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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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Howbeit this I will not overpass, that by the laws of the Romans, the bastard might succeed his mother, as it is had in the Digests ad Senatus consultum Tertul. L. 1. he may also complain of his mother, if she leave him out of her will, as it is had in the digests de inofficioso Testamento. L. 29. which is to be understand, except the mother be noble. And why bastards are not counted in the stead of children, and are deprived of their fathers inheritance:1 Augustine besides these reasons which I have before brought, bringeth also an other out of the holy scriptures. For it is written in Levit. the .20. chap. He that cometh to the wife of his uncle, shall dye without children. But (saith he) many are born also of incest, whose parents are not childless. He answereth, that the Lord so speaketh in the law, because such are not counted for children. Wherefore their fathers are justly said to be without children, although they have children: because it is all one, as if they had none. And because such children are contemned of the father,2 neither are they rightly brought up nor chastised, oftentimes they prove worse then the other. Chrysostom upon the Epistle to the Hebrews the .12. chapter, in his 29. Homely, exhorteth the people, to think that god doth like a father when he chastiseth us: for the father neglecteth unlawfully begotten children and bastards. Wherefore god when he chasteneth, doth part of a true and lawful father. Plutarch in his Problems the .103. Problem, saith that the Romans had four surnames, so that some were called Cnei, and other some Caii, and those names they noted by two letters only, or by three. Wherefore he demandeth, why Spurius that is a bastard, was written by these two letters Sp. because saith he, the first letter S, signifieth Sine, that is without, & P, Pater that is, a father, because he was borne of an unknown father. Although that may also be applied unto Posthumos, that is such as are borne after their father is dead: but to them it was not contumelious to be called Spurii. For. Sp. Melius, Sp. Cassius and other of that name were very notable citizens. We have hard the law of God, and the civill law, now let us see the Cannons.
Howebeit this I will not ouerpasse, that by the lawes of the Romaines, the bastarde myght succede his mother, as it is had in the Digests ad Senatus consultum Tertul. L. 1. he may also complayne of his mother, if she leaue him out of her wil, as it is had in the digests de inofficioso Testamēto. L. 29. which is to be vnderstand, except the mother be noble. And why bastardes are not counted in the steede of children, and ar depriued of their fathers inheritance: