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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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Wherefore if there be an oath made, guile is not to be used unless peradventure the one party to whom the oath is made, shall go from the conditions and covenants, for then the common saying must take place, he that breaketh faith,1 let faith also be broken unto him. Wherefore Jerome ad Nepotianū ⟨p. 86⟩commendeth this saying of Domitius the Orator unto Phillip, when thou countest not me for a senator, I also will not count thee for a Consul. But hereof we have testimonies also in the holy scriptures: for Paul in the first to the Corinth: the .7. chap: writeth, as touching faith given in matrimony, If the unfaithful depart let him depart. A brother or a sister is not in subjection unto such, but God hath called us in peace. And those things which are alleged of an oath, I understand also to be of the same efficacy in promises & covenants. In which promises & covenants I affirm, ye godly & just men ought both to use plain & simple words, & also faithfully to fulfil them.2 Wherefore the Thracians are justly & worthily condemned who after the truce was made for 30. days, robbed & spoiled by night, excusing their act, for that their truce was made for the day & not for the night. Neither did the legate of the Romans uprightly, yea he Sophistically dealt with Antiochus, 3who when he had decreed that the one half of the ships should be given unto the Romans & the other half to the king, commanded them all to be divided & cut in sunder in very deed. But he did it that the king should be utterly destitute of a warlike Navy. Wherefore what soever a godly man shall promise, he ought before deeply to weigh with him self, whether he be able to stand by his words and promises. Wherefore Jerome hath written unto Celautia: 4things which thou shalt say, think thou swearest them.
Wherefore if there be an othe made, guile is not to be vsed vnles peraduenture the one partye to whom the othe is made, shall go from the condicions and couenauntes, for then the common saying muste take place, he that breaketh faith,