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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. And did the Pope appear there by virtue of that Citation?
Thomas. And did the Pope appeare there by vertue of that Cytacion?
Hillarius. If the book lye not, that was no jest. For at the very same day which was prescribed unto him, the Pope dyed of a sudden death, and departed suddenly for to go and answer there. What sayest thou by this Eusebius? If this history be false, it is a great dishonour for the Cordeliers, who do make great account of that book, and do hold it to be very precious among them, as a relic, and revelation. And for the Pope also which hath confirmed the order of saint Francis, and of the four Mendicants. I know not what good means we may here find for to maintain that building, and 1the honour and authority both of the one and of the other. For sith that the Pope hath confirmed the order of Saint Francis, the order of saint Francis is builded and stayed upon the Pope, wherefore when the Pope shall fall, which is the stone and foundation of that Church and of that building, also shall fall the building, the order and the rule of the Mendicants. Now we cannot deny, but that example doth ruinate & overthrow the Pope & all his power. I do not dispute whether that the history be true or false. For I believe that is as true as it is true that the Pope is God, & saint Francis conformable & agreeing to Jesus Christ, as that book full of blasphemies enforceth it self to prove it. But I consider only, that sith that the Cordeliers have written such an history, & do maintain it by their books, that they do abate as much the authority and power of the Pope, as the Pope doth confirm their rule and order. For how can this witness agree, with this proposition? The Pope cannot err? And with the exposition which Eccius and his like do make of those words? Thou art Peter and upon that rock I will build my congregation, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. If the Pope be that rock or stone, and that stone is fallen, it must needs be that all the Popish church do fall ⟨image 297⟩