A14350:949
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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The same father writing against the Novatians saith, that Our beginning was in sin: again, in his apology; 1David saith that afore we be borne, we are spotted with contagion; and before we have the use of light, we receive original unrighteousness, & be conceived in iniquity. And he saith of Christ, 2It was not requisite for him, in whose body no sin should be, to feel any natural contagiousness of generation. Justly therefore did David bewail in himself the foul filthiness of his nature, and that infections began to be in a manner before he had life. The same Ambrose, in his book De ⟨p. 228⟩arca Noe; Whom then hath he now called just, but him that is free from these bonds, whom the common bonds of nature cannot hold? Also upon the gospel of Luke; Through the washing of the healthful ministry, those infants, which have been baptised, are now cleansed from wickedness. 3Jerome upon the prophet Jonah saith, that Young children are subject to the sin of Adam. And least thou shouldest think he only spake of the *guiltiness of Adams fault, upon the 18. and 41. chapters of Ezekiel, he saith; Not so much as the child of a day old is without sin, urging also that sentence; 5Who can make that clean, which was conceived of an unclean seed? 6Gregory Nazianzen saith, The image of God shall cleanse the blemishes of bodily inundation. And afterward; Reverence the birth, by which thou art delivered from the chains of earthly nativity. And entreating of baptism he saith; By this man the spots of our nativity are taken away, by the which we were conceived in iniquity, and in sins our parents begat us.
The same father writing against the Nouatians saith, that Our beginning was in sinne: againe, in his apologie; 1