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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. I do agree to thee, that if the father hath 1been wicked and the son do turn from his iniquity not willing to follow it, that the iniquity of the father cannot hurt him, no more then his righteousness can profit him, if the father hath been a good man & the son wicked: But when the son is a follower of his fathers iniquity, sith that by his doings he alloweth it, he yieldeth himself culpable not only of his own, but of his fathers also, to the which he subscribeth & augmenteth it. And of those the Lord speaketh when he saith: that he will visit the sin of the fathers upon the children unto the 2third and fourth generation of them that hate him. Therefore, when the Lord did threaten to punish his people, and that he yieldeth the causes of his ire and wrath, he 3checketh them not only for the sins of the living, but heapeth together & rehearseth also all those of their ancestors and predecessors. And our Lord Jesus Christ menaced & threatened the Scribes & Pharisees: that all the innocent ⟨image 260⟩blood which was shed from Abel, shall be required at 4their hands. Wherefore we must not find it strange, if the Prophets and true servants of God in their confessions & prayers, have prayed for the sins of their fathers and predecessors, that they should not be called to account for to kindle and provoke the wrath of God any more upon them, the which thing in like manner hath Judas Maccabeus done, as the history witnesseth, in the which it is written, y• they found under the cotes of those that were slain, jewels that they had taken out of the temple & from 5the Idols of the Jamnites, which thing is forbidden the Jews by the law. Then every man saw, that this was the cause wherefore they were slain. And so every man gave thanks unto the Lord for his righteous judgement which had opened the thing that was hid. They fell down also unto their prayers, and besought God, that the fault which was made, might be put out of remembrance. For we cannot deny, but that sometime, for the sin of one man alone, God punisheth all the people: As it appeareth