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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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And they said unto him: show us, we pray thee, the way into the city. They speak fair unto the man, & they pray him, the matter is not done by violence, but they go about by friendly words to allure him to betray the City.
And they sayd vnto him: shewe vs, we pray thee, the waye into the citie. They speake fayre vnto ye man, & they pray hym, ye matter is not done by violēce, but they go aboute by frendly wordes to allure him to betray the Citie.
1And we will show thee mercy. Seeing the spies had not the chief government in the public: wealth, how durst they promise safety unto this man, especially if they had no peculiar commandment to do it. Thou wilt say peradventure, they did trust that the Senate of the public wealth and Captains of the war would ratify that which they had promised. But the superior power can not confirm that which is done by the subjects, unless it be also lawful for the same power both to promise and also to perform that which ⟨p. 36⟩they did. And God had prohibited by express words that the Canaanites & those proscripte people should have their lives granted them. Peradventure they had before their eyes yt example of Rahab the harlot, whose life in the time of Joshua was not only spared, but also she was received with all that belonged unto her, and had in honour of the Hebrews. And thereby they judged that it was in their power,2 to promise mercy and safety unto this man. And as touching the commandment of God they thought gods laws not to be so rigorous, but they might be mitigated with some equity, as they remembered was done with the Gibeonites, who were never the less Hevites or Amorites. Thou wilt say peradventure: They were so saved, that they were brought into bondage.3 And necessity of bondage is a certain kind of civil death: wherefore in that the life of the body was granted them, the commandment of the Lord seemeth not to be violated, for they were killed after a sort. The question is not dissolved by this reason. For God prescribed by law that the Canaanites should be put to death, he referred not that to a civil death, but to a natural death: for otherwise Saul might have excused him self, because he killed not Agag the king of Amalek with an outward death. For he might have said that he had already killed him civilly.