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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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But it is a wonder to see, how Tyranny hath increased,1 and impiety by little and little taken deep roots. At the beginning, the Ministers of the Church which contracted matrimonies, were not altogether so severely handled. For the council of Neocaesariensis (as it is recited in the dist .28. chap. Presbyter) commanded such to be put only out of their office, and not from their benefice: for they were still nourished, and received their stipends from the Church. Neither in the mean time will I overpass, that the counsel did cast out of the Church such Priests as were adulterers and whoremongers, namely, in excommunicating them which was very mete and just, when as our men now a days do altogether wink at those sins. After that they began not only to put them out of their offices, but also (as they speak) to remove them from their benefices, as it is written in the 33. dist. chap. Eos & chap. Decreverunt yea and those which so married, they banished either into a monastery, or into some straight place to do penance, but in our time they burn many of them. And afterward they raged also against the women, with whom the Ministers had married, as it is found in the dist. 81.2 out of a certain council holden at Toledo, chap: Quidam, where it is commanded that the women should be sold. And in the dist. 34. chap. Eos, they are appointed to be servants of that Church, wherein the Priest was, which hath contracted with them into servitude, and if peradventure the Bishop could not bring them into servitude, he should commit it unto the prince or lay Magistrate. They banished them also sometimes into a monastery to do penance, as it is read in the 34. dist. chap: Fraternitatis. Neither were they content with this cruelty, but the children also which were by such matrimonies borne, would they have to be servants of that Church, wherein their father had ben, & they deprived them of all their fathers inheritance. And that is written, in the 15. question the last chap: Con multae. ⟨image 102⟩They do so not punish their adulterous sacrificers and whoremongers, neither their harlots, nor yet their bastard children: they only exercise their cruel tyranny upon the wives of Priests and their lawful children.
But it is a wonder to see, how Tyranny hath increased,