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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 the use of the power of evil spirits is of two sorts, whereof one is with authority, and that belongeth chiefly unto god, also to the Apostles, and to the saints of the primitive church. The other by compact & obedience which is utterly forbidden men. For what participation can there be of the light with darkness, & of god with Belial? And for that cause the sorcerers which believe them, can not be excused, yet they are by the law condemned guilty of superstition & idolatry. And it is not to be thought, but that god upon very just causes, and to us most profitable hath forbidden these things to be done.1 For he provideth that we should not be deceived, and that by those means we should not be thrown headlong into destruction. For thereto at the length cometh the fellowships with Satan. For the devil is a liar, & the father of lies, and he is also a murderer, even from the beginning, as Christ hath taught. Wherefore let this be a firm sentence, which the schoolmen also in the 2. book of Sentences. Disti. 8: & among them Thomas especially, so that not only the old fathers have ratified, that if there be any thing to be desired, which is above the faculty of man, the same ought to be desired only of God, which thing they which do not, they fall into Apostasy from faith,2 worshipping creatures instead of god. I would to god both the old fathers and the school men, would have abidden constant in it, who afterward (forgetting themselves I cannot tell how) consented to the invocations of saints, being now dead, and have instituted exorcists or conjurers to the bodies & relics of saints, which being adorned with no peculiar gift of miracles, do with most severe threatenings, and very imperiously adjure devils: desiring of the saints, which are now dead, to drive out evil sprites out of those that be possessed.
Wherefore the vse of the power of euil spirites is of two sortes, wherof one is with authority, and that belongeth chiefelye vnto god, also to the Apostles, and to the sayntes of the primitiue church. The other by compact & obedience which is vtterly forbidden mē. For what participatiō cā ther be of the light with darknesse, & of god with Belial? And for that cause the sorcerers which beleue thē, can not be excused, yet they ar by the law condēned guilty of superstition & idolatry. And it is not to be thought, but that god vpō very iust causes, and to vs most profitable hath forbidden these things to be done.