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

Hillarius. If Jesus Christ hath said unto one of his Disciples: let the dead bury the• dead, we may well say unto those here: let y• dead absolve y• dead, & be you careful but for those that be ti•ing. For I do assure them, that they shall have enough to do to govern the living, & they shall •nde themselves more kindled & letted then they think, and more then they would. Wherefore I believe that they shall be forced to let the dead alone, and to leave all the charge unto Saint Peter and unto his companions: or for to speak better […] God; which hath both the quick and the dead in his […] Wherefore we have no need to ••men• neither the quick nor the •end unto y• Saints nor Saints, •ut […] unto the Lord Jesus, who is the Judge and Saviour […] the Pope saith also that he is […], I know not what shall be his Church. For if the Pope be lieutenant of Jesus Christ: and the office of a […] is •o hold the place of him that is absent, it follow••• then that I•su• Christ i• not in the Popish Church, but h• […] a […]. And so by that means the Popish Church shall be without Jesus Christ […] without God. Then of necessity it must be that the Devil […], and that be is the •ead and the God, as be is the God of this w••ld. For in the Christian Church, Jesus Christ hath no need of a •••ar neither lieutenant, sith that he […] always present, and that he hath promised to be in the middest of his Disciples, and with them until ¹