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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. She hath done during her life all her good deeds, as she would have that one should do for her after her death, carrying candles, and sprinkling holy water upon the grave in which she would be buried, and causing the Priests to sing, as they should have done if she had been dead. But the same happened well for them. For afterwards she was converted to your law, and the most part of all her parents and kinsfolk. Wherefore the Priests should have lost all that.
Thomas. Shée hath done during hir lyfe all hir good déedes, as she would haue that one should doe for hir after hir death, carryinge candells, and sprinklyng holy water vppon the graue in which she would be buryed, and causinge the Priestes to sing, as they should haue done if she had bene dead. But the same happened well for them. For afterwards shee was conuerted to your law, and the most part of all hir parents and kinsfolke. Wherefore the Priestes should haue lost all that.
Hillarius. And therefore it is not without cause that they make such hast of offerings, but without the same they make no hast.
Hillarius. And therefore it is not without cause yt they make such hast of offerings, but without the same they make no hast.
Theophilus. It should seem to those that hear them read upon their books, ye they have great pity & compassion of those captive souls, sith that they had rather delay the honour that they would do unto the saints, & their office, then the same of the dead, & the solace & comfort that they would give unto them. But the practise of their doctrine and experience declareth unto us the contrary. For he that will not give them ready money in their hands without all question, those poor souls should never have any help of them, or at the least it shall be but little, and they shall tarry their leisure. And so by that means the poor shall be always miserable, and cannot enter into Paradise for want of money, if there be such avarice in Paradise as is among them.