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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. 1When God chastised David, & when he chastiseth us every day, because of our sins, he doth it not so much, for the sin which hath been committed, as for to advertise and admonish us, that we do not sin hereafter. And the pain that we bear is not for to satisfy God. For there is none other 2satisfaction then the death & passion of Jesus Christ, that he can allow to be sufficient. For if we must satisfy for our selves, we must bear & carry all the importable burden of the wrath and judgement of God. Now if we must bear them, there is none of us but should have his shoulders broken, and should be plunged & drowned in the golf & bottom of hell with the Devils. For if the Angels could 3not bear it, which of us shall be sufficient, which are but worms of the earth? And wherefore did God our good father send us Jesus Christ to help us, but to that end that he would bear it & satisfy for us, & that through his satisfaction 4we should be reconciled unto God, & delivered from his judgement? Seeing then that God our father hath the satisfaction of Jesus Christ his son, which is more then sufficient for us all, he requireth for us none other satisfaction. And if he require good works of us, he requireth 5them not for satisfaction, for they are too insufficient: But for praises and giving of thanks, and witnesses of our faith, & of the remembrance that we have of the benefits that hoe hath given unto us in his son Jesus Christ, and for to incite our brethren for to praise and magnify him. Therefore said Jesus Christ unto his Disciples. Let your light so shine before men, that ⟨p. 84⟩6they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven. He said not to the end that by them, you should satisfy for your sins: or that you should merit the kingdom of heaven, and be justified. For the faithful man hath obtained already all that by the faith of Jesus Christ, which is