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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.
Theophilus. By the Words of Zachery the Lord giveth us to understand none other thing, but that by the blood of the alliance that he hath made with Zion, he will deliver his people that are captive, kept in the bottom of all miseries. By the prisoners, he understandeth his people that be in 1captivity, by y• evils he understandeth a captivity, a gulf ⟨image 307⟩and bottom of all misery, from which it is not possible for them to come out by any means if God do not deliver them himself. Therefore he calleth it Welles for to declare the depth: yea yet without water, in which one cannot swim: to the end they may the better know their misery, and the grace and mercy of God towards them. When S. Peter did speak of the prison of the spirits, 2he did it for to amplify the better the grace of the Gospel, comparing those which were under the servitude & bondage of the law, & under those shadows & figures unto those which shall be in a prison in respect of those which have received the light of the gospel. But we must not therefore dream, that the bosom of Abraham was a prison, or a Castle, as we have already declared in the other disputation. But we must be advised & know that those things are spoken by a comparison, as we have already declared the examples.
Theophilus. By the Words of Zachery the Lord giueth vs to vnderstand none other thing, but that by the bleud of the alliance that he hath made with Syon, he will deliuer his people yt are captiue, kept in ye bottom of all miseries. By the prisoners, he vnderstandeh his people that bée in 1capti•itie, by y• euils he vnderstandeth a captinitie, a goulse ⟨image 307⟩and bottome of all miserye, from which it is not possible for them to come out by any meanes if God doe not delyuer them himselfe. Therefore he calleth it Welles for to declare the depth: yea yet without water, in which one cannot swimme: to the ende they may the better knowe their miserie, and the grace and mercy of God towardes them. When S. Peter did speake of ye prison of the spirits,