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

Thomas. Wherefore do you demand his age?

Thomas. Wherefore doe you demaund his age?

Hillarius. Because that if he had lived in the time of Alcestis and Protesilaus, either in the time of Hercules and Theseus, or in the time of Ulysses and Aeneas, whom the Poets do witness & affirm to have been in hell, and that they have visited all those countries and chambers, as well the Limbus patrum as Purgatory, and also those goodly and pleasant fields Eliseas, we might presume and think that he hath spoken unto them, and hath learned of them that Theology. But he must be then at the least more then a thousand and nine hundred years old, and that he must ¹be twice so old as Mathusala.

Hillarius. Bicause that if hée had lyued in the time of Alcestis and Protesilaus, either in the time of Hercules and Theseus, or in the time of Vlisses and Aeneas, whom the Poets doe witnesse & affirme to haue bene in hell, and that they haue visited all those countries and chambers, as well the Limbus patrum as Purgatory, and also those goodly and pleasaunt fieldes Eliseas, wée might presume and thincke that he hath spoken vnto them, and hath learned of them that Theology. But hée must bée then at the least more then a thousande and nine hundreth yeares olde, and that hée must ¹bée twise so olde as Mathusala.

1. 1John. 12. b. 9 A sained fable upon the history of Lazarus after the imitation of the poets.Iohn. 12. b. 9 A sained fable vpon the historie of Lazarus after the imitation of the poets.