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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

a frowning coūtenance and with bitter opprobrious woordes This is a paradoxe of Christian philosophy a doctrine intolerable vnto the fleshe that we should with a valiant minde tollerate iniuries although they be vniustly inflicted vpō vs and Paradoxes of christian philosophy that we should not cease to doo good vnto them which haue our trauayle and diligence in suspicion and beare a deadly hatred against vs. But it is meruaile how Paul calleth them saintes who beare vnto him no great good fauour But he saw that with faith and iustification is ioyned very great infirmitie and that oftentimes With iustification is oftentimes ioyned gre● infirmity it happeneth that holy men haue no vpright iudgement touching thynges humane either for that they are not rightly enstructed or els for y● they are fraudulently seduced by others That I may come with ioy vnto you by the will of God and may together vvith you be refreshed This is the ende why he wished to be deliuered nam●ly that he might be with the Romanes and others whome he might by his diligence and labour helpe in the aduancing of the Gospell Herein Paul placed all his consolation Let the ministers now go and boast of their riches and reuenues and commodities omitting in the meane tyme the apostolicall office of doctrine of preaching of labours and of troubles For herein doth Paul put his solace rest This also is to be noted the lowlines and modesty which Paul vseth whē he speaketh these thinges For he saith not that I may teach admonishe instruct correct you but that I may comforte and refresh my selfe with you This is it which he sayd at the beginning of this epistle To confirme you that is that I might be comforted together with you thorough that fayth which is common both yours and mine The God of peace be with you all Amen He last of all wisheth vnto them peace and that no common peace but the peace of God which ought truely to be called the chiefe good thing For as Paul in an other place sayth it passeth all vnderstanding With peace he began his epistle and with peace he endeth the same And when as he himselfe could not as yet be with them he wisheth y● they might haue with them the God of peace that is God pacified and mercifull for so signifieth this particle the God of peace The sixtenth Chapiter I Commend vnto you Phebe our sister which is a seruaunt of the Church of Cenchrea That ye receaue her in the Lord as it becommeth saintes and that ye asist her in whatsoeuer busines she nedeth of your ayde for she hath geuen hospitality to many and to me also I commend vnto you Phebe our sister Men thinke that this holy wooman What maner of ministery Phebe had in the church caried this epistle of Paul to Rome She had bene a minister in the Church of cen●hrea not indede in teaching publikely but in looking to the poore which were susteyned at the charges of the Church And what maner of widowes either as touching age or as touching maners were required to that charge it is at large set forth in the epistle to Timothe By what maner of meanes she was an helpe vnto Paul we know not But it is inough for vs out of this testimony of Paul to vnderstand that she had oftentimes bene beneficiall both to many others and also to Paul himself She is here thrée ways commended for that she was a sister for that she was a minister and for that she had geuen hospitalitie to many others and to Paul also Wherunto also may be added that she was holy For Paul streight way Phebe thre waies cōmended addeth as it becommeth saints Hereby it is manifest y● Christians that are strangers ought not only therefore to be receaued for that they are brethern but also for that they pertayne to God as saynts and wholy dedicated vnto him Cenchrea is a towne nighe vnto Corinthe and a port or hauen longing to that towne Neither is it to be meruailed at that Paul here cōmendeth a woman for he also wrot● letters of commendation to Ph●lemon for Onesimus his bondman Salute Prisca and Aquila my fellow helpers in Christ Iesus which haue for my life laid downe their owne necke vnto whom not only I geue thankes but also all the churches of the Gentles Likewise greete the church that is in their house Salute my welbeloued Epenetus whiche is the first fruites of Achaia in Christ Salute Mary which bestowed much labour on vs. Salute Andronicus and Iunia my cosins and fellow prisoners which are notable Amongst the Apostles and were in Christ before me Salute Amplias my beloued in the Lorde Salute Vrbanus our fellow helper in Christ and Stachis my beloued Salute Appelles approued in Christ Salute them whiche are of Aristobulus house Salute Herodian my kinsman Salute them whiche are of the frendes of Narcissus which are in the Lord. Salute Triphena Triphosa which women labour in the Lord. Salute the beloued Persis which woman hath laboured much in the Lorde Salute R●fus chosen in the Lord and his mother and mine Greete Asyncritus Plegon Hermas Patrobas Mercurius and the brethren which are with them Salute Philologus and Iulias Nereas and his sister and Olimpas and al the saints which are with thē Salute one an other with an holy kisse All the Churches of Christ Salute you Salute Prisca ▪ and Aquila This woman Prisca the wife of Aquila is called of Luke in the 18. chapiter of the Actes Priscilla Her husband Aquila was borne in Pontus but as touching his stocke he was a Iew and he was of the same art or science that Paul was But why he setteth the woman before the man we know not but hereby it is manifest that the loue of ech of them was notable when as for Pauls sake they did put theyr life in danger Wherefore the Apostle cōfesseth that not only he himsefe is much in theyr debt but also all the churches of the Gentils For it was eu●●●t that they had doone a great benefit to them all in that they had preserued Paul theyr teacher and maister Neyther is this to be passed ouer with silence that he calleth the man and the wife his helpers and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which commonly they cal felow workers And ● not without a cause For they instructed in y● way of the lord Apollo a Iew one that had very great knowledge in the law as it is writen in the 18 chap. of y● Actes All these which are there named Paul hath adorned with most exc●llent titles Which if a man diligently consider conteyne nothing that is earthly or worldly but conteyne most excellent gifts and vertues What thinges ought to moue christians to loue one another which God had geuen vnto them that we might vnderstand what are the things that ought to moue vs to loue men If there be any which loue them that