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,…

¹The school Divines write not much disagreeing unto this. Thomas Aquinas in .2. 2. toucheth this question, when he writeth that capte springeth of a vehement lust, whereby the Rapter is so troubled, that he neglecteth all dangers. And he will have her that is rapt, to be rendered unto her Spouse, if she have any: and if she have none, unto her Parents, or if she be without Parents, to them in whose power she was. And then if they will agree, she may marry the Rapter: but so, that first be made restitution, because in all theft and rapt restitution is chiefly required: yet saith he, rapt before restitution be made, letteth matrimony to be contracted, that is, that they sin, if they contract matrimony: but if it be contracted, it breaketh not the contract. But to the Canons which ⟨p. 285⟩determine against it, be answereth, that they were made in detestation of the crime. But the Pope afterward considered the matter better. But this was not the part of a holy man to worship the Pope for God, and so to flatter him like a bondslave. And to the end he might seem to speak rightly, he bringeth the words of Jerome, which are in Gracian concerning the three kinds of matrimony. But how that place serveth to this present matter, I have before showed. Lastly, he objecteth unto himself the Council of Meldenum. But that place he saith, is to be understand: If a man shall rapt her which was married unto an other. As though that were obscure or doubtful. We need no Canons to understand this. A certain Divine not of the worst sort, strongly setteth himself against Thomas concerning this thing, and where Thomas saith, that rapt letteth not the matrimony already contracted, he answereth, that many decrees make against that sentence. Farther he bringeth a reason, namely that he which is communicate can not receive the sacraments. And then he addeth that the Rapter is excommunicated: wherefore unless he do open penance and reconcile himself unto the Church, he cannot contract matrimony.

¹The schole Deuines write not much disagreing vnto this. Thomas Aquinas in .2. 2. toucheth this question, whē he writeth that capte springeth of a vehement lust, wherby the Rapter is so troubled, that he neglecteth al daungers. And he wyll haue her that is rapted, to be rendred vnto her Spouse, if she haue any: and if she haue none, vnto her Parentes, or if she be wythout Parentes, to them in whose power shee was. And then if they wil agree, she may mary the Rapter: but so, that first be made restitucion, bicause in al theft and rapte restitucion is chiefly required: yet saith he, rapte before restitucion be made, letteth matrimonye to bee contracted, that is, that they synne, if they contract matrimony: but if it be cōtracted, it breaketh not the contract. But to the Canōs which