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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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Yet in this kind of arguments that vice is most diligently to be taken heed of,1 which creepeth upon one before he beware thereof. And ye cometh two manner of ways. First that we take not upon us to follow those doings of the saints which they sometimes committed unadvisedly. For even as men, they fell sometimes, & that most filthily. Wherefore the things done by them, which we do set forth as examples to be followed of us, must with great judgement be examined.2 Augustine writeth of this thing in his 2. book against the 2. epi. of Gaudentius after this sort. We must not always imitate or allow whatsoever good men have done, but we must add thereunto the judgement of the scriptures, & mark whither they allow these deeds. This father doth very well admonish us here, that although they were holy men, & pleased god very many ways,3 & the holy scriptures witnessed excellently well of them, yet are not all their actions to be judged absolute and without fault. For every man both is a liar and oftentimes sinneth. For who would follow Dauyd his horrible adultery and betraying of faithful Soldiers, or the forswearing of Peter or his wicked dissimulation? surely none which hath but even a crumb of godliness. Moreover it sometimes happeneth that that work which is done well and rightly by some excellent ⟨image 11⟩person, is forbidden of other men, because God which hath given a law to men, is not so bound unto the same, that he may not lose some from that common bond, when it seemeth good unto him. It is not lawful for any man to steal,4 and yet the Hebrews when they were led out of Egypt were permitted yea and commanded of god, to carry away the Egyptians goods which they had borrowed of them even against their wills and without their knowledge. What shall we do then? Thus truly, we must well and diligently confer those things which are expounded in the holy histories, with the general rules of the commandments of God wherewith when we do perceive that they do agree,5 let us boldly use them. But if they disagree from them, let us reckon them either for certain fallings or singular prerogatives of some, and keep our selves back from following of them. And these provisos being added, great profit shall come by reading of histories and especially divine histories.