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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 the decrees distinction .56. chapter. Presbiterorum, 1bastards are not suffered to be admitted unto holy orders, unless they were first brought up in monasteries, as though by this means they might be amended. But the Canons which afterward follow, are somewhat more gentle. Chrysostom upon Matthew in his .4. Homely, as it is in the same place recited, chapter Nunquam, teacheth that so to be borne, ought not to be hurtful unto the children. For if a man have been a thief, a whoremonger, or a murderer, and then repent him, his former life shall not be hurtful unto him: much less ought the sin of the father to be hurtful unto the child, yea rather if the child behave himself well, he shall be so much the more notable, and worthy of more praise, in that he hath not followed the steppes of his father.2 Jerome in his Epistle contra Joannem Hierosolomitanum ad Pammachium, as in the same decrees appeareth in the chapter Nascitur. Bastards saith he, are not to be contemned: for they have the hand of god to make them,3 neither did god disdain to make them, and to give them a soul. &c. Gregory also in the same place in the chapter Satis peruersum, saith, that it is a thing unworthy, that the child should be so punished, for the pleasure of the father, that he should not be promoted unto the holy ministry. Jerome in the same place chapter Dominus. If Christ in his genealogy vouchsafed to reckon bastards, why shall not we then admit them to the ministry. &c?
In the decrees distinction .56. chapter. Presbiterorum, 1bastardes are not suffred to be admitted vnto holy orders, vnles they wer first brought vp in monasteries, as though by this meanes they might be amended. But the Canons which afterward follow, are somewhat more gentle. Chrisostome vpon Mathewe in hys .4. Homely, as it is in the same place recited, chapter Nunquam, teacheth yt so to be borne, ought not to be hurtful vnto the children. For if a man haue bene a thiefe, a whoremonger, or a murtherer, and then repent him, his former life shal not be hurtefull vnto him: much lesse oughte the sinne of the father to be hurtefull vnto the child, yea rather if the child behaue himselfe wel, he shal be so much the more notable, and worthye of more prayse, in that he hath not followed the steppes of his father.