System of Sacred Theology · §2.8.7 · Ludwig Crocius

Feuardentius insults Farel; Farel meant humanly impossible, not simply impossible; Rivetus on the letter

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But Franciscus Feuardentius shamelessly insults Farel on Irenaeus book 5, chapter 2, and writes that he goes off into the camps of the Simonians and Marcionites, because the resurrection of the flesh seems to him among the ἀδύνατα, among those things which cannot happen. For Farel well knew that things impossible with humans are possible with God (Luke 18:27), for whom no word will be impossible (Luke 1:37): but he wished only to indicate that by human judgment it seems impossible — inasmuch as he proves by a letter written to Calvin with most dense and solid arguments that not simply the resurrection of a body, but of this flesh with which we are now clothed, ought to be believed by us, as the most learned Vossius teaches in his thesis On the Resurrection. But the most clear Rivetus (Synopsis of Purer Theology, disputation 51, thesis 27) observes that it is Calvin's letter to Laelius Socinus, which was falsely titled Farel to Calvin, on account of which Feuardentius insults Calvin.

Latin

Impudenter vero Farello insultat Franciscus Feuardentius ad Irenaeum lib. 5. c. 2. eumque scribit abire in castra Simonianorum & Marcionitarum, quod videatur ei resurrectio carnis in τῶν ἀδυνάτων, ex iis quae fieri nequeant. Probe enim noverat Farellus, quae impossibilia sunt apud homines, possibilia esse apud Deum, Luc. 18.27. cui non erit impossibile ullum verbum, Luc. 1.37. sed indicare duntaxat voluit, humano eam judicio impossibilem videri: quippe qui non simpliciter corporis, sed carnis hujus, qua nunc induimur, resurrectionem a nobis credi debere, epistola ad Calvinum scripta confertissimis & solidis argumentis probat, ut doctissimus Vossius thes. de resurr. docet. Sed clarissimus Rivetus synopsi purioris theol. disp. 51. th. 27. observat epistolam Calvini ad Laelium Socinum esse, quae falso inscripta sit Farellus Calvino, ob quam Feuardentius Calvino insultat.

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