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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.
Wherefore it followeth that they are their Gods, as well as to the Idolaters, those whom they have accounted for Gods, which nevertheless were dead men, which have ben canonised by the kings, Princes and Senates, and the common error of the people, even as the 1pope & the superstitious do yet use at this day. Sith then that the pope maketh and unmaketh such Gods, which are dead men, and judgeth, condemneth, and absolveth them, it followeth then that he is the Judge of the quick & the dead: the which is also declared, by the example of y• Emperor Henry y• fourth, who was excommunicated: afterwards was put into a cruel prison, in y• city of Liege, by his proper 2and only son, in the which he was strangled: and so as many do affirm, by the commandment of his own son, who secretly sent unto him the hangman. And therefore for that he dyed excommunicated, he was not buried in the holy ground, until that he was absolved and delivered from his excommunicating, after his death, by y• pope: by y• means of which absolution, he was carried to Spire, to the sepulchre of his fathers. Wilt thou now deny, that the pope hath not more power then the Saints, & that he is not greater Lord then Jesus Christ, & as much to be feared or rather more then God? For Jesus Christ hath said, & witnessed •••rely, that his kingdom is not of this world. ⟨p. 283⟩But the Pope will have it both in this world and in the other. Furthermore, he admonisheth us not to fear those 3which can but only kill the body and do no more, but let us fear him only which is able to destroy both body and soul and to cast them into hell. Sith then that the Pope attributeth unto himself such power, that after that y• he hath killed the bodies, he persecuteth still the souls after the body is dead, and excommunicateth the dead and sendeth them into hell, who will deny that he is not God, and that he may not use the authority of his keys, as well towards the dead, as towards the living? And that his bulls and pardons do not extend and stretch forth unto