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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. Truly I believe that there is no great difference, & that he dyeth so many times, as he liveth hours and minutes.
Eusebius. Truely I beléeue that there is no great difference, & that he dyeth so many times, as he liueth houres and minutes.
Theophilus. Thou seest how he is already judged, and yet he is not. He is sufficiently judged and condemned as to himself, sith that he hath his conscience, his confession, his witness and his process against himself, and that he accounteth himself already as dead. But nevertheless, there is yet a more greater horror to be brought to judgement, to hear the sentence of his Judge, to be condemned and executed openly, notwithstanding that he is already sufficiently condemned being in the prison, yet nevertheless the Judge must pronounce openly his last sentence: & that his judgement be put in execution. As much may we say 1of the Devils and reprobate. Whilst that the wicked do live here in this world, they are like unto malefactors, before that they are apprehended and taken. When God calleth them from this world, he citeth them before him, •or to appear in judgement: And they are as though they were cast in prison, looking for their latter sentence, which shall be given them in that great •aye, in which all process, all causes and appeals shall ⟨image 256⟩end. Behold the cause wherefore Saint Peter maketh 2mention of the bonds and chains, with which GOD bindeth y• devils, which he hath reserved to his judgement, using human and material comparisons, for to declare unto us y• heavenly & spiritual things. That is the cause wherefore the wicked spirits do pray unto Jesus Christ, that he will not send them into the deep, complaining