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.

❧ A diligent Index or table, of the most nota∣ble thinges, matters, and wordes, contayned in this whole worke.

A

• ABacucke the prophete is expounded. 16. 17
• Abraham is iustified. 71. 72. 75. is the heyre of the worlde. 88. is like vnto God. 92.
• Aarons ornaments brought in againe by the Papists. 448
• Accademians error. 20
• Achab solde him selfe to the deuill. 171
• Acception of persons. 255
• Actuall sinnes are the fruits of originall sin. 151
• Adam was not deceiued. 110
• Aduersities profiteth the godly. 224
• Affections grafted in man when hee was created. 29
• Affection of the fleshe. 196
• Affects are diuers. 176
• Afflictions are not euill. 99
• Afflictions are to be extenuated. 211
• Almes called a Communion. 451
• Almes are called a sacrifice. 451
• Almes are a blessing. 452
• Almes geuing, what is to be sene vnto there in. 453
• Altares ought not to be vsed in this time. 335
• Allegoryes what they are. 83. 327. 345
• Amen, what it signifieth. 245
• Anathema, what it is. 237. 238 239. 240. 241
• Angels may not be prayed vnto. 231
• Angels, some are good and some are euil. 235
• Angels are subiect to vanitie. 213
• Angels gouerne diuers regions. 359
• Anselme, his saying vpon free will. 28
• Antithesis. 74
• Antiquitie of papisticall churches. 244
• Apostles and Bishops, are not of like autho∣ritie. 3
• Arguments of the deuinity of Christ. 5
• Arme of God, what it is. 325
• Arrogancy is a pestilēce vnto brotherly loue 424
• Artes of speaking are not to be condempned. 232
• Augustine vpon free will. 26
• Augustine vpon predestination. 26
• Augustine against Iulianus. 27
• Auntient fathers how they shold be read. 76
• Auriculer confession is wicked. 382

B

• BAal, what it signifieth. 334. 337
• Baptisme what it is. 52. 86. 143. 145. 146. 147. 148
• Beasts were worshipped. 25
• Beleuing, what it is? 38
• Blasphemy, what it is. 46, 47
• Blessednes, what it is. 75
• Blindenes of the heart is sinne. 125
• Blindenes of the minde. 345
• Boniface a proud and arrogant Pope. 432
• Brethren, to praise them is profitable for vs. 446

C

• C••uses why Christ offred him selfe vnto death. 210
• Cerimonyes, what they are. 69. 70. 71. 152
• Circumcision, what it is. 47. 48. 85. 86. 87.
• Charitie distinguisheth true faith from false. 225
• Chaunge of things in the ende of the world. 216. 217
• Children of wrath, who they are. 278
• Christ excelleth philosophers. 10
• Christ to dwell in vs, how it is to be vnder∣stand. 199
• Christ▪ howe we receiue him, and are ioyned vnto him? 200
• Christ is still the minister of oure saluation. 230. 231
• Christ is the ende of the law. 90
• Christ is the heyre of al the world. 88
• Christ, why he is called Lord. 6
• Christ had a true body. 4
• Christ is the head of the promises of God. 18
• Christe had not his soule from the virgine Mary. 110
• Christes church shal neuer pearish. 235
• Christes diuinitie. 246
• Christes fleshe eaten in the sacrament, is not the cause of our resurrection. 201. 202
• Christs death, why it was acceptable to his father. 107
• Christians, what things ought to moue thē to loue one an other. 454
• Chrisostome is expounded. 16
• Chrisostome and Ambrose fail in memory. 17
• Churches ought to be shut when there is no congregation. 31
• Church, what it is, 236. 237.
• Commaundements of God expounded. 46
• Concupiscence is not lawful. 32. 33. 150
• Constantine the great. 16
• Contention, what it is. 40
• Cornelius iustified. 181
• Creatures, why they are said to mourne. 214 215. 216
• Creatures are signes that set forth God. 21
• Crosses are aduersities. 209

D

• DEath is not naturall vnto man. 112
• Death hath no right wher sin is not. 121
• Deathe is improprely called a rewarde. 157
• Degrees to saluation. 356
• Deuell is a prince of this worlde 337
• Differences betwene wryting and painting. 30
• Difference betwene Dulia and Latria. 162
• Difference betwene the law and the gospell. 61
• Dignity of almes. 451
• Dscord in the church of Rome. 415
• Disobedience what it is? 113
• Distinctions. 346
• Diuorcement vsed among the Iewes. 160
• Dumme Bishops. 13

E

• EFfects of honour and of contempt. 219
• Egiptians Idolaters. 25
• Election, what it is? 229. 335
• Election is the cause of saluation. 246. 247. 248. 249. 250. 251. 252.
• Election of grace, what it is. 253
• Election and reiection depend on the will of God 257
• Election and reprobation, how they differ? 258. 274. 275
• Enemy, what he is. 196
• Epistle to the Romains, when it was writ∣ten. 451
• Epicures error. 20
• Error of the Maniches. 197. 173
• Error of the Pelagians. 197
• Eternal life is called a reward. 157
• Ethnickes vpbrayd the gospell. 14
• Ethnickes excel in sharpnes of iudgemēt. 36
• Execrations. 345

F

• FAith chiefly glorifyeth God. 23
• Faith and the gospell may not be taken from Philosophy. 19
• Faith de••ined. 20. 40
• Faith may not be seperated frō the gospel. 19
• Faith is oures, and also Gods. 18
• Faith, what it is to liue by it. 18. we are iu∣stifyed by it. 19
• Faith compared with philosophy. 98
• Faith only iustifieth. 63. 64. 75. 87
• Faith hath a double signification. 16
• Faith what it is, wherof is a large discourse from the. 62. leafe vnto the. 98.
• Faith & hope are distinguished. 220. 22•• 222.
• Faith is called obedyence. 325. and is also called law. ibidem
• Faith excelleth feare. 355
• Faith must goe before the receiuing of the Sacraments. 362
• Fire that shall consume the world in the last day. 217
• Figures are necessary in scriptures 198
• Feare is defined. 207. 208
• Felicitie and blessednes, what it is. 15. 150
• Freewil, what it is. 26. 171. 172, 176. 177. 178. 254. 255. 361.
• Frendship is a necessary thing. 343
• Frustrate, what the nature of that worde is 23
• Fruit of almes. 451
• Fruit of preaching, wherof it cometh. 452

G

• GEneration, what is the nature thereof. 271
• Gentiles conuerted to Christ, are Israe∣lites. 282
• Giftes of the holy ghost. 223
• Glory and glorifying of God, what it is. 23. 63. 211. 212
• Glotony, what it is. 434
• God is the searcher of our heartes, and why it is so sayd. 224
• God of Sabaoth what it signifieth 283
• Gods glory consisteth in all things. 24
• God suffereth long. 37
• God forbid, what it signifyeth. 53
• God nedeth no aduocates. 24
• God tempteth not to euill. 28
• God willeth that is good. 256. 257
• God doth things contrary to his lawes. 25••
• God of cōtrary things worketh like effects. 232
• God is called a Lyon, a Bear and a fire. 274
• God tempted the fathers. 169
• God seeth all men. 55
• God ought not to be expressed by images. 30
• God, how he deceiueth. 268
• God hath not commaunded things vnpossi∣ble. 194
• God worketh in men. 151
• God worketh not by chaunce. 278
• God is faithful in his promises. 106
• God, why he is called the God of hope. 446
• God is wise. 456
• God confirmeth his by the gospell. 456
• God is witnessed to be God by any thing in the world, how vile so euer the same be. 22
• Gods reuengement for Idolatry. 25
• Gods gifts vnto men. 13
• Gods knowledge is attributed to the vn∣godly. 22
• Gods knowledge is spe••ially knowne in two things. 22
• God is iudged of men. 51
• God in dede loueth, and in dede hateth. 252
• God is not the author of sinne. 28
• God forsaketh the Ethnickes. 19
• Gods word is the foundation of faith. 326
• Good workes are not to be reiected. 18. 90. 158. 159.
• Gospell per accidens, is the instrumente of death. 192
• Gospell, what it is. 3, 43. 61. 62
• Gospell is no new doctrine. 456
• Gospel, who are they that are ashamed there of. 14
• Gospel is preferred to al men indifferētly. 16
• Gospel is not new, and when it began. 4
• Gospel is more common then Philosophy. 13
• Grace, what it is. 115. 116. 117. 140. 141
• Grace is not common vnto all men. 335. 336
• Grace and life cleaue together. 139
• Grace is not bound to the Sacraments. 83
• Grafting in of y^e Gētils▪ truth had place 445
• Greuous vnto God, what it is. 37
• Grief▪ what it is. 237
• Grounds of the church, what they are. 236

H

• HAting of God, what it is. 333 258
• Happye is he that foloweth the calling of God. 13
• Heauen and earth shal passe, and after what maner? 217
• Heretikes vpbrayd the gospel. 14
• Holines, what it is. 5
• Holy dayes. 436
• Honor, what it signifyeth. 219
• Hope maketh glad▪ and maketh sory. 420
• Hope springeth out of faith. 446
• Hope and faith haue one property. 100. 101. 102. 103. 104.
• Hospitality is a worke of noble men. 422
• How we ought to pray for others. 452
• How we are made sure of the victory. 455

I

• IAcob, why he was called Israel. 242
• Iacob wrestleth with God. 92
• Iewes are prefer••ed before y^• gentiles. 16

• Iewes were Idolaters. 25. 44. 45. 50
• Idols and Idolatry. 24. 25. 29
• Idlenes is an image of death. 412
• Image of God, what it is. 124. 188
• Image of Christ made of copper. 30. 31. 32
• Images how they began. 24. 25. 30
• Images of God, sprang of infidelity. 30
• Images out of Temples are not to be con∣tempned, so they be not worshipped. 30. 32
• Images taken two maner of wayes. 82
• Imaginations of men. 23
• Immortality is the mere gift of God 219
• Incredulity bursteth out of originall sinne.
• Infants receiue not the Eucharist. 202
• Inheritaunce, what it is. 209. 210
• Instruction for preachers. 155
• Inuocation of Sayntes. 98
• Isaac borne of the promes. 247
• It is not counted a lye except it be don with a minde to deceiue. 452
• Iustification, what it is. 15. 58. 64. 65. 68. 71. 75. 96. 107. 181. 185. 191. 193. And it is spetially and at large intreated vpon from the. 367. leafe vnto the. 410. leafe.
• Iustice is ioyned with the wil of God. 274
• Iudges maye iudge the crimes of other, though they them selues be giltye in the same crimes. 36
• Iudgement at the last day. 38

K

• KEyes of the church are the worde and fayth. 361
• Knowledge is of two kindes. 36
• Knowledge of our sinne is profitable. 109

L

• LAw, what it is, 58. 66. 70. 90. 114. 191. 192. 135. 136. 137. 138. 151. 155.
• Lawes are of diuers sortes. 175
• Law through Christe is no burden vnto vs. 445
• Law & grace differ 152. 153. 163. 164. 165. 166
• Law and gospell differ. 15
• Law of nature is the law of God. 34. 35
• Lent abused. 143.
• Letter killeth is expounded. 163
• Liberty of speche is necessary. 330.
• Liberty is obtained but one way. 174
• Liberty hath thre kindes. 179
• Libertines. 176. 321. 443
• Life what it is. 196
• Life is a thing excellent. 39
• Life is of two sortes. 111
• Loue, what it is. 106. 258
• Loue is the cause of grief. 237
• Loue of God, and loue of men, differ. 5
• Loue, election, and predestination, what they are. 258. 259. 260. 261. 262. 263
• Lusts are of two sorts, 29. 165. 166. 201

M

• MAnnes nature chiefly resembleth the diuinity of God. 21
• Man endued with grace, may sin. 28
• Maniches opinion in fre wil. 28
• Maniches confuted. 250
• Marcion reiecteth the two last Chapiters of this Epistle. 456
• Magistrate, what he is. 227. 228. 426
• Martirdome, what is requisite therunto. 233
• Matrimony, what it is. 161
• Meates of themselues, are not vncleane. 438. 441
• Mercy of it selfe is not good. 185
• Mercy with iustice. 38
• Mercy and truthe are ioyned together. 445
• Mercy, what it is. 159
• Members of our body, what they are. 150
• Meat, what it is. 157. 158
• Messias is come. 82
• Methodes vsed by S. Paule, that we can not be without some God. 23
• Millenarij. 88
• Ministers ought not to forsake their vocati∣on. 334. 349. 350
• Miracles. 323
• Miracles, that cause. 449
• Mistery. what it is. 358 359
• Miserable is the state of the godlye, in this world. 453
• Mortifying, what it is, 203
• Mortification is of two kindes. 211
• Mortification of faith. 271

N

• NAturall copulation betwene man and wife is good. 33
• Nature teacheth vs not all those things that appertaine to God. 20
• Necessity is to three kindes. 270
• Nobility, wherin it chiefly cōsisteth 243. 244
• Nobility, what it is. 351
• Notes by the which wickednes is knowne. 34

O

• OBedience of faith. 5
• Obedience what it is. 1••8
• Obedience to Magistrates. 427
• Obiectiōs made in the defence of images. 20
• Obiections made by Iulianus to proue free will. 27
• Obsecrations or prayers. 410. 411
• Occasion is to be obserued. 420
• Office of deacones. 418
• Office of the Apostles. 449
• Olde testament and the new is all one. 353
• Originall sinne in infants. 229
• Originall sinne passeth not away. 110. but is proper to euery man. 118. 119. 127. 129. 130. 131.
• Origene confuted. 250

P

• PAcience, what it is 40. 100
• Patience in temptations. 273
• Papists vpbraid the gospel. 14
• Papists ascribe trouble to the gospell. 15
• Papists what they are. 36
• Parable of the seede. 267
• Paule and the Pope agre not. 3
• Paule the teacher of the Gentiles. 366
• Paule, whether he coulde truely praise the Romaines. 447
• Paule wrote boldly. 447
• Paule in excusing him selfe, altereth not his wryting. 447
• Paules priesthode was to preache the gos∣pell. 447
• Paules ministery and the Iewes compared together. 442

• Paule why he made suche hast to goe about the countrey. 449
• Paule why he went not to Rome at the be∣ginning. 449
• Paule, Moses, and Aarons compared toge∣ther. 449
• Paules ministring vnto tables, whether it neglected the gospell. 451
• Paule to the Romains, his saluation. 1.6
• Paule accuseth the Ethnickes. 23
• Paule aboue all the other Apostles, why he was odious to the Iewes. 453
• Peace, what it signified with the Hebrues. 6
• Peace▪ what it is. 96. 97
• Peace passeth all sence: 6
• Pelagians error. 32. confuted. 250
• Paena tallionis. 26
• Persons flye from causes 42
• Pigghius opinion of originall sinne. 120
• Pharao, why God stirred him vp. 263. 264. 265. 266. 279.
• Philosophers filthy life. 21
• Phin••••s work, how it was imputed. 73
• Phebe, what manner of ministerye in the church she had. 453
• Pithagoras opinion touching God. 31
• Plinie wrote to Traiane the Emperoure of the innocent life of the Christians. 16
• Popes and bishops, ought to haue no sword. 429
• Popish priests. 96
• Punishment of God, what it is. 36. 37. 38
• Porer more willing to geue then the richer. 451
• Pore are to be holpen. 421. 422
• Prayers, what it is. 223
• Prayers consist not of the worthines of thē that pray. 452
• Preaching and almes alwayes was cōmit∣ted in charge to Paule. 450
• Preachers, how they ought to vse thēselues. 237. 313
• Predestination what it is. 3. 37. 42. But it is specially intreated of, and defined from the 285. leafe, vnto the. 366. leafe.
• Promises are of diuers sortes. 243
• Promises of the law, and promises of the go∣pel, differ. 210
• Purpose of God, what it is. 253. 259

R

• REasons, why god wil iudge men. 36
• Reasons to proue that we are loued of God. 234
• Regeneration is not to be attributed vnto the water. 247
• Regeneration, what it is. 149. 154
• Reioysing, what it is. 108
• Repentaunce preached. 19
• Repentaunce of God, and repentaunce of men. 363
• Resurrection is the only signe of the diuine nature of Christ. 4
• Resurrection of the dead. 68▪ 78. 201. 202. 218
• Riches, how it is vsed. 37
• Righteousnes, what it is. 16. 117. 236
• Righteousnes is of two sortes. 316 317. 318. 440.
• Righteousnes is of God. 60. 285
• Righteousnes commeth without the law. 56
• Rites and ceremonies of the Gentiles, were not constant. 243
• Romaines, why they were called holye 5
• Rocke, which was Christ. 199
• Rules to amend iustes. 29

S

• SAbaoth day. 436
• Sacraments, what they are. 47. 49. 77. 79 80. 81. 82. 83. 85. 86. 145.
• Sacrifice, what it is. 411. 412
• Sacrifice of the Masse, compared with the sacrifice of the gospell. 448
• Sacrifices. 195
• Sacrilege what it is. 46
• Saluation by the gospel. 15
• Sanctification, what it is. 156
• Sanctification commeth not of the nature of the parents. 14••
• Sathan being bound, what it meaneth. 218
• Saintes desires are not alwayes fulfilled. 450
• Sedicious persons are to be abhorred. 43
• Seruice of God, what it is. 1
• Seruaunts and free men differ. 1
• Seruaunts, why they are so called 153
• Sending of the Apostles, what it is. 2
• Scripture hath not his aucthoritye of the church. 93
• Scripture bringeth patience and consolati∣on. 443
• Scripture may not be prohibited from lay men. 199
• Shame, what it is. 156, 175
• Signes, what they are. 79
• Simmachus Oration. 25
• Sinne of the first parents. 32
• Sinne comprehendeth action and defect. 27
• Sinne and the effectes therof is at large des∣cribed from the. 54. lef••, vnto the. 194. lef••.
• Sinnes are the tormenters of God. 34
• Sinne is punished by sinne. 33
• Sinnes ventall and mortall. 150
• Sinne and death knit together. 111
• Sinne in infantes. 168. 169 170
• Sleping, what it is. 433
• Scholemasters ••re the instrumēts of god▪ 21
• Soule of man what it is. 41
• Soules of saintes, althoughe they be blessed, desire many things. 213
• Spirite of Christ, what it is. 199
• Spirite of feare, and spirite of adoption. 203. 204. 205. 206. 207. 208. 242.
• Stoikes, without affections. 29
• Straunge tongues may not be vsed in the church. 207
• Stretching out of the hand, what it is. 331
• Succession, what it is. 244
• Supper of the Lord, what is the righte vse therof. 24
• Sworde being borne before a Prince, what it signifieth. 431

T

• TAble of the Eucharist. 343
• Temptation is of two kindes. 28
• Testament new and old. 43. 44. 50. and why it is so called. 363
• Things are not to be made common. 451
• The spirite of loue. 452
• Through Christ we geue god glory. 456
• To confesse what it is signifieth. 445
• Transubstantiation. 198
• Truthe co••uinceth errors. 20
• Tribute, why it is payd. 431
• Truthe made captiue, and by whome. 20
• Truthe commeth all of God. 21
• True doctrine must be ministred, though the

• people allow it not. 22
• Truthe had place in the grafting in of the gentiles. 445
• Two marks to know false Apostles by. 455

V

• ƲEssels of wrath. 277
• Vncleane things, what they are. 29
• Vngodlines what it is. 75
• Vocation of efficacy is an effecte of predesti∣nation. 290

VV

• WAking, what it is. 433
• Wedding garment, what it is. 434
• Words and dedes are the instruments of the Apostleship. 448
• Word of God edefyeth. 338
• World, what it signifieth. 413
• Workes▪ what they are. 39. 40. 43
• Workes of the law. 57. 68. 73
• Works of preparation. 3. 1. 173
• Works reiected. 148. 185
• Works or superegation. 56
• Works iustify not. 57. 68. 69. 83. 103
• Works and carnal propagation, are not cau∣ses of saluation. 246
• Works of darknes▪ what they are. 434
• Wrath of God, what it is. 19 38. 278
• Worshipping of God, what is the truthe thereof. 23

Z

• ZAchary slaine betweene the temple and the altare. 96