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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. Thou doest propound unto me many questions together, to the which I cannot answer according to the order which thou hast kept in propounding them. For I will begin with the latter, afterwards I will descend unto the others. As touching that which thou demandest of the salvation of the young Infants of the Hebrews, I do answer as the Master of the sentences, even so as of the children of the Christians, which dyed before baptism.
Eusebius. Thou doest propound vnto mée many questions together, to the which I cannot answere according to the order which thou hast kept in propounding them. For I will beginne with the latter, afterwardes I wyll descend vnto the others. As touchinge that which thou demaundest of the saluation of the young Infantes of the Hebrewes, I doe aunswere as the Master of the sententes, euen so as of the children of the Christians, which dyed before baptisme.
Theophilus. Thou wilt then say, that they do perish, 1both the one and the other? For the master of the sentences useth this proper word, saying: that it is most true that they perish. If they do perish, they are then damned: the which I am sure thou wilt not confess. For you do put a difference between the damned and them. Yet nevertheless you hold them not for the children of God. And therefore you deny unto them to be buried in the Churchyard. And therefore that opinion of the master of the sentences hath seemed to the other scholastical Doctors too rigorous, which do witness that they hold it not commonly 2in that place, but they take it for an error, the which they have adjoined with the others which they have heaped up together from their books.
Theophilus. Thou wilt then say, that they doe perish, 1