A14350:905
The Common Places
The common places of the most famous and renowned divine Doctor Peter Martyr divided into four principal parts: with a large addition of many theological and necessary discourses, some never extant before. Translated and partly gathered by Anthony Marten, one of the sewers of her Majesties most honourable chamber.The common places of the most famous and renowmed diuine Doctor Peter Martyr diuided into foure principall parts: with a large addition of manie theologicall and necessarie discourses, some neuer extant before. Translated and partlie gathered by Anthonie Marten, one of the sewers of hir Maiesties most honourable chamber.
Imprinted at London : In Pater noster Rowe, by Henry Denham and Henry Middleton at the costs and charges of Henry Denham, Thomas Chard, William Broome, and Andrew Maunsell, 1583Imprinted at London : In Pater noster Rovve, by Henry Denham and Henry Middleton at the costs and charges of Henrie Denham, Thomas Chard, VVilliam Broome, and Andrew Maunsell, 1583
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Paul in the sixth chapter to the Romans saith; 1that We must not abide in sin, because we are dead unto it. Which thing he proveth by baptism, for he saith; 2that All we which have been baptised into Christ Jesus, have been baptised into his death, to the end we should die unto sin, and that our old man should be crucified, and the body of sin abolished. And forsomuch as young children be baptised, even thereby we have a testimony, that sin is in them: for otherwise, the nature of baptism, as it is there described by Paul, should not consist. Also he followeth the same reason in the epistle to the Colossians, where he saith, that; 3We be circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the sinful body of the flesh, being buried together with Christ in baptism. He compareth baptism with circumcision, and faith, that those which are baptised, have put off the body of sin. Neither is it to be doubted of, but that those which be baptised, are baptised into the remission of sins. And assuredly, 4the circumcision, which in the old law was given unto children, was correspondent unto our baptism. And as touching circumcision, it is written; The soul, whose flesh of the foreskin shall not be circumcised the eight day, shall die the death. Wherefore, seeing children have need of the sacrament of regeneration, it followeth necessarily, 5that they be borne under the power of sin. Paul unto the Ephesians the 2. chapter saith; that We are by nature the children of wrath. But our nature could not be hateful unto God, unless it were defiled with ⟨p. 215⟩sin. And in the same place, Paul with most weighty words describeth the fierceness of this wrath; 6how that We walk according to the prince of this world, which is of strength in our harts, by reason of our disobedience, and therefore we do the will of the flesh, and of our mind. Augustine also citeth a place out of the first epistle to the Corinthians,