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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.
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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 ⟨image 145⟩iudgemēt, & a cleare vnderstāding of such visions which he ministred vnto thē.
1But Aristotle is herein deceived, because he had a respect only to deceivers, which prophesied such kinds of prophecies, and bewitched men, as though they could expound all sorts of dreams, and show whet they portended. But we understand not those things which we have now alleged, of all kind of dreams, neither of all manner of prophets. For they pertain only to those, which God indeed sendeth: wherefore the conjectures of deceivers and Soothsayers have nothing here to do. But the authority of so great a Philosopher doth not much move us:2