A68840:913
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
After this very common and large description, there is to be added, that of miracles certain are true,1 and certain are false. For those are called false miracles, which either are not that which they seem to be, or else if they be, they are not done by any power, which passeth nature, but by the powers of nature, although it be secrete. For Angels either good or bad may do them, and that three manner of ways. For sometime they apply unto matter the strengths of nature, which they perfectly know, of which conjunction of the matter with efficient causes, do follow effects, & are in deed in a manner upon the sudden, at the which the beholders cannot but marvel. The devils know that of things putrefied are engendered Frogs, worms, or some certain Serpents, so that heat in certain degrees be added. Wherefore seeing to them it is not hard to couple these things together, they do it sometimes to deceive men with all. And by this means Augustine thinketh (as he writeth in his .3.2 book de Trinitate) that the sorcerers of Pharaoh did sometimes the same things which Moses did. Farther, the movings of the spirits, of the blood and humours, do very much trouble the bodies of men: whereby figures, images, and shapes of things, which in them are kept, are in the same motion brought before the fantasy or imagination, & by that manner and order, that the troubler of the spirit knitteth them. Whereof do spring sundry and manifold sights, which we see do sometimes happen in such as are in frenzy. And the thing may come so far, that the forms and images which are inwardly kept, may be called back even unto the outwards senses. Whereby, he which suffereth such things, weeneth that he verily seeth and feeleth those things which are in his imagination or fancy, and in his sense, when as in very deed there is no such thing outwardly done. And this kind of miracles ought rather to be referred to illusions, then to miracles.
After this very common and large description, ther is to be added, that of miracles certaine are true,1 and certaine are false. For those are called false myracles, which either are not that which they seme to be, or els if they bee, they are not done by anye power, which passeth nature, but by the powers of nature, although it be secrete. For Angels either good or bad may do them, and that thre maner of wayes. For sometime they applye vnto matter the strengthes of nature, which they perfectly know, of which cōiunction of ye matter wyth efficient causes, do follow effectes, & ar in dede in a maner vpon the sodaine, at the which the beholders cannot but maruayle. The deuils know that of thinges putrified are engendred Frogges, woormes, or some certaine Serpentes, so that heate in certaine degrees be added. Wherfore seing to them it is not hard to couple these thinges together, they do it somtimes to deceaue men with al. And by this meanes Augustine thinketh (as he writeth in his .3.