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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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If we will retain the Roman law, a handmaiden cannot be made a Concubine: for by that law a handmaiden could not be made a wife. For the conjunction of a free man with a hand maiden, the Roman laws called Contuberniū, neither did they count it for a just matrimony. Howbeit by handmaidens the Romans understood not hired servants, but such as were bought: which I therefore speak, because our hired handmaidens, are free persons, and therefore it is lawful to contract just matrimony with them.
If we will retayne the Romayn law, a handmayden cannot be made a Concubine: for by that law a handmayden could not be made a wife. For the coniunction of a free man with a hand maiden, the Romayn lawes called Contuberniū, neyther did they count it for a iust matrimonye. Howbeit by handemaydens the Romaynes vnderstode not hired seruantes, but such as were bought: whiche I therefore speake, because our hired handemaydens, are free persons, and therfore it is lawfull to contracte iust matrimony with them.
1But now let us consider of the law of the Hebrews, & what is to be thought of the Concubines of the fathers. They were in very deed wives, although oftentimes they were handmaidens, as Hagar, Bala, Zilpa, and as this Concubine of Gideon. In the judgement seat, and as touching civil actions, it seemeth that free men of those places where these fathers were conversant, could not contract matrimony with them, and therefore peradventure in holy scriptures they were called Concubines. But yet before god, that is by the law of matrimony instituted by him, they were wives. Wherefore in the book of Genesis Hagar which is called a Concubine, is also called a wife. Therefore there were two differences between the Hebrew laws and the Roman laws: because with them having of Concubines was no matrimony, but with the Jews it was before God: although openly and by civill reason, because of the servile condition of the woman, she was not acknowledged peradventure for a wife. Farther, herein they differ, because the Jews had handmaidens to their Concubines: & the same was not lawful for the Romans, if we follow that law, that she should be a Concubine, which may be made a wife. When as the Roman laws counted not that for matrimony, which was contracted with a handmaiden. But this civill law was not in Jeromes time retained in the Roman Empire,