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.

Vermigli, Pietro Martire, 1499-1562., Simmler, Josias, 1530-1576., Marten, Anthony, d. 1597.

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The Propositions of D. Peter Martyr, disputed openlie in the common Schooles at Strasbrough, in the yeare of the Lord, 1543.

Propositions out of the xxv. xxvi. and xxvij. chapters of Genesis.

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Probable.

[proposition 1] WHereas the holy scriptures doo diligent∣lie set foorth vnto vs certeine actions of the fathers while they were children, they declare vnto vs that God hath béene often accustomed by such maner of signes, to shew to men those things which should afterwards happen to them of ripe yeares.

[proposition 2] The sinnes of the fathers, by an allegoricall signification, doo oftentimes shew vnto vs fi∣gures of things belonging to edification.

[proposition 3] It is read of the fathers in the old testament, that sometimes about the end of their life, they solemnelie blessed their children; to the intent that those excellent prophesies and sentences which they then vttered in their blessings, might the more attentiuelie be perceiued & preserued.

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