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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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¶Of Matrimony and having of Concubines.
¶Of Matrimony and hauing of Concubines.
The place doth now admonish me, somewhat to speak of having of concubines, whereof is often mention made in the histories of the old testament. But first must we define Matrimony, that thereout we may gather the use of concubines: for unless the nature of it be manifest,1 we can not see how that having of a concubine differeth from it. Matrimony, marriages, wedding, and wedlock signify all one thing. And Matrimony (as it is had in the .i. book Inst. Justin. when mention is made of the power of the father, and in the degestes de ritu nuptiarum, is defined to be a conjunction of man and woman, an inseparable conversation of life, and a communication of gods law and mans law. But this definition must be perfected by the holy scriptures. Wherefore we must add, that this conjunction of man and woman was instituted by god, for the bringing forth of children, for the taking away of whoredom, & that thereby humane life might have helps and commodities. In this definition undoubtedly the conjunction of man and woman holdeth place in the matter. The inseparable conversation of life pertaineth unto the form, for with this purpose and will man and wife must marry together. For though by adultery that copulation be taken away, yet when the matrimony is contract, they ought both of them to have this in their mind, that being once joined they must abide & live together. This belongeth also to the form, that the communication of gods law and mans law be had between them. For they must be both of one religion, & communicate humane things one with an ⟨p. 154⟩other. For the wife goeth into the family of the husband, and with the husband is counted all one flesh. Yea and the substance of either parties are made in all points common, but the efficient cause of this ordinance was god himself, even from the beginning, who made unto Adam a helper. And the end (as we have said) is the procreation of children: for god said, Increase and multiply. But as touching the other end, namely for the avoiding of whoredom, Paul in the .1. to the Corrinth. hath very well and plainly written.