Front matter
The Common Places Part IV. The Outward Means of Fellowship with Christ Peter Martyr Vermigli Monergism Books
This text has been initially updated from EEBO-TCP by Project Puritas.
Further revision and editing done by Monergism.
Copyright Monergism via universal text usage permission from the above.
Copyright © 2025 Published by Monergism Books P.O. Box 491 West Linn Oregon 97068 www.monergism.com All rights reserved.
No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher or author, except as permitted by U.S. copyright law.
Editor's Note – During the EEBO-TCP Transcription Process, all the text was hand transcribed according to visual representation; and as such, sometimes the letters s, l, f & t are misconstrued with each other, these letters regularly being almost illegibly similar in the original facsimile script.
Though it is rare for these errors to remain post-edit, unfortunately they may remain if uncaught. My sincere apologies in advance where such errors occur. As the Puritan Edward Leigh once said "If thou findest faults and Errata in the book, let love cover them, for to err (as the Satirist saith) is the sad privilege of mortality, and he (of all men) erreth most, who challengeth a privilege from error." Also, the symbol <H&G>, when included, signifies omitted Hebrew & Greek. Lastly, some archaic words may be updated to more contemporary terminology; but changes have been kept to a bare minimum, and any mentioned page numbers in the text will correlate to the original facsimile and not the eBook or Reprint.
Contents 1. CHAP. I. Of the Church, and of the Functions, Calling, Office, Dignity and efficacy of the Ministry and Ministers in the same
Church.
2. CHAP. II. Of the receiving and not receiving of rewards, gifts, and offices. And also of goods Ecclesiastical, and the immunity of Ecclesiastical persons.
3. CHAP. III. Whether two heads may be in the Church, one visible and another invisible.
4. CHAP. IV. Of Ecclesiastical laws, of Traditions, of the discerning of spirits, of Councils, Fathers, and of the Canons, which they call the Canons of the Apostles.
5. CHAP. V. Of discipline and government of the Church, and namely of Excommunication: Of order Ecclesiastical: Of Temples and their ornaments.
6. CHAP. VI. Of Schism, and whether the Gospellers be Schismatics because they have alienated themselves from the Papists.
7. CHAP. VII. Of Sacraments, and namely of Circumcision.
8. CHAP. VIII. Of Baptism, Baptizing of Infants, and holiness of Infants.
9. CHAP. IX. A. Of the dedication of Temples, wherein is entreated of sundry corruptions of Baptism.
10. CHAP. IX. B. A Treatise of the Sacrament of the Eucharist.
11. CHAP. X. A. Of the Question touching the Sacrament of the Eucharist.
12. CHAP. X. B. A short abridgement of the disputation which D. P.
Martyr made as concerning the Eucharist against Gardener, Bishop of Winchester.
13. CHAP. XI. Whether it be lawful in the Communion to use one only kind.
14. CHAP. XII. Of the Mass, Also of Sacrifices.
15. CHAP. XIII. Of a Magistrate, and of the difference between Civil and Ecclesiastical power.
16. CHAP. XIV. Of the office of Magistrates, especially in exercising of Judgment.
17. CHAP. XV. Of Exile or Banishment.
18. CHAP. XVI. Whether it be lawful for a Christian man to go to law.
19. CHAP. XVII. Of War or Battle.
20. CHAP. XVIII. Whether Captives ought to be kept or put to death.
21. CHAP. XIX. Of a several Conflict or Combat between twain hand to hand.
22. CHAP. XX. Of Nobility, of Bondage, of Occupying merchandise, and engrossing of wares.
23. CHAP. XXI. Of Troubles and Sedition: further of the suffering of Tyranny.
24. APPENDIX. Scripture References.