A68840:1669
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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They add moreover: God hath prohibited harlots,1 as it is had in Deut. which yet were afterward suffered. For Solomon gave judgement between two harlots. First I answer, that it is not certain that they were harlots, for as much as this word Zovah signifieth also her that keepeth a victualling house, and one also which getteth her living by sundry kind of gain. Farther, though they were harlots, yet is it a frivolous and most weak argument. For we must not reason from that which is done, to that which ought to be done. God in deed prohibited harlots, but afterward discipline quailed, and many things were committed against the law. But we ought to have a regard not to that which is done, but to that which God hath commanded to he done: otherwise if we will live according to examples, there are evil examples enough every where. For Popes and Cardinals do not only suffer harlots, but also keep them themselves, as things most dainty. Neither are they afeard of the Canons which decree that Priests for whoredoms should be deposed, in the distinction. 82. chap. Presbyter, when as yet the gloss saith there: Now a days no man is deposed for whoredom. The same is had in the second question .7. chap. Lator: The Apostle excludeth whoremongers from the kingdom of God. But these exclude them not from the Church, neither think they, that they ought to be deposed. But that is no marvel,2 for as much as they say that the Bishop may dispense with adulteries, and other light crimes, as it is had Extra. de Judiciis in the law At Clerici, they are the words of Alexander .3. whereby it appeareth, that these men count adulteries for crimes very light. Why ought we then to depend on their examples. Philo a Jew saith, that in the public wealth of the Jews,3 harlots could not be suffered. For all when they came to ripe age, ought of necessity either to be husbands or wives. Widows in deed there were some, but yet well grown in years, and of an approved incontinency. This example should we follow, namely of such an holy public wealth, & not the example of the papistical court. When I was on a time at Rome, I remembered a witty saying of Crates. 4He when he came to Delphos, and saw in the temple of Apollo a golden image of Phrynis a very notable harlot, cried out: Behold a token of the wantonness of the Grecians.