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Most learned and fruitful commentaries of D. Peter Martyr Vermilius Florentine, professor of divinity…Most learned and fruitfull commentaries of D. Peter Martir Vermilius Florentine, professor of diuinitie…
Most learned and fruitful commentaries of D. Peter Martyr Vermilius Florentine, professor of divinity in the school of Tigure, upon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romans wherein are diligently [and] most profitably entreated all such matters and chief common places of religion touched in the same Epistle. With a table of all the common places and expositions upon divers places of the scriptures, and also an index to find all the principal matters contained in the same. Lately tra[n]slated out of Latin into English, by H.B.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.
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And in the Epistle which he writeth to the Galatians he manifestly openeth the nature of such a putting a part when he saith, that he was segregated from his mothers womb, that is elected, not rashly, but with great wisdom and observation. Hereby we learn that that is false which some men think, namely that some men are borne good, and other some evil: Undoubtedly we are all borne the children of wrath, neither is1 there any inequality, as touching birth, but it is the predestination and election of God, whereby we are united and grafted into the members of Christ: although some of the fathers sometimes said, that therefore some are predestinate of God, or separated from other, because he foresaw that they would uprightly use both grace and also free will: howbeit they speak not that out of the words of God. Neither did Paul at any time use this reason, yea rather he said of Jacob and Esau: before they were borne, or before they had done any ⟨p. 3⟩good or evil. &c. Which reason, had slenderly commended the grace of election, which then chiefly he intended to do, if it should be understand according to these mens interpretation. For a man might have said: although these being little ones had as yet done nothing in act and in very deed, yet as touching the providence and sight of God, unto whom all things are present, they had done both good and evil: according unto the which they were either predestinate or reprobate. And by this objection, the argument of Paul should have been very much weakened. Farther, to render this cause of the election of God, it was not so hard a thing, ye the Apostle should have needed to stop the mouth of man, complaining of the justice of God. Which thing yet he doth, when he saith: But who art thou O man which answerest unto God? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of one and the self same lump, to make one vessel to honour, and an other to contumely? And he crieth out, Oh the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God: how unsearchable are his judgements, how investigable are his ways? which thing undoubtedly needed not to have been spoken, if the question might so easily have been dissolved. Add this also which he saith in an other place. It is not of him which willeth, nor of him which runneth, but of God which hath compassion.
And in the Epistle whiche hee writeth to the Galathians he manifestly openeth the nature of such a puttyng a part when he sayth, that hee was segregated from hys mothers wombe, that is elected, not rashlye, but with great wisedome and obseruation. Hereby we learne that that is false which some men thinke, namely that some men are borne good, and other some euill: Vndoubtedly we are all borne the children of wrath, neyther is