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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. As touching the place of the Psalms, 1it is most clear, that in that Psalm the Prophet speaketh of the tyranny and oppression, and of the great afflictions and adversities which the people of god have suffered, from which God hath delivered them. And the better to comprehend all in a sum, the great evils and dangers, in which that people hath been drowned and plunged, he speaketh it in the person of him: we are come unto the fire and water, and thou hast led us by them. He useth commonly the comparison of the fire 2and water, because that there is nothing which sooner will kill & dispatch a man, then the fire and water, when they have once power over him. And therefore they are many times taken in the holy scriptures, for the temptations persecutions, passions, dangers deaths, and judgement of God, by the which all is examined, proved and tried as by the fire and water, and there is none that can escape, if the Lord do not deliver and draw him from it, as it is here spoken afterwards. As touching 3the place of Saint Paul, he pretended an other thing, then to the fire of Purgatory, as it is easy to know by his own words. Wherefore I do make thee thine own judge of the cause, & I demand of thee first, whether thou art of an opinion, that it behoveth that all the holy Prophets, Apostles and Martyrs, do pass by or through that fire of Purgatory?
Theophilus. As touching the place of the Psalmes, 1it is moste cleare, that in that Psalme the Prophete speaketh of the tyrannye and oppression, and of the greate afflictions and aduersities which the people of god haue suffered, from which God hath deliuered them. And the better to comprehend all in a summe, the great euills and daungers, in which that people hath beene drowned and plunged, he speaketh it in the person of him: wée are come vnto the fire and water, and thou hast ledde vs by them. He vseth commonly the comparison of the fire 2and water, bicause that there is nothing which sooner will kill & dispatch a man, then the fire and water, when they haue once power ouer him. And therefore they are many times taken in the holy scriptures, for the temptations persecutions, passions, daungers deathes, and iudgement of God, by the which all is examined, proued and tryed as by the fire and water, and there is none that can escape, if the Lorde do not delyuer and drawe him from it, as it is here spoken afterwardes. As touching