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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.
But you must not be abashed if they make of their bodies the sepulchres of the poor people, as the Scythians did of their parents & friends, sith that they say that ⟨p. 48⟩they are made daily the sepulchre of Jesus Christ, because they do eat him daily, and bury him in their bodies and entrails. The poor people have then no just occasion to complain of their cruelty. For they do unto them no worse then unto their God, if their doctrine be true, but do bury them as preciously & honestly. And he that will not believe me, let him read their book which is entitled Stella Clericorum: and he shall see whether I lye or no: 1but he shall there find rather worse. For it is there written, sith that the Priest is the sepulchre of Jesus Christ, that if he do presume to take the body of Jesus with his polluted mouth, he doth worse then if he threw it in the dirt or mire: But which is more, he casteth it into a privy. Judge therefore Eusebius, whether that good God whom they have forged, be honestly lodged, and whether he have not a tomb and sepulchre very precious and according to his dignity.
But you must not be abashed if they make of their bodies the sepulchers of the poore people, as the Scythians did of their parents & friends, sith that they say that ⟨p. 48⟩they are made dayly the sepulcher of Iesus Christ, bicause they doe eate him dayly, and bury him in their bodyes and entrayles. The poore people haue then no iust occasion to complayne of their crueltie. For they doe vnto them no worse then vnto their God, if their doctrine be true, but doe bury them as preciously & honestly. And hée that will not beléeue me, let him read their booke which is intituled Stella Clericorum: and he shall sée whether I lye or no: 1but he shall there finde rather worse. For it is there written, sith that the Prieste is the sepulcher of Iesus Christe, that if he doe presume to take the body of Iesus with his polluted mouth, he doth worse then if he threwe it in the durte or mire: But which is more, he casteth it into a priuie. Iudge therefore Eusebius, whether that good God whom they haue forged, be honestly lodged, and whether he haue not a tombe and sepulcher very precious and according to his dignitie.