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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.
Hillarius. Thou hast at the least kept that same of •ccius, Behold one shot of his Canons.
Hillarius. Thou hast at the leaste kepte that same of •ccius, Behold one shot of his Canons.
Theophilus. If it be so, Wherefore then did not S. Hierom enrol it among the Canonicals, in that prologue 1in which be hath recited them all in order? doest thou think that he would have rather omitted these here, then the other? And in the prologue that he calleth Galeatus, which he hath set before the books of the Kings, both he not make express mention of those books among the Apocriphas? and principally of the second out of y• which the place by thee alleged is taken? For he saith that he hath found the first written in Hebrew: But not the second, the which hath been only written in Greek. The which thing, as he saith, may prove it self by the p•rase and manner of the speaking, the which he used. To the which agreeth well that which he writing against the Pelagians, nameth Joseph for the author of the history 2of the Maccabees, understanding that by him it was written. Then if by the testimony and witness of Saint Hierome, that history hath been written by Joseph, b•ee ought not to esteem it to be of more greater authority, than the other books of Joseph, the which we do read • no receive, 3as histories, very profitable: But a great deal wanteth, that we should attribute unto them so much authority, as unto those, the which we do know without all doubt, to be y body of y holy Scripture. Therefore said S. Hierome in the Prologue that he made before the book of the Proverbs of Solomon: The Church doth read the books of the Maccabees, but she receiveth them net among the Canonical.