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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. They declare it sufficiently enough. For if one give them no money, they will let them roast and burn perpetually, although they have power to deliver them, as they brag and boast themselves they can.
Hillarius. They declare it sufficiently inough. For if one giue them no money, they will lette them rost and burne perpetually, although they haue power to delyuer them, as they brag and boast themselues they can.
Theophilus. Thereof I am much abashed, 1and yet more, because it is written and ordained in their rules of their divine office, that if it chance that the years mind of those that be dead fall upon a Sunday, or upon any solemn feast, it ought not to be delayed nor put off until the next day, as it is used in the office and feasts of Saints, if they fall upon such days: But must rather advance the office and prayers for the dead in the days before, for to comfort them the better, and to prevent and mitigate the pains that they to suffer in Purgatory. Of which they do give such reasons, saying: that the dead & the 2souls of the dead have need of our aid, but not the Saints. Wherefore the Saints which be in Paradise have more greater leisure to tarry, then the poor souls that are holden in the fire of Purgatory. Whereunto agreeth very well the question which Maioris made: To wit, what Mass is most profitable for the dead, either that which is said quickly and hastily, as the custom is in France to singe them: or else that which is said leisurely, and in which they bestow a great time, as they do in Scotland and in Spain.
Theophilus. Thereoff I am much abashed, 1and yet more, bicause it is written and ordayned in theire rules of their diuine office, that if it chaunce that the yeres minde of those that be dead fall vppon a Sunday, or vpon any solempne feast, it ought not to be delayed nor put off vntill the next day, as it is vsed in the office and feasts of Saints, if they fall vppon such dayes: But must rather aduaunce the office and prayers for the dead in the dayes before, for to comfort them the better, and to preuent and mittigate the paynes that they to suffer in Purgatory. Of which they do giue such reasons, saying: that the dead & the