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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

that so fewe of the Iewes shoulde receaue Christ and his Gospell But euen as at that time many were preserued from idolatry by the goodnes of God so now also by his grace manye are deliuered from incredulity and many more shal be deliuered towardes the end of the worlde This history is written in the first booke of kinges the. 19. chapter Although the history of Helias actes begin in the. 17. chapter There Helias foretolde vnto Achab that An history of Helias because of idolatry and impiety which was dayly encreased heauen should be shut vp When he had declared this great euill to come he departed and God hid him by the brooke Cherith For Achab went about to séeke him to the end to kil him A rauen euery day by his ministery fed him whereby was declared that the seruantes of God when néede is haue all thinges to do them seruice yea euen those creatures whiche otherwise seme vtterlye vnprofitable The brooke was dried vp by reason of want of rayne God coulde haue filled it with water againe that the Prophet mought thereout haue dronke but he woulde not yea rather God sente him to Sarepta to succor a faythfull and godlye widow and her sonne who as the Hebrues thinke was Ionas After thrée yeares he was commaunded to returne to the kingdome of Israell and to geue raine But he thought that fertility could not conueniently be restored againe vnles he should first purge the land of idolatrers He therfore cōmaunded that the Prophets should be gathered together in mount Carmell where they coulde not obteine of theyr God fire from heauen for their sacrifice Which thing Helias by a wonderfull great miracle obteyned Whiche acte forasmuch as it coulde not but be allowed of all men caused him to take the Prophets and to slay them at the broke Cison and after the iust execution of this death he obtayned of God greate aboundance of raine Neither is he to be condemned as a murtherer in that he slew so many Prophets For they by reason of theyr idolatry were iustly according to the law of God guilty of death And forasmuch as the ordinary power ceassed it was lawful for the Prophet to punishe them when as God had committed vnto him an extraordinarye power Iesabell that wicked woman as soone as she heard of these thinges sware that she would the nexte day kill Helias by occasion whereof he fled and being wery in his iorney and considering with himselfe the vngodlines which at that time raigned he was wery of his life and desired of God to die And the Aungell was present with him and set by him breade baked on the coales and water and twise bad him to eate and from thence he came to mounte Horeb and lodged in a caue waytynge to talke wyth God And being demaūded what he did he answered this which Paul now citeth And streight way was stirred vp a strong mighty wind and in the wind was heard a voyce y● the lord was not in the wind after y● wind came a mighty earthquake after the earthquake a vehement fire but God was neyther in the earthquake nor in the fire after that followeth a soft thinne breath as it were an hissinge there was the lord who asked Helias what he did And he answered I am very Rabbi Leui A place of the booke of kinges declared zelous for God bycause the children of Israell haue foresaken the couenaunt and slayne the prophets cast downe the alters and now also they seke my life What these thinges ment I will briefely declare according to the enterpretacion of Rabby Leuy the sonne of Gerischon the wind the earthquake and the fire represented the zeale and vehement affect of Helias who would haue had God streight way to be angry to auenge and to destroy the wicked there was not the Lord for he had not decreed so to deale but would gently and by litle and litle correct punish them moderatly I say by leasure in continuance of thē therfore the Lord was in the soft and thin breath and noyce wherfore when he had heard Helias complaynt he sayd I wil doubtles punish them whē I se time not after thy pleasure but as I shall thinke good Anoynt Azaell to be king ouer Siria he when the time commeth shal be the minister of my vengeance Anoint also Iehu to be king of Samaria and he shall punish the Baalites Anoynt also Helizeus to be prophet in thy place for he also shal correct the wicked sinnes of y● The godly thorough to much zeale expostulate with God people But whereas thou thinkest that thou alone art left it is not true for I haue reserued vnto me seuen thousand men which haue not bowed theyr knees before Baal So oftentimes commeth it to passe with the godly y● thorough to much zeale they expostulate with God for the good successe of the wicked as though he should seme to neglect his owne cause The same thing also happeneth vnto vs in our dayes for we thinke that we alone are left when as all Itally France and Spayne are bondsclaues to supersticions and to Antichrist But it is not so indede The Church is not cut of although it be oppressed with great tiranny and in those places are many thousandes of good men which in theyr oppressions and anguishes most chastly kepe theyr fayth vnto God Seuen thousand is not here to be taken for a certayne and definite nomber but for a very greate nomber The multitude of them that shal be saued is not to be measured by the capacity of our vnderstanding and by the discretiō of mans iudgement God alwayes preserueth vnto himselfe many both in the Papacy and vnder the Turke and in Counselles whome we know not but vnto him vnto whome it belongeth they are perfectly knowen The expostulatiō of good men with God The expostulation of men with God is of two sortes may come two maner of wayes eyther that they are only sory and complayne vnto him of sinnes of impiety idolatry and such like wickednes and expresse vnto him what a griefe it is vnto them to se such thinges and this acte is godly and laudable and vsed in the prophetes and in the Psalmes Sometimes it is done as though they would accuse God of negligence as which looketh not to his owne cause and they will prescribe vnto him a way as though if they were in his rome they would handle the matter a greate deale better which without doubt is sinne and that no light sinne The thinges which happened at that time were very like vnto those things which Paul had experience of in his tyme. For all the whole kingdome of the ten tribes had gone astray and in the kingdome of Iuda there remayned very few which were desirous and zelous of true piety as in the first times of the Apostles all in a maner mought seme to haue bene strange from Christ Helias without doubt desired to dye and

euen so are oftentimes found many such ministers which by reason of the greate burthen of theyr vocation and bycause of the maliciousnes and incredulity of the people desire to forsake theyr ministeries hauing the selfe same infirmity where with this our Prophet semeth to haue bene after a sorte ouercome when he desired to dye But let ministers this know that they must abide in theyr vocation Ministers ought not to forsake their vocation so long as the strengths of the body will suffer them and that they be not thrust out by force For the men and people committed to theyr charge ought neuer to be forsaken so long as they can abide to heare the word of God And if they be all together contemners of the word of the lord and will not suffer it to be preached then as Christ commaunded his Apostles let them shake of agaynst them the dust of theyr feete and depart But so long as there are any amongest them which will suffer the pastor to preach and to entreate of the word of God he ought not to geue ouer his ministery Wherefore I know not whither Melitius did well or no of whome Theodoritus maketh mēcion in his 2. booke and 31. chap. An history of Melitius that he foresooke the bishopricke of a certayne Church in Armenia being offended with the ouer greate dissobedience of his flocke But the same man afterward being chosen bishoppe of Antioche was for defending the catholike fayth agaynst the Arrians thrust into exile In which fact God paraduēture declared that he was not well pleased that he had departed from his first vocation By the example of this Prophete we may know how many troubles ministers haue to passe through in gouerning the Church and ●hose no small or common Ministers haue a gre● many troubles to passe thorow troubles but such as in comparison of the which death is rather to be chosen With how greate a griefe and zeale doo we thinke Christ sayd O vnbeleuing nation how long shall I suffer you VVhich haue not bowed the knees to Baall ▪ ▪ In Hebrue is added and haue not kissed him Although the nature of idolatry be placed in the mind yet by these signes it sheweth forth it selfe outwardly The wicked bowed theyr knees to idols and kissed them And here are manifestly reproued y● Nicodemites of our Against the Nicodemites time For the Lord sayth that those whome he had reserued vnto him selfe dyd not these thinges how then should they thinke it to be lawfull for them in time of persecution Baall is deriued of this Hebrew word Baall signifieth to beare dominion and to be an husbande For they chose these made Gods to be theyr What Baal signifieth how that word agreeth with idols Lordes patrones as our men had their peculiar saintes to be their defenders whome they worshipped Nether is the name of an husband vnapt for idolatry for in stede of the true God which is the only husband of the Churche they broughte in other Gods as husbandes Wherefore the Prophetes called idolatry by the name of fornication whoredome and adultery which yet the vngodly as I suppose sought to adorne with the title of matrimonye God was angry with this heynous wicked crime that not without iuste cause for they went about to parte and to deuide amongest many Gods that worshippinge which was dew vnto one God only and that which they gaue vnto theyr owne imaginations was taken away from the true God And there could nothing haue bene deuised more contrary to the first and greatest commaundement wherein we are commaunded to loue God with all our hart with all our soule and with all our strengths And so much God detested this worshipping of Baall that in Osea the prophet in the 2. chapiter he sayd Thou shalt cal me Ishi that is my man and not Baal● that is my husband For although God were the husband of the Church yet would he not so be called of it lest he should by any maner of meanes to communicate in name with idoles Wherefore I haue oftentimes meruayled how the Christians in the old time when the Churche first began suffred the names of the dayes as Dies Solis which we call Sonday Dies Lune called Monday Dies Martis called tewsday Dies Mercurij called wedensday Dies Iouis called thursday Dies veneris called friday and Dies Saturni called saterday to take place would also by the selfe same names name the planets Verely forasmuch as these names were at that time the names of idoles it had bene better to haue abolished them and it was more dangerous at that tyme thē it is now For there are now none left which worshippe such idoles as they 〈◊〉 still did although I se that in the Church many vsed to say prima secunda ●ercia quarta feria that is as it were the first second third or fourth day of the weake as the Iewes vse to say the first second or third day of the sabaoth And in like sorte may it seme wonderfull touching the monthes as Ianuary Marche and suche like in stede of whiche the godlye named them accordinge to the order of nombers Helias maketh intercession against Israell It may seme that the disposition of Prophetes ought rather to be enclined to mercy Samuell being offended with the Israelites sayd far be it from me that I should cease to pray for you How thē doth Helias now make intercession against Israell Some say that this was only How Helias prayed against Israell a complaint made in familiar talke before God but Paul saith manifestly 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is against Israell And his vision touching the wynd earthquake and fire declareth that he being moued with a great zeale desired that God woulde auenge the wickednes of the Israelites Wherefore Paul rightly interpreted his It is lawfull for the faintes to pray against the wicked prayers that they were made against Israell But this ought not to be counted a fault in the Prophetes in the godly when as they inueigh not against the men but against vices and sinnes them would they haue destroyed them woulde they haue punished and forasmuch as those sinnes can not be seperated from mē therefore their prayers describe them in such sort as they are namely with men Moreouer oftentimes it is to be sene that they frame themselues vnto the will of God which by the impulsion of the spirite they know and do to the vttermost of their power allowe and therefore as they know any to be punished they seme in their prayers to pray that way euen agaynst them And the things which they séeme oftentimes in their prayers to speake they to this end only speake them to foretell vnto them of their time things which they knew should afterward come to passe Lord saith he they haue transgressed thy couenannt and haue slayne thy Prophetes so great an enemy was Iezabell vnto