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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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17 Then he answered him: I pray thee, if I have found favour in thy sight, then show me a sign, that it is thou that talkest with me. 18 Depart not hence I pray thee, until I come unto thee and bring my sacrifice and lay it before thee. And he answered, I will tarry till thou come again.
17 Thē he answered him: I pray thee, if I haue foūd fauour in thy sight, then shew me a sygne, that it is thou that talkest with me. 18 Depart not hēce I pray thee, vntil I come vnto thee and bring my sacrifice and laye it before thee. And he answered, I wyll tarye tyll thou come agayne.
He therefore desireth a sign, least he should think him self to be illuded by a ghost or spirit. For he was not content with words, but he would have an assured sign of the talk now had. But this sentence: That it is thou that talkest with me, seemeth to be spoken by the figure Eclipsis, so that we must understand, in the name of God, least peradventure I might think, that the words which thou speakest, are the words of a man, and not count them for the Oracle of God.1 These things were not done when he was a sleep (as it appeareth by the history) but when he was waking, although God, as we shall afterward hear, appeared also by night unto Gideon. He requireth a sign, because it is the part of a godly man to try spirits, and not rashly to believe every spirit, especially when any new and unaccustomed work is commanded: and that which otherwise is not thought to be lawful, there no man will easily assent, except he be fully persuaded that his calling is of God. But when doctrine now ⟨image 123⟩