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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. I do greatly fear, that if our Priests & Monks learn none other occupation and science, & that they find out none other drugs for to purge sins, that they shall not find hereafter any great trade, but shall be constrained to make the diet themselves, and the Alchemy with their teeth, the which they do fear greatly. For men will give them so little to eat, that I greatly doubt that they need not to learn to fast and to live in more greater sobriety and abstinence, for to cool them a little. For sith that the fire hath begun to kindle with in their furnace, as Theophilus hath said, and that all is consumed and burned except hell, it is much to be feared that the register and rental of their revenues with all their rents 1that come unto them yearly of Purgatory be not altogether consumed and melted. I do think that there is no 2better remedy for to correct their whoredom, & to learn them sobriety and to keep a good diet, then to take from them their Purgatory. Wherefore y• Soldiers were not altogether