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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. Plato and Virgil do lodge these in Purgatory, 1especially the simple people & which have not been of great credit and authority. Wherefore they could not have so great licence to do evil as the others. And if they had committed any fault, they had not the power so much to hurt the people as the others had. For the sins of the Princes do not hurt only themselves: But as well by them as by their evil example they do hurt and destroy all the world, where the simple people do hurt but themselves. And therefore they did think that their sins were sanable, and that they might be purged. For that cause, they condemned them not unto eternal damnation: For 2they thought y• they had not committed evils enough for to be damned, & that there was some remedy to be healed. Also they lodged them not at y• first dash in y• fields of bliseas, as the other great and virtuous men, who through their virtue have merited to be incontinently received into blessedness and toy, or in the number of Gods.
Hillarius. Plato and Virgile do lodge these in Purgatory, 1especially the simple people & which haue not bene of great credite and authoritie. Wherefore they could not haue so great lycence to doe euill as the others. And if they had committed any fault, they had not the power so much to hurt the people as the others had. For the sinnes of the Princes doe not hurt onely themselues: But as well by them as by their euill example they doe hurte and destroye all the worlde, where the simple people doe hurt but themselues. And therefore they did thinke that their sins were sanable, and that they might be purged. For that cause, they condemned them not vnto eternall dampuation: For 2they thought y• they had not committed euils inough for to be damned, & that ther was some remedie to be healed. Also they lodged them not at y• first dash in y• fields of bliseas, as the other great and vertuous men, who thorowe their vertue haue merited to be incontinently receiued into blessednesse and toye, or in the number of Gods.