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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.
Thomas. Is it true that they have abode so long time without circumcising the children?
Thomas. Is it true that they haue abode so long time without circumcising the children?
Theophilus. If they had been circumcised, it should not have been written, that Joshua caused them to be circumcised, after y• they were entered into the land of Canaan. 1But by that example those holy men do show unto us, how we ought to understand the matter of the exterior sacraments. For notwithstanding that it is written of the 2circumcision: This is mine alliance with your generations by an everlasting ordinance: and that the bay of the giving and receiving hath been limited, yet nevertheless they have well understanded, that that sacrament was a public ceremony, for to witness the alliance of God between that people, and in the Jewish Church, as the 3Pascal Lamb and their other sacraments. Wherefore when they had just and lawful let, and that they had not the time, and place, and other things requisite to their ceremonies, they have made it no great conscience to omit them, & did not think that thereby their salvation should be in danger, for that they did know that it came not through their negligence and despising of God. As they had 4then the females saved through faith, and the spiritual and interior circumcision, without carnal and exterior circumcision, ⟨image 236⟩even so did they y• males, knowing y they were comprised in y alliance of God, by the which, of his pure grace & mercy, he granteth salvation unto his elect: y which he giveth through his holy spirit, as it pleaseth him, aswell with out sacraments as with sacraments as it appeareth in Cornelius & those which were in his house, which have received y holy Ghost before they were baptised of S. Peter.