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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.
Thou wilt ask peradventure, If god looked so well to his people as long as the judges were over them,1 how came it to pass then, that they were so often brought into bondage by their enemies? For because God handled with them faithfully and by a covenant.
Thou wilt aske peraduenture, If god loked so wel to hys people as long as the iudges were ouer them,1 how came it to passe then, that they were so often brought into bondage by their enemies? For bicause God handled with them faithfully and by a couenaunt.
- 1Why the Israelites were so oftentimes oppressed of their enemies in the time of the judges.Why the Israelites were so oftentimes oppressed of their enemies in the time of the iudges.
The league that was made is written in the 30. and 31. chap. of Deut: where god promised the Hebrews that all things should prosper with them so long as they kept his laws and worshipping of him. But if they should fall from him to Idols, and cast away the laws of their god, then should they be delivered into the hands of their enemies, but in such sort, that if they repented and would desire aid of their god, he would straightways be present with them, to deliver them from all the evils wherewith they should be oppressed. But we shall not need to stand long now about this matter, because it he proceeding forward of the history, we shall manifestly perceive, that the Israelites did oftentimes offend. And god chastened them as his children with just punishments. But when they turned and cried unto him, he had compassion of them, and delivered them by judges out of their miseries. This remaineth also for us to declare, that for as much as Christ is called the end and perfection of all the holy books, how these acts also of the judges may and ought to be referred unto him, and how they prophesy him unto us, as the other holy books do. To answer to this I will take that which Origen writeth in his first Homely upon this book. Al the works of god by themselves are great: