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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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1But now must we by examples and such as are most evident, confirm, that the appearynges of god are utterly distinct from the visions of angels. First it is declared unto us in the book of Genesis, that Jacob saw a ladder which reached from earth even to heaven, and by it the angels both ascended and descended. §1And at the top of the ladder, namely in heaven, stood the Lord from whom Jacob heard noble and large promises. Hereby is gathered, unless we will still be blind, that angels showed themselves in one kind of images and god himself appeared §2in an other form. This self same thing may we see in Isaiah, when he saw the Lord sitting in his throne, and with him two Seraphims, which cried mutually the one to the other, Holy, holy, holy. And with so great reverence they ⟨p. 119⟩worshipped God which was in the middest, that with their two upper wings, they covered their face, and with the two neither wings their feet. Who seeth, not here a great difference between god and the angels which appeared? I will §3not speak of Ezekiel, which saw angels in the forms of creatures, namely of an Ox, an Eagle, and a Lion, by whom wheels were turned, but God himself sat in the highest part in the form of the son of man. Of Daniel also §4was seen the ancient of days, unto whom came the son of man. And he addeth that thrones were there put, books opened, and a certain form of a judgement appointed: then he maketh mention of angels, of which he saith were present ten thousand and ten hundred thousand, which ministered unto him.
1But now must we by examples and such as are most euident, confirme, that the appearynges of god are vtterly distinct from the visions of aungels. First it is declared vnto vs in the boke of Genesis, that Iacob saw a ladder which reached from earth euen to heauen, and by it the aungels both ascended and discended. §1And at the top of the ladder, namely in heauen, stode the Lord from whom Iacob heard noble and large promises. Hereby is gathered, vnlesse we wil stil be blind, that aungels shewed themselues in one kind of images and god himself appeared