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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. I do believe that the Christians and true faithful people have called their dead trespasses: signifying by that same that the death of the faithful is no death, but only a passage for to enter into life, & those which are dead 1in the faith of Jesus Christ, according to his promises, are passed from death to life. And therefore they are rightly called trespasses because ye they are already passed over, & are come unto the port of health, in which they rest in joy and consolation with Jesus Christ their Lord, having escaped all the dangers, & the great gulfs of the sea of this world, 2of sin, death & hell. But sithence ye the pope hath begun to reign in steed of Jesus Christ, & ye he hath take the office of Pluto the god of hell, & of Eacus, Minos, Rhadamanthus, and Neoptolemus the infernal judges, as a new king, he ⟨p. 88⟩would change the laws, estates, habitations & manners of hewing of his subjects ye be dead, aswell as of those y• be alive, 3& endeavoureth himself with all his power & strength to abolish & put out the laws, ordinances, institutions, holy Canons & inviolated decrees, which Jesus Christ hath given aswell to the living as to the dead by his prophets & apostles, passed, confirmed, ratified & sealed by the arrest of the celestial & beavenly court & by the great counsel & wisdom of god, of the holy trinity of the father, the son & the holy ghost, of all the angels & archangels, Saints & Saints, patriarchs, apostles, Evangelists, Martyrs, Confessors & Mirgins, to the end y• the faithful without any other, should have place in heaven, in earth & in hell.
Hillarius. I doe beléeue that the Christians and true faithfull people haue called their dead trespasses: signifiyng by yt same that the death of the faithfull is no death, but only a passage for to enter into life, & those which are dead 1in ye faith of Iesus Christ, according to his promises, are passed from death to life. And therfore they are rightly called trespasses bicause ye they are already passed ouer, & are come vnto the port of health, in which they rest in ioy and consolation wc Iesus Christ their Lorde, hauing escaped all the daūgers, & the great gculfes of ye sea of this world,