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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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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,3 and it is against the word of God: although Hostiensis saith, that the power of Custom is so great, that it compelleth Priests to sole life,4 in the distinction .xxiii. chapter Placuit. But, as the civill laws determine, that Custom is vicious, which either is against nature, or else against the common law. But that which I have affirmed, hath his foundation in the holy Scriptures. For when Christ said unto the Pharisees: Hypocrites, why violate ye the commandment of God, because of your own tradition? For God saith: Honour thy father, and thy mother. But you say: whosoever saith to father or mother: The gift. &c. they might have prescribed unto him custom, but it was not lawful, because it was manifestly against the word of God.
1Custome (as it is had Extra. de Consuet. chapter the last) ought to be agreable vnto reason, and lawfully prescribed. The ciuil lawes assigne vnto custome ten or twenty yeares, the Canons, thirty or forty yeares. But most firme is that custome,2 the memorye of whose beginning is not extant amonge men. And this ought to be firme, that those thinges which are against the woord of God, do by no meanes prescribe. Wherfore that which the Papistes affirme, namelye that the Communion hath bene geuen but vnder one kinde thys foure hundreth or fyue hundreth yeares: bicause it is manifestlye against the woorde of God, they cannot proue that it is prescribed by custome. For suche a thyng is not (as you would say) prescriptable. By whiche selfe same meanes they can not bring the custome of the sole lyfe of Ministers, as prescript: for it was at the begynning extort by violence,