A68840:1807
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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If a man deny dew benevolence unto his wife because he would live chastely, and the wife in the mean time fall into adultery, he sinneth, neither can his intent be allowed. For sin is not to be admitted in the wife, for the exercising of continency. God (sayeth he) doth not recompense such a hurt with such a gain. Wherefore the sentence of Leo the first,1 in the dist .46. chapter. Non suo) is to be allowed, wherein he saith, that it is uncomely that any should bestow their faults upon other mens commodities. Augustine in hys book De mendacio to Consentius sayeth: For the health of our neighbours,2 we must do whatsoever may be done. And if it come to that point, that we can not help them without sin, there remaineth nothing else for us to do. And he addeth that no man must be brought into heaven by a lye. The same Augustine in an other place sayeth: If poor men see a cruel and bitter rich man, and would steal any thing from him, either to help themselves, or other poor men, they do not diminish sin, but increase it.3 And Gregory Bishop of Rome in his Epistle to Siagrius: To commit the less sin, to the end to avoid the greater, is to offer Sacrifices unto GOD of a wicked act,4 as it is written in the .21. of the Proverbs. But in that Chrysostom and Ambrose do for this cause praise Lot, they are thus to be understand, namely that they allowed his charity and faith towards strangers, and had a respect unto the horribleness of the sin which the Citizens were ready to commit, not that they allowed their abandoning of their women. And thus much as touching this matter.
If a man deny dewe beneuolence vnto his wife bycause he would lyue chastly, and the wyfe in the meane tyme fall into adultery, he sinneth, neither can his entent be allowed. For sinne is not to be admitted in the wyfe, for the exercising of continency. God (sayeth he) doth not recompense suche a hurte with suche a gayne. Wherfore the sentence of Leo the first,1 in the dist .46. chapter. Non suo) is to be allowed, wherein he sayth, that it is vncomely that any should bestow theyr faultes vpon other mens commodities. Augustine in hys booke De mendacio to Consentius sayeth: For the health of our neyghbours,