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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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What the Hebrews do in our time I pass not much to know: yea I much doubt of that which Paulus Burgensis taketh unto him as a thing sure & manifest, namely that the Jews are at this day most diligent in observing of their outward laws. For me thinketh that I should do well in not giving to them ⟨p. 20⟩more dignity or religion than to Christians. Wherefore as it is manifest enough that we have for mens traditions very much strayed from the right observation of the commandments of God, and also from the right knowledge of the scriptures: so is it also likely that the same hath happened unto the Jews, especially in this our age. Wherefore I am not injurious against them, when as I will not give more to them, than to our selves.1 Nevertheless I will not omit that the Rabbins have added to their prohibited degrees in the law many more as well in ascending as descending, which I see the most learned man Paulus Fagius hath declared in his annotations upon Levit. nether can I be persuaded that they were added by them for any other cause, but only because they thought that those degrees were comprehended in the degrees expressed by God.2 Wherefore to give judgement of any lawful marriages, that shall not be sufficient in my judgement, if the degree wherein they are contracted, shall not be prohibited by manifest & proper words in the law, neither the order of kindred perverted, for it may be that the like degree, & of the same distance be forbidden by authority of the law.3 Nether doth the scripture as far as I can see, allege in any place the reason concerning perverting of order, although (as I have before said) I do not utterly abject that reason. Some man peradventure will say: what matter is it for us of this age, either to know or else to observe those precepts which are contained in the .18. & .20. chap. of Levit. seeing that we after the coming of Christ are no more bound to the civill laws of the Jews? I confess that the Christians are not bound to the civil precepts of the law: but yet I ascribe those precepts which are there given for marriages not to civil laws, but rather to moral. And I think that I may bring a reason out of the same place to confirm my sentence. For God, when he gave those laws, added these words thereunto: