A68840:1532
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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Jerome thus opposeth himself against these things:1 If Christ (saith he) after his resurrection did eat in very deed, then had he also a true body: but if not, how proved he by a false thing the truth of his body? But in that he vanished away from the sight of the Disciples, that was not by the nature of the body, but by the divine power. For in Nazareth when the people would have stoned him, he withdrew himself from their eyes. And that which might be done of a Conjurer, shall we think that the Son of God cannot do? For Apollonius Thianaeus, 2when he was brought into the Council before Domitian, forthwith vanished away. And that that thing in Christ was not by the nature of the body, but by the power of GOD, it is declared by that which went before in the same History. For when he was in the ⟨image 218⟩way with his Disciples, their eyes were holden that they could not know him. But in that Origene saith, that the body of Christ was spiritual, because he entered in,3 the doors being shut, Jerome answereth that the creature gave place unto the Creator. &c. Wherefore the body of Christ pierced not through the middest of the boards and posts, so that two bodies were together in one, and the self same place, but herein happened the miracle, because the very boards of the door gave way unto the body of Christ.4 Farther, that which some object, that the body of Christ went out of the Sepulchre, it being shut, that also is not of necessity to be believed, but we may think that the stone was rolled away before he went forth. And least a man should think that I feign those things, let him read the .lxxxiii. Epistle of Leo, ad Episcopos Palaesthinos. The flesh, saith he, of Christ, which went out of the Sepulchre, the stone being rolled away.5 &c. Now to return to the purpose, because I have said that the bodies of Angels may be thought to have been either fantastical or spiritual, or else perfect and in very deed humane, & the two first parts are rejected: then resteth that the bodies of Angels wherein they appear, are true and humane. Which thing I affirm only to be true, for as much as Angels were so seen,