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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. §Obiection.I do greatly doubt, that in magnifying so much the grace and mercy of God, and the efficacy of the death and passion of Jesus Christ, you give occasion unto many to do evil, without ever caring to do any good works: For if that men have once this opinion, that they are saved through the only grace and mercy of God, and that they cannot merit paradise by their good works, what need they care to do any good deeds if it doth not serve them no more then the evil?
Eusebius. §Obiection.I doe greately doubt, that in magnifiyng so much the grace and mercy of God, and the efficacie of the death and passion of Iesus Christe, you giue occasion vnto many to doe euill, without euer caring to do any good workes: For if that men haue once this opinion, that they are saued thorow the onelye grace and mercye of God, and that they cannot merite paradise by their good works, what néede they care to do any good déedes if it doth not serue them no more then the euill?
Theophilus. I do fear moreover, that the doctrine which thou holdest, doth induce and lead them unto that which 1thou sayest For how many hath there been, who having that opinion to satisfy in Purgatory for their sins, ⟨p. 223⟩have given themselves unto all vices, during their life, hoping that they will provide so well to their affairs, that for gold and silver, they shall be incontinently delivered from the pains of Purgatory after they be dead? And so by that means they did think, that it was not needful to study to do good works. For they did hope to find in their purse all that that should be needful for their salvation. But forasmuch as it is a question touching 2