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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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What then? Shall we say that god is the cause of sin? Not so,1 for if we will speak properly: and that it may the more manifestly appear, we must mark, that one self act as it is derived from us, is very sin: but in respect that it cometh from God, it is both good, just, and holy. For punishment is by God imposed to wicked men. And to punish since, no man is ignorant but that it pertaineth to justice. Wherefore God in withdrawing his grace from the ungodly, and ministering some occasions, which might move to good things, if they ⟨image 86⟩happened to right & just minds, and which he knoweth the wicked will turn to evil, may after a sort, although not properly, be said to be the cause of sin. And undoubtedly that act,2 in that it passeth through us, is sin, but not as it cometh from God. For in that it cometh from God, it is most perfect justice. It happeneth sometimes, that the self same wine being poured into a corrupt vessel, is lost, and made paid: which wine as it was brought by the husbandman & put into the vessel is both sweet and good. Neither is it hard to understand how one & the self same act may as touching one, be vicious: & in respect of an other, just. For when a murderer & hangman do kill a man, the act as touching the matter or subject, without doubt is all one, namely the death of a man. And yet the murderer doth it most unjustly, & the hangman by law and justice. Job also did well understand that when he said: The Lord gave, & the Lord hath taken away as it hath pleased him, so is it done. He did not by those words praise the Chaldeans, Sabines, & the Devil, which were vessels of iniquity, & most vicious: but he with great godliness allowed those evils, as they were governed & ruled by the providence of God, namely for this cause, because they pleased God. It is also written in the .2. book of Samuel the .24. chap. of David, who unadvisedly would have the people numbered, & how God was angry with Israel, & therefore he stirred up David to do that. And in the book of Paral. it is written that Satan was the doer of it. For God doth those things which he will have done by Angels, as well good as evil. Wherefore that numbering of the people as it proceeded of David or the Devil, was in deed vicious; but in that it came from God, who intended to punish the Israelites, it pertained exceedingly to the setting forth of his justice.