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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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We gather moreover hereby,1 that it much availeth us to join our selves with good men, and with the fellowship of the godly. The Kenites which were the posterity of Hobab, if they would have rested (as the most part of men do) in their own country, and in the place where they were borne, they had fallen at length into the ignorance of God and of his laws, whereby they should easily have been like unto their neighbour Amalek. But because they despising their own things, and kindled with the faith of the promise of God, joined themselves unto the Israelites,2 therefore God gave them such good success in their things. We ought to remember with our selves the most honest cause of the peregrination of these men. For all good men travail not into strange countries for one purpose. There be very many, which do therefore often times leave their country, because they may not worship God there after the sincere & lawful manner of worshipping, yea they are grievously troubled there, if they endeavour them selves thereunto. So Abraham was called out of his land and from his kindred, least he should still have gone forward with his elders to contaminate him self with idolatry. So Christ also said, if they shall persecute us in one city, let us fly unto an other. But there be other, which though they be not letted at home from the true godliness, yet for all that they will go see those places, where they think they may yet get more profit,3 and be more certainly instructed in things divine and necessary for salvation. For which cause Plato is commended, because he came to the Egyptians, & went to a part of Italy, that is great ⟨image 36⟩Grease: he went also unto divers nations, as though he should follow wisdom flying from him. So in like wise Saba the queen is commended in the holy scriptures, which travailed from so far countries to hear Solomon: after this manner the Kenites (of whom we entreat) followed the people of Israel: for although at home they knew & worshipped one God, whose Priest their father also was, yet nevertheless they desired to be still more instructed, and more absolutely to receive the laws, institutions and worshipping of God.