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

Theophilus. What other reasons have y• heretics, for to fight against y• verity than their human opinions? or some place of y• holy scripture, depraved & corrupted by their false understanding? They have no building or foundation but y• it is easy to overthrow. But we have not now to dispute against those old Origenists, which are raised up again of y• Catabaptistes, y• which are already vanquished enough, but we have to work against the papists, whom by good right we may compare unto those, & call them new Origenists aswell as y• Catabaptists ⟨image 231⟩There is no difference, but that the Catabaptistes are not so much covered and disguised, and that they do raise up again too openly the old errors and heresies, the which are taken all ready for condemned. But the Papists have found an other mask, and an other manner to proceed, by which Satan in them, hath found the means to redress and amend that bell of the Origenists, in disguising only a little the building after an other sort. For when all shall be well considered, I know not wherein those whom you lodge in the Limb and Purgatory do differ, from those whom the Origenists and Catabaptistes did hold and account for damned: except you will say, that the pain and hell of the one, continueth more then of the other.

Theophilus. What other reasons haue y• heriticks, for to fight against y• veritie thē their humain opiniōs? or some place of y• holy scripture, depraued & corrupted by their false vnderstanding? They haue no building or foūdatiō but y• it is easie to ouerthrow. But we haue not now to dispute against those olde Origenistes, which are raysed vp againe of y• Catabaptistes, y• which are already vāquished ynough, but we haue to work against the papistes, whō by good right we may cōpare vnto those, & cal thē new Origenistes aswel as y Catabaptists