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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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¶Whither it be lawful to lye to preserve the life of our Neighbours.
¶Whither it be lawful to lye to preserue the lyfe of our Neyghbours.
But there ariseth a more hard doubt, namely, whether it be lawful to lye for to preserve the life of our neighbour. Augustine of a lye to Consentius saith:1 If a man should be in very great danger of death, & the same man also should know that his son also were in the like extreme danger, which happeneth to dye, and thou knowest of his death: when the Parent shall ask thee, liveth my son or no? and thou art sure that he also will dye, if thou shalt tell him that his son is deceased: what wouldest thou do in this case? whither thou sayest, he liveth: or whither thou sayest, I cannot tell, thou lyest. But if thou shall answer, that he is dead, all men will cry out upon thee, as though thou haddest committed manslaughter, and as though by thy heavy news thou haddest been the occasion of the death of this father being sick and lying at the point of death. Augustine granteth that it is a hard case, neither denieth he but that as a man he should be moved, & peradventure it might so happen, that affections would not suffer him to speak that which is just & right. But all the length he concludeth that he should not lye. And he addeth moreover,2 that if thou knowest that any unchaste woman loveth thee inordinately, which also threateneth to kill her self, yea and will do it in very deed, unless thou wilt grant to her wicked lust, whether therefore thou oughtest to be enticed to commit any filthy thing against chastity? I think not. So also saith he, thou oughtest not for the saving of thy neighbours life to offend against the truth. And moreover what a window should be made open to lies, if we should otherwise judge of this. For that which one shall think to be lawful for life, an other will judge that he may do the same for money, an other for estimation, or for defending of lands & possessions. And so shall it come