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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.
Theophilus. If the Limb of the fathers were 1one of the suburbs of hell, it must be that the city should be a great way off from the suburbs. For Abraham clearly witnesseth that there is such a distance, from his bosom, the which thou taketh for the Limb, unto hell in which the rich man was, that it is impossible to pass from the one to the other, because of the horrible golf and depth which is between them both.
Theophilus. If ye Limbe of the fathers were 1one of the suburbes of hell, it must bée yt the citie should be a great way off from the suburbes. For Abraham cléerely witnesseth that there is such a distaunce, from his bosome, the which thou taketh for the Limbe, vnto hell in which the rich man was, that it is impossible to passe from ye one to the other, bicause of the horrible goulfe and depth which is betwéene them both.
- 1The suburbs of hell and of Paradise.
Hillarius. Peradventure we may deceive our selves. For how doest thou know, whether they do pronounce Limb, for Lembe. For Lembe in 1Greek and Latin signifieth a little ship and very swift: or a galley. Wherefore it may be, that they do mean, that the ancient fathers, were detained & kept in that Lembe as in a ship, as Noah was in his Ark, to the end they should not fall into that deep lake of Hell, and be drowned in ⟨image 233⟩the golf of those deep rivers, of which we have spoken off so much. For all their ease goeth by poetical feignings. 2