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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. That which you have alleged is against your self. For when Jesus Christ saith that the workman 1is worthy to have his meat, he speaketh of the Ministers of the Gospel, and not of Minstrels. He hath not commanded the Christians to feed and give meat to Minstrels for to have them sound in their ears: but Ministers for to preach the gospel to them. He letteth us to understand that we must work and travail in the Ministry of the Gospel, by that that he saith the workman, not the idle and slothful. Afterwards he declareth that he would not have the Ministers of his Church covetous, 2nor given to filthy lucre nor insatiable, when he declareth that the meat is due to the Pastors of the Gospel, but ⟨image 78⟩ought to content them selves, as the holy Apostle to be cloto c•, nourished and kept according to their estate and condition: without super fluity, which may cause them to for get God, and without to great need, which may hinder them to exercise their office: But these here do never cease to a••e and to catch, & yet they do no works that serve for the health of men It wine a great deal better ye they would 3show forth in effect ye which they say their belles do signify, then to have bells for to represent it. They do interpret that the sound of their belles doth signify the sound of the word of God, the which they ought to preach unto the people and that the belles do signify the prophets and ministers of the gospel, who ought to sound in the Church of God: But they do leave all the charge unto the belles, and will not uiedle with it. Have they not well provided for the christian people, good preachers?
Theophilus. That which you haue alleadged is against your selfe. For when Iesus Christ sayth that the workeman 1is worthy to haue his meate, he speaketh of the Ministers of the Gospell, and not of Minstrells. He hath not commaunded the Christians to féede and giue meate to Minstrells for to haue them sounde in their eares: but Ministers for to preach ye gospel to them. He letteth vs to vnderstande that we must worke and trauayle in the Ministerie of the Gospell, by that that he sayth the workeman, not the idle and slougthfull. Afterwardes he declareth that he would not haue the Ministers of his Church couetous,