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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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Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The will (saith Ambrose) namely of god or of an angel, would those things, and above other things chose them, and not the power of nature formed them.
The will (sayth Ambrose) namely of god or of an aungell, would those thinges, and aboue other thinges chose them, and not the power of nature formed them.
But there is an other doubt which in deed is not to be left unspoken of,1 namely whether god himself at any time showed himself under these images or forms: Or whether only angels always appeared, which wrought & spake with the Prophets, sometimes in their own name, & other sometime in the name of god? There have ben some which said ye god himself never appeared, but by angels in the name of god all those things were accomplished which are written to be either spoken or done in those visions. And they contend that they have certain testimonies in the Scriptures which make with them: among which one is found in the Acts of the Apostles, where Stephen expressedly calleth him an angel, which called to Moses out of the bush, when as for all that he is in Exodus named God. Farther Paul to the Galatians testifieth that the law was given in the hand of a Mediator, be the disposition of Angels. And no man doubteth, but that in Exodus it is written, that the law was given by god. Wherefore they conclude that we must understand that God appeared not by himself, but by Angels. Howbeit forasmuch as the essence or divine nature, can not be taken away either from the holy ghost,2 or from the son (for either of them by nature is God) how will they defend their opinion, when as it is expressedly written in the gospel, that the holy ghost descended upon Christ in the form of a Dove? If they say that an angel came and not the holy ghost, they accuse the Scripture as a liar: but if they confess, that together with that Dove the holy ghost appeared, what shall let but that god himself also appeared unto the fathers under other figures and images? They can from this by no means escape, except (which I think they will not do: otherwise they should bring in a manifest heresy) they