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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.
Thomas. Y•u do speak of the Limbus patrum and of Purgatory, as though there were none, & that the same that hath been preached unto us, was invented of pleasure, & that they were but fables. But doth not the Scripture make mention of it? do you think that so many good preachers which have ben in times past would have taught such things, if they had not be• true?
Thomas. Y•u do speake of the Limbus patrum and of Purgatory, as though ther were none, & that the same that hath bene preached vnto vs, was inuented of pleasure, & that they were but fables. But doth not the Scripture make mention of it? do you thinke that so many good prechers which haue ben in times past would haue taught such things, if they had not be• true?
Theophilus. I have heard many preach y• the children y• are borne dead, 1& all those which do die before they be baptized, go straight ⟨p. 29⟩way unto the Lymbus patrum wherein they have their chambers apart, separated from hell and Purgatory, and that they shall never enter into Paradise, but that they shall be deprived for ever from y• joys thereof. Afterwards there was nothing that I heard so much commended in the sermons, as the souls of Purgatory, unto whom also they give chambers apart, and do keep them as prisoners, in those dungeons and prisons, until such time as they have 2paid their ransom.
Theophilus. I haue heard many preach y the children y are borne dead,