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Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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1For he saith that those which are there called the sons of god, were in very deed men, namely coming of the stock of Seth. For when they worshipped god truly and sincerely, and called upon him holily and purely, being adorned with his favour & grace, they are called by the scriptures the sons of God.2 But when at the length they began to burn in filthy lust with those women which came of the stock of Cain, and by that means fell into fellowship with the ungodly, taking them to their wives and cleaving also to superstitions and wicked worshippings, they were changed from the sons of God not only into men, but also into flesh. And this will I say by the way,3 Aquila translating these words out of Hebrew, They were not (saith he) the sons of God, but the sons of Gods: for this cause so called (as I suppose) because their progenitors were holy men,4 but their children miserably fell from god and godliness by inordinate love of women. And Symmachus translateth it, The sons of the mighty. But now to Augustine again, he constantly affirmeth that there can be nothing gathered out of that place of Genesis concerning the carnal copulation of Angels with women, but thinketh rather, that far contrary may be proved by the words of God written in the same place. For when the scripture had there said, that there were Giants on the earth, and that the sons of God (as it is said) were gone out of the right way, and Giants were brought forth, there is added: And god said, my spirit shall not abide in man for ever, because he is flesh. By this sentence he declareth, that those which so sinned were called men, and not only as they were by nature, but also they were called flesh, whereunto by their filthy lust, they did to much cleave. But they which be of the contrary opinion do think that they do bring a strong witness of Enoch which was the vii. from Adam, of whom Judas maketh mention in his canonical Epistle.5 For in the book which is entitled to be Enochs book it is written that giants had their of springs of Angels and not of men. But Augustine answereth unto this, and saith that that book is altogether Apocrypha, & therefore such fables as are rehearsed in it, are not to be believed. It is not to be doubted he saith but that Enoch wrote some godly things, when as Judas the Apostle manifestly testifieth the same: