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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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But omitting these, let us by testimonies of the holy scriptures (which shall easily be done) confirm, that certain dreams are sent by God. Matthew testifieth that Joseph the husband of Mary, was in dreams thrice admonished by the Angel. The wife also of Pilate had knowledge by a dream, and sent word to her husband, that he should not condemn Christ being an innocent. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles the x. chap. saw a sheet let down from heaven. And in the .xvi. chap. a man of Macedonia appeared unto Paul, and moved him to go into Macedonia. And the Lord commanded the same Paul in a dream, that he should not depart from Corinth, because he had a wonderful great number of people in that City. I might rehearse a great many other places, both out of the old Testament, and out of the new, but that I will not be tedious.1 Philo a Jew (as Jerome in his book de viris illustribus saith) wrote five books of Dreams, which are sent by God. Cyprian also telleth,2 that in his time were certain things seen by dreams, which served for the edification of the Church: & he doth give ⟨image 144⟩not a little,3 but very much authority unto them. And Augustine in his .xii. book de Genisi ad litteram, the .3. chap. saith: That there are three kinds of dreams. The first (saith he) pertain unto the outward senses, which he calleth corporal. Again, other some he calleth Spiritual, which consist of images, & have place about the fantasy, or power of imagination. The last he nameth Intellectual, because they are comprehended only by reason and judgement of the mind. And those which consist by imagination, namely those that are put in the second place (as we have a little before taught) saith he, make not Prophets, & affirmeth that Joseph was much more truly a Prophet, then Pharaoh. And because we will not go from our history, we may affirm the same thing of the soldier, which in the hearing of Gideon expounded the dream of his fellow soldier, namely, that he rather was a Prophet, then he which had the vision. But in this order or degree of Prophets, Daniel excelleth the rest. For he did not only interpret the dreams of the king: but when he had forgotten those things which he saw in his sleep, he could revoke them into his memory again. Farther, he did not only interpret the dreams of other men, but also he was by God instructed of his own visions.