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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.
Theophilus. Therefore you may consider what communion may be in y• Popish Church. For Saint Peter did 1not only curse, in the authority of God Simon the Sorcerer, of whom Simony and Simoniacs have taken their 2name, but also the money that he offered for to buy the gift of God withal. Now if Simon for offering y• money hath received such malediction, what ought it to be upon them that do clean contrary to Saint Peter, who do not only receive but also do compel the poor people to give it them? I do not hereby mean that the true Evangelical Priests, and true Pastors of the Church, are not worthy of their nourishment and reward: But I speak against 3those Merchants which are in the Church of God, whom Saint Peter hath forespoken, who have both GOD and the Divill to sell, Paradise •nd Hell, holy things and profane things, and which do exercise merchandises of all things, and are polluted and defiled with all Simony 4and Sacrileges, that they themselves have been constrained to condemn them. And he that will not believe me, let him read Platine in the lives of the Popes, and the decrees of the Council of Elybertine holden in Spain, in ⟨p. 54⟩the time of Constantine: and that of Toledo, holden in the 5year. 713: and that of Calcedone: And the 4. of Carthage: And the Council of Tiburien and Varensian, who do condemn namely those that take money for the burials, saying after this manner: Wherefore dost thou sell the earth? Remember that thou art earth, and into the earth shalt return again. For the earth is not mans, but as (the Psalmist David witnesseth) the earth is the Lords, and all that therein is: If thou do sell the earth, thou shalt be holden guilty of larceny, as he that attributeth unto himself the thing of an other mans. Thou hast received it of God freely, give it freely. And because it is altogether forbidden to all Christians, to sell the earth unto the dead, and to deny unto them the grave and burial which is due unto them. Item, we must command according to the authority