A14461:1471
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.
Although that Jesus Christ be dead as touching his flesh, body and humanity, yet nevertheless he is quickened by the spirit, that is to say, by his eternal virtue and divine power, by the which he is not only risen from death, but also hath given unto us his quickening flesh, and hath turned death into life, quickening by the same all those which were dead through sin, 1And to the end that none should despise Jesus Christ, because that he is dead and was crucified as a vile and an abject person, he declared that he is so dead, that there is no life but in his death: and that none can live but by him: and that he is not only to day, but everlasting, and that by the same spirit and divine and eternal virtue he 2is already an other time come unto the world and hath judged and condemned the rebels, the proud and perverse spirits, oppressed with wicked spirits, which were not under their keeping, but did sleep, not thinking on the judgement of god, until such time as the flood overwhelmed and drowned them, as he doth yet at this present, by 3that same spirit, by the which he Judgeth an condemneth the world, and saveth and quickeneth his elect even as he did in the time of Noah.
Although that Iesus Christ be dead as touching his flesh, body and humanitie, yet neuerthelesse he is quickened by the spirite, that is to say, by his eternall vertue and diuine power, by the which hee is not onely risen from death, but also hath giuen vnto vs his quickening flesh, and hath tourned death into lyfe, quickening by the same all those which were dead thorow sinne, 1And to the ende that none should dispise Iesus Christ, bicause that he is dead and was crucified as a vyle and an abiect person, he declared that he is so dead, that there is no lyfe but in his death: and that none can lyue but by him: and that he is not onely to day, but euerlasting, and that by the same spirite and diuine and eternall vertue he 2is already an other time come vnto the worlde and hath iudged and condempned the rebells, the proude and peruerse spirits, oppressed with wicked spirites, which were not vnder their kéeping, but did sléepe, not thinking on the iudgement of god, vntil such time as the floud ouerwhelmed and drowned them, as he doth yet at this present, by