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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. Can they quench it by that means?
Thomas. Can they quench it by that meanes?
Theophilus. You are not deceived, hath the fire of men used to quench the fire of God? No, but they do kindle it daily more and more.
Theophilus. You are not deceiued, hath the fire of men vsed to quench the fire of God? No, but they doe kindle it dayly more and more.
Hillarius. I know the cause wherefore they do it. They do greatly fear least those Lutherians and heretics should not be damned, and that they should not go into hell, sith that they deny the Purgatory, and that they will not enter, therefore they would make them to feel it in this world, and to purge them from their sins, & to put them in Paradise against their wills. They do well declare thereby, that they differ from the Persians, 1who will not burn the dead bodies, as the Greeks & Latins do, because they hold the fire as a God; and they think that it seemeth that it was much unseemly for his majesty to defile himself with dead bodies, and to nourish him with flesh. But these here do give him none other meat, but do sacrifice to him men, as the Idolaters did God Moloch, Pluto, Saturnus, and did nourish them with mans flesh. But one may reply unto me, and say, that they did unto him that honour to nourish him with live flesh.
Hillarius. I know the cause wherefore they doe it. They do greatly feare least those Lutherians and heretickes should not be dampned, and that they should not go into hell, sith that they denie the Purgatory, and that they will not enter, therefore they woulde make them to féele it in this world, and to purge them from their sinnes, & to put them in Paradise against their wils. They doe well declare thereby, that they differ from the Persians,