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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. Doest thou not know into what dreams and foolishness that doctrine doth lead you? Truly I am ashamed. Wherefore I pray thee, that thou do hold thy self content with that that I have answered unto thee: and that now thou do come unto the question which I have propounded unto thee, to wit, what difference thou puttest between the bosom of Abraham and Paradise?
Theophilus. Doest thou not knowe into what dreams and foolishnesse that doctrine doth leade you? Truely I am ashamed. Wherefore I pray thée, that thou do holde thy selfe content with that that I haue aunswered vnto thée: and that nowe thou do come vnto the question which I haue propounded vnto thee, to wit, what difference thou puttest betwéene the bosome of Abraham and Paradise?
Eusebius. I do not mean to pass thy question without answering unto it. But thou lettest slip the principal objection which I have made unto thee, without having satisfied me therein. §ObiectionWherefore I would have the resolution before thou doest escape me. Howe may we then understand that which Jesus Christ hath said? Except that a man be borne a new of water and of the 1Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of GOD. Doth he not by those words openly declare, that the baptism of the water is necessary unto salvation? And 2that he which shall not be baptised with water, cannot enter into she kingdom of heaven. ⟨image 239⟩For he hath not only said: he that shall be borne a new of the Spirit, but he hath also added, the water, for to declare that the one and the other are requisite. I confess• that the water without the spirit sufficeth net: and that the visl […], without faith, cannot save. For it is first sayd th […] afterwards there is added, and is baptised shall be saved. But I cannot understand,