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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.
For we are debtors, unto all those to whom we have done injury and wrong. And therefore let us not suffer that the blood of our brother should demand vengeance, and deliver us into ⟨p. 270⟩the hand of the Judge. Le•te us not tarry until we be cited and that the day be assigned unto us, for to appear in his judgement: But let us con••rre our controversies friendly the one with the other, whilst he giveth us leisure, and he himself as a rightful arbitrator exhorteth us to do it. For be we assured that if we do it not, after that he shall tarry long time, he himself will set us agreed. But that shall be to the great cost and expenses and to the great hurt and shame of him in whom he shall find the wrong, and who shall be the cause of the controversy, and of the let and h••deraunce which shall be in the agreement. For he ought to be assured that his malice and obstination shall be unto him deer sold, and that he shall not be abated one only farthing: for if he be condemned to satisfy to the righteousness of God, even to the uttermost penny, there is no more hope of health and salvation. For sith that the sentence is once given, and that man is out of this mortal life, there is no more time to demand and ask agreement. On the other side, it is impossible that man can ever have wherewith to satisfy God, sith that through his infidelity & perversity he hath made y• satisfaction of Jesus Christ unprofitable for himself. It followeth then necessarily y• that prison is not purgatory, but hell, which hath 1no issue, nor place of ransom. Wherefore that place concludeth nothing for the Purgatory. And although it be said that man shall not come out of that prison, until that he hath payed the uttermost farthing, we must not therefore conclude y• he shall come out at any time, but rather that he shall never come out. For that manner of 2speaking is very common in the Scripture, and ought to be understanded as y• which is written of y Raven which Noah did send out, which returned not again: until that