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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.
Hillarius. It is impossible to paint him out better. For 1he is as a Gerion with three bodies. He is a Papist, an Evangelist and a Lutherian. He is a Sophister and a Sorbonist, and yet he would be accounted for a faithful and a Christian, and holdeth himself neither to the one nor yet to the other. Hydra had never so many heads, as he hath of opinions contrary the one to the other, and he needed none other Hercules for to cut them off, then himself. For the truth which GOD hath compelled him to speak, as unto the wicked spirits, is a Hercules sufficient 2enough for to vanquish the false doctrine, that he now maintaineth.
Hillarius. It is impossible to painte him out better. For 1he is as a Gerion with thrée bodies. He is a Papist, an Euangelist and a Lutherian. He is a Sophister and a Sorbonist, and yet he would be accompted for a faithfull and a Christian, and holdeth himselfe neither to the one nor yet to the other. Hydra had neuer so many heads, as hée hath of opinions contrary the one to the other, and hée néeded none other Hercules for to cut them off, then himselfe. For the truth which GOD hath compelled him to speake, as vnto the wicked spiri•es, is a Hercules sufficient 2inough for to vanquish the false doctrine, that he now mainteineth.
- 1Gerion.
- 2Hercules.
Theophilus. By the same thou mayest know the study