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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. I would not give y• counsel. For then the salt would ware very deer, if Solomon hath said true, writing, 1that the number of the fools are infinite. Hlilarius. Thy reason is good. For y• inconvenience which thou speakest off would follow, and an other more greater: To wit, that S. Maturyn who healed the fools, should loose his occupation: Besides that I believe that the salt, although there 2be great quantity & store of it, will not much profit y• souls when the Priests do mingle them with the Water. For the disease is very incurable. But for to return to our Priests, I do believe that of that salt & Water, they would make such pottage for the souls, as my Mother did 3once make for her self & for me & my little brother which were not much above twelve or xiij. years of age, without putting into it either Oil or Butter, because that she would have us to fast with her with bread & water: For if there had been any fatness in the broth or pottage, it had not been a perfect fast. If it be so, our Priests on this side the sea, which dwell far from it, should have better colour & cause to salt & season the water, then those y• dwell hard by it. For if they would make pottage for the souls, they shall find enough of such sodden Water in the sea, & they shall not need to seek after the example of Elisha for to make him their Author: For he was never such a Cooke: But 4they must give the honour of that invention unto Pope Alexander the first of that name. For if they will purge the ⟨p. 36⟩dead through water, I would give them counsel rather 5to wash them altogether with hot Water, as the Paynims did theirs, and call that washing the last bath or washing, even as our Priests do call their last an cling or unction, the latter Sacrament: In which they do herein differ from the Paynims, that they anointed men a little before they dye, & the Paynims anointed them afterwards. Wherefore their unction was a little more latter. But least you should think that I speak without authority, as many Divines and Preachers do, when they do preach their own fables and dreams, I will bring out first for mine Authors that ancient Poet Ennius, saying.