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Peter Martyr on Romans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

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When the nineteenth-century historian R. W. Dixon called Peter Martyr Vermigli ‘a learned stranger’ he was reflecting what Martyr's own contemporaries had said. For example, Edmund Grindal, Bishop of London wrote to Sir William Cecil about Martyr's role at the Colloquy of Poissy:

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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1973

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page 401 note 1 Dixon, R. W., History of the Church of England From the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction (London: George Routledge and Sons, 1881), II, p. 521Google Scholar. ‘But even from the beginning of Edward's reign, the prospect of England had drawn an invasion of learned strangers’.

page 401 note 2 The Remains of Edmund Grindal, D.D. (edited by Rev. Nicholson, William Cambridge: At the University Press, M.DCCC.XLIII.), pp. 244–5Google Scholar. 11th August 1561. On Cranmer's library see Edward Burbridge, Remains of the Library of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1489–1556 (separation with marginal notes by the author, 1892).

page 401 note 3 Most lear/ned and fruitful Com/mentaries of D. Peter Martir/Vermilius Florentine… upon the Epistle of S. Paul to/the Romanes…. (trans. H. B., , London: Iohn Daye, 1567)Google Scholar.

page 401 note 4 ibid., pp. 384vndash;6V. This tract is the promised expansion of the treatise at the end of chap. I in the 1 Corinthian Commentary with the title, De Ivstificatione (pp. 15v–2Ov). There at p. 20v Martyr said, ‘Sed nunc redeundum est ad Pauli uerba, unde digressi sumus, atq; hac de re fusius & apertius dicemus in epistolam ad Romanos.’ See McNair, Philip, Peter Martyr in Italy, p. 228Google Scholar for citation from Zanchi's letter of 15th October 1565 to Philip of Hesse. Martyr lectured on Romans at Lucca in 1541.

page 402 note 1 Apologia A. Pighii… adversus M. Buceri calumnias, quas & solidas argumentis, et clarissimis rationibus confutat (Maguntiae. 1543: Parisiis, 1543).Google Scholar

page 402 note 2 Romanes, p. 392v. The adversary is Richard Smith who published the 1550 Diatriba De Hominis Iustifications after listening to Martyr lecture on 1 Corinthians at Oxford. This work only mentions Martyr by name at p. 156r. The other references are to Bucer. One might conclude that this work delayed the commentary until 1558. The Colophon of Smith's Diatriba is dated 22nd January 1551. Smith specifically attacked Bucer's response to Pighius.

page 402 note 2a Letters of John Calvin Compiled From the Original Manuscripts and Edited with Historical Notes by Dr. Jules Bonnet (trans, by Gilchrist, Marcus Robert, Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publications, 1858), Vol. III, pp. 5961Google Scholar. Text in C.R. XLIII, 2003.

page 402 note 3 O.L. II, p. 419. John ab Ulmis to Rodolph Gualter, Oxford, 5th November 1550. ‘from nine to ten Peter Martyr lectures upon the episde to the Romans’.

page 402 note 4 O.L. II, p. 504. Peter Martyr to Henry Bullinger. 8th March 1552. From the House of the Archbishop of Canterbury. See James C. Spaulding, ‘The Reformatio Legum Ecclesiasticarum of 1552 and the Furthering of Discipline in England’, Church History, 39 (1970), 162–171.

page 403 note 1 J. C. McLelland, ‘The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination According to Martyr’, Peter, Scottish Journal of Theology, 8 (1955), 255271Google Scholar. On the 1 Corinthian Commentary see Anderson, Marvin, ‘Word and Spirit in Exile (1542–61): the Biblical Writings of Peter Martyr Vermigli’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, XXI (1970), 193201.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

page 403 note 2 Romanes (1568), p. 1v. Where it is crucial to the argument we will cite the Latin text of the 1558 Basle edition in our notes.

page 403 note 3 To the Right Honorable/and Vvorthy Sir Anthony Cooke/Knight, Peter Martir/Vermilius of Florence, Professor of Divinitie In The Schole of/Tigure, Vvisheth Health.

page 403 note 4 ibid., sig. A3r.

page 403 note 5 ad loc. This Homeric reference together with the biblical Solomon is interresting. Alcinous was the ruler of the Phaeaces to whom Odysseus came in his wandering. Od. VI-VIII. Alcinous had the fairest of orchards on the island of Scheria.

page 404 note 1 Romanes (1568), sig. A4r.

page 404 note 2 Prefatory letter to Cooke, sig. A5r_v.

page 404 note 3 Sig. B3v.

page 404 note 4 Martyr cites a wider series of quotations on sola fide than Bodius, Hermannus, Unio dissidentium (Köln: T. Symnicus, Sept. 1531)Google Scholar. See below, note on Cranmer and Alexius.

page 405 note 1 Romanes, p. 8r.

page 405 note 2 ad loc.

page 405 note 3 ibid., p. 8v.

page 405 note 4 ibid., pp. 384v386v.

page 405 note 5 ibid., p. 5v.

page 405 note 6 ibid., p. 5v.

page 406 note 1 Quenstedt, Iohanne Andrea, Dialogus De Patriis Illustrium Doctrina et Scriptis Virorum (Wittenberg: Michael Wendt, 1645), p. 311.Google Scholar

page 406 note 2 Romanes, p. 15r.

page 406 note 3 ad loc.

page 406 note 4 ibid., p. 59v.

page 406 note 5 ibid., p. 60r.

page 406 note 6 ibid., p. 61r.

page 407 note 1 ibid., p. 63v. ‘Nihil, inquiens, facimus, non rependimus vices, sola fide iustificamur dono Dei.’ fol. 85. Same text in second edition (1560), p. 191.

page 407 note 2 ibid., p. 62V.

page 407 note 3 ibid., p. 63v.

page 407 note 4 In Epistolam ad Romanos, fol. 105.

page 407 note 5 Romanes, pp. 79r-80r.

page 407 note 6 ibid., p. 80r.

page 408 note 1 ad loc.

page 408 note 2 ibid., p. 92v.

page 408 note 3 ad loc.

page 408 note 4 ibid., p. 95V.

page 408 note 6 ibid., p. 101r.

page 409 note 1 ibid., p. 103r.

page 409 note 2 ibid., pp. 120r-128v.

page 409 note 3 ibid., p. 104v.

page 409 note 4 ibid., p. 136r.

page 409 note 5 ibid., p. 140r.

page 409 note 6 ibid., p. 144r.

page 410 note 1 Romanes, p. 159v.

page 410 note 2 ibid., p. 144r.

page 410 note 3 ibid., pp. 162v–163r.

page 411 note 1 ibid., p. 192r.

page 411 note 2 ad loc.

page 412 note 1 ibid., p. 200v.

page 412 note 2 ibid., p. 220r.

page 412 note 3 ibid., p. 232r.

page 412 note 4 ibid., p. 235v.

page 412 note 5 ibid., p. 236.

page 412 note 6 ibid., p. 324v.

page 412 note 7 ibid., p. 322v.

page 413 note 1 ad loc.

page 413 note 2 ibid., p. 324.

page 413 note 3 ibid., p. 392v.

page 414 note 1 The dating of the Notes on Justification has depended on their similarity to the three homilies. The original manuscript, however, is not dated. See Jenkyns, Henry, The Remains of Thomas Cranmer, D.D. Archbishop of Canterbury (Oxford: at the University Press, M. D. CCCXXXIII), p. 121Google Scholar. Jenkyns observes that Stephen Gardiner in his letters to Somerset assigns the Homily of Salvation to Cranmer. The homilies were first printed on 31st July, 1547.

page 414 note 2 Romanes, pp. 384v–386v and 387v–388r.

page 414 note 3 ibid., pp. 392v–4O3r.

page 414 note 4 ibid., pp. 403v–410r.

page 414 note 5 ibid., p. 410r. This list is identical to that on p. 1324 of the second Latin edition of 1560.

page 415 note 1 Jenkyns, op. cit., pp. 121–137.

page 415 note 2 Strype, John, Ecclesiastical Memorials (1816 edition), II, 334.Google Scholar

page 416 note 1 See Gilmont, J. F., ‘Una pseudonyme de Pierre Alexandre, Simon Alexius’, Société d'histoire du protestantisme belge, sér. 5, livre 6 (1970), 179188Google Scholar. I am grateful to M. Alan Dufour for calling this article to my attention.

page 416 note 2 See Michotte, Osw., Un réformateur. Pierre Alexandre, Thèse Neufchatel, 1913 (129 p.)Google Scholar. The letter is not mentioned by Rod. Reuss, , Notes pour servir à histoire de l'église de Strasbourg (Paris: 1880), 3750.Google Scholar

page 416 note 3 Romanes, p. 407v.

page 416 note 4 ibid., p. 406r. Bede's New Testament commentaries were first printed at Paris in 1521.

page 416 note 5 Martyr does not identify these sources in his printed response.

page 417 note 1 ‘Docent per solam fidem, a Deo, in Christo saluatore, redemptoreque nostro, omnem iustitiam, & salutem mere gratis, expectare nos oportere, & certo accipere.’ Pighius, De Fide Operibus (op. cit.), p. xlviiir.

page 417 note 2 Romanes, p. 393r.

page 417 note 3 ibid., p. 396r.

page 417 note 4 ibid., pp. 396r–399v.

page 417 note 5 ibid., p. 397r.

page 417 note 6 ad loc.

page 418 note 1 Romanes, p. 412r.

page 418 note 2 ibid., p. 421v.

page 418 note 3 ibid., p. 422r.

page 419 note 1 ‘Cum uero in ea schola philosophiam doceat Conradus Gesnerus uir (ut omnes norunt) in omnia philosophia & arte Medica exercitatissimus.’ Praefatio to In Primvm,/Secvndvm, Et Ini/tivm Tertii Libri Ethi/corvm Aristotelis ad Nicoma/chvm, Clariss & doctiss viri D. Petri Marty/ris Vermilij, Florentini, Sacrarum literarum in/Schola Tigurina Prqfessoris, Com/mentarius doctissmus. (Tigvri: Christophorus Froschouerus Iunior, Mense Augusto, Anno M. D. LXIII.)Google Scholar

page 419 note 2 On the wider background see the fundamental study by Gilbert, Neal W., ‘The influence of Humanism on Methodology in the Various Subjects of the University Curriculum’, Renaissance Concepts of Method (New York: Columbia University Press, 1960).Google Scholar

page 419 note 3 ‘Omnis nostra noticia vel est reuelata vel acquisita: in primo membro Theologia, in altero Philosophia.’ Aristotelis, p. 1.

page 419 note 4 ibid., p. 7. The term ‘scopus’ is a technical one used by Aristotelian commentators such as Elias. See Walzer, Richard, ‘Zur Traditionsgeschichte der Aristotelischen Poetik’, Greek into Arabic (Oxford: Bruno Cassirer, 1962), p. 134.Google Scholar

page 419 note 5 ibid., p. 8.

page 420 note 1 Sturm, Eerdmann, ‘Brief des Heidelberger Theologen Zacharias Ursinus Aus Wittenberg Und Zürich (1560/61)’, Heidelberger Jabrbucher XIV (1970), pp. 90–1.Google Scholar