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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 leaving the Anthropomorphites, we must speak of certain other, whom Augustine in his Epistle ad Paulinam, de videndo Deo, maketh mencion of.1 They as the Scriptures testify and the right faith confess, do believe that God is altogether most simple, and that he wanteth a body. But they deny that he can not ⟨image 125⟩be seen with the eyes of the blessed, in that blessedness which we wait for. And therefore they say we are deceived, because we measure the state of the life to come by those things, which we see here to be done and to happen. Wherefore say they, although the dull eyes of our body are not able here to see God, the angels or spirits, yet when they are confirmed in felicity, they shall see them, but not in deed by their own nature & power, and the sharpness of their sight shall be so illustrated,2 that they shall see even the very essence of God. These men peradventure err less than the Anthropomorphites: but yet they err. For how soever our eyes shall be confirmed when we shall be in the blessed state, they shall for all that remain eyes, and shall be bodily eyes: wherefore they shall not exceed the nature and latitude of their objects. In deed they shall then easily abide a vehementer and larger light, than now they can in seeing suffer, neither shall they be hurt by those colours wherewith they are now offended, but yet they shall not attain unto the essence of god. For there are no bodies which in the blessed resurrection shall be so nobled, that they shall either be made spirits, or else cease to be bodies. Wherefore neither to the body of Christ is this given, that after his resurrection it was turned into a spirit. For this were not to have the body rise again, but to be abolished. Wherefore they, which think that our eyes shall be made so perfect, that they shall behold the substance of God, do not beautify them, but in very deed destroy them. The Anthropomorphites do sin against the nature of God, in that they cloth it with a body: but these men do injury unto the nature of man, which persuade themselves that it shall not abide in the blessed resurrection. Our sentence therefore abideth and is true, as well of this life wherein we presently live, as of the life which we wait for to come.
But leauing the Anthropomorphites, we must speake of certayne other, whō Augustine in his Epistle ad Paulinam, de videndo Deo, maketh mēcion of.