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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 leave the judgement of the heart 1unto God, who knoweth it: But as far as I can judge by his works, and by his beginning, proceeding and ending, I cannot perceive and understand but that he did it for two causes chiefly. First to please the Papists, 2even as the Apostles of the circumcision went about and endeavoured themselves to please the Jews, and to hold with them, for to avoid the cross and persecution, and to have their favour, and for to make the true Apostles of Jesus Christ more odious unto all the world. The other is, for to show himself, and for to get the brute and report that he was a wise man, more expert and of more knowledge, then all other preachers, and that there was 3none that searched out and understood the holy Scripture so profoundly as he. For he was angry that he did see others, which had put their life in danger for the glory of God, and the edifying of the Church to be of some estimation towards the good. And therefore he would invent a certain new fashion, proper unto himself alone, to the end that he should not seem that he had brought no new thing, but that he had learned some thing of others. Therefore he was ashamed to follow their way, and went about but to renew all things, for to let men to understand, that all that which others had made, was nothing worth, but that he was the great reformer of Churches, and yet nevertheless be toke no care to reform the wicked manners.
Theophilus. I doe leaue the iudgement of the heart 1vnto God, who knoweth it: But as farre as I can iudge by his workes, and by his beginning, procéeding and ending, I cannot perceiue and vnderstand but that hée dyd it for two causes chiefly. Firste to please the Papistes, 2euen as the Apostles of the circumcision went about and endeuoured themselues to please the Iewes, and to holde with them, for to auoide the crosse and persecution, and to haue their fauour, and for to make the true Apostles of Iesus Christ more odious vnto all the world. The other is, for to shew himselfe, and for to get the brute and report that he was a wise man, more expert and of more knowledge, then all other preachers, and that there was