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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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The punishment which God here threateneth, is no new punishment, for all that is here written, was forespoken in the book of Joshua the 23. chap. Namely that it should come to pass, that if they obeyed not the precepts of the law of God, God would not then perform to destroy those nations before them: yea, he saith, they shall be unto you a snare, a stumbling stock, a whip for your sides, and thorns to your eyes, until ye be destroyed out of this good land, which the Lord your God hath given you, &c.
The punishement whiche God here threateneth, is no new punishement, for al that is here written, was forespoken in the boke of Iosua the 23. chap. Namely that it should come to passe, that if they obeyed not the preceptes of the law of God, God would not then performe to destroy those natiōs before them: yea, he sayth, they shalbe vnto you a snare, a stumblyng stocke, a whip for your sides, and thornes to your eyes, vntill ye be destroyed out of this good lande, whiche the Lord your God hath geuen you, &c.
For the Israelites had afterward experience of these miseries, because they were oftentimes brought into bondage by their enemies among whom they dwelled, and with whom they had ungodly joined them selves. And finally for that they would not cease of from Idolatry, they were cast out to the Assyrians and Babylonians. This chiding of God containeth just causes, wherefore the Israelites were destitute of his help for a time.1 And the end of the whole sermon is, that the people might be stirred up to repentance, and that most aptly. For among those things which do vehemently amplify sin & do set it plainly before our eyes,2 is the greatness of the benefits of god, which ought to stir us up to the observing of the law. Afterward is set forth the grievousness of the punishments, because the weight of the since committed, doth evidently declare the burden of them. Wherefore these two things are worthily alleged in the sermon, to the end the Hebrews might feel the enormity of the wicked act which they had committed, whereas otherwise they would have thought it but a light fault.