by prayer, neither are they any thing moved in mind.