A68840:1514
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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1But of the fathers there are some which affirm far otherwise. Origene in his books [Greek or Hebrew] (as Jerome hath noted in his Epistle ad Pammachium, de erroribus Joannis Herosolymitani) saith that those spiritual minds, as often as they do offend, slide and are thrust into bodies, but yet not straightway into the vilest bodies, but first into starry bodies, then into fiery and airy, afterward into watery, and lastly into humane and earthly. And if then also they behave not themselves well, they are at the last made devils. But if they will at least ways then repent, they may by the self same degrees come to their old estate. And this we ought to understand (saith he) by that ladder, whereon Jacob saw an gels ascending & descending.2 And Jerome also to make the thing more plain, addeth a similitude. A Tribune (saith he) if he govern not well, is dejected from his degree, and is made the princes chief Secretary, afterward a Senator, a captain over 200. men, a ruler over fewer, a watchman, a horseman, and afterward a soldier of the first degree. And although a Tribune were once a common soldier, yet is he not made of a tribune a young Soldier, but the Princes chief Secretary. But these things are absurd, and very worthy to be laughed at. And undoubtedly Origene in those things speaketh more like a Platonian, then a Christian.3 That which he first taketh that souls are thrust into bodies, as into punishments, is manifestly false, for as much as god hath adjoined the body unto the soul for a help, and not for a punishment. Neither doth he well to give hope of salvation to come unto the devil, when as Christ hath contrariwise taught, saying: Go ye cursed into everlasting fire, which is prepared for the devil and his Angels. Neither can we interpret it that this word eternum is there set for this word diuturnū, that is everlasting, for a long season. For Christ most apertly expoundeth his sentence, when he saith: Their worm shall not dye, and their fire shall not be quenched. Neither doth he truly affirm that the souls first offend before they come into bodies, when as Paul writeth of Jacob and Esau, before they were borne, and had done neither good nor evil, it was said, Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated: The greater shall serve the lesser.