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Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity,…Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie,…
Most fruitful [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martyr Vermil Florentine, professor of divinity, in the University of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswell of the matter, as of the words: with an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, according to the order appointed in the Queens majesties injunctions.Most fruitfull [and] learned co[m]mentaries of Doctor Peter Martir Vermil Florentine, professor of deuinitie, in the Vniuersitye of Tygure with a very profitable tract of the matter and places. Herein is also added [and] contained two most ample tables, aswel of the matter, as of the wordes: wyth an index of the places in the holy scripture. Set forth & allowed, accordyng to thorder appointed in the Quenes maiesties iniunctions.
London: printed by John Day, 1564London: printed by Iohn Day, 1564
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In matrimony the husband is the head of the wife, not the natural head,1 but as touching economical life. But the natural head of the woman, is the beginning of her natural life. And undoubtedly if we look upon the natural head in the church, we shall find that it is not one head: but look how many men there be in it, so many heads shall there be: for there is none without an head in it. And when we speak of the head of the Church, we must keep our selves in the Metaphor: and as it should be absurd and monstrous, for one man to have two natural heads, so shall it be judged as portentous, for the Church to have two Metaphorical, that is spiritual heads. We must always, when we entreat of any thing, persist in the same order and kind: which thing if we do not observe, we shall easily be deceived by equivocation.
In matrimony the husband is the head of the wife, not the natural hed,1 but as touching aeconomical life. But the natural head of the woman, is the beginning of her natural life. And vndoubtedly if we looke vpon the natural head in the church, we shal finde that it is not one head: but looke howe manye men there be in it, so many heades shal there be: for there is none without an heade in it. And when we speake of the head of the Churche, we must keepe our selues in the Metaphore: and as it should be absurde and monstrous, for one man to haue two natural heades, so shal it be iudged as portentous, for the Churche to haue two Metaphorical, that is spiritual heads. We must alwaies, whē we entreate of any thing, persist in the same order and kinde: which thing if wee doo not obserue, we shal easily be deceaued by equiuocation.
- 1How the husband is the head of the wife.How the husband is the hed of the wyfe.
But let us return to the Pope,