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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. What resolution do they give?
Thomas. What resolution doe they giue?
Hillarius. That he did, you may thereby know what reason there is in their doctrine. Will you have a more greater absurdity? We do eat his flesh spiritually for to have life: But he who is the life, what need hath he to eat himself? And if Jesus Christ did eat himself, it must be that he hath two bodies: the one which eateth, and the other which was eaten. O Lord God, what dreams are these? But if your Priests do eat the flesh and the bones, they are worse then the Scythians. For they were content with y• flesh of man, without eating the bones. Nevertheless to the end that you do not think that I will gainsay the word of Jesus Christ, and that I am some Capernaite, who is offended with the preaching that he made, of eating his flesh and 1drinking his blood, or as the hearers who did forsake it. I answer that there is three ways to eat the flesh and drink the blood of Jesus Christ. The true manner the which he would teach us by his word, and that he would represent and frequent in the holy supper is spiritual 2and not carnal, as he himself witnesseth, saying. It is the spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I have said are spirit and life.
Hillarius. That he did, you may thereby know what reason there is in their doctrine. Will you haue a more greater absurdite? We do eate his flesh spiritually for to haue life: But he who is the life, what néede hath he to eat himselfe? And if Iesus Christ did eat himselfe, it must be that he hath two bodies: the one which eateth, and the other which was eaten. O Lord God, what dreams are these? But if your Priests do eat the flesh and the bones, they are worse then the Scithians. For they were content with y• flesh of man, without eating the bones. Neuerthelesse to the ende that you do not thincke that I will gainsay the word of Iesus Christ, and that I am some Caparnaite, who is offended with the preachinge that he made, of eating his flesh and