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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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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,3 they therefore instigated Aaron, to make them a calf to worship. Which being given them with great rejoicing they began to cry. These are thy gods O Israel, which brought the out of Egypt. Besides this, they journeying, thorough the wilderness, when they came to the borders of the Moabites, and were conversant with that nation more familiarly than was mete, they were brought to this point, that they did not only commit filthy whoredom with the shameless women of the Moabites, but also they offered sacrifice unto the most filthy idol namely Baal-Peor and suffered them selves to be admitted to his most unpure sacrifices. Peter the chief Apostle,4 when he had entered into the ungodly hall of the chief Priest, and had there ben conversant with the maidens and ungodly servants, forswore his master Jesus Christ our saviour. For the which fault afterward, when he departed, he wept most bitterly.5 Isay when he saw God sit in the temple like a judge, and angels standing about him, which most purely celebrated praises unto him, although he seemed not to himself to be guilty of his own fault, yet he cried out: Woe unto me because I dwell in the midst of a people, that have unclean lips. For the man of God felt, that he had gotten no small infection, by reason he had dwelled so long with an unclean people.