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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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And although the word of God,1 and instinct of nature were sufficient by them selves to make us to abstain from the foresaid conjunctions, yet are there many good causes of prohibition alleged by divers writers. Augustine in his .xv. book De civitate dei and .xvi. chap. writeth that the same abstinence was very profitable to dilate more amply the bonds of humane fellowship. For if marriages should be included within the walls of one family, then should there come no kindreds with others. Furthermore, it is not meet, that one and the self man should occupy the persons of divers kindreds, namely that one man should be both uncle and husband of one woman, and the same woman to be both Aunt and wife of one man. Which reason Cicero also hath touched in his fifth book Definibus, and also Plutarch in his .108. problem. And they being both Ethnics could not have seen this but being illustrate by the light of nature. This also is the third reason, because these persons, from whom we should abstain, do dwell together often times in one house. Wherefore if there should be many married folks together, they would not use them selves so gravely and severely as domestical shamefastness requireth.2 Plutarch in the place before said, hath set forth two other reasons, besides those which we have declared: One is, because between kinsfolks, discords are to be feared. For they would soon complain that the right of kindred should be taken away: which saying I do understand thus, if either she or he which should overskip the nearer degree, and marry with the degree farther of, she which were nearer would think that she had injury done unto her, as though in overskipping her, he would put her to shame: as it is a common use in wills and Testaments, where they which are nighest of kin may not nor ought not to be forgotten of him which maketh the will. And in the law for raising up seed to the brother already deceased, the first place must be given to the nighest of kin, who if he refused to use his right, was made ashamed, as that law doth more amply declare the same. Wherefore seeing discords between all men are to be abhorred,3 much more are they utterly to be detested between kinsfolks.
And although the woorde of God,1