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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 Custom.
¶Of Custome.
Now because allthings are certain and manifest, I might return unto the history. But yet I think it good somewhat to speak, although briefly, of Custom, because it hath great affinity with prescription, and because our adversaries do stir up great tumults, because of it, and would utterly oppress ⟨image 196⟩us with Customs.
NOw bicause althinges are certaine and manifest, I might returne vnto the history. But yet I thinke it good somwhat to speake, although briefelye, of Custome, bicause it hath great affinitye with prescription, and bicause our aduersaries doo styrre vp great tumultes, bicause of it, and woulde vtterlye oppresse ⟨image 196⟩vs with Customes.
1Custom (as it is had Extra. de Consuet. chapter the last) ought to be agreeable unto reason, and lawfully prescribed. The civil laws assign unto custom ten or twenty years, the Canons, thirty or forty years. But most firm is that custom,2 the memory of whose beginning is not extant among men. And this ought to be firm, that those things which are against the word of God, do by no means prescribe. Wherefore that which the Papists affirm, namely that the Communion hath been given but under one kind this four hundred or five hundred years: because it is manifestly against the word of God, they cannot prove that it is prescribed by custom. For such a thing is not (as you would say) prescriptable. By which self same means they can not bring the custom of the sole life of Ministers, as prescript: for it was at the beginning extort by violence,