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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.
Doth he not show us here with the finger how the faithful beginneth already his paradise in this world, and the infidel and unfaithful his hell.
Doth he not shewe vs here with the finger howe the faithfull beginneth alreadie his paradise in this worlde, and the infidell and vnfaithfull hys hell.
Hillarius. There is nothing more certain then that which thou speakest. And although we had not the witnesses of the Scriptures, we have the witness of nature, printed into the hearts of all, which hath constrained 1the Poets to invent and find out that feigning of the furies, the which we may call she devils. They do assign their habitation in the hells, and say that they do torment the wicked and reprobate people, most horribly aswell in this world, as in the other. By the which they ⟨p. 249⟩understand none other thing, but the torments and assaults of the evil conscience, and that worm which dyeth not, 2but gnaweth and devoureth incessantly.
Hillarius. There is nothing more certeine then that which thou speakest. And although we had not the witnesses of the Scriptures, wee haue the witnesse of nature, printed into the hearts of all, which hath constrained 1the Poets to inuent and finde out that fayning of the furies, the which we may call she diuelles. They do assigne their habitation in the helles, and say that they do torment the wicked and reprobate people, most horribly aswell in this worlde, as in the other. By the which they ⟨p. 249⟩