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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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Some think that here must be used a distinction of evils and punishments.1 For there are some punishments say they, which pertain unto eternal damnation: and there are other, which dure but for a time. And they understand the place of Ezekiel before alleged of the first kind of punishments: for as touching eternal salvation or damnation, every one shall bear his own burden. And again the soul which hath sinned, it shall dye. Neither do they otherwise understand a place of Jeremiah in the .31. chap. But as touching punishments which dure but for a time, as are sickness, poverty, banishment, death, &c. they affirm that it is not against the justice of God, but that with these kind of punishments he may punish the son together with the father, and the people with the princes. And in that sort they expound that which is said in the law: I will visit the sins of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation. Augustine seemeth sometimes to have allowed this distinction.2 For in his questions upon Joshua the 8. question, when he reasoneth concerning Achan, which had hidden some of the things that were cursed, for whose sin all the Israelites were miserably afflicted, and for the same cause not only Achan was punished, but also his sons and daughters were put to death together with him: Augustine (I say) saith there, that those punishments may both profit, and also hinder, which thing God himself knoweth, and therefore he tempereth them according to his justice. For god so moderateth them, that they do both afflict the wicked, and are not hurtful to the good. For such is his providence, that those things which seem evil, he can make good: but as touching eternal punishments, because they always are hurtful, every man worthily suffereth them according to his evil desert. No man (saith he) suffereth these punishments for an other mans fault. The same Augustine writeth against the adversary of the law and the Prophets in his .1. book and .16. chap.3 There is no doubt (saith he) but that in this life one is vexed for an other. And against Julianus the Pelagian is his .6. book the 12. chap. he maketh a division of the estate of people, and saith that some are regenerate in Christ, but other some are not yet regenerate.
Some thinke that here must be vsed a distinction of euils and punishmentes.