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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 what shall we answer to Paul, which of the seeing the nature of God in heaven, saith: We shall see him face to face, and by that means he seemeth to grant unto our eyes and face the beholding of god, and after a sort to ascribe unto god himself a face?1 Augustine answereth that there is a face also of the mind, when as Paul saith, that we now with a face uncovered do behold things divine, and not with a veil put between, as the Jews used when they talked with Moses.
But what shall we aunswere to Paul, whiche of the seyng the nature of God in heauen, sayth: We shall see him face to face, and by that meanes he semeth to graunt vnto our eyes and face the beholdyng of god, and after a sorte to ascribe vnto god himself a face?1 Augustine aunswereth that there is a face also of the mynde, when as Paul sayth, that we nowe with a face vncouered do beholde thinges deuine, and not with a vayle put betwene, as the Iewes vsed when they talked with Moses.
- 1There is a face of the body and a face of the mind.There is a face of the body and a face of the mynde.
But these things being thus finished and concluded,1 let us in few words speak of other kinds of the knowledge of God. In the everlasting life the blessed shall know the essence of God, not in deed by the senses, but by the soul or mind, for as much as John sayeth: When he appeareth, we shall see him as he is. Paul testifieth the same, now we see him thorough a glass and in a shadow, but than shall we see him face to face. The same thing is gathered by the words of Christ: Their angels alway behold the face of the father, for in an other place he hath taught, that in the blessed resurrection the just shall be like the angels of god. Whereof it followeth, that we shall see god in like sort as the angels