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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. It seemeth to me that y• Poets are a little more reasonable and more merciful then the priests and Monks. For they make not such broiling and roasting of the poor souls.
Hillarius. It séemeth to mée that y• Poets are a lyttle more reasonable and more merciful then the priests and Monks. For they make not such broyling and rosting of the poore soules.
Thomas. How then?
Hillarius. Because that they have assigned the pain a little easier and lighter, according to every ones misdeeds. For they condemn not all generally to y• fire. But they do make three differences, 1according to the greatness and smallness of sins. Those that have sinned most grievously, and which are most full and stuffe• with sins, and which are most earthly and most hardest to be purged, being so hard glued and tied ⟨image 38⟩to the soul, that it cannot be plucked away, nor made clean by no means but through the fire, are put and cast into the hot furnace. For they must be melted all new again. The other that are not altogether so filthy & vile and that have not their sins so glued in the soul that one cannot pull them away, are holden for a certain time within the great golfs of water, for to be there washed and made clean. There are yet others y• are less faulty and guilty, & which have committed but certain small sins, that hath no need of such strong purgation. And therefore they are hanged but a little in the air for to wind them. For they need but to have a little wind for to blow away the dust that