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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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6 Wherefore Israel was exceedingly impoverished by the Midianites, and the children of Israel cried unto the Lord.
6 Wherfore Israell was excedingly impouerished by the Madianites, and the children of Israell cried vnto the Lord.
1Neither caves, nor dens, nor strong fenced castles could help the miserable Israelites. For sinners must not only take heed of outward enemies, but they must chiefly fly from the anger of God, from which undoubtedly no man can avoid by caves, dens or munitions. And as long as that endureth, these human helps do not defend from outward enemies. And if any man will not believe this,2 let him call to memory the breadth of the walls of Ecbatanis, which as it is written in the book of Judith the .1. chapter) was thirty foot broad, and seventy foot high, and had in it an hundred Towers, and yet all those things could not withstand those which besieged it.3 And of Babylon also it is written, that the walls of it was an hundred foot in height, and fighty foot in breadth, and it is said to have been so large that it might have been a province rather then a city, and yet it was conquered and utterly overthrown. Such things men go about when they withdraw themselves from God, these their horns are erected against God. These things do lead unto desperation the afflicted, which think not upon God, as though tyrants by whom they are oppressed could never be plucked out of so strong and well fenced places. But in Habakkuk the prophet such mad building are wonderfully laughed to scorn of the spirit of God, and Obadiah in the name of God threateneth the children of Esau, that their nest should be thrown down to the ground, how soever it seemed unto them that they had set it in heaven.