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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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¶Whither the son shall bear the iniquity of the father.
¶Whither the sonne shall beare the iniquity of the father.
But in this place ariseth a question weightier and far more hard, because it seemeth that the son beareth the iniquity of the father. For he that is borne, plaid not the whoremonger, but the father, whom he could not let. More over in Deuteronomy the .5. chap. it is written, and also the same thing is found ⟨p. 179⟩in Exodus, I will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation. And the same did God repeat unto Moses, when he passed before him. For among his Prophets this also is added: visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third I say, and fourth. And it seemeth marvellous, by what means that may be numbered among the titles of mercy. This thing the Heretics, as the Marcionites, Valentinians, and Carpocratians, 1left not unspoken of, who for that cause rejected the old testament, and affirmed the author thereof to be an evil God, as he which spared the fathers that sinned, and punished the innocent children, being so far from mercy, that he can not forget sin, but reserveth anger, even to the third and fourth generation. The Jews also took that in evil part, who in Ezekiel the .18. chap. said: Our fathers have eaten sour grapes, & the children's teeth are set on edge. That was as much as if they should have said: Jeroboam erected calves, Manasseh set forth idolatry, & must we be punished for them? But the Lord answered by the Prophet: Al souls are mine, both the soul of the father, & also the soul of the son. The soul that sinneth, it shall dye, and the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father. These things seem not very well to agree together.