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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.
Eusebius. Who will say the contrary but the Heretics?
Eusebius. Who will say the contrary but the Hereticks?
Theophilus. If it be so, wherefore are they so cruel that they do not deliver them incontinent from the fire, sith that they have the power to do it? Do they delight to see them fry, roast, and burn with a little fire, as they do 1those whom they condemn for Heretics, for to make them suffer more greater torment? If you see an house on fire, and that there were a little child, or a poor man with in the house, crying for help and succour, would you not run by and by and fetch them out, if you might possible?
Theophilus. If it be so, wherefore are they so cruell that they doe not delyuer them incontinent from the fire, sith that they haue the power to doe it? Doe they delyte to see them frye, roste, and burne with a lyttle fire, as they doo 1those whome they condempne for Heretickes, for to make them suffer more greater torment? If you sée an house on fire, and that ther were a lyttle childe, or a poore man with in the house, crying for helpe and succour, would you not runne by and by and fetch them out, if you might possible?
- 1The cruelty of the priests towards the souls.The crueltye of the prestes tovvards the soules.
Thomas. Although it were but a Dog, yet one should have pity to hear him cry and howl.