A68840:1658
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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1This pestilence also is repugnant both unto Charity & to the public wealth: unto charity undoubtedly, because the fornicators do injury unto their children, which not being lawfully procreated, are scarcely at any time brought up honestly & virtuously. And they hurt the public wealth, because they defraud it of good Citizens. For Mamzer, a bastard I say, & one borne in fornication, is prohibited to be received into the Church, not that he is restrained from the holy communion, or from the mysteries of salvation, but because it is not lawful for him to govern the public wealth, & to be numbered among Citizens. Some think that this evil may be remedied, if a man should keep a concubine at home. So, say they shall the issue be certain. It may be peradventure certain, but it shall not be legitimate. Seeing therefore this wicked crime is both against matrimony, and charity, & also the public wealth, it can not be denied but it is a sin most grievous.2 And for as much as it is so, why are fornications now a days openly suffered in Cities? I speak not of the Ethnics: I speak of Christians, and of those Christians which will alone seem & be called the successors of Christ. Whoredom or fornication is most impudently maintained in their dominion, they not only willing thereunto, but also taking a commodity & tribute thereof. That which is against the word of God, against matrimony, against charity, against the public wealth, is no sin, or else it is a notable sin. If it be sin, why is it not taken away & weeded out?3 But I know what they will babble, they bring forth Augustine, who in his book de Ordine writeth thus: Take away harlots, and all things shall be filled with filthy lusts. But let us consider in what time Augustine ⟨p. 231⟩wrote that book. Undoubtedly when he was yet Catechumenus, and not sufficiently instructed in religion. And although he had not been Catechumenus, yet this his saying agreeth not with the word of God, neither with Augustine himself, who in an other place affirmeth that the good which cometh of evil, as a recompensacion, is not to be admitted. Which thing also Paul hath taught to the Romans: even as they were wont to say of us: Let us do evil things, that thereby may come good things, whose damnation is just. We must never have a regard to the end and event, when we are urged by the commandment of god.