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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.
If it be so the Priests may well be called the Sepulchres of Jesus Christ, but not of the true Jesus Christ whom Saint Stephen 1did see at the right hand of God, who as the Apostle witnesseth, dyeth no more: unto whom I give more credit, then unto all the Priests and Monks which ever were or shall be. And therefore either it must be that they have forged a new Jesus Christ, that dyeth and riseth again every day and as often as they list, and that they are all liars: or else that the Apostle hath written against the truth, the which is impossible. Wherefore it followeth, that the first part of my proposition is true.
If it be so the Priestes may well be called the Sepulchers of Iesus Christ, but not of the true Iesus Christ whom Saint Stephen 1did sée at the righte hande of God, who as the Apostle witnesseth, dyeth no more: vnto whome I giue more credite, then vnto all the Priests and Monkes which euer were or shall be. And therefore eyther it must bée that they haue forged a newe Iesus Christ, that dyeth and riseth agayne euery day and as often as they list, and that they are all lyers: or els that the Apostle hath written against the truth, the which is impossible. Wherefore it followeth, that the first part of my proposition is true.
Eusebius. Do you not believe that the Priests have power to consecrate the body and blood of Jesus, and that ⟨p. 49⟩they eat it flesh and bones, as gross and as big as he was