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There are three diuinities as there are three persons. Melanct. loc. com. an. 1545. c. de Christo; for which he is reprehended by Stanearus l. 4. de Trinitate.

Melancthon in behalf of Henry VIII. (whose diuorce frō his first wife he held vnlawful) aduiseth, saying: If the King be desirous to prouide for succession, how much better were it for him to doe it without the infamy of his first mariage: & this may be performed without peril of any mans either cōscience or fame, by poligamy &c. because poligamy is not a thing altogeather vnusual; Abraham, Dauid, and other holy men had many wiues, whence it appeares that polygamy is not against Ius diuinum. Melancth. concil. Theol. p. 134.

If either (the offending parties) be of such an age as they be yet strong & lusty, or that they cōplaine that they cannot without danger liue in widdowhood, if they shew signes of penance, mariage is to be granted them. Concil. Theol. part. 1. p. 648.

If the Magistrate command any thing against the law of God, doe not obey him, but peremptorily resist: as if he cōmands to warre against the Turkes. ad c. 13. ep. ad Rom. See him also Concil. Theol. part. I. p. 314 where he enabled the inferiour Magistrate to alter Religion, against the contrary edicts of the Superiour. See him further, ib. p. 249. 302. 303. 315.

The Sonne according to his diuinity resisteth his Fathers wrath against our sinnes. Loci comm an. 1558. p. 40. and in Epist. ad Elect. Forgæ dat. 3. Octobr. an 1552. further he teacheth that diuine nature of the Sonne was in his passion obedient to his Father. loc. comm. an. 1561. pag. 41. See more in Pelarg. his Admonit. de Arianis p. 43 and 24.

Pelargus confesseth of Melancthon, that he saith, that the Sonne maketh intercession, is his Fathers Minister, Priest, and Mediatour, answering in excuse therof that he meant the same especially of his humane nature, implying so thereby, that he meant it also (though not so principally) of his diuine nature Pelarg. Admonit. de Arianis pag. 45.

Concerning his inconstancy about the real presence, see In lib. 2. epist. Zuingl. & Oecot. p. 603. where he flatly disclaymeth from Zuinglius doctrine herein; & the same more fully, ibid. p. 618. 644. 645. see also Hospin. Histor Sacr. part. 2. fol. 68. and yet of his change afterward, see the same confessed by Hospin, vbusu[illeg.], fol. 115. 141. and by Osiand. Epit. cent. 16. p 615. 667. See ibid. 800. 703 where it is said of him, If this mans constancy in the true Religion had been answerable to his learning surely he had been an incomparable man. See further of his inconstancy, in Schluss. Theol. Calu. l. 2. fol. 91 92. 94. 95. and colloq. Altemb. fol. 377. 402. 424. 425. 463 520. 524.

Ioach. Morlinus Melancthon's scholler, commending him for somethings, yet in regard of his other bad deseruings, he sayth: In these points let the diuel prayse thee (O Philip) and not l. Morl. in publ. lect. See this in Schluss. Theol. Caluin. l. 2. art. 10.

If I could redeem the saluatiō of our Master, Philip Melancthon, with the peril of my life, I would doe it; but he is taken out of this world, and carried to the Iudgement of the horrible tribunal of God, to plead his cause there. See Schlusselb. vbi supra.