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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. I doubt not but that which pope Stephen hath done unto Formosus, doth not seem strange unto thee. But pope Sergius the third hath done unto him worse.
Hillarius. I doubt not but that which pope Stephen hath done vnto Formosus, doth not séeme straunge vnto thée. But pope Sergius the third hath done vnto him worse.
Thomas. Then that poor soul Formosus was most unhappy after his death. They have done against the proverb, which forbiddeth to fight with the dead.
Thomas. Then that poore soule Formosus was most vnhappy after his death. They haue done against the prouerbe, which forbiddeth to fight with the dead.
Hillarius. Thou mayest have well said it, if thou hadst heard the history all out. The cruelty of L. Sulla against Marius was not so great. But I think nevertheless but that those popes have taken their patron upon him. For so did he cause Marius to be taken out of y• earth after y• he was dead to be avenged of him. And Sulla fearing that one should not do to him the like after he was dead, commanded that his body should be burned. For until his time the family of which he came off, accustomed to bury the bodies of the dead, and had not as yet burned them as others did. But for to return unto Sergius, thou must understand. First, that he hath so reproved all the acts of Formosus, that those whom Formosus did make priests, should return 1again to take their orders of him, judging those unworthy to be priests whom Formosus had made, if they did not the same. And not being content to have done that dishonour unto Formosus after his death, caused his body to be taken out of the sepulchre again, and did not only cut off the fingers, or the hand, as Stephen his predecessor did, but did cut of his head as a malefactor, even so as though he were a live. Afterwards did cast the body into the stud yber, as unworthy of burial and human honour. hou canst not now deny Theophilus, but that the popes have power oth over the Gods, and over the quick