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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.
Hillarius. Me 1thinks that they take the Pope for Moloch, Pluto or Saturn, whom men cannot appease without sacrificing unto them men. ⟨p. 59⟩The Pope would be called our holy father, but that is such a father as Saturn was, who did eat his own children 2(if the Poets have not lied) but yet Rea his wife hid them from him, and kept them ye he should not eat them. But the court of Rome, & the papistical Church, who would be called our holy mother Church, doth eat them as well as our holy father: and in stead to hide them from him, she seeketh every where for to devour them with him. Wherefore we may very well give credit to the Poets, & account them as Prophets herein. For me thinks that they have truly 3prophesied and figured […] those Gods which we have. I 4would that the Princes would better advise themselves in their doings, and that they do not unto the Pope, as Augustus Caesar did unto Julius, unto whom he sacrificed three hundred men before his Alter the ninth of March of those that yielded themselves.
Hillarius. Me 1thincks that they take ye Pope for Moloch, Pluto or Saturne, whō men cannot appaise without sacrificing vnto them men. ⟨p. 59⟩The Pope woulde bée called our holy father, but that is such a father as Saturne was, who did eat his owne children 2(if the Poets haue not lyed) but yet Rea his wife hid them from him, and kept them ye he should not eate them. But the court of Rome, & the papisticall Church, who would be called our holy mother Church, doth eate them as well as our holy father: and in stéede to hide them from him, she séeketh euery where for to deuoure thē with him. Wherfore we may very well giue credit to the Poets, & accompt them as Prophetes herein. For me thincks that they haue truely