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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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Wherefore in expounding the Prophets it is true, that very oftentimes we ⟨p. 119⟩stand in great doubt, whether the thing were so done outwardly, or rather so appeared to the Prophet to be done in mind. And in certain of them by reason of the circū stances of the matter, we are compelled to grant that it was only a vision, as Jerome testifieth of the breeches or hosen of Jeremiah, 1which at the commandment of the Lord he put in a rock by the river Euphrates: and he suffered them to remain there so long, till they were rotten: and then he was commanded to take them, and to put them on again. And this vision happened whilst the city of Jerusalem was grievously besieged by the Chaldeans, when the Prophet could not go and come to the river Euphrates. For at the same time, when he would once have gone to Anathoth, where he was borne, he was taken even as he was going out of the gates, and accused of treason. In like manner the same Jerome affirmeth, that that was only done by a vision, which is written in Ezekiel, of the bread baked in the dung of an ox, and how it lay many days upon one and the self same side. To these may be added the eating of the book, and such like, which either humane nature, or circumstances of the matters and times, suffered not so to be done, as it is written. And as touching the preaching & expressing unto the people, that things which the Prophets had in their minds, a thing seen by fantasy or imagination, was all one, and had as much efficacy, as if it had outwardly been seen. But yet they fled not unto the visions of the mind, when the thing it self might outwardly be done. For seeing God can use both ways, he hath sometimes taken this way, and other sometimes that way, as it hath pleased him, and as he hath judged mete and profitable for us. But in all these things, me thinketh the sentence of Ambrose is to be holden,2 which entreating of these images, sayeth: That they were such as will did chose, and not such as nature hath formed: which undoubtedly maketh against those, which will have prophesying to be natural, as though by the power of the heavens, or some certain instinct of nature, or temperature of humours such images & sights offered themselves to be seen, of the outward senses of the Prophets, or to be known inwardly by imagination & fantasy.