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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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Let them therefore cease so much to err, which think that god in the old law promised only earthly things, as though at that time he provided only for the bodies and not for the souls, as do Shepherds, Ploughmen, and Swineherds, which have a care only for the bodies and carcasses of their Sheep, Swine and Oxen, neither labour they for any other thing, but to make those beasts strong and fat. We must not so imagine of God, who so made a league with the Elders, that he promised them the chief felicity,1 which chiefly pertaineth unto the soul. Wherefore it is written in the 144 Psalm. Blessed are the people which have the Lord for their God. In Deuteronomy also God toke upon him to bring to pass, that they should walk in his commandments. But what more? Our saviour, out of the words of the old league hath most aptly taught the resurrection of the dead. For when the Lord said that he was the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and they were then dead, Christ inferred that they were not dead but that they still lived, and that their bodies should be received, namely in the blessed resurrection. Hitherto pertaineth that that God affirmed to Abraham, that he himself would be his reward, which thing plainly teacheth us,2 that in that covenant were not promised only carnal and earthly good things. Undoubtedly it were a great shame even for Kings and Princes, which being compared with GOD are but flesh and blood, if they should be counted to govern the public wealths, only as touching the bodies of the subjects: for as much as they profess that therefore they provide for their Citizens outward commodities, quietness and peace namely that they might live happily and virtuously. Wherefore if Princes seek for goods of the mind for their Citizens,3 is it not meet that God himself provided far more noble things for the public wealth of the Israelites which he faithfully governed. Furthermore I do not speak, how foolish it is to believe that the old fathers by the league bound themselves only to outward rites and visible ceremonies, whereby to worship God: when as even the Ethnics were not ignorant, yea they have most manifestly testified,4 that the worshipping of God consisteth not in those things. For Plautus in Rudente writeth thus: They think that they please God with gifts and sacrifices: