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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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Farther, what absurdity is it, if he oftentimes use the commodity of the night and sleep, when as the Philosophers and Physicians them selves do confess, that men are at such time more apt to receive motions very light? Shall this commodity serve the Physicians turn to know the humours of the body, & can it not serve God, for the salvation of souls? In the book of Job the .33. chap. there is a godly and apt place written after this manner: when sleep falleth upon men, and they sleep upon their beds, then God openeth the ear, and sealeth corrections.
Farther, what absurdity is it, if he oftentimes vse the cōmodity of the nyght and sleepe, when as the Philosophers and Phisitions them selues doo confesse, that men are at such time more apt to receaue mocions very light? Shall this cō modity serue the Phisitions turne to know the humors of the bodye, & can it not serue God, for the saluation of soules? In the booke of Iob the .33. chap. there is a godly and apt place written after this maner: when slepe falleth vpon men, and they sleepe vpon their beds, then God openeth the eare, and sealeth corrections.
Lastly was objected, that God if he would admonish men, he would do it openly and manifestly, & not obscurely, or by riddles. I answer, that the true prophets and such as were inspired by God, did very well understand the things which God told them in such dreams: wherefore they needed no expounders. And if he sometimes sent dreams unto Ethnic Princes (as he did unto Pharaoh and Nebuchad-Nezar) he therefore did it, to make his Prophets that were hidden (namely Joseph and Daniel) to be notable. Otherwise he gave unto his Prophets ⟨image 145⟩judgement, & a clear understanding of such visions which he ministered unto them.
Lastly was obiected, that God if he would admonish men, he would do it openly and manifestly, & not obscurely, or by rydles. I answer, that the true prophets and such as were inspired by God, did very wel vnderstand the thinges whyche God told them in such dreames: wherefore they needed no expositers. And if hee somtimes sent dreames vnto Ethnike Princes (as he did vnto Pharao and Nebuchad-Nezar) he therfore did it, to make his Prophetes that wer hidden (namely Ioseph and Daniel) to be notable. Otherwyse he gaue vnto his Prophetes