A68840:1584
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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But before I speak of them, it shall be good,1 to distribute plays into his forms and kinds. There are some which are utterly referred unto chance, as he which casteth most, or casteth this chance or that, carieth away the reward. There are other whereby the powers either of the body or mind are exercised.
But before I speake of them, it shalbe good,1 to distribute playes into his formes and kindes. There are some which are vtterly referred vnto chaunce, as he whiche casteth most, or casteth thys chaunce or that, carieth awaye the rewarde. There are other whereby the powers either of the body or minde are excercised.
- 1A distinction of plays.A distinction of playes.
Such plays as depend upon chance & are understand by the name of dice play,1 are both by the civil laws & by the fathers condemned. In the digestes de aleatoribus the Praetor saith: If a dice player be injured by his fellow, I will not give him judgement. But if one steal or do violence to an other, I will in deed render right, although they be unworthy. And afterward: if a man compel an other to play, let him be punished, so that he be cast either into the quarries to dig stones, or else into the common prisons. By these things it appeareth, that by the civill law to play at dice was a thing very odious. Cicero in .2. Phillip. against Anthonius: His house (saith he) is full of dice players and drunkards. Farther, the laws add, if dice players lay any wagers among themselves, they are not firm. Howbeit it is permitted unto them of the household to play among themselves, for that which may afterward be eaten in a feast. But in the Code de religiosis sumptibus funerū, it is more severely ordained of play, dice, & dice players. In the old time soldiers were permitted to play at dice after their business done. But the Emperor complaineth that at that time all men played, & in trying of chances, wasted all their patrimony, & lastly added blasphemy against God. Wherefore he decreed, that it should not be lawful for any man to play, nor to look upon him that playeth: & he admonisheth the Bishops, diligently to look that these things be observed. The same Justinian the Emperor in his Authentics, in the title de sacrosanctis Episcopis, in the paragraph Interdicimus doth prohibit by name, that no Bishop, Priest, or Deacon, should either play themselves, or look upon them that play. But if they shall do otherwise, he giveth commandment to thrust then into Monasteries for three years. Now let the Popes go and say, it is not lawful for Emperors to ordain of Ecclesiasticall matters. De excessu praelatorum, in the chapter Inter dilectos, because