A68840:1527
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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For if it were not hard to give unto that putative flesh the true senses and acts of flesh, much more easier was it to give a true substance of flesh, to true senses and acts, even for that he is the proper author and worker thereof. For it is a harder thing for God to make a lye, then to feign a body. Last of all, thus he concludeth: Therefore are they truly humane bodies, because of the truth of God, who is far from lying and deceit. And because they can not humanely be handled of men,1 but in the substance of men.
For if it were not hard to geue vnto that putatiue flesh the true senses and actes of flesh, much more easyer was it to geue a true substance of flesh, to true senses and actes, euen for that he is the proper authour and woorker therof. For it is a harder thyng for God to make a lye, then to fayne a body. Last of al, thus he concludeth: Therfore are they truly humayne bodies, bicause of the truth of God, who is far from lying and deceate. And bicause they can not humanelye be handled of men,1 but in the substaunce of men.
- 1The sum of the opinion of Tertullian.The summe of the opinion of Tertulian.
I could rehearse mo things out of Tertullian, but these seem sufficient for this present purpose. In sum, he thinketh that Angels have bodies, but yet strange bodies, and not their own. For their proper bodies (as he thinketh) pertain unto the spiritual kind. Secondly, he saith that those strange bodies which they take, are created either of nothing, or else of some matter which shall seem good unto God. Thirdly he affirmeth that they were true, perfect, and humane bodies, and not vain or feigned, but of a true flesh, and not of a flesh only appearing, so that of men they might be both touched and handled, to the end he might both remove dissimulation from God, and also confirm the verity of humane flesh in Christ. Whereby is concluded, that the humane senses were not