A68840:1647
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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Now I think it good somewhat to speak of whoredom or fornication. For as in the old time there were very many, so also at this day there are not a few, which affirm that it is no sin. But I will prove by Scriptures, and by most certain reasons that it is a grievous sin.
NOw I thinke it good somewhat to speake of whooredome or fornication. For as in the olde tyme there were very many, so also at this daye there are not a fewe, whiche affirme that it is no sinne. But I will proue by Scriptures, and by most certayne reasons that it is a grieuous sinne.
They which extenuate this wicked crime, do lean unto sundry arguments. First in the Acts of the Apostles the .15. chapter, when in those first times, there arose a dissension among the Jews and the Grecians, it was by common assent decreed, that the Ethnics should abstain from blood, from that which was strangled, from things offered unto idols, and from fornication. Here, say they, that whoredom or fornication is reckoned with those things which of their own nature are not sins. Wherefore it appeareth that of it self it is not sin: for these things were then for a time decreed of the Apostles, that Christians should live peaceably together. For there is no creature of GOD evil, as saith Paul to Timothy: Farther they say, GOD would not command that which of it self is sin. But he bad Hoseas the Prophet to take unto himself an harlot, & to beget children of whoredom or fornication. Wherefore of his own nature it seemeth not evil. Farthermore every sin is against charity, either against that charity which we owe unto God, or that which we owe unto our neighbour. But in whoredom or fornication there seemeth nothing to be committed against God: for his worshipping and Religion is not hurt. Neither also against our neighbour, for there is no violence offered his wife, neither is there any violent oppression. Moreover Augustine in hys book de bono coniugali writeth,1 that what meat is unto the body, that is accompanying together for procreation. But if a man eat or drink a little more then he ought, he is not accused of sin. Wherefore also if a man in accompanying together do a little stray, he is not to be counted guilty of sin. Lastly, those things which god hath prohibited as sins, are so plain & manifest, that even by the light of nature every man may understand that they are sins: but whoredom or fornication in mans judgement is not so judged, & many think that it is no sin. Mitio in the Comedy in Terence saith: Believe me, it is no wicked act for a young man to commit fornication. And in the Church of Corint. there wanted not some which so thought also. Wherefore by these reasons the filthiness of whoredom is so extenuated, that either it is not counted for sin, or else counted among the lest sins.