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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 this peradventure may seem marvellous unto some, that god used to punish his people by other nations far worse than they were: for as much as the Ammonites, Amalekites, and Moabites were Idolaters, & nations that were overwhelmed in all kind of wickedness. To this I will answer, that it was the providence of god, which (as I have before declared) doth in the sort punish since with since, and in such manner chasten the ungodly, by others that are ungodly.2 Farther, by it he declareth, that these things though they be evil, yet they can not escape, but that some way they shall serve his will. But why he differeth to punish nations, which otherwise are wicked, and his own he straight ways punisheth, this is the cause: because they pertaining to god, do sin against his law which they know. Wherefore there is no cause why the Turks and Papists though they sometimes prevail against us, to punish our sins, should flatter them selves thereby,3 as though they were much better than we are, or as though their superstitions were better than our religion. For if the Moabites, Canaanites, and Assyrians were not counted better than the Jews, whom they overcame: no more shall the Turks or Papists obtain the same, though sometimes by the will of God they afflict the Gospellers. Wherefore god doth quickly punish his, for his word sake, which is among them published: he will not easily suffer, that his word being received and known should be despised and escape unpunished. There were undoubtedly very many liars and false men at Jerusalem, and yet god suffered them, where as he straight way destroyed Ananias and Sapphira. For he would adorn & set forth the gospel & holy ministry. ⟨p. 81⟩And now that the Ethnics do see, how severely God punisheth us, they may easily conjecture what hangeth over their heads, according to the saying of Christ: If this be done in the green tree, what shall be done in the dry tree. And if by reason of their blindness they understand not this, we ought diligently to remember it to our great consolation. We read in Jeremy the .xlix. Chapter that the people of God drank of the cup of the Lord, which seemed not so much to deserve it: Wherefore the Edomites ought much more to look, to be one day punished with punishments appointed for them. In Ezekiel also the .ix. Chap.