A68840:1522
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 to appoint a certain compendious way of this disputation, there are §1three manner of ways, whereby Angels may seem to have appeared. For either ⟨p. 210⟩they were seen in fantasy, so that they were thought to have bodies, when they had them not. Which reason cannot be firm, for they illuded not the senses, neither were they seen of any one only, but very often times of many, & they were so seen, that Abraham washed their feet, and Jacob wrestled with an Angel the whole night. Or else they appeared with a true body in deed, which yet was not §3such a body, as it was thought to be. Either else they had the self same body truly §2and in very deed, which they seemed to have.1 Of this third kind Tertullian hath written most learnedly in his book De carne Christi. Thou hast sometime red and believed, saith he, that the Angels of the creator were turned into the shape of man, and that they carried such a truth of a body, that both Abraham washed their feet, and also Lot was by their hands delivered from the Sodomites: an angel also wrestled with a man, and desired to be loosed from the weight of the body, by whom he was holden. That therefore, which was lawful unto Angels that are inferiors unto God, that they being turned into the body of a man, not withstanding yet abode Angels, doest thou take away thus from God which is more mighty, as though Christ putting on man in very deed were not able to remain God? Thus Tertullian fighteth against the Marcionites: 2for they affirmed that Christ seemed to have a humane body, but in very deed he had none. Tertullian objecteth against them: and if ye grant this (saith he) unto the Angels, that they had true bodies, why do ye not rather grant it unto the Son of God? And he addeth: Or did those Angels appear in fantasy of flesh? But thou darest not say so: for if it be so, that thou count the Angels of the creator as Christ, then shall Christ be of the same substance as the Angels are, and the Angels shall be such as Christ is. If thou diddest not sometimes of purpose reject, and sometimes corrupt the scriptures which resist thy opinion, the Gospel of John should have of this confounded thee,