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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.
Of the like beginning came up the error of those which esteemed & thought ye he, which after that he was baptised, & having once received the supper, could never be damned, or at the least, should be once delivered from damnation, because that Jesus Christ hath said: I am that living bread that came down from heaven: if 1any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever. ⟨image 241⟩They urge upon the letter, & said that Jesus Christ could not lye, which hath promised the same. Yet nevertheless Saint Augustine rebuketh & confuteth their error. Behold 2y• absurdities into which men do fall for fault of well examining the Scriptures, & when they do take them according to the rigour of the letter. For whosoever will, according to the opinion which the Papists have of the Sacrament of the alter, take literally y• which Jesus Christ said of eating of his flesh & drinking his blood, there is no doubt, but that we shall be constrained to confess, that all those which have once taken the supper, are all saved: and y• all those which shall not once receive it, are all damned. And so it shall be no less requisite to give y• supper unto the young children & to give power unto women to give it them, then y• baptism: they y• would take the words & those matters by y• rigour. And therefore for to return to the place by thee alleged, by the absurdities which should follow of thy exposition, the which do repugn against the grace of Jesus Christ, as I have declared unto thee, thou mayest well know, that we must not understand that place after that manner, as thou doest expound it. For Jesus Christ speaketh not in that place there of visible baptism, nor of his institution: 3But speaketh of the regeneration of man: and showeth what thing he must have for to be a Christian, to wit, that it is necessary, that he do renounce & forsake his first generation & nativity, which is altogether corrupted and cursed, and that he be regenerated by the spirit of God, and