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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
¶Of Truth and of a Lye.
Now resteth to entreat of the second question, namely.1 Whether it be lawful for a good & godly man to lye. But first before I entreat of a lye. I think it good somewhat to speak of truth, which undoubtedly is an excellent virtue.
NOw resteth to intreate of the second question, namely.1 Whether it be lawfull for a good & godly mā to lye. But first before I entreat of a lye. I thinke it good somwhat to speake of truth, whiche vndoubtedly is an excellent vertue.
- 1Of Truth.
Truth (as saith Tullius de Inuentione) is, whereby things which are,1 which have ben, & which shall be are spoken unaltered. Wherein we first note, that it consisteth in words: for (saith he) they are spoken, not that I am ignorant, that both dumb men, & also other men speak sometime by signs,2 but because (as saith Augustine in his first book de doctrina Christiana) words among other signs are the principal & most plain. Farther we are hereby taught, that truth is not only to be considered as touching one difference of time, but as concerning three differences, for he saith, both those things which are, and which have ben, & which shall be. These things undoubtedly are then spoken truly, when they are set forth unaltered, that is, even as they are, & by speaking made neither more ample nor less than they are.