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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
First in that the vices of other men are likened unto pitch, which sticketh wonderful fast to the fingers of them which touch it,1 and also to garments. Secondly are we faithfully admonished to have a regard to our own strength.
Fyrst in that the vices of other men are lykened vnto pytche, whiche sticketh wonderfull fast to the fyngers of them which touch it,1 and also to garments. Secondly are we faythfully admonyshed to haue a regarde to our own strength.
- 1We must have a regard to our own strength.We must haue a regard to our own strength.
1Let the examples of the holy scriptures in any wise teach us. The Israelites were 70. years captives in Babylon, & were so infected with the conversation of unfaithful nations, that afterward when they had leave given them first of Cyrus & then of Darius the most noble kings to return home, very many of them would not return, but being overcome with the commodity of houses, fields & merchandises, they remained still among the Chaldeans, Medes, & Persians: So cold became they in the love of godliness & study of religion.2 They were reproved in deed by Esdras, Nehemiah, & Zechariah, but they were little the better thereby. And how much the Hebrews were corrupted ⟨p. 47⟩by their long conversation with the Egyptians, the things which were by & by done in the wilderness, do plainly testify. For although they had yet before their eyes the singular benefits of God towards them, yet they fell from him to Idolatry, and because in Egypt they had seen an ox superstitiously worshipped,