The common places of the most famous and renowmed diuine Doctor Peter Martyr diuided into foure principall parts: with a large addition of manie theologicall and necessarie discourses, some neuer extant before. Translated and partlie gathered by Anthonie Marten, one of the sewers of hir Maiesties most honourable chamber.

Out of the first chapter of Genesis.

Necessarie.

[proposition 1] SEeing the holie scrip∣ture is a declaration of the wisedome of God, we haue from thence the fountaine of our felici∣tie.

[proposition 2] Albeit that those things which be set downe in the holie scriptures, doo serue both vnto knowledge and practise, yet is there nothing therein contei∣ned, but is a furtherance to our actions.

[proposition 3] The excellencie of the holie scriptures is here∣in perceiued, that it sendeth vs to the high cause of the will of God, which is reuealed in them.

[proposition 4] The summe of those things which are contei∣ned in the holie scriptures, is the lawe and the Gospell, which parts are indifferentlie contei∣ned, as well in the new as in the old testament.

[proposition 5] The fift booke of Genesis hath a preface agrée∣able to the lawe and the Gospell, as being that which should be capable both of the one part and the other.

[proposition 6] They which perceiue the knowledge of God, taught here by the creation, doo obteine the same by faith.

[proposition 7] We beléeue that the world was so made by God, that notwithstanding there is auouched no alteration of the will of God.

Probable.

[proposition 1] HEauen and earth, which are written to haue béene first made, doo expresse the matter of all things that were to be brought foorth, both of the bodies aboue and beneath.

[proposition 2] The spirit of the Lord which was carried vp∣on

the waters, may verie probablie be taken for the holie Ghost, and for the wind.

[proposition 3] The word of GOD in the bringing foorth of things is a manifestation of his will.

[proposition 4] Whereas GOD might manie waies haue made the world, he onelie approoued this waie, and therefore it is oftentimes added; And God sawe that it was good.

[proposition 5] The euening and morning were made the first daies of the gathering togither & spreading foorth of the light, before the bringing foorth of the sunne.

[proposition 6] The waters aboue the firmament be in the middle region of the aire.