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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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20 And the three bands blew with trumpets, when they had broken their pitchers, and they took their lamps in their left hand: and the trumpets in their right hand, to blow withal, and they cried: the sword of the Lord, and of Gideon. 21 And they stood every man in his place, round about the host, and all the host brake their array, and cried, and fled.
20 And the three bandes blew with trumpets, when they had broken their pitchers, and they tooke their lampes in their leaft hande: and the trumpets in their right hand, to blow withal, and they cryed: the swoord of the Lord, and of Gideon. 21 And they stoode euery man in his place, rounde about the host, and al the host brake theyr aray, and cryed, and fled.
The blowing of the trumpets, with the wonderful great cry of men, on every side, and the sudden light, which the burning firebrands gave, when the pitchers were broken, did not only astonish the Midianites, but they being yet oppressed with sleep, were so troubled, that they could not tell what to do. Wherefore they supposed that there were many and sundry hosts there, and had now invaded their host, and God filled them with such a certain dizziness & madness, that they counted their fellow soldiers in stead of enemies, and miserably slew one another.1 This warlike policy was not found out and invented by Gideon himself only, but, as it is to be believed, he did it by the suggestion of the holy ghost. And how God favoured his enterprises, the holy history declareth, whereby we might learn, that God must prosper our enterprises, otherwise they are easily made vain and of no force. For trumpets, firebrands, and empty pitchers, of their own disposition and nature, have small force to obtain a victory, especially if every one of them be taken a part, & although being joined together, they seem that they can do somewhat, yet if God had not added his power, they would have been but laughed at. And they cried: The sword of God, and of Gideon. God is mentioned as the true & principal efficient cause, & Gideon is added unto him,