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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. 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. 2But howsoever they will take it. I dare prove it by the old men of our country, that it is most likest to be true that the Limb, at the least the same of the poung children, ought rather to be in the suburbs of Paradise, then of hell. For they do bold for certain, that the young children, which for wanting of exterior and outward baptism, are sent unto the Limb, hearing from thence where they are, the joys of Paradise, but they cannot see them: the which is unto them a marvellous torment. Nevertheless the good old men would not have spoken so assuredly, if they had not heard it so preached of the great Theologians and Doctors. Now sithence that from the Limb, the young children do hear the joys of Paradise, reason declareth unto us that the Limb ought not to be far off from paradise, but that it may have only some wall, or a certain veil between them both which may hinder and let their sight, either that they do make a great noise in paradise: or else that the ears of the souls are marvellously sharp and attentius.
Hillarius. Peraduenture wée may deceiue our selues. For how doest thou know, whether they do pronounce Limbe, for Lembe. For Lembe in 1Greeke and Latine signifieth a little ship and very swift: or a gally. Wherefore it may be, that they do meane, that the auncient fathers, were detained & kept in that Lembe as in a ship, as Noe was in his Arke, to the end they should not fall into that déepe lake of Hell, and be drowned in ⟨image 233⟩