A68840:1520
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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There are very many other things in the school divines, as touching these matters:1 but because they are not so profitable, therefore I overpass them. But this thing I demand, whither Angels may take upon them true bodies, & that natural, which bodies also had their being before, & use them at their liberty, as the Devil did put on the Serpent, and by him deceived Eve, the Angel also spake in the Ass of Bileam. Why then can not an Angel after the same manner, possess an humane body, and speak in it? Undoubtedly it is written in Zechariah the prophet: The Angel of the Lord which spake in me. Wherefore it seemeth that Angels may use the bodies of men and beasts.2 Augustine in his .2. book De Trinitate the .1. chapter, saith that this is a very hard question, whether Angels unto their own proper bodies join other bodies, and change them into sundry forms, as we are wont to do garments, or also to change them into very nature, as we read that Christ changed water into wine. This thing he saith is not impossible. For thus he writeth: I confess it passeth the strengths of my capacity, whither Angels retaining still the spiritual quality of their own body, very secretly working by it, do take of these more gross inferior elements, any thing which being framed unto them they do change, as a garment, and turn it into all corporal forms or shapes, yea even into the true things themselves, as true water was turned by the Lord into wine: or whether they transform their own proper bodies into what they will, being framed to that which they have in hand to do. But whether soever of these it be, it pertaineth not to this question.
There are very many other thinges in the schoole deuines, as touching these matters:1 but bicause they are not so profitable, therfore I ouerpasse them. But this thing I demaund, whither Angels may take vpon thē true bodies, & that natural, which bodies also had their being before, & vse them at their liberty, as the Deuyl did put on the Serpent, and by him deceaued Eue, the Angell also spake in the Asse of Bileam. Why then can not an Angel after the same maner, possesse an humane body, and speake in it? Vndoubtedly it is written in Zachary the prophet: The Angel of the Lord which spake in me. Wherfore it semeth that Aungels may vse the bodies of men and beastes.