A68840:1304
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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But now to make the matter plain, as touching punishments of this life,1 no man can say he suffereth that which he deserveth not: because no man is pure, no not the child that is but a day old: there is none which hath not deserved even death, why then should men say: Our fathers have eaten sour grapes, &c. when as every man shall bear his own burden, either as touching this life, or as touching eternal life? But God doth not always send these evils which dure but for a time, as pains and punishments,2 but hath very oftentimes a respect unto others ends, as Christ in John answered of the man borne blind: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents, that he should be borne blind, but that the glory of God should be made manifest. Also Peter and Paul, when they were put to death, could not complain that they had not deserved death. Although God, when they were killed, had not a respect unto this, to punish them,3 but that by their blood might be left a testimony of the Gospel of his son. Wherefore seeing the matter is so, and we be all subject unto sins, there is no cause why we should complain, that God dealeth to severely with us, if we be afflicted for the sins of our parents. For God can so direct those troubles,4 that they shall pertain not only to his glory, but also to the salvation of our parents. For often times he punisheth the parents in the children, and the prince in the people. For the parents are no less grieved for the punishment of their children, then if they themselves were afflicted. If the children dye for the parents cause, they have no wrong done unto them: for death, is also dew unto then, & they should otherwise have dyed. Wherefore if God will so use their death, he may do it justly.5 Which thing also we may affirm of other calamities. For if the son be vexed with sickness, he deserved the sickness: & if he have lost money, then hath he lost things transitory and unstable, and which were given him on that condition, that they mought easily be taken away again.6