A68840:1653
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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
He saith moreover: Every sin that a man committeth, is without the body: but he which committeth whoredom, sinneth against his own body. If the arguments which I have before brought do not move you, yet at the least have a respect unto your own body, which ye seem in committing of fornication to hate and contemn.
He sayth moreouer: Euery sinne that a mā committeth, is without the body: but he whiche committeth whooredome, sinneth agaynste hys owne body. If the argumentes whiche I haue before brought do not moue you, yet at the least haue a respecte vnto your owne body, whiche ye seeme in committyng of fornication to hate and contemne.
But it may be demanded how other sins are without the body, but by fornication we sin against our own body. For we doubt not, but that he which is very angry, nourisheth and augmenteth choler, whereby the body is not a little hurt. Sickness also doth very much weaken the body: wherefore Solomon sayeth: A sad spirit dryeth up the bones. Drunkenness also and gluttony do hinder health, and do in a manner utterly destroy the body: yea and envious persons seem also to sin against their own bodies: For thou shalt see them dried, withered, and in a manner killed with leanness. Howe can it be then, that other sins are without the body? Some say, that fornicators do sin against their own body, because very oftentimes by having fellowship with harlots they are infected with the pocks, & with leprosy. But let other say what they will, I rather think, that the Apostle had a respect unto those things which went before. For he had said, that the fornicator is made one body, with the harlot: & he seemeth to sin grievously against the dignity of his body,1 which maketh it all one with the most vile & filthy body of an harlot. For if a king or prince should marry a wife of a base and obscure stock, it would be said that he had contaminated his kindred. I know that there are some which think that these words are spoken Hyperbolically, because there are found other sins also which do hurt the body, but this hurteth it most grievously and most of all.