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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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1But the space of the time which is comprehended in these declarations (if we may believe Augustine in his xviii. book de civitate dei, and 22. chap.) is 329. years, which he gathereth thus. When Rome was builded, the Hebrews had been in the land of Canaan. 718. years, of which (as he saith) 27. pertained unto Joshua, 329. to the Judges, & 362. are referred unto the kings. For Hezekiah the king lived in the time of Romulus.
1But the space of the tyme which is comprehēded in these declarations (if we may beleue Augustine in his xviii. booke de ciuitate dei, and 22. chap.) is 329. yeares, which he gathereth thus. Whē Rome was builded, the Hebrewes had bene in the land of Chanaan. 718. yeares, of which (as he saith) 27. perteyned vnto Iosua, 329. to the Iudges, & 362. are referred vnto the kinges. For Ezechias the king lyued in the tyme of Romulus.
- 1The number of the years that the history of the judges containeth.The number of the yeares that the history of the iudges conteyneth.
1An history is not to be counted a thing of mans invention when as god him self was the author thereof, which would have the elders to expound to their children and their posterity those things which he had done for Israel in Egypt, in the sea, and in the wilderness. And he commanded also (as it is written in Exodus) that the war which was had against Amalech, and the victory which the Hebrews got of him,2 should be put in writing, yea and this kind of writing began before Moses, for he maketh mention both of the book of the battles of the Lord as also of the book of the just men. I will not speak of the Prophets which with their prophecies oftentimes mixed histories. I pass over David, who adorned here and there the psalms which he song with histories. I skip over our Evangelists and the Acts which Luke wrote, in which are written most profitable histories in the new Testament. If god be the author of these books as we must needs believe, then god must be counted the author of histories, which is not a thing for him unseemly, for an history is a noble thing (as Cicero writeth in hys 2.