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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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Cicero in his first book of offices affirmeth that dissimulation or feigning,1 pertain chiefly unto the nature of guile. For he writeth that Aquilius his familiar friend being demanded what guile was, he answered, where one thing is done and an other thing dissembled. To this sentence Augustine assenteth,2 who (in his 7. treatise upon John expounding these words which Christ pronounced of Nathaniel, Behold a true Israelite in whom is no guile) saith: Then it is guile, when one thing is done and an other thing feigned, &c. And to speak this by the way, by this place is easily gathered,3 that Augustine preached his Sermons unto the people in Latin, because the Africans used the Roman tongue, although it were not pure, but in some words corrupt. For there Augustine admonished the people, that Dolus which is guile, signified not Dolour that is pain as many corruptly spake, saying Dolus illū torquet, that is as they meant. He is troubled with pain, when as in that place they should have said Dolour and not Dolus: to take away therefore the ambiguity of the word, he sayeth, that Dolus which is guile, signifieth feigning and dissimulation. And in the same place, to express what feigning beguiling signifieth, he addeth,4 that it cometh of doubleness of the heart. He allegeth th• 12. Psalm, where when mention is made of guileful men, David saith that they speak in hart and in harts, that is, as he ⟨image 91⟩interpreteth, in one part of their heart they do see the truth, & perceive how the thing is: & in the other part they go about dissimulation & deceit. But in those (saith he) is no guile, which when they see themselves to be sinners, do also count them selves for such, nether do they dissemble or boast of righteousness, as did the Pharisee, when he prayed by the publican, & as other hypocrites also do. Nathaniel had no guile in him, but not universally, because every man is a liar: & as Paul writeth, there dwelleth no good thing in our flesh, for as much as it is altogether guileful and deceitful. It could be only said of Christ in universal, that he wanted guile. But yet they are blessed (as David saith) to whom the Lord hath not imputed sin, and in whose spirit there is no guile. For in as much as they are regenerate especially as touching the spirit that which they do they do it uprightly and simply: