A68840:1536
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 the Son of God, for as much as he took upon him humane nature, was man, and man was God, because of one and the self same substance, wherein were two natures. But before when he appeared unto Abraham, and to the Fathers, although he had true flesh, yet because it was not joined unto him in one and the self same substance, he could not be called flesh, neither was flesh, God. But afterward, when he took upon him both flesh and ⟨p. 212⟩soul, so that there was only one substance or person, then man was God, and God, man. Whereby it came to pass, that he should truly be borne, that he should dye, and redeem mankind. Wherefore he did truly call him self the son of man: and in John he saith, ye seek to kill me, a man, which have told you the truth. And in the Scriptures it is said: Made of the seed of David. And Peter in the Acts: ye have killed, saith he, a man appointed you of God. And Isaiah: Behold, saith he, a virgin shall conceive and bear a Sonne. These words have great force. For unless Christ had been true man, a Virgin could not have conceived him, neither have brought him forth, nor called him her son. This thing Tertullian prudently marked. If he had been a stranger, saith he,2 a Virgin could not either have conceived him, or borne him. The Angel also saluted Mary after this manner: Be not afraid said he, thou shalt conceive. &c. Elizabeth said: How happeneth this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come unto me? If she had Christ only as a Stranger, she could not be called his Mother. The Angel also said: Blessed be the fruit of thy womb. But how could it have been said, the fruit of her womb, if he had brought a body with him from heaven? And in Isaiah it is written: A rod shall come out of the root of Jesse, and a flour shall ascend out of his root. Jesse was the stock, Mary the branch, but Christ is the flour which took his body of her. Matthew also thus beginneth his Gospel: The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. If Christ brought a body from heaven, how was he the son of Abraham or David? Farther, the promise made to Abraham of Christ, is in this sort: In thy seed shall all nations be blessed. Paul entreating of these words to the Galatians: He said not, saith he, in seeds, as though in many, but in thy seed, which is Christ.