A68840:713
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
But as touching the laws of hospitality,1 we also do judge that they by them selves and of their own nature ought to be kept sacred and unviolated. This understood Loth, when he would have abandoned his daughters to the filthy lusts of the wanton Sodomites, to the end they should do no injury unto them which had turned in unto him. Neither departed that old man from his example, which received the Levite with his wife as strangers, as it shall be more at large declared in this history of the Judges. Whose counsel in betraying his daughters, although I allow not, yet I do very much commend the defending of the strangers. Yea, and the Gentiles worshipped Jupiter hospitalis, knowing by the light of nature, that God had a singular care over strangers and guests.2 Pythagoras also discommendeth the Swallows, namely for this, because they daily lodge under the covering of mens houses, and yet will never be made familiar or tame unto their hosts.3 There were also sometime certain mischievous houses, in which no man might any more inhabit (as probable authors have written) and that because in them the laws of hospitality had been violated. And contrariwise where hospitality hath been well and faithfully kept, not only Angels, but God himself also sometimes hath been an acceptable guest. Christ also at the end of the world will say: I was a stranger and ye lodged me, commending his in the sight of the whole world, for the virtue of hospitality. And it is manifest, that men in the old time decreed that between the guest & the host there should be great friendship. Lastly God in the law commanded, that the Hebrews should not despise the Egyptians, or utterly expel them from them, & that namely for this, because at the beginning they showed hospitality unto their elders. Wherefore we must affirm that by the universal and ordinary law,4 the laws of hospitality ought to be kept inviolated. And this ought also to he firm, that in laws, no friendships, are so honest and so just, but they are to be broken if God command otherwise. For all these things ought so long to be of force, ⟨image 108⟩as the will of God shall allow them. Wherefore, forasmuch as God had now rejected Sisera and the Canaanites, and would have them destroyed, no covenants could justly be kept with them. For we must rather obey God than mans reasons.