A68840:1569
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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I would add unto the former cause the third, if the father offer a husband which is of a contrary religion: and I would ever counsel the parents to gratify their children,1 unless they see them to obstinate and unjust. But when the parents deal to tyrannically with their children, & compel them to marry wives whom they can not abide, the matter ought to be brought before the Magistrate, whose office is to hear the cause, and to deliver the son from injury, if he be to cruelly oppressed. Then if the son marry a wife by the authority of the Magistrate, yea against the will of the father, he can not seem utterly to have married without his fathers consent.2 For the Magistrate is the father of the country. The same thing seemeth to be decreed de ritu nuptiarū, in the law qui liberos. And methinketh the schoolmen have not well said, that the children of the household ⟨p. 217⟩have dominion over their own body. For as much as they owe unto their parents that they are. They ought not to be compelled to marriages against their will, but that they should marry without the consent of the parents, it can not be granted them. And when they so often obtrude unto us liberty,3 & allege the dominion of their body, we lay against it the answer of god as touching the daughters of Zalphead, who saith of them: Let them have heritage among their brethren, but let them marry in their own tribe. These women are compelled to marry their nighest of kin, neither had they that liberty which these men feign. And the brother was sometimes compelled to marry the wife of his brother being dead, neither could she marry an other: therefore so great liberty is not necessary in marriages, as these men pretend. And by the civill law,4 so great is the power of the father over the son, that he may sell him if he fall into grievous necessity. And least that should seem barbarous unto any man, the same thing is permitted by the law of God in Exodus the .21. chap, but yet adding certain cautions, which I think not good here to repeat. Wherefore they did not rightly argue, when they said, that matrimony is a kind of servitude, which the son ought not to take upon him at the appointment of his father.