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

Theophilus. He would ¹do unto Jesus Christ, as the Romaine Emperors, & the Popes have done many times the one against the other, making frustrate, & boyd ye which their predecessors have made & ordained. For inasmuch as they have made Jesus Christ the first pope, & S. Peter the second, I think, ye it seemeth good unto them, ye aswell they may abrogate & make boide their ordinances, as they have done those of other Popes their predecessors, changing most ofcē times ye that the first have ordained, & making frustrate their counsels & decrees, especially sithence the time of pope Stephen, who made boide all ye which Formosus his predecessor had don. ²But they do in that great wrong unto Jesus Christ that sithence he is risen again there are so many popes risen up in his place. For they will not suffer that one should choose another whilst they are alive: or if that be done, they call him antipope ye is chosen in spite of their beard, and hold for schismatics aswell him as those that have chosen him & which are Joined with him. They call him antipope who setteth himself against him when they esteem to be the ³true pope, eve as we set antichrist against Christ. Sith then ye Jesus Christ is rise from death he is immortal, & shall dye no more, but shall abide & dwell eternally with his church, of which he is the only head, according to y• promise y• he hath made to his disciples, saying: behold I am with you until ⟨image 95⟩the end of the world: Forasmuch also as that great heavenly father, of whom proceedeth all fatherly love y• is called ⁴y• old aged, of whom Daniel speaketh off, he hath given unto him all judgment, power & seigniory both in heaven & in earth, & hath made him to be called by his prophet, the father of the world to come, Prince of peace, willing y• in y name of Jesus should every knee how, both of