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,…

There may be other reasons also of peregrination, which as they be not always to be refused, yet are they nothing to be compared with these, either in praise, or else in worthiness. Wherefore let godly men take heed when they journey into far countries, that they apply them selves as much as is possible unto these causes & reasons now mentioned. And as God hath not defrauded these Kenites of the fruit which they looked for, but made them partakers and that plentifully of those good things which he had prepared for his people, so seeing also he is now the same God which he was then, we must believe, that he will not suffer him self to depart from his accustomed manner and perpetual goodness, so that we observe the good and just causes and reasons of peregrination.

There maye be other reasons also of peregrination, which as they be not alwaies to be refused, yet are they nothing to be compared wyth these, eyther in praise, or els in worthynes. Wherfore let godly men take hede when they iourney into farre coūtries, that they apply them selues as much as is possible vnto these causes & reasons now mētioned. And as God hath not defrauded these Kenites of the fruit which they looked for, but made them partakers and that plentifully of those good thinges which he had prepared for his people, so seyng also he is now the same God which he was then, we must beleue, that he wil not suffer him selfe to depart from his accustomed maner and perpetuall goodnes, so that we obserue the good and iust causes and reasons of peregrination.

¹But in that thing we have need of great wariness and diligence, namely that chiefly (as Seneca hath well admonished in his .105. epistle to Lucillas) we depart from our selves, that is that we lay away our wicked affections, because the changing of places do little profit, if we carry about together with us the same affections, which we had before. Yea and ye chiefly helpeth to the renewing of godliness, that we be made other from our selves. For what had the good laws, honest manners, and chaste religion which the Jews professed, profited the Kenites, if they would have brought their own things with them, and continued in the same wherein they were conversant before? Wherefore they which do travail into other countries for study and godliness sake, ought not to have this purpose before them, to behold the Cities, buildings, rivers, fields, vineyards woods, plays and qualities of men: For all these things although they somewhat delight the beholders, as children which with pleasure do marvel at every new and strange thing, yet they do nothing, or very little help. The chief cause ought to be, that they only study above all other things to be made better, as touching godliness & doctrine. For if they shall despise this, they shall be said to wander, rather than justly to journey. Let them not therefore retain with them any longer those evils which are to be avoided, yet let them above all things journey from the ignorance of God, from the unskilfulness of the holy Scriptures, from corrupt affections, and from wicked and pernicious examples. This is the just cause of peregrination, which the Kenites by their deed do declare unto us. If the Lacedaemonians had had a regard to this, they would not by their