A14461:436
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. You shall not yet pluck it out of my hands for all that. For Saint John speaketh there properly, of the faithful, which have suffered, and which have been killed for the witness of the truth. For those have suffered sufficiently in this world, and have had their Purgatory. and accomplished their penance. He speaketh not generally of all the Christians, but only of the Martyrs, whom the great beast hath persecuted.
Eusebius. You shall not yet plucke it out of my handes for all that. For Sainct Iohn speaketh there properly, of the faithfull, which haue suffred, and which haue bene killed for the witnes of the truth. For those haue suffred sufficiently in this world, and haue had their Purgatorie. and accomplisned their penaunce. He speaketh not generally of all the Christians, but only of the Martirs, whom the greate beast hath persecuted.
Theophilus. I agree unto thee that the holy spirit speaketh that, chiefly for the consolation of the poor that be afflicted, which suffer persecution for the name of Jesus,