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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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In so much as God saith, that He will persecute the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation: whereas he saith in an other place, 1that The son shall not bear the fathers offence; If the child (saith he) doth not bear the fathers iniquity, (but his own) and yet God visiteth the sin of the father in him, it must needs be, that the son ⟨p. 240⟩hath in himself that sin: otherwise these places would not agree together. Wherefore sin was so made in the nature thereof, that it not only destroyeth the mind of man, but also corrupteth both the body, 2the flesh, and the members. Therefore Paul saith unto the Corinthians, that Our bodies be the temples of the holy Ghost; and doth heavily threaten the man, which destroyeth the temple of God. Now then, if God punish the sins of the parents upon the children, and the child beareth not the iniquity of an other, but only his own; it followeth, that the infants of wicked men, when they be afflicted, should have in themselves some of their fathers naughtiness; to the end that the fathers may be punished in them. 3Neither ought any here to complain of Gods justice; for if God, by his most sincere justice, can deliver those which do sin, into a reprobate sense, and punish sins with sins: what let is there, that he will not (and that justly) have the corruption of sin, not only to destroy the soul, but that the impurity thereof doth also flow into the body; so as they, which be begotten of sinners, 4do draw such a nature from them, as they find in them? And by this doctrine men be admonished to live purely, lest they pollute both their minds and their bodies, and by the same means do also infect their children.
In so much as God saith, that He will persecute the sinnes of the fathers vpon the children, vnto the third and fourth generation: whereas he saith in an other place, 1that The sonne shall not beare the fathers offense; If the child (saith he) dooth not beare the fathers iniquitie, (but his owne) and yet God visiteth the sinne of the father in him, it must néeds be, that the sonne