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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. Also he himself hath said, in despising others, that he was not of those small skirmishers. But it was answered him to the contrary, that he availed then nothing ⟨image 264⟩in war, & that he was not worthy to be taken for a good soldier: For a good champion must know to do all things, and that he must be found amongest the blows and in the skirmishes and alaromes, not only at the retreat, and to receive wages. He despised the simplicity of the holy Scripture, and calleth the Theology inferior and base, and would forge and invent for us a metaphysical 1Theology.
Theophilus. Also he himselfe hath sayd, in dispising others, that he was not of those small skirmishers. But it was answered him to the contray, that he auailed then nothing ⟨image 264⟩in warre, & that he was not worthy to be taken for a good souldier: For a good champion must know to doo all thinges, and that he must bée found amongest the blowes and in the skirmishes and alaromes, not onely at the retraict, and to receiue wages. He dispised the simplicitie of the holy Scripture, and calleth the Theology inferiour and base, and would forge and inuent for vs a metaphisicall 1Theology.
- 1The metaphysical Theology.The metaphisicall Theology.
Hillarius. Also peradventure he would by the same as well extract the fifth essence of the holy Scriptures, as the Alchemists do of metals. At the least, I doubt not but that it will happen of his metaphysical Theology, as of the Alchemy, which hath a fair show & to be of great value, but it consumeth away into smoke. He speaketh nevertheless against the Purgatory of Priests. Wherefore I am abashed of that which I have heard spoken, that at this present he endeavoureth himself to set it up again in that poor town of Metz, y which he is gone to trouble, when he understood that Jesus Christ would reign there: But I greatly doubt, that the kitchen constraineth him to the same. For otherwise the harth would be cold. But he may as well do that, as to be angry & pleased again, and so many times to change and rechange his coat.