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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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So Abraham his servant decreed with himself that she should be his Lords wife, which only amongest many maidens coming to the well, offered drink ⟨image 14⟩of her own mind to him and to his Camels. Jonathan also the son of Saul had then the victory promised him, when the Philistines should say, Come up hither to us, and contrarily, if they should bid him tarry till they came down thither. I have called these extraordinary ways because they were not commonly used, neither are they often red in the Scriptures. Lots also are of this kind. There is mention made of them in the first book of Samuel, when Saul should be declared King, all the tribes standing there before the Lord, Benjamin was caught, which R. Selomo expounding ascribeth the same place to Lots, and saith that the names of every tribe were first written in scrolls, and hurled into a certain pot, out of the which they were afterward drawn by the hand of the Prophet. This is his judgement. Although. R. D. Kimhi thinketh ye that judgement was given by Urim and Thummim. But howsoever it was it skilleth not much, for no man ought to doubt but that there were lots used at that time. For Solomon saith, that lots were caste into a pet and governed by god. Yea and the promised land of Canaan was no otherwise divided unto the people than by lots. But by what means, in what places, or after what sort they were had, it is no place here to declare. It were to long to tell what Urim and Thummim properly were. R. D. Kimhi speaketh abundantly of that matter in the book, which we now have in hands, when he expoundeth the history of the concubine revenged against the Gibeonites, And I will set forth an other time in a more fit place what it should seem to be.1 Neither did this custom for asking counsel of God flourish only in the time of Moses law, but also in the patriarchs time. For we learn in the book of Genesis that Rebekah desired an oracle. The heathen also asked counsel either of their Prophets or else of their soothsayers.2 Balak king of the Moabites called unto him Balaam. They had moreover Sibyls and Delphos, Apollo and Jupiter Ammon, and were ever to much given to divinations, but such as were corrupted and false. Only amongest the Hebrews whereof we are certain the manner of oracles was pure: Because God was known only in Judea, as David hath song.