A68840:1871
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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Yet the Pope in his Decretalles (de Immunitate Ecclesiae in the chapter. Non minus, where the words of the Council holden at Lateranum are cited. And in the chapter aduersus Consules) will have the Ecclesiastical men utterly exempted. And Bonifacius the .8. in hys .6. de Immunitate Ecclesiarum, in the chapter Clericis laicos, permitteth them not to pay any thing. Yea and he excommunicateth the prince, which taketh tribute of a Minister of the Church, and also the Minister himself which payeth it. This law as to cruel, Benedictus the .11. after a sort mitigateth, in Extravag. de Immunitate Eccles. in the chap. Quod olim, yet he permitteth not the prince to do any thing without asking counsel of the Bishop of Rome. For he in deed doth not excommunicate those princes which do receive tribute of Ecclesiastical men, but only those that exact it of them. For he permitteth not, that princes should exact any thing by their own right, which thing yet sometimes he permitteth, namely in an extreme necessity, as in danger of religion and life, so that first there be had the consent of the Bishop and clergy, and afterward also the agreement of the Pope. So long therefore hath he decreed that they must tarry. So these men do exempt themselves from the obedience and tributes of princes and kings, which (as I have before said out of Ulpian) ⟨p. 264⟩are the establishments and sinews of the public wealth.1 When I think upon these things, I call to remembrance a profitable saying of Diocletian: of whom when a Philosopher desired an immunity: This request (said he) disagreeth with thy profession. Thou professest (said he) that thou wilt overcome thy affections, but thou showest that thou art overcome of avarice. So these men profess themselves to be spiritual. But in a spiritual man is nothing more required than charity, which counselleth us not to live franchised and securely, when other are oppressed with cares and burdens. Thomas Aquinas bringeth a place of Genesis to show that Priests are exempted from tributes,2 not in deed by the law of GOD, but by a law made by princes, and yet nevertheless agreeing with the law of nature. For Pharaoh king of Egypt provided, that the Priests should not pay the fifth part of their fruits for tribute, when as yet so much was exacted of all the other Egyptians. Wherefore he concludeth that Priests are exempted.