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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
¶Of Idolatry.
But because we have now heard of the transgression of the Hebrews how they polluted them selves with Idolatry, I think it good to speak a few words of this detestable sin.
BVt bycause we haue now heard of the transgression of the Hebrewes how they polluted them selues with Idolatry, I thinke it good to speake a fewe wordes of thys detestable synne.
The word is a greek word, and is compounded of [Greek or Hebrew] and [Greek or Hebrew] and it is nothing else but the worshipping of Idols.1 And [Greek or Hebrew] is derived of this word [Greek or Hebrew], which signifieth a form, or as you would say a shape. But an Idol is (as we now speak of it) every form or shape which men have invented unto them selves to signify or express God. And as there are found many and sundry matters of these forms, so also are there divers kinds of Idols. Wherefore whether they be stones, wood, or metals,2 by which God is outwardly expressed there to be worshipped, these are gross and most manifest Idols. There may be also a spiritual matter: which then happeneth, when those forms and images are nothing else but the conceavinges of the hart and mind, which men make for them selves to represent God,