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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.
Eusebius. I do know, that in hearing thee speak, that thou, which wouldest teach others, art yet in greater ignorance, and that thou understandest very evil this matter. The Limb then, was for those which were in such estate, as those are now, which have finished their penance, and have made entire and whole satisfaction for their sins in this world, which do go straight way into Paradise, saving that those there cannot yet enter, because that the door was shut, until that Jesus Christ came to open it, and to break the gates of Hell.
Eusebius. I do know, that in hearing thée speake, that thou, which wouldest teache others, art yet in greater ignoraunce, and that thou vnderstandest verye euyll this matter. The Limbe then, was for those which were in such estate, as those are nowe, which haue finished their penaunce, and haue made entire and whole satisfaction for their sinnes in this world, which doe go strayght waye into Paradyse, sauinge that those there cannot yet enter, bicause that the doore was shutte, vntyll that Iesus Christ came to open it, and to breake the gates of Hell.
Theophilus. Wherefore was the Purgatory? Had it in it yet a certain other sort of souls and of an other condition, then those which went into the Limbs?
Theophilus. Wherefore was the Purgatorye? Had it in it yet a certeyne other sorte of soules and of an other condytion, then those which went into the Limbes?
Eusebius. Yea. For thou mayst well understand, that all the faithful, which have proceeded and been before 1