Vermigli on unlimited redemption

I am back to reading Vermigli again. This time its his commentary on Romans, originally translated in 1558. I am finding some more good stuff. I found this one (with some others). I will be updating my Vermigli file at the C&C blog.

Which was the figure of that which was to come.] By hat which was to come, we may understand all that which afterward happened in all men, which proceeded from Adam: which were as well as he, obnoxious unto the curse and unto death. So the first father was a figure and form of all his posterity. Howbeit we may more simply and more aptly refer this unto Christ. For in that comparison Paul wonderfully much delighted. Chrysostom also leans his way, and says, “that the Apostle, with great cunning, and manifold and sundry ways handles these words, of one, and one: to make us to understand, hat those things are to be compared together, which have come unto us by one Adam, and by one Christ.” And this is very worthy, nothing in Chrysostom that he says, “Even in Adam was the cause of death unto all men, although they did not eat of the tree, so Christ was made unto his a conciliator of righteousness, although they themselves had wrought no righteousness.” In which place he most manifestly declares, that we are not justified by our works. He says, moreover, “That by this discourse of the Apostle we are thoroughly sensed against the Jews, if they chance to deride us, for that we believe, that by one Christ was redeemed the whole world. For we will object again unto them, that they also confess, that by one Adam was all things corrupted: which seems to be a great deal more absurd, if we look upon human reason, then to say, that by one Christ all men have been helped.” In this place the Apostle begins to entreat of that, which was the fourth part, of this division: namely,, by whom sin was excluded. And this he declares was brought to pass by Christ, whom he makes like unto Adam, so all also in their order depend of Christ: and as the one merited for all his, so also the other.  Peter Martir Vermilius Florentine, Most learned and fruitful Commentaries of D. Peter Martir Vermilius Florentine, Professor of Divinity in he School of Tigure, upon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romans: wherein are diligently & most profitably entreated all such matters and chief common places of religion touched in the same Epistle, (Imprinted at London by Iohn Daye, 1558), 115[b]

Futher, though all men are not brought to salvation, yet the merit and grace of Christ, was of itself sufficient for all men. Peter Martir Vermilius Florentine, Most learned and fruitful Commentaries of D. Peter Martir Vermilius Florentine, Professor of Divinity in he School of Tigure, upon the Epistle of S. Paul to the Romans: wherein are diligently & most profitably entreated all such matters and chief common places of religion touched in the same Epistle, (Imprinted at London by Iohn Daye, 1558),  116[b]

I have added the [b] notation as the pagination covers both pages.

David