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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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If I should speak my fantasy herein, I think that the spies of the Israelites ⟨image 42⟩did not ask him which came out of the city for the door or gate thereof, but which was the weaker part of the city or less fenced, that thereby they might the easier take it.1 Now is rehearsed in the scripture the third espial. For the first is written in the 13. chap. of the book of Num: And other happened under Joshua, when those two searched the city of Jericho, whom Rahab the harlot kept with great fidelity, and this is the third which we have now in hand. Although I am not ignorant how Joseph in the book of Gen: laid to his brethren's charge that they were espies.2 But the office or work of spies is (as Chrysostom sayeth expounding those words of Paul in the second chap: of the Epistle to the Galatians, that there were false brethren entered to espy out our liberty) to know the doings of the adversaries, that they & theirs may have the easier entrance to conquer or repulse them.3 Now we understand that it is an action, and we see to what end it is ordained. Moreover it cometh from enemies and from the mind of an adversary, but it is done privily and craftily. As it is lawful to fight with enemies by violence and weapons, when war is justly taken in hand: so is it just and lawful to use the art and subtlety of especials.
If I should speake my fantasie herin, I thincke that the spyes of the Israelites ⟨image 42⟩did not aske him which came out of ye citie for the dore or gate therof, but whiche was the weaker part of the city or lesse fenced, that therby they might the easier take it.1 Now is rehearsed in the scripture the third espiall. For the first is written in the 13. chap. of the booke of Num: And other happened vnder Iosuah, when those two searched the citie of Iericho, whom Rahab the harlot kept with great fidelitie, and this is the third whiche we haue now in hand. Although I am not ignoraunt how Ioseph in the boke of Gen: layd to his brethrens charge that they were espies.