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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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1By this also appeareth it to be true, which a little before was said, namely that we may not use evil guile against our enemy, if there be an oath made. And that this may the playnlyer be understand, we must divide an oath as the lawyers do, so that one kind of oath is called an approving or an affirming of a thing, & an other a promising of a thing, or as they speak, the one affective, & the other promissory. For when we swear, either we do affirm or else deny some thing to be or to have ben, which we ought never to do with evil guile, if we add thereunto an oath. Or else we promise to perform something, & for as much as faith is to be kept even with our enemy, the same faith also is not to be broken with evil guile. Wherefore if those things which we have sworn unto our enemy to keep & observe, are temporal goods, as are money, honours, & life of the body, for these things the name of God is not to be profaned. Wherefore David in his .15. Psal. saith: He that sweareth to do evil, & changeth not. In Hebrew it is thus written Nischoah Leharah Velo Jamid, 2which place I know Kimhi expoundeth of those, which vow unto God certain hard & sharp things, which serve to the subduing of the flesh, neither do there change ye which they have promised. But the sentence me thinketh seemeth more simple, if it have a larger sense, namely of an oath hurtful unto us, which a good & godly man will not abrogate or change.3 Jerome also upon Ezekiel the 17. chap. is of this opinion. For there the Lord saith that he was very angry against Zedechias, because he had broken the oath which he had made unto Nebuchad-nezar king of Babylon. For although the Jews counted him as an enemy, yet as Jerome teacheth, he was now as a friend, when he had by an oath promised his faith unto Zedechias. For ye belongeth unto friends one to be faithful unto the other.4 Wherefore evil guile ought there to take no place. And Augustine in the 33. question the 1. chap: Noli existimare, writing unto Bonifacius admonisheth him to keep faith with his enemy also.5 Ambrose also in the 28. question the 4. chap. Innocens, admonisheth the same, & hath the same sentence in his book de officiis, where he bringeth the example of Joshua toward the Gibeonites, who although he might have made the oath void & of no force, yet by the consent of God he caused it to be kept & ratified.