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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. Have you found our matters so out of reason.
Theophilus. Haue you found our matters so out of reason.
Eusebius. But what reason is there to mock so with God & with our holy mother the Church? I do greatly fear that God will not give you grace to go from hence into purgatory: But that he will send you into hell, & that you shall be of the number of those unto whom Jesus Christ will say: Go ye cursed into everlasting fire. For I well know by your 1own words that you do smell of the brimstone and fagots, and that you are rank heretics. I doubt not, but ye there hath ben a great many burned that have ben honester men then you are.
Eusebius. But what reason is there to mocke so wyth God & with our holy mother the Church? I do greatly feare that God will not giue you grace to go from hence into purgatory: But that he wil send you into hell, & that you shalbe of the number of those vnto whom Iesus Christ will saye: Goe ye cursed into euerlasting fire. For I wel know by your 1owne words that you do smell of the brimstone and fagots, and that you are rancke heretickes. I doubt not, but ye there hath ben a great many burned that haue ben honester men then you are.
- 1Mat. 25. d. 41
Hillarius. Nor I also doubt it. she cannot deny but that the tyrants have burned many holy Martyrs, for the Gospel of