A68840:1964
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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The Montanists so delighted in this choice of meats ye they invented for themselves [Greek or Hebrew] which were meats to dry up nature, & such other like.1 For (as Tertullian affirmeth) they did eat only bred, salt, & all manner of pulse, & their drink was water. This kind of fast they used ii. weeks before Easter. Jerome also addeth that they ⟨image 284⟩were wont to fast three Lents, & for that cause that they fasted so severely, they were called [Greek or Hebrew] that is Pure.2 Eusebius in his .5. book and .18. chap. writeth that one Apollonius reproved Montanus, because he was the first that wrote laws of fasting, as though the Church before him was free. He by laws and prescripts prescribed what days men should fast, and what meats they should abstain from. Such an author have the Papists of their prescribed fasts and choice of meats.3 This superstition agreeth not with the word of God. Christ saith: That which entereth into the mouth, defileth not the man. And whatsoever is set before you, that eat, demanding nothing. And to Titus: All things are clean, unto the clean, but unto the unclean, nothing is clean. To the Colossians: Let no man judge you in meat and drink. To the Romans: The kingdom of God is not meat and drink. To the Corinthians also, are many things written to confirm this sentence, where he entreateth of meats dedicated unto Idols. So the Scriptures make mention of no choice of meats for Religions sake: yet I deny not but that meats are to be chosen, either for the avoiding of excess or sickness, or else for the keeping under of the wantonness of the flesh.4 But that Christians should abstain from flesh, from eggs, and from milk for religions sake, is no where prescribed in the Scriptures.
The Mōtanistes so delighted in this choise of meates ye they inuēted for thēselues 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 which wer meates to dry vp nature, & such other like.