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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. But me thinks that our Priests and Monks do much differ from Plato & Virgil in y• they do lodge y• richest people and the great Princes and Lords sooner in Purgatory then in Hell.
Thomas. But me thinkes that our Priests and Monks do much differ from Plato & Virgile in y• they do lodge y• richest people and the great Princes and Lords sooner in Purgatory then in Hel.
Hillarius. Do you not know the cause? 1There came no profit unto Plato nor Virgil of the Purgatory, as cometh unto those, & believe that although they had any profit, they were of a better conscience, and that for their own particular gain they would not have so seduced the poor ignorant people. For they do show forth by their writings, that they had a certain fear and knowledge of God, more then we may acknowledge in these our priests. For they watch after the dead bodies, as 2the Ravens do upon carrion. And if they can meet with any dead man that hath his purse well stuffed with money, wherewith he is able to pay his ransom, they will be sure to make him tell who hath eaten the fat, ⟨image 37⟩they will put him in such a place, from whence he cannot come out before they have taken some fat from him. For they are the tyrants of tyrants and the pillars of the great 3pillars and Usurers, whom they will not suffer to be broiled and tormented of the Devils, but they will be their hangmen themselves, take away that office from them to whom God hath given it.