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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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¶Whither it be lawful for Subjects to rise against their Princes.
¶Whither it be lawful for Subiectes to ryse agaynst their Princes.
But leaving these things, let us come unto the third question, whereof for as much as I have somewhat before spoken, I think not to speak of it abundantly in this place, least I should be more full of words than is needful.
BVt leauing these thinges, let vs come vnto the third question, wherof for as much as I haue somwhat before spoken, I thinke not to speake of it aboundantly in this place, least I should be more ful of wordes than is needeful.
Let us divide subjects, as we have before divided them, so that some of them are mere private men, & others are in such sort inferiors, that the superior power in a manner dependeth of them, as among the Lacedaemonians were the [Greek or Hebrew], and at Rome the Tribunes of the people. Those which only are subject, & counted altogether private, ought not to rise against their Princes & Lords, to displace them of their dignity or degree. The two Apostles Peter & Paul have commanded the same, namely that servants should obey their Lords, how rough & hard soever they be. Farther, the sword (as it is written to the Romans) is given only to the powers. And they which resist the power, are said to resist the ordinance of god. God would that the Jews should obey Nabuchad-nezar, & he was angry with Zedechias the king, because he fell from him. Yea, & Jeremiah by the commandment of God admonished and exhorted the people to pray for the health of the king of Babylon. David also would not stretch forth his hand against the anointed of the Lord: when he might have done it with out any difficulty, & to his great commodity. The godly soldiers of Julianus the Apostate, obeyed the same Julianus in fighting and pitching their camps: nether did they at any time (being also armed) rebel against that most cruel tyrant. Phocas when he had slain Mauricius, possessed the Empire by great violence & uniustice, & wrote to Rome to Gregory, who obeyed him as his Prince, and gave unto him great reverence.