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A14353 Most learned and fruitfull commentaries of D. Peter Martir Vermilius Florentine, professor of diuinitie in the schole of Tigure, vpon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romanes wherin are diligently [and] most profitably entreated all such matters and chiefe common places of religion touched in the same Epistle. With a table of all the common places and expositions vpon diuers places of the scriptures, and also an index to finde all the principall matters conteyned in the same. Lately tra[n]slated out of Latine into Englishe, by H.B.; In epistolam S. Pauli Apostoli ad Romanos commentarii doctissimi. English Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562.; Billingsley, Henry, Sir, d. 1606. 1568 (1568) STC 24672; ESTC S117871 1,666,362 944

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that_o be_v hardness_n of_o hart_n the_o promise_n which_o be_v offer_v unto_o they_o y●_z be_v circumcise_a be_v these_o that_o god_n be_v make_v our_o god_n and_o the_o god_n of_o our_o seed_n in_o which_o only_a thing_n we_o have_v the_o horn_n of_o plenty_n that_o be_v the_o sum_n of_o all_o good_a thing_n hereof_o also_o spring_v our_o felicity_n &_o consolation_n in_o all_o affliction_n they_o be_v therbye_o also_o put_v in_o mind_n of_o y●_z mortify_n of_o y●_z flesh_n y●_z be_v of_z y●_z cut_n away_o of_o superfluous_a pleasure_n &_o moreover_o by_o it_o they_o profess_v pure_a religion_n and_o in_o sum_n thereby_o be_v signify_v y●_z covenant_n make_v with_o god_n these_o be_v y●_z thing_n signify_v &_o the_o matter_n of_o this_o sacrament_n and_o pertain_v true_o unto_o the_o nature_n and_o substance_n thereof_o in_o baptism_n also_o all_o those_o self_n same_o thing_n be_v
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