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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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But thou wilt say: seeing in the law it is said, Of them which hate me: and infants, for as much as they hate not God, therefore it can not pertain unto them. I answer. That in act in deed they hate not God, but by corruption of nature, and proneness unto evil. So a wolf that is at full age devoureth a sheep. A young wolf which is but a whelp doth it not, not because it hath not the nature of the father, but because it is not able. And thus much as touching the words of the law.
But thou wilte saye: seyng in the lawe it is sayde, Of them whiche hate me: and infantes, for as much as they hate not God, therefore it can not pertayne vnto them. I aunswer. That in act in dede they hate not God, but by corruption of nature, and prones vnto euill. So a woolfe that is at full age deuoureth a sheepe. A younge woolfe whiche is but a whelpe doth it not, not bycause it hath not the nature of the father, but bycause it is not able. And thus muche as touching the wordes of the lawe.
But why it is said unto the third and fourth generation, and not unto the fifth and sixth, we have heard what Augustine hath answered. But in my judgement we may say much more commodiously, that the parents may live unto the third and fourth generation. GOD would therefore so punish the Fathers in the third and fourth generation, that by that punishment of their posterity, some feeling might come unto them, they being yet on live, & that they might see the miseries of their nephews & children's children. For this cause the holy Scripture extendeth those generations no farther. When the posterity are evil, and are punished of GOD, there is no doubt but that the parents are punished also in them. Chrysostom upon Genesis the. ⟨image 188⟩29. Homely when he interpreteth these words: Cursed be Canaan, &c. But he sinned not (sayeth he,) but his father Ham. That is true in deed, he answereth: but Ham was a great deal more sharply touched with that curse, then if it had been pronounced against himself. This is the power and fatherly affection, to be more vexed with the afflictions of their children, then with their own. Wherefore Ham did not only see that his son should be evil and subject unto the curse: but also he saw that he himself should be punished in him.