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The Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Divided into three parts, dialogue wiseThe Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Deuided into three partes, dialogue wise
The Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Divided into three parts, dialogue wise: set out with such grace, that it cannot be, but that a man shall take great pleasure in the reading thereof. Translated out of French into English, by John Brooke of AsheThe Christian disputations, by Master Peter Viret. Deuided into three partes, dialogue wise: set out with such grace, that it cannot be, but that a man shall take greate pleasure in the reading thereoff. Translated out of French into English, by Iohn Brooke of Ashe
London: printed by Thomas East, 1579
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For I hope through the help of God, that we will visit this day all those chambers & internal habitations without moving our selves from hence, and before that we depart, if that the one and the other of you do that, whereof you brag and vaunt your selves you will. For you have promised on every of your parts, that you will have recourse to none other Judge, but to the pure word of God. And as for me, if you take it for the Judge, I am well content, 1to take it for my guide: And I am certain that it will guide me better, then Cybele guided Aeneas.
For I hope through the helpe of God, that we will visite this day all those chambers & internall habitations without mouing our selues from hence, and before that we depart, if that the one and the other of you doe that, whereof you brag and vaunt your selues you will. For you haue promised on euery of your partes, that you will haue recourse to none other Iudge, but to the pure word of God. And as for mée, if you take it for the Iudge, I am wel content, 1to take it for my guide: And I am certeine that it will guide mée better, then Cyble guided Aeneas.
Theophilus. If thou do not hold thy self assured, David, who speaketh by experience, can certify thee, saying. Thy word O Lord is a lantern unto my feet. That guide will not conduct and lead thee unto thy fathers that are dead, as Virgil did cause Aeneas to be lead of Sibyl unto his father Anchises, but it will lead thee unto the living God, thy immortal father, whom by the same thou shalt hear speak, for to put thee out of all doubt.