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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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36 And Gideon said unto God: If thou wilt save Israel by my hand as thou haste said: 37 Behold I will put a fleece of wool in the threshing place, if the ⟨image 132⟩dew come upon the fleece only, & it be dry upon all the earth, then shall I be sure, that by my hand thou wilt save Israel, as thou hast said. 38 And it was so: for he rose up early on the morrow, and thrust the fleece together, and wringed the dew out of the fleece, and filled the viol with the water. 39 Again Gideon said unto God: Be not angry with me, and I will speak only once more: Let me prove only once, I pray thee with the fleece. Let it, I pray thee, he dry upon the fleece only, and let the dew be upon all the ground. 40 And God did so the same night: for it was dry upon the fleece only, and there was dew on all the ground.
36 And Gideon sayde vnto God: If thou wylt saue Israel by my hande as thou haste sayde: 37 Behold I wyl put a fleese of wool in the threshyng place, if the ⟨image 132⟩dew come vpon the fleese onely, & it be dry vpon al the earth, thē shal I be sure, that by my hand thou wilt saue Israel, as thou hast sayd. 38 And it was so: for he rose vp earlye on the morrowe, and thrust the fleese together, and wrynged the dewe out of the fleese, and fylled the vyole with the water. 39 Againe Gideon sayde vnto God: Be not angry wyth me, and I wyll speake onely once more: Let me proue onely once, I praye thee wyth the fleese. Let it, I pray thee, he dry vpon the fleese onely, and let the dewe be vpon all the ground. 40 And God dyd so the same night: for it was drye vpon the fleese onely, and there was dewe on all the grounde.
Mans imbecility is divers and manifold, whereby it cometh to pass, that in the promises of God we waver and doubt. Gideon was called by so plain and manifest words, that there was no occasion of doubting left. He had no common sign when the sacrifice was consumed with fire: he is now furnished with an host, & yet he now also wavereth, & needeth a new confirmation. We use not so to do when we believe men: for if there de but a bare promise, or a hand writing made, we are content. But God must continually beat in into us those things which he promiseth, and seal them with miracles and Sacraments, and yet even then also we give little credit unto them. And though we should endanger our selves for accomplishing of our own lusts, or prosecuting our own affairs, there are we stout, there are we bold, and nothing afeard, when as otherwise few there are found which in God his cause, or for his words sake will put them selves in danger. In which thing nevertheless we ought to be most stout: for God will not leave us destitute of his aid. He addeth the spurs of promises, the confirmation of miracles, and to those which cease of, he threateneth very grievous punishments.